Welcome to the week’s Pulse: a judge questioned Google’s AI content arrangement, the fallout from the spam update has brought scaled AI publishing into question., and the GEO debate picked up again. AI citation data also revealed how much recommendations can differ from links, while new ChatGPT testing added some
Marketing teams are giving AI more authority over campaigns while feeding it CRM data they know isn’t ready for the job. Nearly 91% of marketers say data readiness is critical for adopting AI, but only 21% consider their CRM data very well prepared for the AI tools they use or
“Food is spilling into unexpected territories,” says Irish magazine Guzzle’s founder, Jane Gleeson. She references Jonathan Anderson’s viral tomato clutch for Loewe, Anya Hindmarch’s Ice Cream Pop-Up, and restaurants like Rita’s and Sessions Arts Club that have increased presence at the Frieze Art Fair in recent years. It makes sense,
In May, Google shared guidance for making websites usable by both AI agents and people. WebMCP was one of several technologies Google pointed to, though it still looked like a browser experiment. Now, in August, we have more concrete updates. Shopify said WebMCP tools were live on every Liquid storefront.
Carhartt is one of the latest brands to lean into sports advertising, finding a way to tap into football season that goes beyond partnering with the athletes themselves. The 135-year-old workwear brand is tapping into NFL season with the latest installment of its “Made Possible” campaign. The 30-second spot highlights the construction
Nvidia hasn’t released DLSS 5 yet, so naturally the first thing people have done after getting hold of it is start putting it into games that were never supposed to have it, because if you give the PC modding community an unreleased graphics technology and a weekend, somebody is going
Google’s new Preferred Sources embed removes one action from the process of adding a publication as a Preferred Source. With the embed, a reader adds the site and returns to the article. A deeplink sends the reader to Google’s source preferences tool, where the site still has to be selected
Top of the Ticker: Regular CNN viewers were greeted with pixelated images during the noon ET hour on Monday as the network suffered a technical issue that affected audio and video. The technical issues occurred during a panel discussion on Inside Politics with Dana Bash, forcing the network to go
This is a series of posters inspired by a recent trip I took to Italy. I wanted to create landscapes featuring characters, finding a balance between graphic/poster design and more painterly landscape illustration. I also animated some elements of the posters mainly using Cavalry. I also used frame by frame
