Marketing tech
fromFast Company
1 hour agoYou may not notice if an AI chatbot responds with ads. Here's how to tell
AI chatbots are being used for covert advertising, influencing user choices without their awareness.
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Marketing tech
fromThe Conversation
3 days agoYou probably wouldn't notice if an AI chatbot slipped ads into its responses
AI chatbots are being used for covert advertising, influencing user choices without their awareness.
UK politics
fromwww.independent.co.uk
1 week agoUnder-16s could be banned from using AI chatbots, minister suggests
The government is considering age restrictions for AI chatbots to protect children under 16 from potential harm.
fromwww.cbc.ca
2 weeks agoToronto teens, parents, counsellors uncertain possible social media ban will be successful | CBC News
I've really gotten ahead because it's [allowed] me to get real life experience since very young. I don't think I would have really [been] introduced to this world if it wasn't for my book Instagram.
Digital life
fromGSMArena.com
4 weeks agoGurman: iOS 27's Siri Extensions feature will get its own App Store section
The Extensions feature will have its own dedicated section within the App Store, effectively serving as a marketplace for AI integrations. Users will be able to browse this section and add third-party chatbots to Siri, enabling them to run directly within the assistant.
Mobile UX
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Artificial intelligence
fromwww.customerexperiencedive.com
1 month agoE-commerce retailers plan hefty investments in agentic commerce, study finds
96% of enterprise e-commerce retailers have invested in AI capabilities, primarily for customer-facing applications like product discovery, chatbots, and personalized recommendations, with nearly half planning to invest $1 million or more in agentic commerce within 12 months.
Marketing tech
fromBusiness Insider
1 month agoGoogle AI Overviews are more likely to talk smack about brands than ChatGPT is, according to new data
Google's AI Overviews display 44% more negative sentiment toward brands than ChatGPT, with negative mentions potentially reaching millions of users monthly despite representing small percentages of total mentions.
fromEMARKETER
2 months agoTomorrow's consumers are growing up on ChatGPT
ChatGPT is quickly becoming a regular habit, not just a novelty. The average user opens the app approximately 13 times a month, putting it on par with X and ahead of Reddit, according to Sensor Tower. Meanwhile, 57% of parents of 11- and 12-year-olds say their child already has their own smartphone, according to Pew Research Center, giving the youngest teens direct access to AI tools without parental mediation.
Marketing
Marketing tech
fromAdExchanger
2 months agoHow GEO Startup Evertune Found Its Way Back To Programmatic Targeting | AdExchanger
Evertune enables advertisers to run programmatic ads on webpages most cited by AI chatbots, targeting consumers after they click generative search responses to influence discovery and conversion.
fromTechCrunch
2 months agoGoogle's Gemini app has surpassed 750M monthly active users | TechCrunch
Google's AI chatbot Gemini has surpassed 750 million monthly active users (MAUs), according to the company's fourth-quarter 2025 earnings. This figure illustrates the rapid consumer adoption of Gemini, which has quickly become a prominent player in the AI space. Last quarter, Google reported 650 million monthly active users for Gemini, indicating substantial growth in a short period. In comparison, Meta AI has reported nearly 500 million monthly users.
Artificial intelligence
Artificial intelligence
fromNature
2 months agoAI chatbots are infiltrating social-science surveys - and getting better at avoiding detection
AI chatbots can impersonate human survey respondents and threaten the validity of online social‑science research unless survey platforms strengthen fraud detection.
fromForbes
3 months agoHow To Use LinkedIn Articles To Expand Your Online Visibility
LinkedIn is one of the most-cited sources by AI chatbots. A study from SEMrush has found that, in many cases, LinkedIn is cited second only to Reddit, and that AI Mode consistently cited LinkedIn in nearly 15% of its responses. Specifically, AI chatbots typically cite long-form LinkedIn Pulse articles. This signals that the thought leadership content that typically dominates LinkedIn articles is being trusted and promoted by AI, which offers a huge opportunity for business owners and freelancers to get more visible online.
Social media marketing
fromwww.theguardian.com
3 months agoWrite a card, read a poem, take fewer photos: how to feel more human in 2026
mobile phones were far from universal and our social lives were mostly physical and local. In the 25 years since, technology has changed how we live in profound ways. Most people check their phone within minutes of waking and return to it on average 186 times a day. Computers and the systems that sit behind them mediate every aspect of modern life, shaping how we move through the world.
Mindfulness
fromWbur
3 months agoChatGPT starts testing ads
Advertisements are coming to ChatGPT. The world's most popular chatbot will soon serve up advertisements influenced by its conversations with users. OpenAI says it will not sell user data to advertisers and that conversations will be kept private, but the decision reorients the financial incentives of one of the most widely used products in artificial intelligence.
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