In this episode of SEO and AI News, we cover a range of topics including AI development and concerns like self-replication and ethical considerations, AI applications and features such as AI in gaming and updates to Alexa, SEO and search engine updates including the impact of AI overviews and Google's quality rater guidelines, and other notable events like Elon Musk's dealings with OpenAI and Google's handling of DEI.

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Video Links -Google Staff Meeting on AI & Diversity - https://tinyurl.com/2y43k7b2Do Links Still Matter for SEO? - https://shorturl.at/5OQWcDo Long Title Tags Help with Rankings? - https://shorturl.at/oI9yeMicrosoft Muse: AI for Game Development - https://tinyurl.com/3d4f4y2aBloomberg Report: AI Industry Trends - https://tinyurl.com/363d6jzzChatGPT Now Free to Use Without an Account - https://rb.gy/98bu7xAmazon Alexa Assistant Gets AI Upgrade - https://rb.gy/0apf8bGoogle Market Share Slips - https://rb.gy/aywtccImpact of AI Overviews on SEO - https://tinyurl.com/3wnwnpbxOpenAI Expands AI Agent Operator Worldwide - https://rb.gy/czjlz8AI Can Now Replicate Itself – https://tinyurl.com/y6697uxkMeta Offers £300,000 for Exclusive Instagram Reels - https://tinyurl.com/yk6zamcsTrump’s AI Video Sparks Controversy - https://shorturl.at/MKhmxGmail Scam Targeting Banking Data - https://shorturl.at/sDYFwGoogle Ads Now Demotes Misleading Landing Pages - https://shorturl.at/lCBJtMicrosoft’s OmniParser v2 Turns LLMs Into Agents - https://tinyurl.com/3dw23tkhOpenAI Furious About DeepSeek - https://rb.gy/wdrgrpGoogle AI Mode - https://9to5google.com/2025/02/05/google-search-ai-mode-testing/ - https://searchengineland.com/google-search-testing-ai-mode-451672Meta Building Global Internet Cable - https://tinyurl.com/2kmecez8AI brain decoder - https://tinyurl.com/yn4kffk9New AI models - https://chat.qwen.ai/ & https://chat.mistral.ai/chatTikTok SEO update - https://tinyurl.com/4xzn7dn8Google ask for me - https://tinyurl.com/4kmypcykAI robot dancing - https://tinyurl.com/5csrc76zGoogle Maps blocks Gulf of America reviews - https://tinyurl.com/5d855cv8Deep Dive into LLMs like ChatGPT - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7xTGNNLPyMI1997 internet shopping - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nDXvpbpbPCoAI statement from Anthropic - https://tinyurl.com/4wzntkyjUK and US refuse to sign AI declaration - https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c8edn0n58gwoAI systems could be ‘caused to suffer’ - https://tinyurl.com/3eswk5h4Don't Update Lastmod Date - https://tinyurl.com/4ajzu8nwAudio on content - https://tinyurl.com/msxjy6h8QRG: Filler content - https://tinyurl.com/ycyb5m2xGoogle Publisher Center changes - https://tinyurl.com/ymu2ucbnSam Altman & AGI - https://tinyurl.com/nr6uzvaxDeepSeek users in USA - https://www.independent.co.uk/tech/deepseek-ai-us-ban-prison-b2692396.htmlGoogle's volatility - https://tinyurl.com/5b9fbafs AI Mentions In Google's Search Quality Rater Guidelines - https://tinyurl.com/muxxfv2mGoogle Updates Product Markup - https://www.searchenginejournal.com/google-updates-product-markup-to-support-member-pricing-sales/539786/Steven Adler expresses concern - https://tinyurl.com/3aw8cz6xSam Altman enrages Elon Musk - https://www.independent.co.uk/tech/openai-elon-musk-bid-sam-altman-b2695830.htmlAI ‘godfather’ predicts another revolution - https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/feb/04/ai-godfather-predicts-another-revolution-in-the-tech-in-next-five-yearsSEO Office Hours - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ctn9hzypHhU&t=449s

