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Last updated: 08 September 2026, 04:30 IST
Search & Digital Marketing
Google’s August 2026 spam update hit rankings harder than normal
Google’s August 2026 spam update saw an 82% increase in top 10 URLs dropping out of the top 100 compared with a period without a confirmed ranking update, according to…
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OpenAI Adds WebMCP Site Tools To ChatGPT’s Browser
OpenAI added WebMCP support to ChatGPT’s desktop browser, letting supported webpages expose structured actions to ChatGPT Work and Codex.
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Moving from Google Display to Demand Gen: What you’ll lose and gain
You’re not imagining it. Before we could stop to think about the implications of a DSA-less world , Google announced that Display campaigns, too, will be heading to the…
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How To Become A Strategic Partner & Keep Clients Years Longer
Client-agency relationships now average seven years, but only when agencies act as strategic partners instead of task-completing vendors clients can replace.
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Reddit is the keyword research tool you’re probably not using
Almost every conversation about Reddit and SEO in the last two years has focused on participation. Should you post? Comment? Pay someone to seed a thread? Build a…
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We Analyzed 107 Million AI Answers. Here’s Where Each Industry’s Citations Actually Come From
Discover the top citation sources for AI answers and how they impact recommendations across major AI platforms.
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Your images have a new job in AI search
For more than a century, images have helped people decide what to buy without seeing the product in person. In 1897, Sears told shoppers its catalog illustrations would…
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ChatGPT Searches Individual Subreddits By Name
Reddit still wins ChatGPT citations where a forum is the best source. Two captures, four days apart, show what actually decides the credit.
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If an AI watermark scares you, your content may be the real issue
If you were anywhere near the internet last week, you likely heard that Anthropic announced machine-readable watermarks for Claude-generated text . Come on! Why do you…
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How one app is putting performance at the center of its CTV strategy
Kara Puccinelli, Chief Commercial Officer, Nexxen Connected TV (CTV) has long shouldered the same assumptions of traditional TV: creative is expensive, reach is broad…
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Three years after Kokai, The Trade Desk is betting on refinement with Zuma
The Trade Desk is pushing out another update to Kokai, its buying platform. But don’t expect the same uproar as its last major overhaul three years ago. Unlike then,…
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‘Inside, most of them are dumpster fires’: Confessions of a frustrated indie agency ad exec
Agencies are often expected to have all the answers for their clients, and pre-empt any issues before they even arise. Behind the scenes, though, the way they operate…
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The case for and against the ‘programmatic-ification’ of the creator economy
The creator economy is officially trying to build its own ad stack. It’s probably the most arresting signal that parts of the creator economy are starting to mirror the…
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Media Briefing: The post-traffic era of the open web is taking shape
This week’s Media Briefing will look at how the open web is splitting between human audiences and AI crawlers — and why publishers are betting on stronger brands and…
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Google’s AI Mode can now track flight prices, help book hotels, and more
The updates indicate that Google is looking to position AI Mode as an AI travel agent of sorts, as it's moving beyond simply helping users find information to actually…
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Hugging Face is selling a cute $399 open source duck robot, Microduck
Clem Delangue, CEO of Hugging Face, said the Microduck is an “open-source robot you can teach new tricks with reinforcement learning.”
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AI’s memory crunch is coming for Android apps
Google is setting new memory-use limits for Android apps as AI data centers contribute to hardware shortages that could leave lower-cost phones with less memory.
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Here’s all the times AI has gone rogue and hacked other companies
A recap of all the incidents involving LLMs made by Anthropic, Meta, and OpenAI, which went rogue and attacked real companies and individuals on the internet.
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Enterprise AI's real risk isn't autonomous agents. It's the complexity between them.
Presented by Gravitee Agent complexity is the insidious shadow lurking inside enterprises right now that needs a light shone on it. That’s because enterprises don't…
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Plaud’s new earphones come with an eSIM-enabled case for talking to AI agents
Called Plaud One, these adopt the simple bare-bones style of Apple's AirPods, and can record calls, while their case can be used to record in-person conversations or…
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When agents act on their own, governance has to live in the data layer
Presented by EDB As enterprises give AI agents more autonomy — the ability to plan, decide, and act across systems without a human approving each step — a hard question…
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OpenAI to start showing ads on ChatGPT’s free and Go tiers in India
OpenAI has more than 100 million weekly active ChatGPT users in India, a huge chunk of whom are on the free or the lower-priced Go tiers.
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Nvidia closes in on Hugging Face acquisition
Nvidia has reportedly agreed to buy Hugging Face, the popular open source AI hub, for $12.9 billion in a move that would let Nvidia both protect its chip empire and jump…
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Viral AI startup Instinct has raised $350M at a $2.5B valuation
The startup is only a year old but it has already generated a massive amount of hype (and money) while also spurring privacy concerns.
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