October retail sales increased 0.6% month-over-month and 5% year-over-year, showing momentum ahead of the 2025 holiday season when spending should exceed $1 trillion.
Research comparing workflows of 48 human workers and 4 AI agent frameworks across 16 tasks reveals agents complete work 88.3% faster at 90-96% lower cost, but struggle with quality.
Australia bans social media for children under 16 starting December 10, 2025, affecting Facebook, Instagram, TikTok, YouTube, Reddit, and Kick, with platforms facing $49.5M fines.
Stripe CEO reveals US software startups now grow significantly faster than European peers since mid-2023, driven by faster technology adoption patterns.
ACCC announced Black Friday enforcement sweep on November 10 targeting misleading pricing claims including countdown timers, site-wide sales exclusions, and strikethrough prices.
LiveRamp transferred the User Context Protocol to IAB Tech Lab on November 3, enabling standardized embedding exchanges between autonomous advertising agents.
Amazon filed federal lawsuit against Perplexity on November 4, 2025, alleging the AI startup's Comet browser violated computer fraud laws through unauthorized access.
October retail sales increased 0.6% month-over-month and 5% year-over-year, showing momentum ahead of the 2025 holiday season when spending should exceed $1 trillion.
OpenAI monetization head envisions future where small businesses create campaigns through prompts instead of hiring performance marketers to run ChatGPT ads.
Google's Brandon Ervin reveals why legacy campaign structures built around keywords are holding back AI-powered Search campaigns and shares the new consolidation framework.
OpenAI begins testing ChatGPT ads at $60 CPM while Google launches AI Mode shopping ad formats, Discover gets a core update, and Spotify drops manual coding.
Penske Media filed opposition arguments February 12 accusing Google of shattering the fundamental exchange that sustained the open internet for decades.
Google introduces shopping ad format in AI Mode on February 11, 2026, as VP Vidhya Srinivasan positions agentic commerce and Gemini-powered tools as defining marketing trends.
October retail sales increased 0.6% month-over-month and 5% year-over-year, showing momentum ahead of the 2025 holiday season when spending should exceed $1 trillion.
Research comparing workflows of 48 human workers and 4 AI agent frameworks across 16 tasks reveals agents complete work 88.3% faster at 90-96% lower cost, but struggle with quality.
Australia bans social media for children under 16 starting December 10, 2025, affecting Facebook, Instagram, TikTok, YouTube, Reddit, and Kick, with platforms facing $49.5M fines.
Stripe CEO reveals US software startups now grow significantly faster than European peers since mid-2023, driven by faster technology adoption patterns.
ACCC announced Black Friday enforcement sweep on November 10 targeting misleading pricing claims including countdown timers, site-wide sales exclusions, and strikethrough prices.
LiveRamp transferred the User Context Protocol to IAB Tech Lab on November 3, enabling standardized embedding exchanges between autonomous advertising agents.
Amazon filed federal lawsuit against Perplexity on November 4, 2025, alleging the AI startup's Comet browser violated computer fraud laws through unauthorized access.