Brave sells its search index of over 30 billion pages to AI companies via an API, and its crawler has no separate user agent, so robots.txt can't target it. You can only block it by also blocking Google, or by using noindex.
Google will turn off Search, Gemini, Gemini Notebook and Gemini in Classroom for K-12 student accounts until administrators enable them. Google says Search and AI are deeply integrated, so schools rejecting AI may lose Search access.
OpenAI's Adam Fry says ChatGPT's search-like query volume is roughly 20% of Google's, but the Google baseline is unspecified and referral data still shows ChatGPT far behind. Treat it as a growth signal, not proof of replacement.
OpenAI launched Images 2.6 on November 4, 2026, adding GIF generation to ChatGPT and Codex and two new image models, Flare and Sunburst, to the API. OpenAI says generation is 50% faster and users create 4 billion images per week.
Apple's iOS 27.3 Developer Preview lets developers plug Siri AI into all apps, with personal context, natural language and on-screen awareness. Marketers and app owners should start thinking about how their services get invoked by voice.
From January 11, 2027, server-side GTM tags for Google Ads, DV360, SA360 and CM360 will accept full IP addresses, while Analytics tags keep redacting. Advertisers who want partial redaction must opt out, for example with a transformation, and check their consent setup.
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