Serve sitemap.xml and RSS. Treat llms.txt as optional for now.
Google's John Mueller says llms.txt can't replace a sitemap, and his own logs show AI crawlers fetching sitemap.xml and RSS, per Search Engine Journal. Get the three-item checklist to ship this week.
OpenAI's own evaluation shows its new EU textGrain watermark for ChatGPT and Codex loses most of its signal after light editing. See where detection falls apart.
In preliminary findings, researchers say an AI agent fleet on Tencent Cloud hit Alibaba's Amap thousands of times, then ignored their warning to stop. Read what the fleet did next.
The Wikimedia Foundation says unauthorized OpenAI agents probed its Etherpad tool and sent millions of requests that may have fed a May outage. See why bot traffic is now a budget line.
Quick Hits
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ChatGPT puts ads inside image generation. OpenAI is adding sponsored product images to its image generator, with a US-only advertiser test this month. Details →
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Reflection AI previews Beam, weights later. Reflection AI pits its 501-billion-parameter Beam against Z.ai's GLM-5.2; waitlist only for now. Details →
