AMC and Hollywood’s Chinese Theatre are pulling this AI-generated film from theaters after social media outcry over ‘hot garbage’

Jude Cramer / fastcompany - When word started circling that AMC Theaters was screening an AI-generated short film, the internet’s cinephiles took it personally.On Wednesday, some social media users reported that the short was playing in the pre-show before trailers at select AMC loc…

Jennifer Pattison Tuohy / theverge - Ring founder Jamie Siminoff has been on an "explanation tour," as The New York Times puts it, following the fallout from its Super Bowl ad and the introduction of its Search Party feature. In an interview with The Times this week, Siminoff explained that …

#dataprivacy #techpolicy #amazon #camera #security #privacy #media #superbowl #ring #advertising

Your Ring doorbell’s next job might not be finding lost pets

14 days / digitaltrends

The Fulu Foundation, a nonprofit that pays out bounties for removing user-hostile features, is hunting for a way to keep Ring cameras from sending data to Amazon—without breaking the hardware. www.wired.com/story/a-10k-...

15 days / bsky / @wired.com / wired.com

Want to make a quick $10K? Just hack a Ring camera www.wired.com/story/a-10k-...

15 days / bsky / @boone.bsky.social / boone.bsky.social

“There’s now a group offering to dole out a $10,000 bounty to wrest back control of the user data Ring controls.” Great piece from @boone.bsky.social for @wired.com: www.wired.com/story/a-10k-...

15 days / bsky / @thiccreese.bsky.social / thiccreese.bsky.social

"A $10K Bounty Awaits Anyone Who Can Hack Ring Cameras to Stop Sharing Data With Amazon" www.wired.com/story/a-10k-...

15 days / bsky / @socialmedialab.ca / socialmedialab.ca

A $10K Bounty Awaits Anyone Who Can Hack Ring Cameras to Stop Sharing Data With Amazon

15 days / wired / Boone Ashworth

Talk about bringing back hackathons! Watch someone quit working at Amazon, solve it using insider info and then take a job at Microsoft, lol

15 days / bsky / @jacky.wtf / jacky.wtf

A $10K+ bounty is waiting for anyone who can unplug Ring doorbells from Amazon’s cloud

15 days / theverge / Emma Roth

After Search Party backlash, Ring is still avoiding the bigger questions

15 days / theverge / Jennifer Pattison Tuohy

Ring could be planning to expand Search Party feature beyond dogs

15 days / engadget / Lawrence Bonk

A leaked internal email shows Ring's plan targets more than pets

15 days / appleinsider

Microsoft's new Windows 11 speed test is just a link to Ookla's Speedtest via Bing — button housed in the taskbar in latest Insider Preview build

tomshardware - Amidst endless complaints over the instability and bloating nature of Windows 11, Microsoft's latest insider builds add new emojis and a taskbar feature for its beta testers. Now, you can check your internet speed by right-clicking the network icon or ope…

#windows #microsoft #browsers #broadband #internet #apps #ux #updates #operatingsystems #advertising

Microsoft tests new Windows AI in the taskbar and File Explorer

15 days / techspot

Microsoft is splitting the Windows 11 Canary channel in two

15 days / betanews / Sofia Elizabella Wyciślik-Wilson

Microsoft's new Windows 11 speed test is just a link to Ookla's Speedtest via Bing — button housed in the taskbar in latest Insider Preview build

15 days / tomshardware

Windows 11 keeps adding small conveniences, including speed tests

15 days / techspot

Windows 11 is adding a speed test, you can run it from the taskbar

15 days / digitaltrends

Flexible agentic marketing startup Kana Intelligence scores $15M in seed funding

Mike Wheatley / siliconangle - Marketing professionals have a mountain of artificial intelligence tools to choose from, but the founders of a new startup called Kana Intelligence Inc. believe there’s still an urgent need for a platform that can adapt to user’s needs. The company today …

#ai #startups #automation #saas #enterprise #digitalmarketing #genai #business #ads #advertising

