Three stories today, and the first one is Google getting caught swapping a creator's own content for its own artwork, then quietly backing off.

In this episode:

• Google tested AI generated images inside AI Overviews, then pulled the test after a creator backlash.

• Google confirms a Search Console bug, not a real decline, behind this week's dropped AI Overview numbers.

• Apple quietly expanded Applebot's crawling capacity by more than 4,600 IP addresses.

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