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Last updated: 30 July 2026, 04:30 IST
Search & Digital Marketing
Google expands Performance Max product reporting across all networks
Google broadened Performance Max product-level reporting to include data from all eligible networks, giving advertisers a more complete view of campaign performance—but…
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Google changes default Local Inventory Ads behavior
Google is changing how Local Inventory Ads are managed in Standard Shopping campaigns, automatically enabling them by default and replacing an existing campaign setting…
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Google’s AI Mode Now Connects To Your Apps
Google is starting to roll out connected apps in AI Mode, so you can send tasks to services like Canva from a search.
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Google AI Mode adds Instacart, Canva and YouTube Music integrations
Google is starting to roll out connected app integrations in AI Mode in Search, letting U.S. users link services such as Instacart, Canva, and YouTube Music to take…
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How to run a local GEO baseline audit
Ask 10 local business owners how they’re doing in AI search, and nine will point to their Google Business Profile . That’s the wrong place to look. ChatGPT recommended…
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EU orders Google to share search data with rivals starting in 2027
The European Commission ordered Google to share anonymized search data with rival search engines under the Digital Markets Act, specifying how the company must give…
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X adds Grok-powered insights to Ads Manager
The move represents the platform’s latest artificial intelligence advancement and could eventually lead to full advertising automation.
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The company is providing more insights via a rebranded analytics portal and also offered clarifications on the removal of unsatisfying or off-putting material.
Read on our siteX updates its engagement bait detection
The platform is using Grok’s artificial intelligence system to remove accounts that solicit engagement from its creator revenue share program.
Read on our siteTikTok partners with NBA and WNBA
The new deal will offer exclusive in-app content and help the platform better engage with its growing basketball fanbase.
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Rather than going with the crowd, marketers are now questioning measurement ambiguity
Brian Quinn, president and gm, AppsFlyer Marketing teams have long been convincing themselves they see something that isn’t there — akin to the emperor’s new clothes —…
Read on our siteMeta AI adds additional safety measures
Updates include parental alerts when children engage in self harm or suicide-related chats with the artificial intelligence tools.
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The state of agentic storefronts: How AI agents guide shoppers on frictionless, full-funnel journeys
This State of the Industry report, sponsored by Swap, explores how brands, retailers and agencies are adopting agentic commerce, including agentic storefronts, to…
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The agent security gap: 54% of enterprises have already had an AI agent incident, and most still let agents share credentials
Across 107 enterprises, AI agents are being given real access to systems and data while the controls meant to contain them lag behind. More than half have already had a…
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Google Vids now lets you star in your own AI videos
Google is adding personalized AI avatars to Vids that let users create videos starring a digital version of themselves, alongside Gemini Omni-powered tools for…
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Roblox launches an AI-powered game-creation feature in its mobile app
Roblox's new "Build" feature lets users generate basic games using a single text prompt.
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The AI context gap: Enterprise AI organizations have a trust problem, not a retrieval problem — and most are still building the fix
Across 101 enterprises, the infrastructure that feeds AI agents their business context is being built faster than it can be trusted. Retrieval-augmented generation is…
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The agent evaluation gap: Enterprise AI organizations have a reality-alignment problem, not a coverage problem — and most are shipping to production anyway
Across 157 enterprises, organizations are granting AI agents more autonomy while trusting the evaluations meant to gate that autonomy less. Half have already shipped an…
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Google’s AI Mode now lets you link and interact with select apps
With this new update, Google is expanding AI Mode beyond answering questions and into completing tasks across the apps they use regularly.
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Yes, you can now order DoorDash from the command line
DoorDash is opening a limited beta of dd-cli, a command-line tool that lets developers and AI agents search stores, build carts, and place orders from the terminal,…
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Why is OpenAI selling a ChatGPT basketball?
You may have heard that OpenAI released its first piece of hardware this week. You may not have heard about the ChatGPT basketball.
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How a former DeepMind researcher raised at a $300M pre-seed valuation before launching a product
Drawing on more than a decade spent helping build some of the world's most influential AI systems, including research that later informed the development of ChatGPT,…
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Why AMI Labs’ Alexandre LeBrun won’t call his AI ‘AGI’ or ‘superintelligence’
While everyone in AI is chasing "superintelligence," Alexandre LeBrun, CEO of Yann LeCun’s world model startup, AMI Labs, dismisses the word.
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Moonshot’s upcoming Kimi 3 is expected to close the gap with Anthropic’s Opus 4.8
The FT reports Kimi K3 will be the largest open AI model from China, with a parameter count between 2 trillion and 3 trillion.
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