🔞 Texas’ app store age-verification law takes effect after the Supreme Court declines to block it.

🔎 Google’s AI Mode ads now show non-clickable sitelinks.

🛍️ AI shopping is changing how brands collect and use customer data.

🧠 Mark Zuckerberg lays out Meta’s vision for a future powered by personal AI.

⌚ Apple may be giving the Apple Watch a ceramic redesign.

🏙️ Netflix paid a man to live inside a Sunset Boulevard billboard for 24 hours.

AI search may be changing how people discover brands, but the fundamentals of SEO still matter.

Strong technical foundations, useful content, clear site structure, and credible information remain important signals for both traditional search and AI-powered experiences. The bigger shift is making your content useful enough to be understood, trusted, and referenced by AI systems.

Instead of chasing every new AI SEO acronym or optimizing for one specific platform, focus on making your brand easy to understand wherever people—and AI—find it.

Here are five takeaways:

• Answer real questions. Build content around the problems and questions your audience actually has, not just keywords.
• Create something worth citing. Original research, expert insights, first-hand experience, and proprietary data give AI a reason to reference you.
• Build topical depth. Cover related concepts thoroughly and connect them through strong internal linking.
• Keep your content fresh. Update outdated statistics, examples, tools, and information instead of letting your best resources collect dust.
• Build authority beyond your site. Reviews, social profiles, videos, directories, forums, and third-party coverage all contribute to how AI systems understand your brand.

AI search may look different from traditional search, but you don’t need to throw your SEO strategy out the window.

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Oqoqo helps teams test how well AI agents can actually use their products, tools, and workflows.

You create realistic tasks and rubrics, then run them across different agents, models, or product versions in isolated environments. Oqoqo captures the full trajectory of each run, so you can see what worked, where the agent got stuck, and how many tokens or tool calls it took.

The useful part is being able to turn those experiments into private benchmarks and rerun them after changes, making it easier to spot when an update improves—or breaks—an agent workflow.

Google is making the biggest change to Image Search since it was created 25 years ago:

• The homepage is being redesigned into a personalized, Pinterest-like feed.
• AI can now generate images directly inside Search.
• The interface itself is getting a major refresh.

And together, these updates signal a substantial shift from Google Image Search as simple visual retrieval tool into a place for discovery.

How will this affect image SEO for marketers, brands, and publishers?

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Miss Dior is putting its most iconic flower back in the spotlight.

The latest film celebrates the Grasse Rose, a flower deeply tied to Dior’s history and the heart of the fragrance.
Even the signature dagger bow gets a refresh, now featuring Dior’s iconic houndstooth pattern.

A little heritage, a little couture, and a whole lot of roses.

Sheaffer’s Skrip, 1952