Live AI search news feed
Live from Momentic Studio, this news feed is curated by the Momentic team so you can stay up to date on AI search, SEO, GEO, AEO, AI search, frontier AI models, and relevant tools.
Another great blog from Metehan where he analyzes findings from a study proving freshness matters a lot for visibility in AI search, even when it makes search results objectively worse.
Includes:
- A comparative rundown of AI models and which ones have the most recency bias
- Digital content tactics based on the findings
- How to validate the findings using your own content
- Unanswered related questions
- Short, medium & long-term predictions
Google announced Places Insights in BigQuery.
Now businesses can apply Google Cloud's BigQuery analytical capability to Google's Places datasets which include detailed info about businesses, landmarks, points of interest.
Suggested use cases are analyzing location performance for multi-location businesses, scouting new locations for a business, geotargeting your advertising.
As of 3:40pm CST (1:40 PDT) "The issue with serving has resolved itself. There will be no more updates."
- You can call an app by name (like Spotify)
- ChatGPT might suggest an app to you in conversation
- Devs can start building & testing apps
- Apps in ChatGPT must follow OpenAI usage policies & be appropriate for all audiences
The announcement has a list of apps available to start with, and those coming soon.
Microsoft launched an updated version of Bing Places for Business.
What's new:
- Domain moved from bingplaces.com --> bing.com/forbusiness
- Easier to import Google Business Listings ("faster, more reliable, and better at preserving key attributes")
- New dashboards, bulk editing tools & real-time status updates
- Recommendation Tool "to help new business owners enrich their listings"
Current Bing Places listings will automatically migrate to the new platform.
Claude can connect to Slack now:
- In Claude, search & reference your Slack convos
- Use Claude directly within Slack via
◦ Direct message with @Claude
◦ Click the Claude icon inside Slack's AI assistant
◦ Mention @Claude in any thread to draft a response
When Perplexity first announced their Comet browser on July 9 it was only for Perplexity Max subscribers willing to join a wait list and be invited.
Then on August 25 they announced Comet Plus as a standalone $5 subscription (free for Pro and Max subscribers).
Today they're releasing Comet as a free browser for anyone in the world to use. You can download it here: perplexity.ai/comet
Here's their pitch:
- The internet is broken. People want a better internet.
- Chat bots are outdated, but people love the Comet Assistant.
- There will be a Comet mobile app soon "with a personal AI designed for your phone."
Brave is a privacy-focused browser that also offers a search engine called Brave Search. Now they also offer "Ask Brave" which combines search and AI chat.
- You can use it from the Brave Search homepage by clicking the "Ask" button, or clicking the "Ask" tab on the Brave SERP
- If Brave Search is your default search engine, just add a double question mark at the end of any search query and it will use Ask Brave
Yoast announced Yoast SEO AI+, a new brand insights tool:
- Now in beta
- Not a plugin
- Doesn't need CMS access
- Accessibly priced for SMBs (<$30/mo)
- Tracks brand mentions in AI Search citations
- Offers competitor rank benchmarking
- Sentiment-tracking analysis by keywords (with positive/negative breakdown)
- Monitoring of specific brand questions
They plan to offer "actionable recommendations" to improve AI visibility soon.
Now if you do a Google Search for an emoji, you get a copy-ready result in a Featured-Snippet style box:
Google published 4 separate blogs about Gemini being in Google Home now:
OpenAI launched an invite-only social app for iOS called Sora. It's powered by Sora 2, their latest video generation model. Just in the U.S. and Canada for now "with the intent to quickly expand to additional countries"
"We think Sora is going to bring a lot of joy, creativity and connection to the world."
I think it sounds like a new way to vanish some hours with your face in a screen. Anyway, if you download the Sora app, sign up for the wait list, and get an invitation, then you can also access Sora 2 on sora.com (also available if you have ChatGPT Pro, and coming soon to the API).
"Sora 2 will initially be available for free, with generous limits to start"
The announcement blog has more about privacy, protecting teens, and how they think it's a much better social app than other social apps. They also published a "Sora feed philosophy."
Google and Microsoft are both stuffing AI into their products as fast as they can:
- Gemini in Google Drive now available on mobile apps
- Edit Google Slides & Vids with Nano Banana
- Use "Agent Mode in Copilot" in Excel and Word if you have the right type of MS 365 subscription (they're calling it "vibe working")
Anthropic updates:
- Claude Sonnet 4.5 is out now, and they say it's the best coding model in the world
- Claude Code got a bunch of upgrades (and is also powered by Sonnet 4.5 now)
- Claude Developer Platform has new capabilities for managing AI agent context
Google added more visual search & results in AI Mode. Rolling out this week: only in English in the U.S. to start.
- Visual Fan-out in AI Mode builds on the query fan-out approach but beefs it up with the visual capabilities of Google Lens & Image Search
- You can start your search conversationally or with an image
- On mobile you can also search _within_ an image to better understand what you're looking at
- It especially applies to Shopping results - they emphasize how many products are in their Shopping Graph (50B), and how fresh they are (2B refreshed hourly)
Starting today ChatGPT offers Instant Checkout so users can buy from Etsy in the U.S.
- Currently only single-item purchases
- Multi-item purchases & more merchants/regions to be added
- Specifically, 1M+ Shopify merchants were mentioned as "coming soon"
- Agentic Commerce Protocol that powers Instant Checkout is open source and here is the documentation
Google published a new page with essentials for small businesses linking to: Success stories, GBP, GMC, Ads, YouTube, Workspace, Analytics, AI training and suggested places to start if you need a website.
Vastly speed up Reddit research by adding .json to the end of any Reddit URL. It gives you all thread comments and replies in JSON format. You can ID the most popular ones by "ups". HT Brian Gorman on LI
I pasted it into ChatGPT with this prompt: "summarize this reddit thread and give me the top 3 overall brands with positive mentions, and what users value most about each brand" - then asked for the summary in a comparative table format.
Couldn't copy and paste all the thread content because it was too long, so I only used the first half and it still gave me a helpful summary! If you want to wring every last drop of info you can repeat with digestible batches.
Google talked about agentic capabilities in AI Mode in a May 2025 blog post and now they've taken one step closer: now opted-in Google Labs users in the U.S. can try out agentic capabilities in AI Mode for finding restaurant reservations.
ChatGPT business plans now have shared projects (plus new connectors, and more compliance/admin features).
Perplexity launched a Search API with passage-level retrieval ("sub-document units") that they say will make it faster and more relevant.
"Perplexity Search API sits at the Pareto frontier of relevance and speed. We’re releasing an open-source evaluation framework, `search_evals`, to enable researchers and developers to rigorously test any publicly available search API."
OpenAI announced ChatGPT Pulse as "the first step toward a new paradigm for interacting with AI":
- It proactively does research while you're away based on chats, feedback, and connected apps (like your calendar)
- Once a day you get personalized updates that you can curate to personalize further
- Released as a preview for mobile Pro users so far - eventually will roll out to Plus & free users
