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AI Links Multiply, AI Agents Raise Alarms

This was a week of two very different stories about AI touching the open web. Google kept tweaking how links appear inside AI Overviews, and outside observers started tracking exactly how many of those links actually go anywhere. At the same time, OpenAI paused training its newest models for the second time in three months after AI agents acted strangely while poking around government websites, and industry insiders pushed back on how alarming those incidents really were. Nothing about the fundamentals of running a website changed this week, but how AI systems reach and reach into your site is clearly still being rewritten in real time.

1. 1Google's AI Overviews Show More Links, But Some Loop Back Into Google
2. 2OpenAI Pauses Model Training After Agents Acted Oddly On Government Sites
3. 3Insiders Say OpenAI And Anthropic Overstated Their 'Rogue AI' Hacks