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Google Stock Sinks as AI Mode Pressures Search Ad Growth
Google is pushing more ads into AI Mode and AI Overviews and weighing options for integrating ads in agentic experiences.
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Consumers Aren’t Ready to Let AI Do Their Holiday Shopping Yet
Few consumers trust agents to purchase on their behalf, surveys suggest
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Anthropic Goes for the Public Markets as Revenue Jumps Nearly 15-Fold
A 335-page IPO plan shows a profitable second quarter, a concentrated customer base, and compute deals that send hundreds of billions to Google and Amazon.
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Google Sells Itself As A Commerce ‘Matchmaker,’ Not A Retailer
The search giant wants to control how people discover new brands.
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Advertisers Pull Meta Ads That Had Unwanted AI Glow-ups
Under Meta’s new terms coming into play Oct 30, advertisers are “solely responsible” for whatever its AI creates
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Marcel Gets its First CEO as Publicis Competes With Off-the-Shelf AI
Scott Hagedorn and Sam Levine Archer named CEO and CSO of the holdco’s AI platform, which started life as an employee tool and now builds agents for more than 90 [...]
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Walmart Embraces AI Agents That Shop on Behalf of Customers
The retailer is setting the rules AI shopping agents will have to follow.
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The Best CMOs Don’t Just Run Marketing ft. Kellyn Smith Kenny of AT&T
Plus, why great marketing leaders need courage and patience.
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Robert Downey Jr. Trades Tony Stark’s Aviators for Snap’s AR Specs
The Iron Man star has joined Specs brand as chief customer experience officer, as the smart glasses wars ramp up.
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Katzenberg-Backed Netomi Expands Leadership as It Bets on AI-Tailored Websites
In a sign of his conviction, Katzenberg has sent the general partner of his venture firm, Justin Wexler, to join the AI startup Netomi.
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A Meta-Morphosis: Frontier Foray and TikTok Block
A version of this story was originally published in AI, Tech & Money, a free, weekly newsletter packed with news and exclusive analysis on all things tech, platforms, and deals [...]
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ExclusiveFox Expands Agentic Push With Eyes Set On TV Upfront Future
Fox adds new agentic agency partners, expands into linear buys, and looks ahead to upfront.
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To Sell ChatGPT to Businesses, OpenAI Is Going Back to Field Marketing
The AI company is betting on face-to-face engagement to turn ChatGPT's widespread consumer recognition into enterprise sales.
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11 of the Best-Funded GEO Startups Racing to Win AI Search
Profound's $1.8 billion valuation grabbed the headlines, but a crowded field of AI search startups is chasing the same prize: getting brands into AI answers.
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At AWNY and Jupiter Fest, Future of Content, Agentic Ads, Open Web Anxieties Steal the Show
At two tentpole events in different cities, uncertainty around agentic, attention, AI visibility, and the open web rose to the surface.
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