Google didn’t waste time integrating Gemini into its popular Workspace apps, but those AI features are now getting an overhaul. The company says its new Gemini features for Drive, Docs, Sheets, and Slides will save you from the tyranny of the blank page by doing the hard work for you. Gemini will be able to ..
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The escalating dispute between Anthropic and the United States Department of War is becoming more than a government procurement fight. For advertisers and tech buyers, it’s an early signal that the AI platforms powering future media and commerce may increasingly be shaped by geopolitical alliances. On Monday, Anthropic sued the Pentagon after the department designated ..
Stagwell expects first quarter 2026 new business to be the strongest in its history, giving the holding company reason to be optimistic about the year ahead, according to CEO Mark Penn. “I can say with some confidence that our Q1 2026 net new business is shaping up to be the strongest in the history of ..
When a founder wires $150 million of his own money into a stock that is down 60 to 70 percent, he is not just betting on his company. He is betting on how media will be bought in the future. Jeff Green’s open market purchase of roughly 6 million shares of The Trade Desk, about ..
The command line is hot again. For some people, command lines were never not hot, of course, but it’s becoming more common now in the age of AI. Google launched a Gemini command-line tool last year, and now it has a new AI-centric command-line option for cloud products. The new Google Workspace CLI bundles the ..
Brands and agencies have no shortage of AI tools for creative tasks—what they lack is cohesion. Creative teams often jump between image generators, video tools and language models, stitching outputs together manually and coordinating across departments. That patchwork process is what Luma AI says it wants to fix. The Palo Alto–based company, founded in 2021, ..
Ad agencies, like Havas, Broadhead and Supergood, are vibe-coding their own generative engine optimization (GEO) tools on top of large language models—often in a matter of hours. Using coding assistants like Anthropic’s Claude Code, teams are building bespoke applications that analyze how brands appear in AI-generated responses, track competitors and, in some cases, package those ..
Havas Media Network North America has appointed Sharona Sankar-King as chief data and product officer, the agency told ADWEEK. Sankar-King joins from marketing services firm Harte Hanks, where she served as chief customer and data officer, and will report directly to North America CEO Greg James. The hire gives Sankar-King oversight of Converged.AI, the agency’s ..
X will temporarily bar creators from monetizing their content through its Creator Revenue Sharing program if they share AI-generated videos of an armed conflict without clearly disclosing that it was made with AI. The move comes three days after the U.S. and Israel launched strikes against Iran, sparking a chain of violent reactions. X’s head ..
Retail doesn’t stand still, and neither does Sam’s Club. In this episode of The Speed of Culture, recorded live at CES in Las Vegas, Matt Britton sits down with Diana Marshall, EVP and chief experience officer at Sam’s Club. Diana shares how Sam’s Club is building a human-led, tech-powered membership model, why experience is now ..
