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Today on Agent Beat: OpenAI To Test Visual ChatGPT Ad Format During AI Image Generation, plus TikTok rolls out an AI shopping assistant and one-click checkout.

• OpenAI To Test Visual ChatGPT Ad Format During AI Image Generation
• TikTok rolls out an AI shopping assistant and one-click checkout
• How to plan 2027 when traffic is down and AI won't attribute
• Studies: AI Overviews are making strong inroads in France
• Google’s Mueller Says AI Crawlers Access Sitemaps & RSS In His Logs
• Identifying the Right KPIs in the Context of AI Search
• Google unveils Gemini 4 Argon, its newest frontier model
• OpenAI To Watermark ChatGPT Text In The EU, Opens API Opt-In
• What is llms.txt & should you use it?

Today on Agent Beat: Meta launches enterprise AI platform, hires MongoDB CEO to lead new initiative, plus Brand analyses in AI Check, chat for deep dives, and a new navigation: SISTRIX updates in Q3 2026.

• Meta launches enterprise AI platform, hires MongoDB CEO to lead new initiative
• Brand analyses in AI Check, chat for deep dives, and a new navigation: SISTRIX updates in Q3 2026
• OpenAI safety employee resigns, claiming the company’s ‘culture is broken’
• Anthropic founders want to keep control of the company after its IPO
• One More Note on Agents, Meta Connect, Meta Enterprise Platform
• Google Helpful Content Doc With New Main Content & EOT/SA Sections
• Meta wants your next gadget to be Muse-infused
• 2026.40: Dots and Question Marks
• As AI search spreads, search ads alone are not enough: why brands should invest in awareness
• Agentic commerce: AI chooses, but does not pay yet

Today on Agent Beat: Introducing GPT-6.1 Sol, plus An Interview with Jason Del Rey About Muse, Amazon, and Walmart.

• Introducing GPT-6.1 Sol
• An Interview with Jason Del Rey About Muse, Amazon, and Walmart
• Stripe makes merchants' catalogs visible and accessible to AI agents, its EMEA product head says
• Disrupting a coordinated model-distillation campaign
• Apps, Agents, and Aggregation
• Tencent's four personal agent products, reviewed
• Google Adds Fake Author Warning To Helpful Content Guidance
• OpenAI Dev Day, Dot and OpenAI’s Product Transition, Sign In With ChatGPT
• Doubao, Qwen and Yuanbao all pivot to personal agents
• Split from Meta, Manus returns with AI agents that can make calls and pay

Today on Agent Beat: Shopify Now Enrolls Your Store In Every New AI Shopping Channel, plus Google Tests URL Tracking Parameters To AI Overviews & AI Mode.

• Shopify Now Enrolls Your Store In Every New AI Shopping Channel
• Google Tests URL Tracking Parameters To AI Overviews & AI Mode
• Zero-click search: why high rankings do not turn into AI citations
• Google Tells Sites To Fact-Check AI Content Before Publishing
• AI Overviews Currently Appear for 83% of Branded Searches
• Google Loyalty Customer Match Expands To AI Mode & More Regions
• When A Search Query Becomes A Standing Instruction
• GEO work lifts AI search brand exposure 30%, with monitoring and fixes to turn it into leads
• Google Ads Sitelinks Format In AI Mode
• What Are Common Structured Data Mistakes That Hurt AI Visibility?: Ask An SEO

Today on Agent Beat: DoorDash expands access to agentic ordering for offices, corporate customers, plus Google Gemini Adds UTM Parameters For Referral Attribution.

• DoorDash expands access to agentic ordering for offices, corporate customers
• Google Gemini Adds UTM Parameters For Referral Attribution
• YouTube is expanding its share in ChatGPT and Gemini: how to make videos AI cites
• From GPTs to ChatGPT plugins: how to handle the migration
• Wikipedia, Podcasts & Reddit Now Drive AI Citations, Ask Your PR Team How They Did It
• HubSpot says AI-referred leads turn into sales talks three times as often: its four-step AEO practice
• ChatGPT can now virtually try on clothes for you
• Google AI Overviews Invade Team Rosters
• Google AI Pilot Pays Some Sites Under 0.1% Of Ad Revenue
• Google AI Overviews Return For Many Large Brand Names

Today on Agent Beat: Cloudflare Moves Monetization Gateway & Pay Per Use Into Beta, plus OpenAI ChatGPT Ads Gains Bulk Product Creation, Product Review Status & More.

