Checkout appears in a quarter of AI agent visits, Clarity finds
Microsoft’s free analytics tool compared website visits involving AI agents with visits by people alone, and opened a dashboard that labels agent traffic.
AI news, 2 November 2026
The 10 AI stories of the day, each told in about 200 words with its sources linked.
Published 05:30 UTC, 10 stories
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Claude Code · Cursor marketplaceCursor pulls a fake Claude Code update that planted SSH keys
A modified copy of Anthropic’s coding extension sat in Cursor’s marketplace for about 11 hours on 29 October, reaching at most 5,000 users, Cursor says.
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Google AI Mode · Shopping adsGoogle trials one Sponsored heading for shopping ads in AI Mode
A layout seen in AI Mode’s product carousels groups paid listings under one label and puts an All products heading over the rest.
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ChatGPT · shared linksChatGPT share links could hijack accounts, Parameter says
A security firm chained two ChatGPT features to run its code in a victim’s signed-in session; OpenAI fixed the flaw eight days after the report.
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Google Universal Cart · SearchGoogle Search panels now offer Buy now through Universal Cart
Google’s AI shopping cart has moved into ordinary US results, so a shopper can pay through Google Pay without visiting the shop’s own site.
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Bluefish · ChatGPT and Google adsBluefish turns AI answer gaps into ChatGPT and Google ad briefs
The company that tracks how AI assistants describe brands now suggests targeting, ad copy and landing pages where a brand is missing from the answers.
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Google Gemini · referral trackingGemini stops tagging cited links with utm_source=gemini
The tracking tag that let websites spot visits from Gemini’s answers vanished around 28 September after three weeks, one consultant’s server logs show.
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Deepgram · Daily and PipecatDeepgram buys Pipecat maker Daily and keeps the framework open
The speech AI company will pair its models with Pipecat in a coming Voice Agent Platform; neither side disclosed a price.
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Koah · ads in AI appsKoah says gross sales on its AI chat ad network rose fourfold
The start-up places ads inside the conversations of AI chat apps and says brands are buying in early to learn how the channel works.
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Resemble AI · agent detectionResemble AI says bot tools missed most disguised AI agents
The deepfake-detection company launched a model that reads mouse, typing and scroll patterns to tell people from AI agents on websites.
