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Last updated: 07 November 2026, 05:30 IST
Search & Digital Marketing
Google Brings UCP Direct Checkout To AI Mode In Canada
Google is expanding UCP-powered direct checkout in AI Mode and the Gemini app to Canadian shoppers, with a Merchant Center integration planned for next year.
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Reddit Adds Ads To Search, Expands Keyword Targeting
Reddit is testing ads in its own search results with select advertisers and may match ads to what people search for.
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Businesses Treat Your AI Agent 3 Different Ways
If a website cannot tell an AI agent from the customer, it cannot treat the agent differently. Three steps to fix that before agents arrive.
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Google Adds Home Service Booking & Quote Links To AI Mode
AI Mode now links home service searches to booking and quote pages. Here's how businesses reach those pages and what partners say about lead fees.
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Reach Is No Longer The KPI: 4 Signals From Jupiter Festival Miami That Reset 2027 Media Budgets
Build your 2027 paid media plan around attention, creators, and streaming, while testing whether new metrics drive incremental sales.
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Agencies find AI overuse is leading to brief bloat
The advertising world rushed to embrace generative AI. But now that agencies and advertisers have come to rely on the tech to keep up, they’re finding themselves…
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After DoorDash’s Instacart bid, here’s the case for and against consolidation in commerce media
The “C” word (consolidation) might soon be coming for commerce media. At least that was how media buyers and industry analysts reacted to last week’s news about…
Read on our siteMedia Briefing: Publishers’ revenue growth defies traffic declines, but tougher comparisons loom
This week’s Media Briefing looks at how The New York Times, People Inc., News Corp and Reuters are navigating tougher year-over-year revenue comparisons after reporting…
Read on our siteSnapchat posts modest user increase in Q3
Company revenue was up, but the platform’s daily active user growth has stalled across nearly every market.
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The monetary incentives the company is offering Brazilian creators are significantly less than what was offered in North America.
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One-off payouts and premium placements are meant to make up for the app’s lack of the type of robust payout system offered by YouTube.
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WTF is scene-level targeting for CTV?
This WTF guide, sponsored by Wurl, explores how CTV advertisers are driving positive attention and improved performance across the entire funnel by aligning creative…
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Apple is reportedly cutting budgets for its internal AI usage
The tokenmaxxing frenzy has been short-lived as bills for said tokens came due, and companies decided that token rationing might be a more fiscally sensible approach.
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After the midterms, a bigger clash over data centers could be coming
Data center opposition crossed party lines in Tuesday’s midterms.
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AI PACs spent millions trying to shape Congress — here’s how they fared
AI industry PACs spent millions influencing the 2026 midterms, with mixed results. Political groups are already looking toward the next election cycle.
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Nothing CEO says company’s mysterious AI-first device is dropping next month
While it's not yet clear what kind of product the smartphone startup is cooking up, Nothing's CEO said the product is designed to leverage AI for productivity gains.
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Almost no one uses AI agents to book their Uber, company says
During its busiest week last quarter, Uber said only four people booked a ride using an AI agent.
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OpenAI is already trying to shape the 2028 election
OpenAI’s Chris Lehane wants AI to define the 2028 election, proposing a new social contract that could benefit Americans while also advancing the AI giant’s own business…
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Meta acquires AI coding startup Conductor
The startup allows software engineers to deploy teams of agents to work on various aspects of a project simultaneously.
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Open source AI is booming. Hugging Face explains who profits.
Open source models are becoming more mainstream as enterprises, governments and startups alike rely on the promise of lower costs, more control, and more flexibility.…
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DuckDuckGo pitches itself to schools amid backlash over Google’s AI policy
DuckDuckGo is courting schools frustrated by Google's AI restrictions, pointing educators to its search engine and options to disable AI features.
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Building on open source AI? Hugging Face’s policy chief on the costs, risks, and trade-offs
Open source models are becoming more mainstream as enterprises, governments and startups alike rely on the promise of lower costs, more control, and more flexibility.…
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I tried Apple’s Siri Recaps. They’re surprisingly useful — and a little unsettling
Apple's AI-powered Siri Recaps won me over in just one day, despite my privacy reservations. But there's still room for improvement.
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Google faces backlash for plan that would turn off Search for schools that restrict AI
Politicians on the left, like NYC mayor Zohran Mamdani and former FTC chair Lina Khan, accused Google of acting as an unregulated monopoly.
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