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Last updated: 30 July 2026, 04:30 IST
Search & Digital Marketing
Google’s Mueller On First Link Priority & Link Obfuscation
John Mueller responded to a plan to hide homepage links from Google in hopes only one internal anchor text would count, known as "first-link…
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TikTok Targets AI-Generated Spam Accounts In High-Risk Topics
TikTok will test detection for accounts posting AI-generated spam in politics, financial advice, and medical content, and has joined C2PA's steering…
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OpenAI’s ChatGPT ads could miss $100 billion revenue target: Report
OpenAI’s ad revenue forecast is on pace to miss its 2030 target by 90%, according to Emarketer. OpenAI projected $2.5 billion in ad revenue this year…
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Google Adds Image Generation To AI Overviews, Revamps Images
Google is adding AI image generation to AI Overviews and rolling out a redesigned Google Images homepage. Both start rolling out over the coming…
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Digital video ad spending is booming — trust in premium inventory isn’t
Marketers have taken their digital video ad budgets and thrown rocket fuel on it, growing that spend to surpass $80 billion in the U.S. this year,…
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Future of TV Briefing: The M&A match game (summer 2026 edition)
This week’s Future of TV Briefing looks at the M&A deals that could should be in the offing after an active first half of 2026. Match game…
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Publisher ad supply fell by up to 40% in Q2 as AI search choked the open web
Publisher ad supply fell by up to 40% in Q2 of 2026 as AI era, zero‑click search choked the flow of traffic to news and other open‑web sites,…
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Reddit questions if AI data deals could hurt its ad business
Reddit execs are “intensely debating” whether feeding ChatGPT is eating its own ad business. At Cannes, a top Reddit advertising executive admitted…
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Instagram Reels adds more AI translations
The platform’s interface allows creators to process captions and audio that makes it look and sound like the original poster is speaking.
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The themed icons show up under usernames and reflect specific subtopic interests within larger discussion groups.
Read on our siteTikTok sellers in the UK get improved insights
A much-requested update provides enhanced metrics regarding product rankings, traffic sources and conversion efficiency.
Read on our siteSnapchat shares data with Dick’s Sporting Goods
A new partnership in collaboration with LiveRamp will let advertisers see how on-platform ads drive in-store sales.
Read on our siteGoogle Images introduces Pinterest-style UI
The new gallery format also includes a collections option that allows users to save visuals into dedicated folder tabs.
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OpenAI researcher Miles Wang in talks to launch AI drug discovery startup valued at $2B
The funding discussions point to investor interest in applying AI to make breakthroughs in life sciences.
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Lorde says AI glasses are ‘not sexy’
"Increasingly in our world, it gets harder and harder to know what is real," Lorde said onstage.
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OpenAI’s first hardware device is reportedly a screenless speaker that can move
The device is weirdly described as involving "mechanical elements that can move on their own" and the Bloomberg report includes the detail that the…
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OpenAI pushes back on Apple trade secret lawsuit
OpenAI has issued another statement on the lawsuit, this time suggesting it lacks merit.
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OpenAI’s new flagship model deletes files on its own, people keep warning
A number of social media posts claim that GPT-5.6 Sol deleted files and data without warning. OpenAI had basically disclosed the problem in June.
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Apple opens its new Siri AI to everyone with the iOS 27 public beta
If you’ve been waiting to try Apple’s revamped Siri without installing a developer beta, you now can. The company on Tuesday released the iOS 27…
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Anthropic’s newest ad is creeping people out
Anthropic has consistently attempted to depict itself as the ethical foil to other AI companies. This latest marketing stunt — which leans into…
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The founder of Hinge raised $18M to build a new AI dating service, Overtone
Overtone describes itself as "a voice- and audio-forward service, enabled by AI, that provides highly curated introductions."
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Google faces another AI training lawsuit from major publishers
Hachette, Cengage, Elsevier, and other publishers allege that Google trained its AI on copyrighted works without the necessary permissions.
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DeepMind CEO calls for an independent standards body to regulate frontier AI
DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis is proposing an AI "standards body" modeled after FINRA, to test frontier models and develop best practices for their…
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Meta’s Adam Mosseri says AI token budgets could soon be capped per engineer
Instagram head Adam Mosseri believes companies will eventually need to manage AI token spending the same way they manage payroll or other operating…
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