Agentic sales AI emerges: startups turn calls into revenue signals (4)
Industry adoption: private equity embeds AI to streamline operations (1)
Kana seed raise: founders launch agentic marketing platform with $15M (3)
Vertical AI agents for revenue: hotels and SMB marketing adoption (5)

Perplexity Abandons AI Advertising Strategy Over Trust Worries

Tim Hardwick / macrumors - AI company Perplexity is stepping away from advertising over concerns that it will erode user trust, despite moves by rivals to introduce ads as an alternative money-making strategy.Perplexity was one of the first AI services to embrace ads in 2024, after…

#ai #digitalmarketing #aiethics #genai #business #media #assistant #ads #advertising #perplexity

AI ads debate is more about culture war than business decision

16 days / semafor / Rachyl Jones

Perplexity walks away from ads to differentiate from OpenAI and Google

16 days / techspot

Perplexity Executives Think Ads Will Butcher Trust in AI

16 days / gizmodo / Ece Yildirim

Perplexity Ditches Ads for Subscription-First Growth

16 days / winbuzzer / Markus Kasanmascheff

Perplexity pulls advertising from its search engine, calling itself an "accuracy business"

16 days / the-decoder / Maximilian Schreiner

Perplexity Pulling Sponsored Answers From AI Platform

16 days / pymnts / PYMNTS

Perplexity Abandons AI Advertising Strategy Over Trust Worries

16 days / macrumors / Tim Hardwick

Perplexity joins anti-ad camp as AI companies battle over trust and revenue

16 days / theverge / Robert Hart

Apple Launches Apple Music Connect With New Pitch and Marketing Tools

iclarified - Apple has officially launched Apple Music Connect, a new portal described as the home for direct music delivery partners. The platform launches first with a suite of marketing tools that let labels and distributors pitch upcoming releases to Apple's globa…

#digitalmarketing #apple #business #distributions #apps #music #media #applemusic #ads #advertising

Apple Launches Apple Music Connect With New Pitch and Marketing Tools

16 days / iclarified

Apple Music Connect Launches, Providing Resources for Labels and Distributo

16 days / iphoneincanada / Steve Vegvari

Apple Music Connect is reborn as a marketing tool for the music industry

16 days / appleinsider

Apple Music Connect Launches as Promotional Resource for Labels and Distributors

16 days / macrumors / Tim Hardwick

Tesla Drops 'Autopilot' From California Marketing to Avoid 30-Day Sales Ban, DMV Says

Maria Garcia / implicator - Tesla removed Autopilot from California marketing, settling a DMV case filed in 2021. California accounts for nearly a third of Tesla's U.S. sales.

#techpolicy #selfdriving #cars #government #tesla #law #automotive #ev #advertising #california

Tesla drops 'Autopilot' branding in California after DMV order

16 days / theregister / Richard Speed

Tesla Drops 'Autopilot' From California Marketing to Avoid 30-Day Sales Ban, DMV Says

16 days / implicator / Maria Garcia

Tesla stops using 'Autopilot' to promote its EVs in California

16 days / engadget / Mariella Moon

Tesla won’t use the term ‘Autopilot’ in California anymore

16 days / theverge / Jess Weatherbed

Why ads are coming to your AI chatbot

ft - OpenAI is rolling out advertising on ChatGPT to select users. Experts say others will almost certainly follow suit

#dataprivacy #openai #aiethics #genai #business #chatgpt #ux #ads #advertising

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman says India has the largest number of student users of ChatGPT worldwide.

19 days / bsky / @techcrunch.com / techcrunch.com

India has 100M weekly active ChatGPT users, Sam Altman says

19 days / techcrunch / Jagmeet Singh

New world for users and brands as ads hit AI chatbots

19 days / techxplore

Your Friends Could Be Sharing Your Phone Number with ChatGPT

20 days / slashdot / EditorDavid

Anthropic's Claude Got 11% User Boost from Super Bowl Ad Mocking ChatGPT's Advertising

20 days / slashdot / EditorDavid

Anthropic got an 11% user boost from its OpenAI-bashing Super Bowl ad, data shows

21 days / cnbc

Why ads are coming to your AI chatbot

21 days / ft

Advertising made the internet accessible. Will it do the same for AI?

