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the Financial Times and Axios have joined Google’s news programme. They will provide their content for generative AI features and receive payment for its use. Bloomberg reported on Oct. 15 that the programme now has more than 400 participating outlets worldwide

Google published consumer guidance on October 15, 2026 explaining how Android users can review suspicious text messages for scams with Circle to Search, which returns an AI Overview with guidance and suggested next steps before a user clicks a link or shares personal information.

Google is updating how links will be presented in both AI Mode and AI Overviews. The search engine has announced five changes. First, it will display inline links more frequently higher up in response listings. Second, it plans to start testing a section at the top of certain responses with links to official sites about…

Pengfei Tian, Maxwell L Bileschi, Zoi Tsangalidou, Sukhdeep Singh and Lucy. J. Colwell

YouTube Music is rolling out labels that show when a song was created primarily using generative AI, YouTube announced on October 14, 2026. The company said the labels, which cover cases such as a generative model creating a track’s composition and vocals, will also expand to the main YouTube app.

Google Ads is introducing new controls that let advertisers prioritize channels and limit how much of their campaign budgets can be spent across Google-owned inventory and partner networks.

Google’s John Mueller recently discussed how Google processes PDFs for ranking purposes, how it indexes them for use in AI Mode and regular search, and why it is able to use links in PDFs the same as it does for regular HTML web pages.

Google is hiring engineers to generate and recommend AI content for Discover, according to listings on its careers site. A Staff ML Engineer listing says the Discover Feed Recommendation team “leads by recommending AI-generated content (AIGC) to fulfill user interests.”

AI at work is still scattered. A draft gets written with a chatbot, code gets written in a separate tool, meeting notes get summarized somewhere else — and none of these tools know about each other. Pasting a chatbot’s answer into a document still means copy-and-paste, yesterday’s instructions have to be re-explained today, and the…

Google’s John Mueller and Martin Splitt recently discussed how HTML sitemaps may still be useful for SEO even though the XML standard has largely replaced it.