The protocol layer of the agentic web is splitting into two bets, and most websites have already placed one of them without knowing it. The first bet is about identity: a file called llms.txt that tells AI models who you are and what your content covers. The second is about
A new nonprofit aims to fill an educational gap in commerce media. Commerce Media Meetup, which started as a casual get together in Minneapolis, has formalized as a nonprofit. The group organizes educational networking events for Minneapolis and Chicago-based commerce media professionals, with plans to expand to Atlanta and Boston.
Alongside unprecedented development, recent exponential technological advances have also led to greater political and social fragmentation, the flourishing of extremism and economic inequality, massive algorithmic surveillance and, inevitably, the progressive redefinition of power relations, reconfiguring the concept of sovereignty, now hostage to the omnipresent technological giants. This will be the
Add WebMCP to your website, and you hand visiting AI agents a set of named tools to call. Those same tools can be used to turn the agents against the people who sent them. Chrome’s developer site now carries the security guidance for WebMCP, and much of it is written
A typical CMO writes most martech postmortems from their own perspective. I’ve sat in those rooms for 30 years, and the story rarely changes. The platform underdelivered, the ROI never showed, or the vendor oversold the demo. The tools take the blame, but the stack never gets to answer. This
The Mlink Tool is chocker with simple features, such as randomising colours and shapes, affecting the speed of animations, creating shuddering rows of columns or melting blobs. It’s all got this really endearing early MS Paint feeling to it, with simple gradients and mischievous geometry. It’s like if the shape
“What’s closing is the cheap part,” Shane Tepper told me. “The stretch where you can win position with work instead of budget.” Tepper is co-founder of Resonate Labs, and I’d asked him a pointed question. Everyone in SEO talks about a closing window on earned AI visibility, but the surface
Nearly every big platform at Cannes Lions said AI makes creativity faster. Some of them quietly acknowledged that might be the problem. As advertisers use the same AI tools to make ads at scale, platforms are seeing a new risk: automated content can begin to look and feel the same,
The internet is going wild for another pop culture collab, and this one is surprisingly subtle. The runDisney X Brooks collection has a sale with a whopping 41% off right now, and was made for outdoor enthusiasts and Disney lovers alike. You’ll find kicks that sport iconic character designs like
Google Business Profile owners are seeing a message in their review dashboards that reads “You have no reviews yet,” even when their public listings still show hundreds of reviews. Complaint threads began to rise in the Google Business Profile Community forum on July 9, as people reported that the reply panel
