Jour : 11 juin 2025
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Chat is the new browser, of course
If you can’t talk to it, it’s broken. This has almost nothing to do with the post but I love the dada flavor of it. I have no idea either. One of the things that’s novel about the AI moment is that we can now talk to our software and tell it what we want.…
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Trading Margin for Moat: Why the Forward Deployed Engineer Is the Hottest Job in Startups | Andreessen Horowitz
It turns out dethroning Salesforce isn’t as simple as spinning up an OpenAI-enabled voice agent. Companies attempting to replace core workflows owned by legacy systems of record with lightweight, wrapper-like integrations too often see their agents break or fail outright. Paradoxically, we’re witnessing explosive growth for complicated AI products in sales, support, and legal. Enterprise…
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How launching podcasts on Youtube has prompted ‘explosive’ growth for Goalhanger
Youtube UK managing director Alison Lomax interviews Tony Pastor and Jack Davenport of Goalhanger at The Podcast Show in London in May 2025. Picture: Dominic Ponsford Launching podcasts on Youtube has led to “explosive results” for The Rest Is Politics producer Goalhanger in terms of both audience and revenue. The UK’s largest independent podcast production…
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Forget What You Know About Search. Optimize Your Brand for LLMs.
Over the past year, consumers have migrated en masse from traditional search engines to Gen AI platforms including ChatGPT, Gemini, DeepSeek, and Perplexity. In a survey of 12,000 consumers, 58% (vs. only 25% in 2023) reported having turned to Gen AI tools for product/service recommendations. Another study reported a 1,300% surge in AI search referrals…
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How Generative Engine Optimization (GEO) Rewrites the Rules of Search | Andreessen Horowitz
It’s the end of search as we know it, and marketers feel fine. Sort of. For over two decades, SEO was the default playbook for visibility online. It spawned an entire industry of keyword stuffers, backlink brokers, content optimizers, and auditing tools, along with the professionals and agencies to operate them. But in 2025, search…
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Meituan reports $1.52 billion 2025 Q1 profit Meituan, China’s leading… | Stephan Soroka🇺🇦
Meituan reports $1.52 billion 2025 Q1 profit Meituan, China’s leading food delivery platform, reported a 46.2% increase in net profit for Q1 2025, reaching RMB 10.9 billion ($1.52 billion), surpassing analyst expectations. Revenue rose by 18.1% year-over-year to RMB 86.6 billion, driven by strong performance in its core local commerce segment. Despite these gains, CEO…
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🧠 16 AI Strategy Playbooks You Shouldn’t Miss From Microsoft, McKinsey… | Rubén Domínguez Ibar | 173 comments
🧠 16 AI Strategy Playbooks You Shouldn’t Miss From Microsoft, McKinsey, BCG, Google, Deloitte, Bain, Accenture, and more — these strategy guides are pure gold. They cover: ▫️ How top firms align AI with business goals ▫️ What metrics actually matter ▫️ How to stay agile in a fast-changing space Practical. Insightful. Actionable. ✅ Full…
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Shop with AI Mode, use AI to buy and try clothes on yourself virtually
Say you tell AI Mode you’re looking for a cute travel bag. It understands that you’re looking for visual inspiration and so it will show you a beautiful, browsable panel of images and product listings personalized to your tastes. If you want to narrow your options down to bags suitable for a trip to Portland,…
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Amazon Prime Video’s Yash Chaturvedi: how AI is revolutionising advertising now
The future of contextual advertising isn’t arriving on a slow drip but rather barreling toward us like a freight train. Picture yourself watching a sports drama. One minute the coach is firing up the team with an uplifting speech; the next minute fists fly in a bench-clearing brawl. Old ad systems treat both scenes as…
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Meet the new Gigi: An AI media manager for the Amazon DSP – Gigi
When we publicly launched Gigi in June of last year, Gigi emerged as the only company to harmonize two foundational Amazon ad tech products—its DSP and Amazon Marketing Cloud—to help marketers buy and measure Streaming TV Ads. Since then, we’ve managed tens of millions of Streaming TV ad spend for customers.Every customer and every prospect…
