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Last updated: 30 July 2026, 04:30 IST
Search & Digital Marketing
ChatGPT Ads new overview tab, suggested ad drafts, new ad formats and more
ChatGPT Ads has sent out an email to advertisers announcing new ChatGPT Ads Manager updates and ChatGPT Ads experience updates. The updates include…
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Ask YouTube AI search experience expands to U.S. desktop users
YouTube expanded Ask YouTube to signed-in U.S. desktop viewers 13 and older, moving its conversational search experience beyond a Premium-only test.…
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Google expands AI ad disclosures across Search, YouTube, Discover
Google is adding AI disclosures to ads across Search, YouTube, and Discover. The new How this ad was made section will appear in My Ad Center, Google…
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Winning the AI decision layer: From AI discovery to agentic commerce
The next battleground for brands is being chosen by AI. Every day, AI engines and autonomous agents decide which brands to recommend, compare, cite,…
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7 ways AI can turn Google Search Console data into action
Google Search Console has never been better at collecting data. It just hasn’t gotten much better at helping us interpret it. Open almost any…
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The Web Is Eating Itself And Your Metrics Look Fine
Source bias, retrieval collapse, model collapse: three documented mechanisms that explain AI search's strangest behavior, and where to place your bet.
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Why marketing mix modeling is still hard to get right
Marketing mix modeling (MMM) is becoming more accessible, but getting started remains a challenge. After several conversations about MMM adoption, I…
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Stop saying ‘best practice’ and start bringing proof
Let’s get real. SEO advice often sounds completely made up. There, I said it! A lot of recommendations sound ridiculous to people who do not live in…
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Google drops Next from Merchant Center Next
Google has dropped “Next” from Merchant Center Next and it will now be known as just Google Merchant Center. “The platform you use today will simply…
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Human vs. machine: What happens when groas runs your Google Ads by groas
Paid search has changed. Auction dynamics shift by the hour, competitor bids adjust in real time, and search behavior varies across devices, times of…
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Google’s New Merchant Listing Structured Data Improves SEO
Google's new Category and Sale Duration structured data properties give merchants a way to rank more precise product data.
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How To Optimize PPC Accounts With Less Search Term Visibility – Ask A PPC
Losing search term visibility? Three technical signals still reveal how smart bidding is really performing, no query data required.
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Google adds AI creation disclosure for ads
When brands use generative artificial intelligence tools in their promotions, Google’s SynthID will automatically detect and label the content.
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Brands can now better assess how well their custom artificial intelligence Business Agents are navigating customer queries and handling responses.
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The new multimodal reasoning model will offer a paid tier for developers as the company pursues monetization avenues for its artificial intelligence…
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Advertisers look for advantage in Sky’s ITV deal
Sky’s deal for ITV looks set to fundamentally reshape the U.K. media industry. Two of the country’s biggest broadcast players will operate under the…
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Instagram users: Here’s how to stop Meta’s AI from using your photos
Muse Image allows users to generate AI images using photos from public Instagram accounts. As long as a person's profile is public, another user can…
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Meta’s new AI chips will begin production in September
The company is taking a modular approach to designing these chips, anticipating that their needs will change as AI evolves rapidly by the time the…
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Nvidia is a victim of the compute marketplace it created
Having proven how valuable compute can be, the company finds itself at the center of a market everyone wants to be in — while simpler technologies…
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Anthropic’s new Claude feature is quietly selling you on AI
Claude’s new Reflect dashboard doesn’t just visualize how you use AI. It also subtly reinforces how much of your daily work now depends on…
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Anthropic, OpenAI, and SpaceX are bigger than the last 25 years of tech exits
Three big AI IPOs are set to generate more value than all the U.S. VC-backed exits since 2000.
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Character.AI enters the microdrama arena with its own productions, but there’s a twist
In an interesting twist that takes advantage of the company's core product, users can chat with these shows' characters, ask them questions, and even…
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Popular open source AI developer tool Ollama raises $65M, grows to nearly 9M users
Benchmark-backed Ollama has amassed 176,000 stars, and nearly 17,000 forks on GitHub by helping developers easily run AI on their PCs.
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Nandan Nilekani leaves GP role at Fundamentum as it launches $200M third fund
Nilekani remains Fundamentum's anchor investor as the firm expands its leadership team and targets AI and fintech startups in India.
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