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Cloudflare documents new defaults for September 15 and broader treatment of mixed-purpose crawlers. For publishers, AI visibility now needs an infrastructure audit.
Read more: Cloudflare's new AI bot policies put crawler access on the AEO agendaGemini 3.8 Live is rolling into Search Live. The AEO implication is a need to test spoken questions, visual context and follow-ups as distinct experiences.
Read more: Google's Search Live upgrade makes conversational visibility harder to measureThe rollout adds seven markets as OpenAI's ad business reaches a $1 billion annualized revenue run rate less than 200 days after its US launch.
Read more: OpenAI expands ChatGPT Ads to Southeast Asia and Taiwan, passing 60 countriesWhy TheAEOWire is running its own citation studies instead of just reporting on other people's, and how we plan to pre-register methods, publish raw data, and correct ourselves in public.
Read more: Inside our AEO study program: what we're testing and howChegg's antitrust suit against Google, backed by its own traffic and revenue numbers, is one of the most documented cases of an answer engine absorbing a publisher's content instead of sending readers to it.
Read more: What Chegg's Lawsuit Against Google Reveals About AI VisibilityApple's redesigned assistant began rolling out in beta on September 14, drawing on web information to answer questions — a new AI answer surface for brands to track.
Read more: Apple ships Siri AI in iOS 27, built with Google's Gemini modelsReddit's dominance of AI citations follows two paid data-licensing deals, one with Google worth $60 million a year and one with OpenAI, that feed its content directly into the models people ask questions.
Read more: Why Reddit shows up so often in AI answersPerplexity pays publishers when their pages get cited in its answers, through two overlapping revenue-share schemes. Here is how both actually work, who has joined, and what publishers say about the payouts so far.
Read more: Perplexity's publisher program, explainedSearch Console's new generative AI performance report and a control to block AI grounding are now live worldwide, after a UK-only test that began in June.
Read more: Google rolls out AI Overviews reporting and an opt-out toggle to every websiteAnthropic's browser extension is now generally available on every paid Claude plan, with new safety classifiers the company says hold prompt-injection attacks close to zero.
Read more: Claude in Chrome exits pilot, letting Claude act in the browser without step-by-step approval
