OpenAI upgrades ChatGPT Ads Manager with daily budgets, U.S. geo-targeting by state, DMA, and ZIP, plus an early dynamic CTA test rolling out on select ads now.

Texas filed a landmark lawsuit against Discord, claiming it deceived parents about safety while children faced predators and extremist content on its servers.

A draft executive order on AI and cybersecurity was shelved on May 22. Here is what the seven-page document proposed for frontier models and federal agencies.

Brazil's ANPD releases a draft guide on reliable age verification for digital platforms, opening a public consultation under the May 2026 ECA Digital framework.

Reddit studied 150,000 in-feed ads across 7,000 advertisers to find which creative choices drive conversions - from logo placement to urgency overlay text.

Google I/O triggered panic about the death of Search. The risk is economic, not technical, and both sides of the debate are getting it wrong.

The FTC fined Cox Media Group, MindSift, and 1010 Digital Works $930,000 for selling a fabricated AI voice-targeting advertising service to small businesses.

YouTube today introduced Unique Reach in Advanced Analytics, music for image posts, and Gemini Omni remixing in YouTube Shorts and the YouTube Create app now.

AppLovin has quietly launched Gist, a Pinterest-like social app, as it moves to build first-party traffic alongside its fast-growing Axon advertising platform.

Snap's Specs AR glasses are reportedly set for a fall 2026 consumer launch at around $2,500, beating Meta and Google's display-equipped glasses to the market.

Google's top AI leaders at I/O 2026 explain how Gemini 3.5 Flash, Spark, and Antigravity are reshaping productivity, coding, and the future of search today.

At Google I/O 2026, Doug Liman and 30 Ninjas detailed how AI compressed a feature film's post-production from 40 years to six months using Veo and Gemini Live.

The Cloudflare Agent Readiness Score is a real shift. The composite number is also the wrong thing to optimize for. Here's why, and what to do instead.

Quality Traffic Percentage is a custom metric that tracks the percentage of landing page views that resulted in at least 15-second visits.

Google flags 8 Merchant Center feed attributes for AI Mode and AI Overviews - what each does, its character limits, and the formatting errors that break data.

Google AI Mode hits 1B users, Publicis buys LiveRamp for $2.2bn, OpenAI upgrades ChatGPT Ads Manager, and the FTC fines Cox Media $880K for fake AI targeting.

The format of search answers has changed. The intent behind them hasn't. A 2022 digital PR framework holds up, with some important updates for 2026.

Execution gets marketers hired, strategic thinking gets them heard. Here’s how you can move from task completion to strategic influence.

Sundar Pichai says Google is "a bit behind" in agentic coding, citing a lack of developer-facing products as one reason for the gap.

Reddit CEO Steve Huffman calls user content "modern oil" for AI, discusses deals with Google and OpenAI, and outlines why some companies face lawsuits.