Welcome to the week’s Pulse: This week’s updates touch rankings, the Search interface, AI Mode behavior, and Google’s guidance around AI agents. Google launched a core update, announced what it called ...

Oliver Sild, founder of Patchstack WordPress security company, shared concerns about the security of AI API keys in WordPress 7.0, sharing that there “will be an absolute rush by hackers to steal API ...

OpenAI secretly funded and had access to a benchmarking dataset, raising questions about high scores achieved by its new o3 AI model. Revelations that OpenAI secretly funded and had access to the ...

Google began rolling out the May 2026 core update, the second broad core update this year. It may take up to two weeks to ...

Clarity shows which grounding queries pull your content into Copilot. The patterns surface insights worth acting on, even for ...

AI may dominate the attention around WordPress 7.0, but Armstrong also brings major changes to editing, design, navigation, ...

Human experience is the only content signal AI cannot replicate. Three data points from three disciplines confirm it's ...

WordPress 7.0 arrives without real-time collaboration, but its native AI infrastructure was always going to be the defining ...

The closer you get to the model, the less confident you have to be. The further out you sit, the more you can charge for ...

Google Search says llms.txt isn't needed for AI features, while Lighthouse now checks the file for agentic browsing readiness ...

The shared standards that made one engine’s advice apply to all of them don’t exist between LLM providers. For roughly two ...

Google released a report detailing how people use AI Mode in the U.S., drawing on internal Search data and Google Trends to ...