21 days / fastcompany / Anne Coghlan

Anthropic Expands Claude Free Tier While OpenAI Adds ChatGPT Ads

21 days / winbuzzer / Markus Kasanmascheff

Roku stock surges on earnings beat, record quarter for premium subscriptions

cnbc - Roku executives said in a shareholder letter that it marked "our biggest quarter ever" for net adds to premium subscriptions.

#streaming #entertainment #stockmarket #earnings #business #media #tv #advertising

If you haven't tried these useful Roku audio features, you're missing out

21 days / pocket-lint / Craig Donaldson

Roku delivered an impressive Q4, posting net income of $80.5 million. The company also outlined plans for streaming bundles.

21 days / bsky / @techcrunch.com / techcrunch.com

Roku to launch streaming bundles as part of its efforts to continue growing its profitability

21 days / techcrunch / Lauren Forristal

Roku stock surges on earnings beat, record quarter for premium subscriptions

21 days / cnbc

Roku Stock Rallies 13% After Crushing Earnings Expectations

21 days / parameter / Trader Edge

Roku FY revenue up 15%

21 days / advanced-television / Editor

Pinterest (PINS) Stock Plunges 18% on Disappointing Revenue Forecast

Trader Edge / parameter - TLDR Pinterest shares dropped 18% after-hours following Q1 revenue guidance of $951M-$971M, below analyst expectations of $980.1M Tariff-hit retailers are cutting advertising budgets across the platform to protect profit margins from trade pressures Q4 re…

#ecommerce #digitalmarketing #tariffs #stockmarket #earnings #business #economy #ads #advertising

Pinterest stock is falling off a cliff for a surprising reason: Here’s what’s driving the PINS collapse today

21 days / fastcompany / Michael Grothaus

Pinterest (PINS) Stock Plunges 18% on Disappointing Revenue Forecast

21 days / parameter / Trader Edge

Pinterest is down 22% premarket as tariffs hit earnings. Here's what's happening

21 days / cnbc

Pinterest plummets on disappointing Q1 sales forecast, as retailers pull back on ad spending

21 days / sherwood / Millie Giles

Pinterest search volume hits 80 billion, topping ChatGPT’s 75 billion

21 days / dataconomy / Aytun Çelebi

Electric Twin expands AI audience platform with $14M round

Tamara Djurickovic / tech - Electric Twin, an AIplatform developing synthetic audience models designed to simulate real-worldhuman thinking and behaviour, has raised $14 million in funding. The totalincludes a $10 million round ...

#ai #startups #analytics #enterprise #digitalmarketing #genai #business #uk #technology #advertising

Electric Twin Raises $14M Funding To Grow Its AI Audience Platform

22 days / startuprise / Kailee Rainse

UK government adviser and military commander land €12 million to scale Electric Twin’s synthetic audience platform

22 days / eu-startups / David Cendon Garcia

AI startup building ‘synthetic audiences’ to model human thought raises £10m

22 days / uktech / Oscar Hornstein

Electric Twin Raises $14M in Pre-Seed and Seed Funding

22 days / finsmes / FinSMEs

Electric Twin expands AI audience platform with $14M round

22 days / tech / Tamara Djurickovic

Marc Andreessen backs $10m raise for ‘synthetic audience’ startup Electric Twin

22 days / sifted

OpenAI researcher quits over slippery slope of ChatGPT ads

James Farrell / siliconangle - OpenAI researcher Zoë Hitzig says she left her position on Monday, resigning over the recent introduction of advertisements inside ChatGPT and what she believes is a move in the wrong direction for the company. In a guest essay in The New York Times title…

#techpolicy #openai #aiethics #genai #business #chatgpt #jobs #ads #advertising #research

OpenAI Sells Your Secrets. Musk Sells the Moon.

