Scammers Are Hijacking Google Listings With AI Photos. Check Yours.
Four stories and one rumor, and the first one is a scam that puts somebody else’s phone number on your Google listing, inside a photo, where you’d never think to look.
Scammers Are Hijacking Google Listings With AI Photos. Check Yours.
Four stories and one rumor, and the first one is a scam that puts somebody else’s phone number on your Google listing, inside a photo, where you’d never think to look.
The Chatbot Is Your Customer’s Background Check Now. 57% Have Been Talked Out of Buying
Four stories and one rumor, and the first one is a new survey showing AI chatbots are talking more than half of their users out of purchases, and nearly nine in ten would ask one before hiring a local business. ▶ LISTEN TO THIS EPISODE The Chatbot Is Your Customer’s Background Check No | RSS.com…
Apple Just Told You Which of Its Robots You Can Block Without Disappearing From the New Siri
Four stories today, and the first one is Apple quietly telling every website owner which of its robots you can block without disappearing from the new Siri.
Anyone Can Now Mark Your Business Closed By Talking To Google Maps
Three stories today, and the first one changes who gets to write what Google says about your business.
September 2, 2026: Anthropic’s Claude Fable 5.1 Launches, Cutting AI Costs Up to 45 Percent
Three stories today, a lighter day than usual, but a genuinely useful one: your AI tools got cheaper, and regulators just started paying attention to ChatGPT the way they already watch Google.
August 31, 2026: Google Confirms AI Overviews Now Fully Expand, Pushing Organic Results Further Down the Page
Four stories from the weekend, and right out of the gate, Google is turning your search results page into an audition for its own AI Mode, whether your business is ready or not.
August 27, 2026: Salesforce put an AI sales agent directly inside its CRM, and Wall Street liked it.
Four stories today, and the first one means the company behind Claude just told investors its opportunity is bigger than SpaceX’s, while its actual revenue already doubled to eleven billion dollars in three months.
August 26, 2026: Apple Maps Ads Go Live, With No Way To Turn Them Off
Four stories today, and the first one means every business on Apple Maps just lost a toggle you never knew you needed: the one that would’ve let you turn off your competitors’ ads.
Manus is locked out for some accounts until August 25th, and Google just quietly changed two ad products. Here’s what actually affects your business this week
Four stories today, and the first one is about following the money instead of the headlines to figure out which AI company is actually winning right now.
Anthropic’s revenue run rate rockets past $65 billion, pulling ahead of OpenAI for the first time
Four stories today, and the first one is a changing of the guard at the top of the AI industry.
August 18, 2026: Google tested AI generated images inside AI Overviews, then pulled the test after a creator backlash
Three stories today, and the first one is Google getting caught swapping a creator’s own content for its own artwork, then quietly backing off.
August 14, 2026: New Croud survey: 69 percent of Americans would let AI buy for them without approving each purchase
Four stories today, and the big one is about your customer skipping the browsing part entirely.
August 13, 2026: Google’s local AI Overviews are citing a single self-promotional listicle instead of local businesses’ own sites
Four stories, and Google’s own AI just proved it’ll trust a stranger’s blog post over your actual business.
August 12, 2026: Anthropic now watermarks all Claude text output, globally, and the mark can survive editing
Big day: five stories, and Claude just started signing its work in invisible ink.
August 10, 2026: OpenAI cuts ChatGPT’s factual error rate by roughly 60 percent with a new model update
Over the weekend, OpenAI quietly rewired the model answering millions of ChatGPT conversations, and it came with a number attached. Three stories, and proof that the AI recommending your business just got measurably more honest.
August 7, 2026: Update: Yelp confirms ChatGPT is now reading its reviews, and its AI phone agent’s call volume has more than tripled since January
Three stories, one rumor, and proof that your Yelp page is now doing double duty as ChatGPT’s answer key.
August 6, 2026: A federal appeals court rules Perplexity’s AI shopping agent can keep acting for users on Amazon, even though Amazon does not want it there
Three stories and a court ruling that just decided whether an AI can shop on your website without asking your permission.
August 5, 2026: Microsoft Clarity adds a branded versus non-branded view to its free AI citation tracker
Four stories, no rumor watch, and a free tool that finally tells you whether AI knows your name, or just stumbled into you by accident.
