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This week may go down as the moment "AI" stopped being a marketing word for website owners and became an operational one — for good and for bad.

A WordPress plugin used by millions of sites was found to allow silent admin takeover. Shopify merchants are now selling inside ChatGPT, Copilot, and Gemini without lifting a finger. Google's AI Mode just pushed the zero-click rate to 93%. And Anthropic confirmed an internal AI model is now finding zero-days that humans missed for 27 years.

Catch up on previous roundups: last week, earlier this month, and the April overview. Here are seven new developments that matter right now.

If this week taught website owners anything, it's that the threats are getting faster and the opportunities are getting weirder.

A popular WordPress plugin was backdoored through its own update channel. AI bots are now crawling more pages than Google. And Amazon just added a fuel surcharge that eats into already-thin margins.

If you missed the previous roundups, catch up on last week's trends and earlier this week. Here are seven new developments that matter right now.