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Last updated: 28 September 2026, 04:30 IST
Search & Digital Marketing
Google’s target bidding shake-up: Why PPC marketers have been here before
Watch this video on YouTube Reva Minkoff, Founder and President of Digital4Startups Inc., led our latest SMX Now webinar, examining Google’s changes to target bidding —…
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Google updates Location asset requirements without changing enforcement
Google updated its Location asset requirements in September, revising terminology, improving readability and adding troubleshooting guidance for advertisers. Why we…
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New Google Guide To Regional Search Features & Eligibility
Google added documentation mapping regional Search features in the EEA, Türkiye, and South Africa, with eligibility and participation steps.
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Jessica Bowman: SEO can’t win AI visibility alone
Watch this video on YouTube Jessica Bowman has spent more than 20 years figuring out how to make SEO work inside large organizations. Now she thinks AI is turning…
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4 risks hiding in your branded search results
Consider the role that branded search results play in consumer decisions. Say a consumer types “company X + name of newest product” into their search bar. The results…
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How AI Is Reshaping Search Intent – What 2 Studies Reveal
Search intent is fracturing across AI Mode, video platforms, and zero-click results and Google's own metrics reveal what actually earns clicks now.
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Caught by Google’s spam update? Don’t make recovery harder
Google’s August 2026 spam update has caused considerable confusion across the industry. Google has confirmed that the update is complete , but a number of publishers…
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Manual vs. automated Google Ads campaigns: How to allocate your budget
Google Ads’ push to automate as many campaigns as possible isn’t news to anyone with recent paid search experience. Yet, at least as of this writing, advertisers still…
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Brands Are Tracking AI Visibility, But Are They Measuring The Right Things?
AI visibility tools track brand mentions and citations, but marketers need outcome data to know what those movements mean and what to do next.
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Meta keeps trying to make digital assistants happen
With the launch of Muse, company CEO Mark Zuckerberg is once again leaning into the idea of optimizing human experiences to maximize efficiency.
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Pinterest shares insights into men’s trends
Hobby and recreational Pins are gaining traction, as are grooming tips, outdoor activities and communal gaming ideas.
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Evan Spiegel outlined Snapchat's priorities and highlighted the app’s positive association with wellbeing in a staff letter marking the company’s 15th anniversary.
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The artificial intelligence-powered agent is available for free as an app and an in-stream chatbot that responds to conversational queries and facilitates purchases.
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Apple CEO John Ternus says the best AI device is still the iPhone
The company also argued that its on-device models offer consumers more privacy.
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Superintelligence is coming. Should we let it?
AI companies have been talking about superintelligent AI like it’s inevitable, but recent safety incidents like OpenAI’s Hugging Face breach are demonstrating the…
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ControlAI’s Connor Leahy on why superintelligence is ‘not a weapon, it’s an adversary’
AI companies have been talking about superintelligent AI like it’s inevitable, but recent safety incidents like OpenAI’s Hugging Face breach are demonstrating the…
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Viral AI assistant Instinct now has its own email address
Instinct’s new email feature lets the AI agent create and manage accounts, contact businesses, handle support requests, and do more on users' behalf.
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‘Gambling with our lives’: Anthropic researcher quits, warns against self-improving AI
Anthropic researcher Jacob Coxon resigned over AI extinction fears, calling for pacing agreements between labs.
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Shipt becomes the latest delivery app with an AI shopping assistant
Users can ask the assistant to do things like "Create a cart for my Saturday tailgate for 25 people and include some brunch items," or "Build a cart for easy school…
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AI spend per employee slumped at top firms in August — summer doldrums or a warning sign?
Falling token costs, cheaper models, and less spend per employee — AI adoption isn't playing out the way hyperscalers hoped.
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Sequoia doubles down on Cymphony as AI agents create new enterprise security risks
Cymphony gives security teams a single view of employees, AI agents, and other nonhuman identities, including the systems and sensitive data they can access.
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Instacart launches an AI grocery shopping assistant called Clementine
Instacart is the latest app to bake a conversational AI assistant into its platform.
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Besxar is building an orbital semiconductor factory, one SpaceX rocket at a time
Besxar, a startup founded by former OpenAI staffer Ashley Pilipiszyn, wants to make the key precursors for advanced semiconductors by taking advantage of the vacuum of…
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Suno replaces its AI models with a new one trained on licensed music as copyright suits pile up
As it grapples with a bevy of lawsuits, Suno said its new model, Suno v6, is not trained using music it used to train previous versions of the AI model.
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