Search, display banners, streaming and CTV dominated local digital budgets last year, with Borrell Associates estimating the combined sectors will hold 78% of digital and 57% of total local
advertising within three years.
Winning the AI race could come down to learning how to play the data game. Microsoft President Brad Smith recommends that the U.S. ensure public data remains open and accessible because data fuels
powerful AI.
AI, online ad serving, media buying, and search require a substantial amount of energy that companies have been trying to figure out how to support. Google's agreement with nuclear developer
Elementl Power will help to develop three project sites for advanced reactors.
New research shows advanced AI models, including popular LLM agents, routinely lie in pursuit of their goals, raising new concerns about the reliability of their outputs.
Rewards went to 660 security researchers who reported security bugs in Google's products throughout the company from its Vulnerability Reward Program. Microsoft also expanded its program.
As AI becomes an integral part of the ad industry, quantum computing will become a necessary technology because of the speed and quantity of data collected, analyzed, processed and used. Microsoft
said it has combined science and art to solve previously unsolvable problems.
Perplexity became the latest AI company to release an in-depth research tool - following Google, which unveiled something similar for Gemini AI in December, and OpenAI early in February.
Traditional search engines from Google and Microsoft have skyrocketed, but newcomers are now taking significant market share, which will change the dynamics in 2025. Search advertising also will
change from informational to actionable, especially as more consumers adopt AI agents that can perform tasks.
In a race to become the dominant player in AI, Google has released what it calls its most "capable" AI assistant as the technology becomes the answer to organizing the world's information to keep
users on its search engine and advertisers on its ad platforms.
The technology identifies whether content is correctly optimized to serve queries and recommendations related to the brand in GAI models such as OpenAI's ChatGPT, Google's Gemini and Meta's Llama.
An advanced version of Gemini AI will power Project Jarvis, built to perform tasks as an AI agent. Automation on traditional devices is just the beginning of an autonomous world.
Apple Intelligence is not available to the public, but a new report claims some at the company believe its AI lags at least two years behind industry leaders. Internal studies at Apple show just how
much ground Apple Intelligence needs to make up to reach ChatGPT's level, according to Mark Gurman, Bloomberg columnist.
Google on Thursday announced its rollout of AI-powered updates for search results and links, with AI Overviews ads on mobile in the U.S. and redesigned Shopping Ads to run with Google Lens visual
search results. Google says no action is required from advertisers for their ads to appear as AI Overview ads.. Amazon and Microsoft made similar announcements this week.
New Street Research found Google continues to lead in use for search but lags in AI use, and more males than females ask AI chatbots for help when trying to determine what to purchase.
Microsoft's controversial Recall AI service takes screenshots of activity on Windows run computer screens so people can later search their machine for specific information.
I thought it would be easy to switch search engines if Google no longer served as the default on my iPhone, but could I accept the switch to Bing like 33% of participants in this recent survey?
Microsoft's AI Trace research project introduces a new approach to training and automatically optimizing AI-run systems, with the possibility to optimize ad delivery, recommendations, fraud detection,
and more.
Florence-2 - a type of AI called a vision language model - can create content for marketing, advertising, and storytelling by really understanding text prompts to generate images.
Ouna, a Hebrew reference from the Israeli-based company, translated into English means a "lobe of the brain." It represents the company's push into AI supported by research.
With 72% of B2B marketers expecting budgets to increase this year, per a LinkedIn study, the company said it will release support for lead generation and website visits in Accelerate campaigns.
Google, Meta, and Microsoft have been spending money and time on studies that suggest their respective companies boost local economies.
Did AI turn search into an ask engine looking for a way to monetize advertising? "This myopia is NOT something driven by user need," Scott Jenson, former Google user interface strategist and designer,
wrote in a LinkedIn post. Google is in a "stone-cold panic" that they may get left behind.
Microsoft says the mini AI model can outperform models twice its size across a variety of benchmarks that evaluate language, coding and math. Microsoft also says it has partnered with Cognizant to
expand the adoption of generative AI solutions by enterprises, and the companies hope to make Microsoft's Copilots available to millions.
NordVPN has found billions of ad tracking cookies leaked on the dark web. At least 1.5 billion were from the U.S.
Some say generative AI will never replace traditional search engines, but the change could come sooner than expected - especially if consumers show a willingness to take the leap.
LinkedIn is looking to provide its users with simple, puzzle-based experiences similar to the wildly popular 'New York Times' games like Wordle, Spelling Bee and Connections.
The biggest challenge for search is to summarize the world's information - not just organize it, says Jason Hartley, PMG privacy lead and head of search & shopping.
State-affiliated hackers from Russia's military intelligence, Iran's Revolutionary Guard, and Chinese and North Korean governments are using AI tools from OpenAI to improve hacking using large
language models, according to a report published Wednesday.
Researchers set out to answer the question of whether search results are worse now than ever before. They predict a long-term increase in spam and a decline in overall quality.
Two Microsoft researchers set out to determine whether or not developers could make large language models unlearn any part of the data they have been trained on.