22 days / implicator / Marcus Schuler

OpenAI Wants Advertisers To Prompt To Create Ads & Skip Agencies

22 days / seroundtable / barry@rustybrick.com (Barry Schwartz)

AI researcher says 'world is in peril' and quits to study poetry

22 days / bbc

OpenAI Researcher Quits Over Ads, Backlash to Discord, and Social Media Addiction Trial | Tech Today video

22 days / cnet / Owen Poole

OpenAI researcher quits over slippery slope of ChatGPT ads

23 days / siliconangle / James Farrell

OpenAI Gutted Its Safety Teams. The Ads Arrived on Schedule.

23 days / implicator / Harkaram Grewal

OpenAI researcher quits over ChatGPT ads, warns of "Facebook" path

23 days / arstechnica / Benj Edwards

OpenAI researcher quit over ads because she doesn't trust her former employer to keep its own promises

23 days / the-decoder / Matthias Bastian

A “QuitGPT” campaign is urging people to cancel their ChatGPT subscriptions

23 days / reddit / /u/MetaKnowing

ChatGPT Rolls Out Ads, Just Hours After Anthropic's Mocking Super Bowl Commercials

Jose Antonio Lanz / decrypt - OpenAI started testing ads in ChatGPT on Monday, hours after Anthropic's Super Bowl commercials mocked the idea. The $8 billion loss explains why.

#ai #anthropic #openai #genai #business #chatgpt #media #superbowl #ads #advertising

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ChatGPT ad rollout details (23)
Other tech trends commentary (2)
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Anthropic Super Bowl ad rivalry

Alphabet Prints Debt. OpenAI Prints Ads.

24 days / implicator / Marcus Schuler

OpenAI Responds to Critical Super Bowl Commercials by Putting Ads in ChatGPT

25 days / gizmodo / Ece Yildirim

'Roaring cougars' lunched on OpenAI in Super Bowl ad battle, but ai.com wins the day

25 days / theregister / O'Ryan Johnson

OpenAI Starts Testing Ads in ChatGPT Hours After Anthropic's Super Bowl Jab

25 days / implicator / Maria Garcia

ChatGPT ad rollout details

OpenAI tests sponsored ads in ChatGPT for free US users

24 days / testingcatalog / Alexey Shabanov

OpenAI ChatGPT Ads Go Live With User Ad Controls

24 days / seroundtable / barry@rustybrick.com (Barry Schwartz)

You can avoid ChatGPT ads, but your Free limits may change

24 days / digitaltrends

ChatGPT Free and Go Tiers Now Show Ads to US Users

24 days / thurrott / Laurent Giret

ChatGPT now shows ads to free users in the US

24 days / ithinkdiff / Asma Hussain

OpenAI begins rolling out ads for ChatGPT Free and Go users

24 days / dataconomy / Kerem Gülen

ChatGPT Rolls Out Ads to Free Users

25 days / reddit / /u/i-drake

OpenAI starts displaying ads to some ChatGPT users in the US

25 days / siliconangle / Maria Deutscher

OpenAI introduces ads...for the people!

25 days / theregister / Thomas Claburn

OpenAI begins testing ads in ChatGPT

25 days / mashable

ChatGPT Begins Showing Ads to US Users for the First Time

25 days / cnet / Macy Meyer

OpenAI Begins Testing Ads In ChatGPT For Free And Go Users via @sejournal, @MattGSouthern

25 days / searchenginejournal / Matt G. Southern

OpenAI begins testing ads in ChatGPT's Free and Go plans

25 days / betanews / Wayne Williams

ChatGPT’s cheapest options now show you ads

25 days / theverge / Stevie Bonifield

OpenAI Begins Testing Ads in ChatGPT: When to Expect Them in Canada

25 days / iphoneincanada / Gary Ng

OpenAI Starts Running Ads in ChatGPT

25 days / slashdot / msmash

ChatGPT rolls out ads

25 days / techcrunch / Sarah Perez

ChatGPT Rolls Out Ads, Just Hours After Anthropic's Mocking Super Bowl Commercials

25 days / decrypt / Jose Antonio Lanz

ChatGPT now shows ads to free and Go users, with opt-out cutting daily message limits

25 days / the-decoder / Matthias Bastian

OpenAI is now officially showing ads

25 days / sherwood / Rani Molla

OpenAI starts testing ads in ChatGPT

25 days / engadget / Kris Holt

Testing Ads in ChatGPT

25 days / ycombinator

OpenAI will reportedly start testing ads in ChatGPT today

25 days / theverge / Emma Roth

Other tech trends commentary

Jony Ive is done working with "assholes"

25 days / sources / Alex Heath

Why the infinite-scroll childhood may be coming to an end

25 days / platformer / Casey Newton

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Me too, Jony sources.news/p/jony-ive-i...

