We’re Still Waiting for the Next Big Leap in AI

  When OpenAI announced GPT-4, its latest large language model, last March, it sent shockwaves through the tech world. It was clearly more capable than anything seen before at chatting, coding, and solving all sorts of thorny problems—including school homework. Anthropic, a rival to OpenAI, announced today that it has made its own AI advance…

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Google AI Overviews showing less often, with less Reddit

Google appears to have pulled back further on AI Overviews following well-earned criticism about its AI-generated answers giving users incorrect, misleading and dangerous answers. Let’s dive into new findings from two separate SEO platforms: SEOClarity looked at 2,700 keywords. SERanking analyzed 100,000 keywords. AI Overviews reduction. Google is showing AI Overviews less often, though the…

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Google streamlining YouTube, Display ad content controls

Google is consolidating its content suitability levers for advertisers across YouTube and the Display Network starting in September. What’s changing: Several content label exclusions will be removed for YouTube ads (DL-G, DL-PG, DL-T, DL-MA, “not yet labeled”) but remain for Display “Embedded YouTube videos”, “Live streaming”, and “Families” exclusions only available account-wide, not per YouTube…

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Instacart expands shoppable ads to YouTube

Instacart is extending its retail media ads to YouTube, allowing select brand partners to convert YouTube viewers directly into Instacart shoppers for same-day delivery. Details. Instacart’s YouTube ads will feature shoppable product links powered by its first-party data and retail media technology. Viewers can click from the ads to purchase items on Instacart for rapid…

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