Catégorie : Tech News
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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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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…
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It’s hard to justify Tahoe icons
Translations: Chinese I was reading Macintosh Human Interface Guidelines from 1992 and found this nice illustration: accompanied by explanation: Fast forward to 2025. Apple releases macOS Tahoe. Main attraction? Adding unpleasant, distracting, illegible, messy, cluttered, confusing, frustrating icons (their words, not mine!) to every menu item: Sequoia → Tahoe It’s bad. But why exactly is…
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Mastodon creator shares what went wrong with Threads and ponders the future of the fediverse
Jon Henshaw: I’m here with the creator of Mastodon, Eugen Rochko, and I’m excited to finally meet you. Eugen Rochko …and I’m excited to talk to you in person. Well, not in person, but you know what I mean. JH: It’s more in person than it’s ever been. Yeah. As opposed to the random Mastodon…
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Bed Time Stories by Testbed Vegas: The CES 2026 Edition
Good afternoon, everyone! Testbed Vegas is on the ground for the biggest week of the year. It’s CES week in Las Vegas, and the city is buzzing with the electric energy of over 140,000 innovators, creators, and disruptors. This week, we are stripping away the general news to focus entirely on CES 2026. The theme…
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Big news yesterday from Google, changing how we book everything from hotel rooms to tours to flights: – Google and a group of major retailers launched a new tool (Universal Commerce Protocol). The… | Benjamin Rhatigan
Big news yesterday from Google, changing how we book everything from hotel rooms to tours to flights: – Google and a group of major retailers launched a new tool (Universal Commerce Protocol). The takeaway is shopping will no longer depend on clicking through a website. You will tell an AI assistant what you want, it…
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ChatGPT’s Commerce Strategy: Web Search vs. Intelligence | Juozas Kaziukėnas posted on the topic | LinkedIn
Commerce on ChatGPT is very different from most other use cases. ChatGPT is not using its massive AI model to answer shopping questions. Instead, it outsources its thinking to the web: it runs a few web searches, combines those results and picks out products from them. 53% of commerce prompts trigger web search, compared to
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The Take by TRAVHOTECH – CES 2026 Day Three
The « Agentic » Finale We made it to Day Three. If the first two days were about the flashy gadgets and the robots that move them, Day Three was a deep dive into the brain behind it all. Today was about AI, but not the « generate a poem » kind. We are talking about NVIDIA and the…
