On 15 September 2026 Cloudflare turned on Disallow AI Training for every customer on every plan. It tells Google, Apple and Microsoft not to train on your pages while leaving their search crawlers free to index you normally. Until now those were the same switch.
Latent Space published a public tracker measuring which products seven frontier models recommend across 161 categories. Every lab's model favors its own tools, and 28 categories have a single universal winner.
Google launched Search Profiles for creators on June 4: a customizable Search and Discover card for accounts above the 100K-follower threshold.
Google launched new AI Performance Reports in Search Console and opt-out controls for AI Overviews on June 3, 2026, following a UK CMA ruling requiring Google to separate AI content permissions from standard search indexing.
On May 15, 2026, Google added one clause to its spam definition: attempting to manipulate generative AI responses in Google Search. The change extends all 18 spam categories to AI Overviews and AI Mode.