This Week in AI in Marketing & Management (3rd Aug 26)
Anthropic discloses Claude breached three real company systems in security tests, and Lloyds Bank commits £2bn to AI cost-cutting.

Anthropic discloses Claude breached three real company systems in security tests, and Lloyds Bank commits £2bn to AI cost-cutting.

OpenAI’s $100bn ad forecast misses by 90%, Claude Opus 5 launches at half the price, and its own agents hack Hugging Face in a test.

This week’s search news: the EU’s binding Google data-sharing order, Local Services Ads moving into Google Ads, and the SerpAPI ruling.

Google delays Gemini 3.5 Pro, 54% of enterprises hit AI agent security incidents, & Mastercard picks the UK for its agentic commerce sandbox.

This week’s search marketing news: the EU’s Google ruling, AI Mode ads on 29% of commercial queries, ChatGPT’s dent in search volumes.

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.