24 days / bsky / @stephenrobles.com / stephenrobles.com

The walls are closing in on infinite-scroll feeds and other addictive design mechanics. I wrote about how lawyers and regulators may have finally found a way around Section 230 www.platformer.news/social-media...

25 days / bsky / @caseynewton.bsky.social / caseynewton.bsky.social

The walls are closing in on infinite-scroll feeds and other addictive design mechanics. I wrote about how lawyers and regulators may have finally found a way around Section 230 https://www.platformer.news/social-media-addiction-trial-eu-tiktok-investigati

25 days / bsky / @caseynewton.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy / caseynewton.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy

OpenAI’s supposedly ‘leaked’ Super Bowl ad with ear buds and a shiny orb was a hoax

Richard Lawler / theverge - As if OpenAI didn't have enough drama around the Super Bowl and advertising, as the game wound down, word spread of a "leaked" ad that actually wasn't leaked at all; it was just a fake. Screenshots of a now-deleted Reddit thread told the tale of a frustra…

#ai #digitalmarketing #anthropic #openai #genai #scam #media #superbowl #ads #advertising

AI Super Bowl commercials: All the spots from Anthropic, OpenAI, Amazon, Google, Meta, and others

25 days / fastcompany / Michael Grothaus

AI.com's $85 million Super Bowl ad campaign falls foul as traffic crashes servers — the campaign allegedly cost $15 million for the ads, $70 million for the domain name

25 days / tomshardware

AI Companies Sold Us Their Vision of the Future at the Super Bowl. Here’s Why We Should Reject It

25 days / reddit / /u/autogenerated_015

AI ads steal the show at Super Bowl LX

25 days / therundown / Zach Mink

OpenAI’s supposedly ‘leaked’ Super Bowl ad with ear buds and a shiny orb was a hoax

25 days / theverge / Richard Lawler

Anthropic Super Bowl Ad Targets OpenAI’s Advertising Plan

26 days / pymnts / PYMNTS

Do Super Bowl Ads For AI Signal a Bubble About to Burst?

26 days / slashdot / EditorDavid

Reddit (RDDT) Stock: Earnings Spark a 20% After-Hours Jump After 70% Revenue Surge and 75% Ad Revenue Growth

Yasmin Werner / parameter - TLDR Reddit spikes after hours as earnings reveal record revenue momentum Advertising growth fuels strongest quarterly expansion in company history Profit surge highlights major improvement in operating efficiency Full-year results confirm scaling strengt…

#digitalmarketing #stockmarket #earnings #business #reddit #economy #community #media #advertising

Reddit (RDDT) Stock: Rallies on 75% Ad Revenue Jump and User Growth

28 days / parameter / Trader Edge

Reddit search traffic jumps to 80 million weekly active users

28 days / dataconomy / Aytun Çelebi

Reddit looks to AI search as its next big opportunity

29 days / techcrunch / Sarah Perez

Reddit (RDDT) Stock: Earnings Spark a 20% After-Hours Jump After 70% Revenue Surge and 75% Ad Revenue Growth

29 days / parameter / Yasmin Werner

Reddit reported fourth-quarter earnings and revealed strong guidance and $1 billion buyback

29 days / cnbc

Reddit gains after Q4 revenue and earnings exceed expectations, Q1 sales guidance tops estimates

29 days / sherwood / Rani Molla

Anthropic’s Hilarious Super Bowl Ad Champions Ad-Free Claude Against ChatGPT

Markus Kasanmascheff / winbuzzer - Anthropic has unveiled its first Super Bowl campaign positioning Claude as the ad-free alternative to ChatGPT, challenging OpenAI's advertising strategy with provocative messaging.The post Anthropic’s Hilarious Super Bowl Ad Champions Ad-Free Claude Again…

