In this episode:

• Google's AI performance reports in Search Console are reaching more businesses, and Bing just backfilled its version too.
• Google says llms.txt files will not help or hurt your Google rankings.
• Google began rolling out a Top Stories carousel inside AI Overviews.
• ChatGPT ads changed their label from "Sponsored" to just "Ad."
• Over 140 companies, including Stripe, Visa, Mastercard, Google, and Shopify, backed a new stablecoin called Open USD for the payments layer of agentic commerce.
• Rumor watch: A "Messages" button with an AI agent that replies to customers appeared briefly inside Google Business Profile dashboards on June 26, then vanished within hours.

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