Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella urges moving beyond “slop vs sophistication,” while Google engineer Jaana Dogan frames AI criticism as burnout.

A breakdown of what I published in 2025 and how my content plan is changing in 2026, including blog posts, videos, podcasts, and mini-courses.

PubMatic introduced AgenticOS on January 5, positioning the infrastructure as the first operating system built specifically for autonomous advertising execution across premium digital environments.

Reddit launches Max campaigns beta with AI-powered bidding delivering 17% lower CPA and 27% more conversions while opening automation insights.

Reddit introduces Max campaigns, a new automated campaign type designed to simplify setup, improve performance, and provide deeper audience insight for advertisers.

Google quietly published a research paper on personalized semantics for recommender systems like Google Discover and YouTube.

Whether you’re using AI to replace your content team or avoiding it entirely, you might be repeating a historic mistake. Strategy matters more than tools.

Search is shifting from ranked lists to definitive answers. This guide breaks down the retrieval, citation, and trust factors that determine LLM visibility in 2026.

Research analyzing 7,060 queries reveals Google's Gemini allocates fixed 2,000-word budget per search, with top-ranked content receiving twice the grounding share of fifth-ranked sources.

Measurement company launches program-level reporting for linear and streaming with AWS-powered content unification, ending walled-off audience data on January 6, 2026.

Meta's new value rules feature lets advertisers adjust bids by demographics and placement, but industry experts warn against rushing adoption without clear data.

xAI's Grok triggered 16 requests from 12 IPs using spoofed user agents while legitimate AI crawlers adopt adversarial tactics to evade detection systems.

A Guardian investigation says health experts found misleading information in Google's AI Overviews for some medical searches. Google disputes the findings.

England implements sweeping restrictions on high fat, sugar and salt food marketing starting January 2026, drawing mixed reactions from industry stakeholders and health experts.

Google Ads will permit prediction market advertising starting January 21, 2026, exclusively for platforms authorized by CFTC as Designated Contract Markets or NFA-registered brokerages.

Basis and Mediaocean announce integration linking programmatic, search, social, and CTV advertising with enterprise planning, ordering, trafficking, measurement, and financial systems.

Walmart introduces agentic advertising assistant and AI-powered creative tools on January 6, positioning retail media platform against rising competition from Amazon.

Google Merchant Center will require separate product IDs for online versus in-store items starting March 2026, affecting Local Inventory Ads and feed management.

IAB Tech Lab unveils agentic roadmap on January 6, extending OpenRTB and existing standards with modern protocols to scale AI agents without rebuilding digital advertising.

PayPal launched Transaction Graph Insights & Measurement on January 6, giving advertisers cross-merchant purchase data that platform-specific tools miss entirely.