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    PubMatic faces serious challenges as supply-side platforms continue to evolve. As the lines blur between SSPs and DSPs, will each of these stand-alone businesses survive?
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    Mo Gawdat, futurologist and former chief business officer for Google X and author of "Scary Smart," believes the world will fall into a short-term dystopia in 2027.
  • AppLovin's Adjust Data Shows AI Changing In-App Targeting
    The combination of AI in shopping apps lets brands key into behavioral changes and focus on higher-value consumers based on economic challenges or tighter privacy regulations.
  • Google Performance Max Gains Controls, Insights
    Several Performance Max updates aim to boost performance and streamline ad management. Here's what Google told us.
  • What Makes Up Perplexity Core Ranking Factors
    Metehan Yesilyurt, growth marketing manager at AppSamurai, analyzed browser-level interactions with Perplexity's infrastructure and believes he has discovered how content is evaluated and ranked.
  • Data Lockdown Effects And Should You Believe AI Reasoning Models
    As OpenAI released reasoning LLMs on Tuesday, some publishers have once again begun locking down content. WalletHub CEO believes Google went from organizing the world's information to stealing it, taking a sledgehammer to the contract the open web relied on.
  • Amazon Alexa+ Ads Will Test Search
    Conversational search will change Amazon Alexa+ into more of an AI-based search engine. Amazon CEO Andy Jassy's description of an AI-generated ad for Alexa+ in multistep voice-based conversations will facilitate product discovery and purchase decisions.
  • Microsoft Bing Market Share Grows As Google's Slightly Declines
    We can attribute Microsoft's gain and Google's loss to AI, according to Microsoft Head of Search Jordi Ribas, who posted new numbers on X this week from Comscore and StatCounter to show the divide.
  • Amazon, Shopify Seen Using Code To Block AI Agents
    Amazon, Shopify and other marketplaces have been spotted by tech experts embedding code to keep out AI agents from Anthropic, Google, Perplexity and OpenAI.
  • Zuckerberg: AI Shows Signs Of Self Learning
    The concept of "superintelligence" takes privacy to complex levels, with broader implications of advanced AI and the future of data. The AI race has become a hot mess, with execs at top companies spending billions on engineering talent to conquer the market.
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