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Last updated: 17 October 2026, 04:30 IST
Search & Digital Marketing
Meta’s New Terms Expand Crawling Rights Beyond Advertisers
New terms let Meta crawl sites tied to business users and use the content to train its products, widening rights ad buyers had already granted.
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Why The New York Times Puts Free Content First
The New York Times gives prime homepage space to free articles and tells readers they’re free. Here’s why that works.
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It’s Possible Your Migration Issues May Be Due To Site Quality
If your new domain won’t index and there’s no technical fix, the problem may be originality. Read Marie Haynes’ theory and what to do next.
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Google Takes Applications For A UGC Pipeline Separate From Crawling
Google is accepting applications from forums and social platforms for a UGC pipeline separate from crawling.
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ChatGPT Traffic Drop Appears To Be A Tracking Problem
ChatGPT-attributed traffic fell sharply in several analytics datasets this month, and analysts tie the drop to ChatGPT links that open without tracking tags.
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Google’s Universal Cart Is Live: How Carts Get To Your Store
Universal Cart is rolling out across Search and the Gemini app, with checkout inside the cart or a one-way handoff to the store's own site.
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Ruggable’s new ad spend strategy shifts focus to ShopMy creators
The direct-to-consumer playbook was built on performance — spend big on Meta and cash in on the conversion. But as digital ad costs rise and performance dwindles, DTC…
Read on our siteReach CEO touts Google AI deal as a template, steps up pressure on OpenAI over scraping
Reach’s CEO Piers North is positioning the publisher’s Google AI content deal as a model for future LLM partnerships and says it has sent OpenAI a cease-and-desist…
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Social commerce edges past SEO at The Independent for the first time
The Independent’s social-commerce revenue edged past its SEO-based commerce revenue for the first time in September, CEO Christian Broughton said at Digiday’s Media…
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Ownership, control, margins: the brand playbook for microseries is still taking shape
Brands are testing two routes into creator-led microseries: partnering with an established hit to tap its audience, or building a series around their own brand. The…
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Future of Marketing Briefing: The holdcos long, awkward courtship of the C-suite
Publicis Groupe CEO Arthur Sadoun said this week that he’s pitching directly to CEOs, and the industry hasn’t stopped chewing it on since. Some of the messages landing…
Read on our siteTrump cancels livestream execution of Hasan
The U.S. president walked back an earlier plan to broadcast the military firing squad, saying in a Truth Social post that many people “would rather not watch him die.”
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Replit is no longer working with Anthropic, CEO says
Masad said the decision was made for a number of different reasons, including cost. Replit announced a partnership with OpenAI in August, but there was never any…
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India becomes the latest country to report rogue AI agent activity
The agents got in through credentials and connection settings left exposed in app configurations, public code repositories, and overly permissive cloud roles.
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An Nvidia insider-turned-VC on why robotics hasn’t hit its ChatGPT moment, yet
Amulya Vishwanath, who spent seven years leading product marketing for NVIDIA’s robotics platforms, says robotics is currently in its “Lego era,” with the basic building…
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Physical AI is more than robots, says the Nvidia veteran now investing in it
Amulya Vishwanath, who spent seven years leading product marketing for NVIDIA’s robotics platforms, says robotics is currently in its “Lego era,” with the basic building…
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Elorian’s first AI model wants to reason with images, not just about them
According to Elorian's evaluations, Glimpse outperforms even GPT-6 Astra on scientific chart reasoning and short-form video captioning, with competitive results on other…
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Jev is Vercel’s fastest-adopted AI model ever
The data comes from Vercel's AI gateway, a unified API service similar to OpenRouter.
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Mark Wahlberg on using AI in film ‘the right way’ and being open to an AI clone carrying on his legacy
Actor and angel investor Mark Wahlberg says he's OK with using AI in filmmaking, provided it's used "to enhance what you're doing."
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Veritas expands its anti-counterfeit chip to jewelry, trophies, and fragrance bottles
Counterfeiters are getting better at replicating brands' marks and passing off dupes, known as "superfakes," as genuine items. A startup called Veritas wants to tackle…
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Replit’s CEO says the future of work is the ‘self-driving company’
Replit CEO Amjad Masad envisions a future of “self-driving companies,” where AI agents handle day-to-day tasks and people focus on higher-level decisions.
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When it came to Cal AI’s viral success, a small army of influencers paid off
The company generated over $30 million in revenue in two years and was acquired by MyFitnessPal for an undisclosed amount of money in March.
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Meta launches an open-weight AI model that runs on Macs
Meta and Apple have teamed up for the launch of the social media giant's newest model, Muse Spark Open, which will run locally on Apple silicon.
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Amazon devices chief Panos Panay sees a future where AI devices replace the need to use apps
Speaking at TechCrunch Disrupt, Amazon devices chief Panos Panay described a future where ambient AI devices work in the background, anticipating users' needs instead of…
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