AI

Noah Kagan publicly acknowledged today that AppSumo's revenue has declined 50% over the past two years, as the digital marketplace confronts fundamental challenges threatening its business model built on lifetime software deals for entrepreneurs.

Google Cloud researchers released PaperBanana, an AI system using five specialized agents that outperforms human experts at generating academic illustrations with 75% preference rates.

Google and Microsoft warn that creating dedicated markdown or JSON pages for large language models violates longstanding cloaking policies despite industry experimentation.

Description: Alphabet reported $113.8 billion in Q4 2025 revenues, with Google advertising up 14% and Gemini App hitting 750 million monthly active users, while announcing CapEx will reach $175-185 billion in 2026.

Anthropic pledged Claude will remain ad-free while spending millions on Super Bowl commercials directly targeting OpenAI's January advertising announcement.

Measurement company introduces conversational interface for TV outcomes data as agencies face leaner teams and fragmented buying workflows.

Google AI Overviews reduce organic clicks by 58% in December 2025, up from 34.5% in April 2025, as search becomes increasingly zero-click.

Researchers from Columbia, Harvard, Technical University of Munich, and Carnegie Mellon analyzed 500 million impressions and found AI-generated advertising matched human creative performance.