Most companies talk about being AI-first. David A. Steinberg has been doing it since 2017. In this episode of The Speed of Culture podcast, Matt Britton sits down with David A. Steinberg, co-founder, chairman and CEO of Zeta Global. David shares how Zeta built a data and AI platform that now serves 51% of the ..
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On Tuesday, Cloudflare and GoDaddy announced a partnership that will give website owners more visibility and control over how AI agents crawl their websites. The partnership brings Cloudflare’s AI traffic controls to GoDaddy’s small-business customers, allowing them to decide which bots can access their sites and how their content is used, according to Stephanie Cohen, ..
Google’s Gemini AI models have improved by leaps and bounds over the past year, but you can only use Gemini on Google’s terms. The company’s Gemma open-weight models have provided more freedom, but Gemma 3, which launched over a year ago, is getting a bit long in the tooth. Starting today, developers can start working ..
Nvidia is making a new pitch to the advertising and entertainment industries. Real-time, high-end AI video. At Runway’s AI Summit this week, the chipmaker showed how its latest computing platform can support video-generation platforms like Runway to generate video scenes on the fly, turning what has typically taken minutes per output into something closer to ..
Amazon first introduced its core ad product Sponsored Ads on its Rufus AI shopping assistant in 2024, ADWEEK previously reported, but a leaked pitch deck, shared with ad buyers earlier this month, reveals important details that will be crucial in securing brand spend: how these ads will be measured and priced, as the offering becomes ..
They accused Anthropic of trying to use the DoW dispute to spin up positive press, and Trump joined the chorus. On Truth Social, he labeled Anthropic a “radical left, woke company,” allegedly putting their “selfishness” above national security. Following Trump’s post, Hegseth took to X, writing that “Anthropic delivered a master class in arrogance and ..
There is fierce disagreement around how much generative AI models, which are changing the way that people find and discover products, will also disrupt retail media and ecommerce systems. Scot Wingo, co-founder and CEO of ReFiBuy, argued onstage at Shoptalk 2026 in Las Vegas that 10% of commerce will be fully agentic by 2030. “Not ..
OpenAI is extending its ad pilot program beyond April, according to two agency executives briefed by the company—giving advertisers more time to test how ads might eventually show up across its fast-growing AI assistant. The pilot was initially slated to end in March. OpenAI confirmed the pilot program’s extension in a blog post after ADWEEK ..
The relationship between Google and news publishers has historically been an uneasy one, as the early architecture of the web enabled both to flourish but only by aligning their mutual self-interests. Publishers produced content, Google used it to answer user queries, and outlets monetized those visits with advertising. But the fraught dynamic has only worsened ..
Twenty years ago, as I prepared to graduate with a degree in English, everyone asked me the same question: “What are you going to do with that?” At the time, it was fair. Specializing in language wasn’t a direct path into business or tech. Today, that same skill has a new label: prompt engineering. The ..