• Cloudflare Moves Monetization Gateway & Pay Per Use Into Beta
• OpenAI ChatGPT Ads Gains Bulk Product Creation, Product Review Status & More
• AI Visibility Data Paralysis: How to Get Unstuck
• GEO over-optimization: the SEO reflexes that hurt your visibility in AI answers
• Muse takes off, dots enters: personal agents start competing with internet platforms for the entry point
• Reddit is killing RSS feeds and ending public API access because of AI bots
• Commerce releases tools to optimize product catalogs for AI discovery
• DoorDash launches an AI agent you can text to order food
• LiveRamp Expands OpenAI Deal With First-Party Data Targeting
• Six personal agent routes compared, as they compete to become the place users delegate tasks

Today on Agent Beat: ChatGPT Ad CTR Topped 1% In 4 Markets, Not In The U.S., plus AI Overviews: 49% load after the page, a blind spot for citation tracking.

• ChatGPT Ad CTR Topped 1% In 4 Markets, Not In The U.S.
• AI Overviews: 49% load after the page, a blind spot for citation tracking
• OpenAI tests a ChatGPT ad format where clicking the ad opens a chat with the brand's AI agent
• Helping personal agents shop more intelligently and reliably with Link
• OpenAI launches Dots, autonomous AI agents that work around the clock
• Google On What’s Next In AI Search + 5 Local Marketing Strategy Fixes
• OpenAI turns ChatGPT into a work platform: Dots and GPT-6.1 Sol arrive
• OpenAI's 2026 DevDay: personal agent Dots, GPT-6.1 Sol and more than 20 updates
• Amazon Blocked Meta’s Muse, And Robots.txt Had Nothing To Say
• Doubao adds travel services: book flights and train tickets, hail rides and navigate in one sentence

Today on Agent Beat: Google Plans To Adopt UCP Draft Spec For AI Mode Hotel Booking, plus Shopify adds WebMCP checkout support so browser agents can complete purchases.

• Google Plans To Adopt UCP Draft Spec For AI Mode Hotel Booking
• Shopify adds WebMCP checkout support so browser agents can complete purchases
• Asahi Shimbun starts offering an AIO/GEO tie-up ad menu to get brands cited by generative AI
• ChatGPT sends 22 times more traffic to websites than its main competitors
• The usefulness of attribution for AI Search
• Court Filing Quotes OpenAI Engineer: Users “Won’t Click” Links
• Hakuhodo Marketing Systems adds support for Adobe Brand Visibility to strengthen its GEO service
• Google Rolls Out AI Mode Info Monitoring To All Users Globally
• CallRail Makes ChatGPT Ads Measurable For SMBs And Marketing Agencies

Today on Agent Beat: Survey: 85% of B2B purchasing uses generative AI, and a business information source topped Nikkei and WBS, plus ChatGPT citation share falls sharply for YouTube, Facebook, Wikipedia and Forbes.

• Survey: 85% of B2B purchasing uses generative AI, and a business information source topped Nikkei and WBS
• ChatGPT citation share falls sharply for YouTube, Facebook, Wikipedia and Forbes
• The Text-Only Version Of Your Website Strips Out The Wrong Layer
• The Best AI Mode Tracking Tools in 2026
• Field report: what generative AI concretely changes for SEO and SEA in 2025-2026
• Introducing GPT-6 Sol and Luna
• Google's SAFE AI spam detector targets YouTube channels, not websites
• Watch out for these 7 new Google rules
• How to Optimize for AI Search: A Guide for You and Your AI Agent
• What is agentic SEO? 8 workflows run on a live site

Today on Agent Beat: Google tests buying from Walmart-owned Flipkart through Gemini and AI Mode in India, plus Google AI Overviews Have More Links, But Not All Reach The Web.

• Google tests buying from Walmart-owned Flipkart through Gemini and AI Mode in India
• Google AI Overviews Have More Links, But Not All Reach The Web
• GEO: why technical and web content teams can no longer work in silos
• Google September 2026 Spam Update Has Been Unleashed
• How To Find All PDFs That Have Been Recently Deindexed Using The Search Console API, URL Inspection API, And Analytics Edge
• Why not every publisher will be able to build its own seller agent
• Google Rolls Out September 2026 Spam Update Globally
• Announcing web multimodal Search performance reporting in Search Console
• B2B answer engine optimization: How to show up in AI
• Google starts rolling out its September 2026 spam update worldwide