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Last updated: 02 November 2026, 05:30 IST
Search & Digital Marketing
AI Search Didn’t Remove Cognitive Load, It Moved It
Answer sooner, write less, simplify: standard advice that can relocate informational work rather than remove it. Here's the sharper test.
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Google expands Demand Gen with messaging ads, travel tools and AI video creation
Google is adding new messaging, travel and AI-powered creative capabilities to Demand Gen, giving advertisers more ways to turn discovery into leads and customers across…
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Google Starts Rolling Out Hotel Booking In AI Mode
Google is rolling out hotel booking in AI Mode with Google Pay checkout. Flight alerts and rewards pricing are available in supported markets.
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Google’s August 2026 spam update hit rankings harder than normal
Google’s August 2026 spam update saw an 82% increase in top 10 URLs dropping out of the top 100 compared with a period without a confirmed ranking update, according to…
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OpenAI Adds WebMCP Site Tools To ChatGPT’s Browser
OpenAI added WebMCP support to ChatGPT’s desktop browser, letting supported webpages expose structured actions to ChatGPT Work and Codex.
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Moving from Google Display to Demand Gen: What you’ll lose and gain
You’re not imagining it. Before we could stop to think about the implications of a DSA-less world , Google announced that Display campaigns, too, will be heading to the…
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How To Become A Strategic Partner & Keep Clients Years Longer
Client-agency relationships now average seven years, but only when agencies act as strategic partners instead of task-completing vendors clients can replace.
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Creator industry admits that fee pricing is out of control, but can’t agree on a fix
Bigger budgets, bigger campaigns, bigger partners, bigger goals — marketers are starting to feel that the price to work with creators is out of control. Half of…
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Carhartt aligns with the NFL through the tradespeople building Highmark Stadium
This story was first published by Digiday sibling Modern Retail . Carhartt is one of the latest brands to lean into sports advertising, finding a way to tap into…
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Future of Marketing Briefing: Soccer’s World Cup buzz isn’t moving needle on Premier League ad spend
Some 128 million viewers tuned into Fox’s FIFA World Cup coverage this summer, a coup that boosted the broadcaster’s revenue 28% to $4.2 billion in its latest quarterly…
Read on our siteHow will Meta’s settlement impact social media?
The company’s landmark $18 billion payout was only one part of a larger agreement that aims to force other apps to implement similar teen restrictions.
Read on our siteX offers updated NFL Gametime display
The platform tweaked the design and renamed its NFL portal ahead of the upcoming season as a way to engage more fans and maximize community interaction.
Read on our siteYouTube adds Amazon affiliate links
Creators will be able to tag a curated list of products from the online retailer in their videos and earn commissions from every resulting sale.
Read on our siteGoogle adds DMs and travel activity recommendations to Demand Gen ads
The company released multiple new features, including DM links, real-time travel data for bookings and personalized hotel promotions.
Read on our siteX launches API for business chatbot accounts
The custom function will let brands build their own automated response agents and offer customers access to answers when they need them.
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How one app is putting performance at the center of its CTV strategy
Kara Puccinelli, Chief Commercial Officer, Nexxen Connected TV (CTV) has long shouldered the same assumptions of traditional TV: creative is expensive, reach is broad…
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Anthropic and OpenAI are joining the AI stage at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026
At TechCrunch Disrupt 2026, the AI Stage is back to dig into the single hottest topic in the community for the past few years, presented by Google for Startups.
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Barret Zoph, the Thinking Machines co-founder ousted before joining OpenAI, is now at Google
Zoph, who co-founded Thinking Machines Lab alongside Mira Murati and also served as the startup's CTO, led a brief stint at OpenAI and is now at Google.
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OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, and 100 other companies call for action to defend against rogue AI
Some of the world's largest tech companies and AI startups have come together to decry the current state of cybersecurity and to advertise a new solution that they say…
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Google’s AI Mode can now track flight prices, help book hotels, and more
The updates indicate that Google is looking to position AI Mode as an AI travel agent of sorts, as it's moving beyond simply helping users find information to actually…
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Hugging Face is selling a cute $399 open source duck robot, Microduck
Clem Delangue, CEO of Hugging Face, said the Microduck is an “open-source robot you can teach new tricks with reinforcement learning.”
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AI’s memory crunch is coming for Android apps
Google is setting new memory-use limits for Android apps as AI data centers contribute to hardware shortages that could leave lower-cost phones with less memory.
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Here’s all the times AI has gone rogue and hacked other companies
A recap of all the incidents involving LLMs made by Anthropic, Meta, and OpenAI, which went rogue and attacked real companies and individuals on the internet.
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Enterprise AI's real risk isn't autonomous agents. It's the complexity between them.
Presented by Gravitee Agent complexity is the insidious shadow lurking inside enterprises right now that needs a light shone on it. That’s because enterprises don't…
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