In this month’s digital news, Google has updated its Google Ads Terms of Service for the first time in eight years, with changes focused on AI, automation liability, and dispute resolution. Data analysed by SEO consultant Aleyda Solis shows that Google’s May core update prioritised content relevance over raw domain authority.
Google will pay SpaceX $920 million per month from October 2026 to June 2029 to rent data center capacity. AI assistant Poke is now available on iMessage via the Apple Messages for Business platform.
Google Ads has introduced Prospect Mode, an expansion of its New Customer Acquisition feature. Several top Apple employees held a meeting centered around the company’s AI strategy in early 2025.
Google Ads Terms of Service updated for AI changes after 8 years
Google has updated its Google Ads Terms of Service for the first time in eight years, with changes focused on AI, automation liability, and dispute resolution. Key updates include: advertisers are now fully responsible for all ads, targets and landing pages generated by Google’s automated features; arbitration rules have shifted from international to US-based processes, with a 30-day opt-out window added; data privacy terms now apply globally rather than just in the EU; and the liability cap has been narrowed to the specific account involved in a dispute rather than overall spend. Advertisers must now manage cancellations through their account portal, as the previous support email has been removed.
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Google’s May Core Update favoured pages that match intent
Data analysed by SEO consultant Aleyda Solis shows that Google’s May core update prioritised content relevance over raw domain authority. SISTRIX analysis indicates that high-authority sites with misaligned content suffered visibility drops, while niche sources and local retailers. Such as amazon.co.uk, gained ground by better matching user intent.
This shift confirms that domain strength is no longer a shield for thin or generic content. Brands must now prioritise intent-specific auditing. As Google is increasingly penalising “echo” content in favour of precise, contextual answers that directly satisfy the user’s query.
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Google to Pay SpaceX Nearly $1 Billion a Month in Cloud-Computing Deal
Google will pay SpaceX $920 million per month from October 2026 to June 2029 to rent data center capacity. Google has the right to cancel the agreement in October if SpaceX doesn’t provide the promised 110,000 Nvidia chips. Either party can cancel the agreement starting next year with 90 days’ notice. This is the second major deal SpaceX has made in recent months to rent out compute capacity to a competitor. SpaceX is expected to go public on June 12 in a public offering that values the company at $1.77 trillion.
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First AI agent for Messages Business Chat approved by Apple
AI assistant Poke is now available on iMessage via the Apple Messages for Business platform. Poke can send emails, set reminders, generate images, and more, from within the Apple Messages app. It is compatible with third-party services and products like the Oura Smart Ring, Microsoft Outlook, Gmail, GitHub, and Navan. Poke will conduct light actions, process manual prompts, and do background tasks for free. But any intensive requests will require payment, which can be negotiated.
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Google Ads Prospects Mode
Google Ads has introduced Prospect Mode, an expansion of its New Customer Acquisition feature. Unlike the standard mode, which targets anyone who hasn’t previously made a purchase, Prospect Mode goes further by focusing exclusively on brand-unaware users, people who have never searched for, visited, or engaged with your business in any way.
When enabled via the new “Only bid for new prospects (BETA)” setting in the Bidding section, the feature automatically excludes users who have purchased from you, searched for your brand, visited your website or app, or interacted with your content on Google or YouTube. Essentially, it targets entirely cold audiences, helping advertisers reach genuinely new prospects rather than those already familiar with their brand.
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Inside Apple’s secret meeting that led it to finally take AI seriously
Several top Apple employees held a meeting centered around the company’s AI strategy in early 2025. At the time, the company’s rivals were rapidly advancing, and the executives were concerned about how much trouble the company was in if real changes weren’t made immediately. The meeting’s aim was to formulate a recommendation to Cook about how the company should respond. The team decided that fresh leadership was necessary and recommended that Cook give Siri to Mike Rockwell, the creator of the Vision Pro headset, who was passionate about AI and had long argued that Apple needed to take it more seriously.
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