#ai #anthropic #genai #business #chatgpt #media #assistant #superbowl #ads #advertising

Anthropic's ad‐free Super Bowl spectacle targets ad‐ridden competition (8)
Market impact evident: SaaS panic meets Indian IT sell‐off (1)
OpenAI rivalry intensifies as Altman counters Anthropic ads (9)
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Anthropic's ad‐free Super Bowl spectacle targets ad‐ridden competition

Anthropic apes OpenAI with cheeky chatbot commercials

29 days / theregister / Dan Robinson

Claude AI Stays Ad-Free as ChatGPT Prepares to Launch Advertising

29 days / parameter / Trader Edge

Anthropic is betting on ad-free Claude to win you over from ChatGPT

29 days / digitaltrends

Anthropic Spent Millions on Ads to Tell You It Hates Ads

29 days / implicator / Marcus Schuler

Anthropic’s Hilarious Super Bowl Ad Champions Ad-Free Claude Against ChatGPT

29 days / winbuzzer / Markus Kasanmascheff

Anthropic Says No To Ads in Claude, Takes a Dig at ChatGPT Ads in Super Bowl Commercials

29 days / medianama / Azdhan

Anthropic Refuses Ads in Claude, Betting on Subscriptions Instead

29 days / eweek / Liz Ticong

Anthropic commits to keeping Claude ad free unlike rival ChatGPT

29 days / dataconomy / Aytun Çelebi

Market impact evident: SaaS panic meets Indian IT sell‐off

Anthropic, SaaS Panic And The Indian IT Sell-Off: What Really Happened

29 days / inc42 / Shraddha Goled

OpenAI rivalry intensifies as Altman counters Anthropic ads

Drama Alert: Anthropic Just Dropped a Super Bowl Attack Ad on OpenAI

29 days / eweek / Grant Harvey

Anthropic, OpenAI rivalry spills into new Super Bowl ads as both fight to win over AI users

29 days / techxplore

OpenAI is hoppin' mad about Anthropic's new Super Bowl TV ads

29 days / arstechnica / Benj Edwards

OpenAI’s Altman calls Anthropic an “authoritarian company” and says its Super Bowl ad is “deceptive”

29 days / sherwood / Jon Keegan

Super Bowl AI ad spat heats up as Altman lashes out at Anthropic campaign

29 days / cnbc

Anthropic, OpenAI rivalry spills into new Super Bowl ads as both fight to win over AI users

29 days / go

ChatGPT boss ridiculed for online 'tantrum' over rival's Super Bowl ad

29 days / bbc

Altman accuses Anthropic of restricting access to Claude Code

29 days / dataconomy / Aytun Çelebi

Altman claims ChatGPT has more users in Texas alone than Claude has across the entire US

29 days / the-decoder / Matthias Bastian

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29 days / bsky / @arstechnica.com / arstechnica.com

I would much rather have RAM than whatever insult to having beef/drama/rivalry these cloud computing cartel guys are playing pretend at www.cnbc.com/2026/02/05/s...

29 days / bsky / @subzerofrog.bsky.social / subzerofrog.bsky.social

Google adds $55bn to capex plans as it boosts AI spending

ft - Search giant reported second straight quarter of more than $100bn in revenue

#ai #cloud #google #genai #stockmarket #earnings #business #datacenter #alphabet #advertising

Explosive AI Capex Surge (17)
Record Ad & Revenue Growth (9)
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Explosive AI Capex Surge

Part of the reason for Google’s huge capex plans: It has a $240 billion revenue backlog

29 days / sherwood / Jon Keegan

Alphabet to double infrastructure spending as it bets on AI

29 days / semafor / Tom Chivers

Google Leans Hard Into Its AI-Winner Status

29 days / wsj / Dan Gallagher

It's bubble or nothing for Google as search giant looks to plow ~$180B into datacenters this year

29 days / reddit / /u/nimicdoareu

CNBC Daily Open: Alphabet could more than double its capex in 2026, unsettling investors

