Jour : 13 janvier 2026
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How the Mad Men Lost the Plot Again
Catch-up service:How To Do Politics When Nobody Knows AnythingWhen The Mind Outlasts the BrainHow To Choose Your NemesisMy Ten Favourite Books of the YearHow To Push Back With a SmileFrom Community To TribeTikTok Can’t Take All the Blame For PopulismIn 2015 I wrote a long piece for the Financial Times called How The Mad Men…
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Who decides what’s real in the age of AI? Instagram does.
Adam Mosseri, Instagram’s chief doesn’t often respond to critics. When I wrote that his year-end memo cast Instagram as a future referee of reality, he pushed back on Threads. He called it an overstatement and then laid out the need for “credibility signals,” tools to prove content authenticity, and industry-wide verification. That isn’t a rebuttal; it’s reframing. Instagram may not want the label “arbiter of reality,” but it seems content to take on the role. In an earlier essay,…
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13 of the best Nano Banana trends from 2025
It’s been a huge year for our image generation and editing model Nano Banana, starting with its debut in August as the top-rated image editing model in the world. People immediately loved the first version of the model, Gemini 2.5 Flash Image, thanks to its ability to maintain a consistent look across edits, blend photos…
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Gemini in Chrome and Gmail, and Google’s AI distribution conduit | Mobile Dev Memo by Eric Seufert
In September, Google announced Gemini in Chrome, an initiative to insert Gemini touchpoints into the Chrome browser on Windows and Mac. Google described this integration as an “agentic browsing assistant” that could “clarify complex information” across browsing tabs. Last week, Google expanded this integration to iOS for signed-in users in the US. Separately, today, Google…
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Amazon’s AI assistant comes to the web with Alexa.com
Amazon’s AI-powered overhaul of its digital assistant, now known as Alexa+, is coming to the web. On Monday, at the start of CES 2026 in Las Vegas, the company announced the official launch of a new website, Alexa.com, which is now rolling out to all Alexa+ Early Access customers. The site will allow customers to…
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HVS Asia Pacific Hospitality Newsletter – Week Ending 9 January 2026
Blackstone Acquires Hamilton Island in Queensland, Australia US-based alternative investment firm, Blackstone Inc. (“Blackstone”), is acquiring Hamilton Island, an integrated resort destination in the Whitsunday Islands in Queensland, Australia from the Australia-based Oatley family. Market sources indicate that the transaction is valued at approximately AUD1.2 billion, representing a significant uplift from the Oatley family’s original…
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Podcast: Meta’s Business AI tools and the ad-product divide (with Simon Whitcombe) | Mobile Dev Memo by Eric Seufert
My guest on this episode of the podcast is Simon Whitcombe, the Vice President, Global Business Group at Meta. We discuss Meta’s Business AI and the Meta AI business assistant, both of which were announced ahead of this year’s AdWeek. I unpacked the potential of these tools to help advertisers cross the “ad-product divide” in…
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Colgate-Palmolive’s gen-AI marketing pilot – Think with Google
A challenge for consumer packaged goods (CPG) companies is the flood of content that’s tough for any brand to outpace. For Colgate-Palmolive, which sells its essential health and hygiene products to consumers in 200 countries and territories across oral care, personal care, home care, and pet nutrition, the stakes are clear: show up in the…
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Is YouTube TV? The debate still rages and it seems you have to be firmly in one camp or the other. And, unsurprisingly, these camps correlate very closely with the demographic, socio economic and… | Simon Lane
Is YouTube TV? The debate still rages and it seems you have to be firmly in one camp or the other. And, unsurprisingly, these camps correlate very closely with the demographic, socio economic and geographic profile of each camp member. Which is the critical point… ⭐️At an aggregate level, a sizeable proportion of the legacy…
