Any business that relies on selling electronics to Americans is having a bit of a crisis at the moment. Less than two weeks into the new Trump administration, there’s a new 10 percent tariff on goods from China — which is most consumer goods, period — and it’s set to shoot prices through the roof…Read […]

It’s been well more than a year since Amazon gave us a glimpse of a revamped Alexa, complete with an AI overhaul under the hood. Now there are signs that the AI-powered Alexa is almost ready for prime time.  Journalists (including me) awoke this morning to invitations from Amazon for a “Devices and Services” event […]

OpenAI’s ChatGPT has removed the last barrier to using ChatGPT as a search engine, the requirement to log in. Now, it’s open to all. OpenAI launched the feature last fall, but required a login. Now, the feature can be used without the need for registration. ChatGPT Search is essentially just ChatGPT…Read More

Google has now given its Gemini app access to a new AI model called Gemini 2.0 Flash Thinking Experimental. According to the announcement blog post, the company says this model is currently “ranked as the world’s best model” and is available at no cost. The model is designed to answer complex questions by breaking them […]

Some podcast execs expanding their video production efforts aren’t won over by Spotify’s push into video podcasts yet, due in part to growth they’re seeing on YouTube…Read More

Marketers and agency creatives predict the major trends for this year’s crop of ads on Sunday when the Philadelphia Eagles and the Kansas City Chiefs face off…Read More

Google says that ad revenue from Shorts — YouTube’s answer to TikTok — is quickly catching up to its long-form content…Read More

Agencies are overwhelmingly concerned about client budgets in 2025, but they’re also optimistic that it will be a good year overall…Read More

Index Exchange, TripleLift, and Yieldmo join an Amazon beta program, dubbed ‘Dynamic Traffic Engine,’ amid wider drive for more brand advertisers. 
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PC gaming via the Microsoft Store can be a pain: game updates can lag, and mod support may be limited. But Microsoft is testing at least one small improvement: modular downloads of games via the Microsoft Store. The new update, being tested for now in the Canary Channel…Read More