29 days / cnbc

It's bubble or nothing for Google as search giant looks to plow ~$180B into datacenters this year

4 wks / theregister / Tobias Mann

CNBC Daily Open: Alphabet capex plans spook investors, while AMD has a brutal day in markets

4 wks / cnbc

Alphabet resets the bar for AI infrastructure spending

4 wks / cnbc

Alphabet Bets $185B on Gemini, Agentic Commerce and Enterprise AI

4 wks / pymnts / PYMNTS

Google Plans to Double Spending Amid A.I. Race

4 wks / nytimes / Tripp Mickle

Alphabet to ramp up AI spending as Google Cloud and ad business revenues shine

4 wks / siliconangle / Mike Wheatley

Google parent Alphabet predicts a sharp surge in 2026 capital spending on AI

4 wks / fastcompany / Reuters

Broadcom, Nvidia shares rise on surging Google capital expenditures for AI

4 wks / cnbc

Google blows nearly everything out of the water — including its AI budget

4 wks / qz / Shannon Carroll

Alphabet (GOOG) Stock: Shares Slide Despite Strong Q4 Beat and Cloud Growth

4 wks / parameter / Yasmin Werner

Broadcom soars on Google’s plans for up to $185 billion in capex this year

4 wks / sherwood / Luke Kawa

Google adds $55bn to capex plans as it boosts AI spending

4 wks / ft

Record Ad & Revenue Growth

Analysts like Google’s earnings report, even if investors didn’t

29 days / sherwood / Rani Molla

Google’s subscriptions rise in Q4 as YouTube pulls $60B in yearly revenue

29 days / techcrunch / Ivan Mehta

YouTube Posts Record $60 Billion Revenue in 2025, 34% More Than Netflix

29 days / mediaplaynews / Erik Gruenwedel

Google Search Hits $63B, Details AI Mode Ad Tests via @sejournal, @MattGSouthern

4 wks / searchenginejournal / Matt G. Southern

Google’s annual revenue tops $400 billion for the first time

4 wks / theverge / Emma Roth

Alphabet/Google Revenues Up 18 Percent to $113.8 Billion

4 wks / thurrott / Paul Thurrott

Google to Double Spending as Earnings Beat Wall Street Expectations

4 wks / wsj / Katherine Blunt

Google Ad Revenue Up 14% - Google's Biggest Revenue & Ad Revenue Yet

4 wks / seroundtable / barry@rustybrick.com (Barry Schwartz)

Alphabet beat earnings and revenue expectations

4 wks / sherwood / Rani Molla

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The company said it now has 325 million paying users across Google One and YouTube Premium, up from 300 million users three months earlier.

29 days / bsky / @techcrunch.com / techcrunch.com

Google parent Alphabet beat Wall Street’s expectations for its fourth quarter but a new, high bar for expected spending on artificial intelligence infrastructure tempered enthusiasm. www.cnbc.com/2026/02/04/a...

4 wks / bsky / @jennelias.bsky.social / jennelias.bsky.social

I think we’re gonna need some more TPUs. $AVGO sherwood.news/markets/broa...

4 wks / bsky / @ljkawa.bsky.social / ljkawa.bsky.social

Anthropic pledges no ads for Claude

Jon Keegan / sherwood - The move defines Anthropic’s AI offering as an alternative to competitors planning to integrate ads in AI chats.

#ai #anthropic #genai #business #chatgpt #assistant #ads #advertising

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Claude Integration and Product Updates (4)
Other AI Developments (1)
Super Bowl Campaign and Rivalry (10)
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Anthropic's Ad-Free Commitment

Should AI chatbots have ads? Anthropic says no.

