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Marketing News

  • Best tips for abandoned cart recovery (Link)

  • Google Chrome is no longer “deprecating third-party cookies” (Link) Decision gets mixed reactions from advertisers (Link)

  • Driving paid traffic to a landing page vs. product page: What is better?(Link)

  • System builders: How AI is terraforming SEO tech. The content and SEO ecosystem is undergoing a massive structural change. (Link)

  • Shoppers found better deals this year as Prime Day fuels record $14.2B across e-commerce. Consumers avoided big-ticket purchases, but steep discounts drew in back-to-school shoppers and others — and not just at Amazon. (Link)

  • Google search is still thriving despite a shift to AI (Link). Ad revenue up 11% (Link)

  • Search traffic declines and what to do (Link)

  • GA4 to Piwik Pro using server-side and Google Tag Manager (Link)

  • Could AI eventually make SEO obsolete? As long as users need to search for information, search optimization will remain essential. (Link)

  • Yelp's new features include expanded lead generation tools, enhanced ad formats, and more. (Link)

  • Creative positions in marketing and AI (Link)

  • Using NLP to improve content relevance for SEO (Link)

  • Google has released version 2.7 of the Google Ads Editor. This new update brings a number of new features and also deprecates a number of features. (Link)

  • How The New York Times' granular gen AI tool drives campaign performance (Link)

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AI News

  • Bing previews its answer to Google’s AI Overviews (Link). Bing generative search (Link)

  • CrowdStrike blames test software for taking down 8.5 million Windows machines (Link) (Link)

  • What Kamala Harris has said about AI, tech regulation and more (Link)

  • Samsung is pouring research into ‘AI phones’ with ‘radically different’ hardware (Link)

  • The Data That Powers A.I. Is Disappearing Fast. New research from the Data Provenance Initiative has found a dramatic drop in content made available to the collections used to build artificial intelligence. (Link)

  • Meta unleashes its most powerful AI model, Llama 3.1, with 405B parameters (Link)

  • Mistral shocks with new open model Mistral Large 2, taking on Llama 3.1 (Link)

  • Selecting the right product metrics (KPIs) (Link)

Cool Tools

  • Central - Payroll, benefits & other government bullsh*t for startups (Link)

  • Gobi - A new way of well-being (Link)

  • Airy - Reflection journal that grows with you (Link)

  • StudyMap - Generate your own learning plan with AI (Link)

  • ChartFast - AI data analyst (Link)

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