
More than 400 publications worldwide now take part in Google’s News AI pilot, the company said on Thursday. The programme pays publishers to license content for experimental AI features in Google News. Its newest partners include Axios, CNN, the Financ…

ChatGPT leans on news sites more than any other major AI platform, in both the UK and the US, Semrush said on Tuesday. From January to July, news took a bigger share of ChatGPT’s cited sources every month. Gemini, Google’s AI Mode and AI Overviews all …

UiPath’s marketing team has stopped paying outside firms to pull together its advertising data. The head of its paid media team built an AI agent on UiPath’s own platform instead, chief marketing officer Michael Atalla told TNW. It collects the data, a…

TikTok is adding an AI shopping assistant and one-click checkout to its app. The two features let users buy directly from brands without leaving TikTok, the company said in an announcement at Advertising Week New York on Monday. Buy Direct is an in-app…

Discord is opening its advertising business to companies of any size, as Scharon Harding reported for Ars Technica. The chat app has launched Discord Ads Manager, a tool for planning, buying and tracking ad campaigns in one place, it said on Tuesday. S…

Google is paying about 100 digital publishers when their content feeds its AI answers. For several small and mid-sized sites in the pilot, the payments come to less than a tenth of 1% of their advertising revenue, The Information reported on Tuesday. A…

A business registers its number, writes a plain appointment reminder and sends it. The text never arrives. Nothing bounces back. Somewhere between the sender and the phone, a filter simply drops it. US carriers filter business text messaging for three …

ChatGPT sent 95.1% of the traffic that AI chatbots referred to websites in August, its highest share this year, according to new data from BrightEdge. The search marketing company said referral traffic from ChatGPT grew 101% between January and August….

Some 51% of US consumers used at least one AI tool to help them shop in the past month, according to new figures from NIQ. It is the first time the share has passed 50% in the market research firm’s Agentic Commerce Tracker. Use has grown steadily over…

“I was hearing from people in the campaign world that there’s this new strategy of paying political influencers to post content,” said Marc Berman, the California assemblyman. “Some were good about disclosure and others were a bit fast and loose.” His …