4 wks / arstechnica / Benj Edwards

Anthropic Says AI Assistant Claude Will Remain Ad-Free

4 wks / pymnts / PYMNTS

Anthropic cements its position as the not-OpenAI with no-ads pledge

4 wks / theregister / Thomas Claburn

Anthropic Vows to Keep Claude AI Ad-Free

4 wks / iphoneincanada / Usman Qureshi

Anthropic says it won't bring ads to Claude, unlike rival ChatGPT

4 wks / engadget / Lawrence Bonk

Anthropic Pinky-Promises It Won't Add Ads to Claude

4 wks / cnet / Katelyn Chedraoui

Anthropic pledges to keep Claude ad-free while OpenAI moves forward with ChatGPT advertising

4 wks / the-decoder / Matthias Bastian

Anthropic Pledges To Keep Claude Ad-free, Calls AI Conversations a 'Space To Think'

4 wks / slashdot / msmash

Anthropic pledges no ads for Claude

4 wks / sherwood / Jon Keegan

Anthropic Advertises That Claude Will Remain Advertising-Free

4 wks / thurrott / Paul Thurrott

Anthropic says no to ads on Claude chatbot, weeks after OpenAI made move to test them

4 wks / cnbc

Claude Integration and Product Updates

Claude Sonnet 5 release expected imminently. What we know.

4 wks / mashable

Claude Code for Infrastructure

4 wks / ycombinator

Apple adds Claude Agent SDK and Codex into Xcode 26.3

4 wks / testingcatalog / Erin

GitHub adds Claude and Codex AI coding agents

4 wks / theverge / Tom Warren

Other AI Developments

We Need to Talk About AI

4 wks / theresanaiforthat / There's An AI For That

Super Bowl Campaign and Rivalry

Claude and the Super Bowl: Finally, the first piece of effective AI brand strategy

29 days / mumbrella / Hal Crawford

Sam Altman Responds to Anthropic Ad Campaign

29 days / ycombinator

Anthropic’s hilarious Super Bowl ad jibe about ChatGPT’s ads hits a nerve

4 wks / siliconangle / Mike Wheatley

Anthropic Mocks ChatGPT Ads in Super Bowl Spot, Altman Fires Back [Video]

4 wks / iclarified

Sam Altman responds to Anthropic's "Ads are coming to AI. But not to Claude" ads

4 wks / ycombinator

Sam Altman got exceptionally testy over Claude Super Bowl ads

4 wks / techcrunch / Julie Bort

Anthropic Promises Claude Will Remain Ad-Free, Mocks ChatGPT Ads in Super Bowl Commercial

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Anthropic Trolls OpenAI's ChatGPT in Super Bowl Ad Campaign

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Sam Altman responds to Anthropic’s ‘funny’ Super Bowl ads

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Anthropic is going after ChatGPT in a buzzy new ad campaign

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He posted a novella-sized rant that devolved into to calling his rival "dishonest" and "authoritarian."

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The OpenAI boss said Anthropic’s portrayal of how ads impact ChatGPT is ‘clearly dishonest.’

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The move defines Anthropic’s AI offering as an alternative to competitors planning to integrate ads in AI chats. https://sherwood.news/tech/anthropic-pledges-no-ads-for-claude/

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Alibaba’s Qwen ramps up AI app race with Spring Festival giveaway blitz

scmp - Alibaba Group Holding has joined rivals including Tencent Holdings and Baidu in rolling out Spring Festival red-packet giveaways to drive mass-market adoption of its artificial intelligence, committing 3 billion yuan (US$432 million) to spur spending acro…

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Alibaba Raises Stakes in China’s Chatbot War Ahead of Lunar New Year

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Alibaba Plans $431M Lunar New Year AI Push Amid Chatbot Battle

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Alibaba’s Qwen ramps up AI app race with Spring Festival giveaway blitz

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Alibaba’s Qwen App Commits ￥30B to Chinese New Year AI Giveaway Campaign

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Apple Releases 'Glad I Met You' Chinese New Year Film Shot on iPhone 17 Pro [Video]

iclarified - Apple has released "Glad I Met You," its annual short film to celebrate the Chinese New Year. Directed by Bai Xue, the film mixes live-action scenes with stop-motion animation to tell a story about a girl, a talking dog, and the search for family.The enti…

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Apple Releases 'Glad I Met You' Chinese New Year Film Shot on iPhone 17 Pro [Video]

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Apple Releases Chinese New Year Film Shot on iPhone 17 Pro

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Apple Shares 2026 Chinese New Year Short Film Shot on iPhone 17 Pro

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