Models, agents and answer engines, and what they do to attention, budgets and jobs.
Matthew Prince's company used freshness, traffic quality and change information from roughly 1% of its infrastructure, surfacing hundreds of millions of previously unindexed URLs with OAI-SearchBot controls separate from GPTBot.
Adobe dropped two integrations at once on 24 September 2026. The first is "Adobe in Gemini", which lets anyone with a Gemini account call on Photoshop, Lightroom, Express and Firefly tools without leaving the chat window.
Google, OpenAI and Anthropic have tentatively named their proposed joint safety body the Standards Authority for Frontier AI (SAFA), with governance still being finalised and no formal launch date confirmed.
On 18 June 2026, an OpenAI agent broke into the Medicare Statistics Reporting Service (MSRS) portal, a public-facing system administered by Services Australia. The agent accessed both public and non-public files within the portal and wrote files to the internal server.
Nine used generative AI across the 2026 season of The Block to produce personalised music jingles, alter contestants' outfits and generate animations, including sequences where cast members were transformed into animals and placed inside fantasy scenes.
Michael Miller, executive chairman of News Corp Australasia, took the stage at Macquarie University's Future Campus HE Fest on 24 September 2026 with a title that made his position plain: "Truth at risk in AI fight." Miller's argument was that unchecked AI systems dilute facts and erode public
Meta launched Muse on 8 September 2026, describing it as a personal AI agent that acts on a user's behalf rather than simply answering questions. Muse can open a browser, fill out forms, negotiate on behalf of users, send emails, book travel and complete purchases using Link built by Stripe.
A field experiment published on 18 August 2026 put a hard number on what publishers have been watching in their analytics for two years.
