Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today, through the eyes of the Search Engine Roundtable and other search forums on the web. Google Ads Advisor added some new AI features.

AI agent on a microcontroller.

AI bot activity surged 300% in 2025, with media and publishing among the most targeted sectors, according to a new Akamai report. Why we care. AI bots are reshaping how content is discovered and ...

Microsoft has pushed a server-side fix for a known issue that broke the Windows Start Menu search feature on some Windows 11 23H2 devices. In a Windows release health update (WI1273488) seen by ...

The Kremlin’s tightening grip on Russian life has a new target: the country’s most popular messaging app. Subscribe to read this story ad-free Get unlimited access to ad-free articles and exclusive ...

OpenClaw started as a side project of a developer who wanted to make his (and others) life easier with AI assistance. Clean mailbox, control schedule, organize thoughts and hear some music while his ...

Web Search has already been disrupted by AI — just take a look at how readily Google is presenting users with AI Overviews (summaries of search results) at the top of their results pages, how Bing ...

“Many people suspect that these bots are part of an AI company’s effort to collect training data from web pages. In 2025, AI bots accounted for a significant portion of overall web traffic, which ...

OpenClaw, a powerful new agentic assistant, has a thing for guacamole. This is one of several things I discovered while using the viral artificial intelligence bot as my personal assistant this past ...

Telegram’s new update brings Liquid Glass redesign to Android. This comes after the messaging application rolled out full support for Liquid Glass on iOS back in January this year. There’s now a ...

Google made a big concession this week. The tech giant said it will let websites "specifically opt out of Search generative AI features." Cloudflare CEO Matthew Prince says more is needed to force ...