This Week in AI in Marketing & Management (13th Jul 26)
OpenAI launches GPT-5.6 in three tiers, and AI search is rewriting who owns SEO visibility. Plus 22 more stories on AI in Marketing & Management.

OpenAI launches GPT-5.6 in three tiers, and AI search is rewriting who owns SEO visibility. Plus 22 more stories on AI in Marketing & Management.

This week’s search marketing news: Search Console tracks socials, ChatGPT referrals jump 36.7%, Smart Bidding changes from 17 August.

Claude Fable 5 returns, 3 studies clash on what AI Overviews do to clicks, & Visa goes live with agentic payments across 30+ European banks.

This week’s search marketing news: 29% of search demand is declining, AI Overviews cut clicks 40%, and ChatGPT changes who it cites.

McKinsey finds leaders think 4% of staff use AI daily, the real figure is 13%. Semrush indexes 126m AI search prompts and Anthropic puts Claude inside Slack.

Agentic commerce goes mainstream as Shopify, Visa and Stripe ship agent payments, WPP forecasts AI search ads at £75bn, and the C-suite AI confidence gap widens. Anicca’s weekly analysis.

Anthropic switched off for non-US users. Visa + Mastercard race on AI agent payments. 91% of UK brands invisible in AI search.

This week’s search marketing news: zero-click hits 68%, Amazon’s Alexa becomes an ad platform, Anthropic calls for an industry brake pedal.

Agentic commerce goes live in the UK with Hey Savi and PayPal. Microsoft Scout launches. The leadership and middle management bottleneck bites.

Anthropic launches Claude Opus 4.8 and raises a record $65bn, OpenAI builds ChatGPT ads, and AI leaders soften job-loss warnings.

