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Last updated: 09 November 2026, 05:30 IST
Search & Digital Marketing
Google Turns Off Discover Experiment After AI Summary Source Bug
Rajan Patel wrote on X that disabled source clicks on Google Discover AI summaries were a bug in an experiment that has been turned off.
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Why We Should Fear The Shadow Web We’re Building For AI
Why would an AI search provider keep trusting information a brand hides from its own website? The parallels with cloaking are too close to ignore.
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Google Privacy Update Lets Connected Apps Shape AI Mode Ads
Google is testing AI Mode ads informed by connected Gmail and Photos data, as its privacy policy adds an exception for ad personalization.
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Shopify Retires Knowledge Base App, Moves AI Agent Facts To Admin
Shopify's AI agent knowledge base now lives in the admin. Policies and contact details publish by default. Some app users need to re-add their facts.
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Looking Things Up Now Rivals Writing In ChatGPT, OpenAI Data Shows
Looking things up now makes up about as large a share of consumer ChatGPT messages as writing, though the increase is smaller than earlier data.
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One year in: DMG Media’s social-only briefs account for 30% of New Media revenue
DMG Media’s year-old New Media division is carving out a new social revenue stream with creator-led IP aimed at younger audiences. The commercial shift is beginning to…
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How Lush quit social media ads and still drove growth
“Be somewhere else.” That’s the text on the single post that lives on Lush’s TikTok account. To its 344,900 followers, the beauty brand’s TikTok is practically a ghost…
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Why the talent crisis in advertising is real and what comes next
Bradley Keefer, Chief Revenue Officer, Keen Decision Systems The advertising industry has a talent problem it desperately needs to confront: AI is eliminating the work…
Read on our siteEdits gets new Halloween-themed options
The Meta-owned video creation app now features spooky fonts, sound effects and animations to help creators make their projects seasonally creepy.
Read on our siteYouTube adds microdrama subscriptions
The format garnered more than 6.5 billion views in the first half of 2026, according to the company.
Read on our siteMeta adds individual performance data for ad creative
The company’s Ad Manager platform now offers a Breakdown tool that offers insights into specific promotional elements, albeit with certain limitations.
Read on our siteLinkedIn launches data insights hub
The platform’s Economic Graph has been renamed LinkedIn Pulse and reimagined as a channel for global labor market analysis.
Read on our siteLinkedIn tests simplified UI
Menus on both desktop and mobile have been consolidated and some posts will see longer lead-ins as the platform experiments with new navigation options.
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Adidas and Gamefam, Poppi and Walmart Connect are winners for the 2026 Digiday Awards
The 2026 Digiday Awards winners reflect a media and marketing landscape in which cultural relevance, audience participation and measurable business impact increasingly…
Read on our siteYouTube tests reduced payment threshold for creators
The platform is experimenting with a cash-out option set at $20 rather than the current $100, which could open doors to more video producers.
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VCs will make billions on Anthropic’s IPO, but Amazon is set to make much (much) more
Massive note conversions reveal the true extent of Amazon's ownership in Anthropic.
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Parents sue OpenAI, alleging GPT-4o coached their daughter off seizure medication
A family is suing OpenAI, saying ChatGPT coached their daughter to quietly taper off her seizure medication and keep it from her doctors before she died in February.
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The data center boom has an upside: innovation for the US grid
As the AI boom stresses the existing power grid, all sorts of new opportunities for grid modernization are also emerging as a result, industry insiders say.
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Bank of America kindly asks that you don’t share your banking password with your AI assistant
The banking giant reminds customers that "you're responsible for activity" resulting from your AI agents' access.
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Who’s really in charge at Anthropic after the IPO?
Here's a clear explanation of Anthropic's incredibly complex governance structure.
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Disruptive raises $10B fund to make big bets on at least 10 companies
Disruptive has made headlines in recent years for pouring money into companies like chip startup Groq and the AI voice-generation startup ElevenLabs.
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Frontier AI labs say their models refuted the Exponential Time Hypothesis. What does that mean?
TechCrunch spoke to the MIT computer scientist charged with explaining OpenAI's latest mind-bending discovery.
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Google’s Genie 4 world model adds audio, more realistic worlds, and real-time steering
Genie 4 can maintain a consistent scene for up to two minutes, double Genie 3's limit, and offers better physics and more humanlike characters.
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Meta AI director Rohit Patel leaves to take on Microsoft Office and Google Workspace
Rohit Patel is departing Meta after eight years working on AI evaluations and reinforcement learning, TechCrunch has exclusively learned. His startup, Ndoc, aims to take…
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