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Last updated: 10 November 2026, 05:30 IST

Search & Digital Marketing

Search Engine LandAug 10, 2026

How customers build confidence across the search journey

Every week, there’s another headline about the future of search. Google is losing ground. ChatGPT is growing. Reddit is becoming the place people trust. TikTok is…

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Search Engine JournalAug 10, 2026

How To Remove Negative Content From Google Before AI Answers Cite It

Can you remove negative content from Google? Uncover the truth about suppression and overcoming unfavorable online articles.

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Search Engine JournalAug 08, 2026

AI’s Impact Is Outrunning Measurement: The Trust And Attribution Gap Facing Brands

AI's impact outpaced our ability to measure it in H1 2026. Indig's citation data, agent share shifts, and the intelligence-versus-agency split explain what changes next.

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Search Engine JournalAug 08, 2026

AI Search Only Feels New If Your SEO Was Shallow

AI search only feels like a new sport to the people who were never really training. Here's what actually changed, and what didn't.

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Search Engine LandAug 07, 2026

ChatGPT Ads rolls out oCPC campaigns, AAM and product carousels

OpenAI is expanding ChatGPT Ads’ conversion capabilities with new campaign types, broader measurement integrations and enhanced optimization tools, while preparing to…

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Search Engine LandAug 07, 2026

Google expands Limited Ad Serving policy across all Ads

Google is expanding its Limited Ad Serving policy to cover all Google Ads, giving qualified advertisers unrestricted impressions while limiting ad delivery for accounts…

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Social & Advertising

DigidayAug 10, 2026

OpenAI is coming for SMB advertisers

Want to know where OpenAI’s ads business is headed? Check its job listings. Smaller advertisers are next. The platform is currently building out a dedicated SMB ads…

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DigidayAug 10, 2026

Zoom relies on creators to boost AI search results

Zoom has a brand awareness problem, but not in the way that you think. The tech company is trying to convince people that it’s an end-to-end, AI-first work platform…

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DigidayAug 10, 2026

Meet the interior design creator who made a reluctant pivot that paid off

Like many creators, Julie Sousa’s journey first started during Covid, when she began uploading educational interior design videos to TikTok. She already had a successful…

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DigidayAug 10, 2026

Why Georgia-Pacific bet the future of programmatic on supply, not demand

Georgia-Pacific didn’t set out to prove a point about programmatic’s future in 2024. It set out to stop wasting money on 30-odd SSPs that all appeared to be selling more…

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DigidayAug 10, 2026

Media Buying Briefing: How Instrument won Croc’s business in a day

No one can dispute that technology has muscled its way into the world of marketing in such a strong way, it’s now a must-have skill for many agencies serving their…

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Social Media TodayAug 10, 2026

Meta adds more experimental Edits features to its beta tab

The company is allowing users to test new editing updates such as a speed curve function, color correction and folders.

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Social Media TodayAug 10, 2026

LinkedIn updates feed display to drive more post replies and comments

The app is focusing on relevance and ranking engagement based on how pertinent an interaction is to each user, per a creator economy expert.

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Social Media TodayAug 10, 2026

Meta adds more incentives for paying users

The company is offering new ways to build audiences and grow follower counts, according to social media researcher Jonah Manzano.

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Social Media TodayAug 10, 2026

YouTube adds vertical livestream practice mode

Creators can use the feature to test chat, green screen and other streaming effects before going direct.

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Social Media TodayAug 09, 2026

X updates creator revenue share parameters

The new program is designed to reward original creators and disincentivize aggregators as the company works to improve its content stream.

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AI & Automation

TechCrunch AIAug 10, 2026

Embattled hedge fund Situational Awareness invests $400M in chip startup Source Foundry

The AI-focused hedge fund is still making some big bets.

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TechCrunch AIAug 10, 2026

Anthropic is turning Claude Code’s auto mode on by default

Programming with Claude Code will soon require even less human oversight.

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TechCrunch AIAug 09, 2026

Historian Jill Lepore says Silicon Valley misreads science fiction and undermines democracy

On the latest episode of Equity, we spoke to Jill Lepore about "government by machines" and why Elon Musk is a bad science fiction reader.

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TechCrunch AIAug 09, 2026

The AI safety test is becoming a safety risk

AI agents are escaping cybersecurity testing environments and reaching real-world systems, raising questions about whether safety infrastructure, industry standards, and…

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TechCrunch AIAug 09, 2026

Planned Amazon data center could become the biggest climate polluter in the US

AI has already had a significant impact on Amazon’s carbon emissions, which it reported were up 16% last year — the wrong direction for a company that pledged to…

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TechCrunch AIAug 09, 2026

OpenAI acquires presentation startup NextSlide

Founder Ahmed Beshry describes the startup’s product as one “that could turn prompts, notes, documents, or research into a polished, editable presentation.”

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TechCrunch AIAug 08, 2026

OpenAI says it slowed Astra model development over security concerns

OpenAI said this model, which is still in development, reached its "critical cybersecurity threshold," meaning it could independently identify and carry out cyberattacks…

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TechCrunch AIAug 08, 2026

After Rippling blew millions on AI in months, it built an employee ROI tool

After its own AI usage wake-up call, Rippling this week unveiled AI Spend Console, a product that tracks individual and team employee AI spending.

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