Host: Sean Barber - / https://www.linkedin.com/in/seanrbarber/ - He & Him The video covers a wide range of SEO and AI news, including Google's search updates—such as the removal of breadcrumbs on mobile, new review snippet guidelines, and blocking SEO tools with JavaScript—alongside AI industry shifts like Meta replacing fact-checkers with community notes, NVIDIA’s market drop due to a Chinese AI chatbot, and OpenAI’s agent developments. We also explore the tech industry's business influence, including Google and Microsoft’s donations to Trump and the UK's AI investment plans, as well as key SEO and search trends, such as insights from Google’s Knowledge Graph API, Yahoo's AI-driven search expansion, and HubSpot’s SEO traffic collapse. Watch / listen on Spotify - https://open.spotify.com/show/4gZGaF7Yn0McSgmPsOA9Bz?si=qhV0Bw9rTDK0fSXuWNL3VQ Video Links - ChatGPT Scheduled Tasks - https://shorturl.at/fUmtC Meta Ditching Fact Checkers - https://shorturl.at/RVC0K - https://shorturl.at/RMWEe Google Gives To Trump - https://shorturl.at/zEQH8 AI Brad Pitt - https://rb.gy/ktg14o Elon Musk On AI Data - https://rb.gy/1hz7g7 Bing Hides Google - https://rb.gy/5skzew Mark Williams - Cook On Majestic - https://majestic.com/seo-in-2025/mark-williams-cook Google On Robot.txt Files - https://rb.gy/krwiig Video - GOOGLE's Ultimate Goal? - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xqdi1xjtys4 Video - How to send an 'E mail' - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=szdbKz5CyhA Stargate Program - https://tinyurl.com/mrxuk2hb Google And Gulf Of Mexico - https://tinyurl.com/3hda3jw4 Nvidia Shares - https://tinyurl.com/mr2xf6ft Knowledge Graph API - https://audits.com/tools/knowledge-graph-search/ Yahoo Search Updates - https://tinyurl.com/2xee6w3v Google Breadcrumbs - https://developers.google.com/search/blog/2025/01/simplifying-breadcrumbs Marie Haynes LinkedIn Post - https://tinyurl.com/2wtdb37k UK AI Plans - https://tinyurl.com/68kpyuhy Sara Taher LinkedIn Post - https://tinyurl.com/2c476rpc Barry Adams LinkedIn Post - https://tinyurl.com/2j56rcvr Google About Reviews - https://tinyurl.com/yu3jer2u US v Google Court Case - https://tinyurl.com/yarj9mbz Google Rejects EU - https://tinyurl.com/2t27yrbb British Novelists & AI - https://tinyurl.com/4wm9pz52 OpenAI Operator - https://tinyurl.com/3r6ueec4 LinkedIn Job Report - https://tinyurl.com/y49a6ce6 Will Reynolds LinkedIn Post - https://www.linkedin.com/posts/wilreynolds_google-beat-yahoo-by-focusing-on-simple-activity-7287478812404056064-0K4e?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_android Google & AP Deal - https://apnews.com/article/google-gemini-ai-associated-press-ap-0b57bcf8c80dd406daa9ba916adacfaf Google Detects AI Content - https://tinyurl.com/mw2vvsmt Deepseek - https://tinyurl.com/bpapmvfv Google Requiring Javascript - https://tinyurl.com/ykepw7n3 Hubspot Traffic - https://tinyurl.com/5n8xscux - https://searchengineland.com/ex-hubspotters-reveal-5-seo-insights-about-hubspots-traffic-woes-451195 Rand Fishkin Bluesky Post - https://bsky.app/profile/randfish.bsky.social/post/3lgli2uma7s2o Predicting The Future Of Online Search - https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/predicting-future-online-search-content-creators-laura-giunta-tobin-7uief/?trackingId=pLj29cD9RUuefgZSSq9zOg%3D%3D

Host: Sean Barber - / https://www.linkedin.com/in/seanrbarber/ - He & Him The video covers a wide range of SEO and AI news, including updates on Google core updates, AI innovations, SEO tools, market trends, controversies like Apple's Siri lawsuit and OpenAI whistleblower case, advancements in search technology by Google and Bing, AI-driven insights on market share, and notable developments in quantum computing, faceted navigation, and AI-generated content. Key Links - Site Quality Score Podcast - https://shorturl.at/3Vg8F December Core Update - https://shorturl.at/1D8n5 12 Days Of OpenAI - https://openai.com/12-days/ Google's Grip On Search Market - https://shorturl.at/kumXg Google Market Share Slip - https://shorturl.at/DG7Lw Google Parallel Universe - https://shorturl.at/Omkx9 Google Faceted Navigation - https://searchengineland.com/googles-new-help-document-on-faceted-navigation-449383?mkt_tok=NzI3LVpRRS0wNDQAAAGXeC-wk4CiFAyeATAxeIvhAxAWvEZY7vbpWimCqcwyQ4izsPDcKHYGXLMJs5qNpUW2LYat1WPuk9CkhZTGzF35TOQLt3fJN3w6prfJOCMUcpmz3Q AI Godfather Odds - https://tinyurl.com/3mjs5pj9 AI Restaurant Results - https://tinyurl.com/3xn6rf5a Is AI Search Just Hype - https://tinyurl.com/yndrnafj ChatGPT Test Results - https://tinyurl.com/bdd3fmdr US Companies Using AI - https://tinyurl.com/mrxfjcnv Core updates More Often - https://tinyurl.com/4dswc3f6 SEOFOMO News Chrome Extension - https://tinyurl.com/hue3kjtd Meta AI Profiles - https://www.theverge.com/2025/1/3/24334946/meta-ai-profiles-instagram-facebook-bots AI Tools Gain Ground - https://tinyurl.com/39a6e49t Bing Search Updates - https://tinyurl.com/32c4kkrb Gemini 2.0 - https://tinyurl.com/54fmku5h Growth Of Reddit - https://tinyurl.com/mryumyzu Mark Williams-Cook Talk - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_AQ9UDqES80 - https://tinyurl.com/ej6f9ecc Daniel Foley Carter Webinar - https://vimeo.com/1041361509 OpenAI Whistle-blower - https://tinyurl.com/58unjvus - https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cd0el3r2nlko.amp Apple Pay Lawsuit - https://tinyurl.com/mt5eewyx Microsoft AI Trends - https://blogs.microsoft.com/blog/2024/11/12/idcs-2024-ai-opportunity-study-top-five-ai-trends-to-watch/?utm_source=superhuman&utm_medium=newsletter&utm_campaign=what-to-expect-in-2025&_bhlid=7457f9f643a2a3165a4160f8e9d9c64885693dcf Google AI Mode - https://www.linkedin.com/posts/chris-long-marketing_huge-news-google-will-have-a-dedicated-activity-7275951514072805376-mEt3/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_android WordPress Edge Images Plugin - https://en-gb.wordpress.org/plugins/edge-images/ Broken Google Maps - https://www.seroundtable.com/google-maps-business-profile-listings-broken-38603.html GSC Hourly Reports - https://www.seroundtable.com/google-search-console-now-exports-performance-reports-hourly-data-38697.html BBC Internet Video - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XpZ5STahhPE SEOFOMO News - https://news.seofomo.co/