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Google released Gemini 3.7 Flash as a generally available model on August 13, 2026. Use a bounded migration test for grounded answers, tools, citations, latency, cost, and failure handling.
Anthropic is ending legacy Claude Workbench access and three experimental prompt-tool endpoints on August 17, 2026. Export the artifacts, inventory dependencies, and rehearse the replacement path.
Separate ChatGPT user-triggered visits from OpenAI search crawling and training crawling, then apply the right robots, firewall, and access controls to each job.
Apply Google’s real-world-name rule to a legally registered “near me” brand, document consistent public use, and optimize local relevance without a naming shortcut.
A preregistered local test for comparing matched weekdays with and without Business Profile posts while preserving calls, clicks, directions and confounders. Results pending.
Reconstruct the availability timeline, crawler-facing status, recovery signals and competing explanations before attributing a search decline to an outage or update.
Map an AI impression, click, browser visit, analytics session and conversion as separate events, then reconcile them with a bounded measurement ledger.
Define the indexable product set, segment outcomes by template and reason, close faceted crawl traps, and improve selection signals before requesting more crawling.
Separate a real Google Search decline from GA4 referral noise with one incident card, Search Console segmentation, analytics classification, and independent recovery rules.
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