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Welcome back to the Digiday+ Future of Marketing Briefing. We’re only three editions in (not that anyone’s keeping score), and in that experimental phase — call it beta but with better font choices. Some weeks we’ll drop a scoop, others we’ll offer a sharper take on the obvious. And then there are weeks like this one, when stitching everything together into a grand unifying theory just isn’t in the cards. So we didn’t. Instead, we’re bringing you two stories that act as tiny pressure points for much bigger industry tensions. Let us know what hits. In the race to build…

Another industry event, another round of panels framed by uncertainty. It’s the one constant in a stretch of years defined by volatility — economic, political and technological — all of which have reshaped how marketers operate.But this time, the uncertainty feels different. Less ambient noise, more existential.  The pace of change, from AI to global instability to the fracturing of media itself — has caught even seasoned marketers off balance. Advertising Week New York doesn’t escape that. If anything, it distills it. For many of the 20,000-plus attending, this year feels like Q4’s ceremonial kickoff, and more like a pulse…

With its Blackwell architecture well established on AI data centers, cloud services, workstations, and desktop/laptop PCs, Nvidia’s CES 2026 press event is likely to focus less on new launches. Rather, it is expected that the company will delve into refinements, roadmap signals, and how it plans to push its hardware and software stack forward over the coming year. Nvidia has confirmed that founder and CEO Jensen Huang will be delivering the company’s CES opening keynote on January 5, a day ahead of the main CES show floor opening. CES has become one of Nvidia’s most important stages of the year,…

When trying to explain how generative AI tools work using plain English, it’s tempting to fall back on language that humanizes the tech.Tools like ChatGPT “think” or “design” responses against prompts set by users; automation workflows become “assistants,” chatbots become “copilots” or “wingmen.” In that light, perhaps it’s unsurprising that regular users are turning toward OpenAI’s tech in lieu of therapists, priests or doctors. For marketers, the tendency to read a generative AI output as more than the sum of its parts holds potential as well as risk. AI audience personas, for example, use LLMs like ChatGPT, Claude and Llama…

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Personalities generated by AI, like Tilly Norwood, don’t need rest or have unique, personal opinions. That’s part of their appeal to talent agencies and advertisers. As brands and platforms quietly embrace AI-generated content, some creators are starting to worry that cost and control will beat out their authenticity. Last week, Meta launched its AI-generated content feed called Vibes. Around the same time, OpenAI launched a social app called Sora that allows users to generate videos of themselves. Both resemble TikTok-style feeds. That seems to indicate that these are less side projects for the tech behemoths and likely an indicator of…

If you’ve nothing better to do in the run-up to Christmas, then how about enjoying a mesmerizing hour-long video of a humanoid robot sorting packages? The clip was posted by the founder and CEO of Figure AI, the California-based company behind the Figure humanoid robot. Brett Adcock was responding to a post on X by AI commentator Mehmet Aykul, in which he questioned the ability of Figure’s robot to handle “boring” tasks like sorting “10,000 messy packages without a single error.” Adcock shot back with a video showing Figure sorting packages for a full 60 minutes, adding: “Boring enough for…

The lively Wednesday evening discussion at COSM 2025 between neurosurgeon Michael Egnor and historian of science Michael Shermer was followed by some further comments, including Shermer’s reflections on the possibility of life after death: Here’s Part 1. Michael Shermer: I have a lot of friends on the other side, so I’m thinking if I’m wrong, maybe I’ll get in. Host Jay Richards (grinning): We’ll see. Michael Shermer: You never know. And then they’ll say, well, Christopher Hitchens and Carl Sagan and all those atheist guys, okay? But anyway. So I’m fascinated by all this. I would, like anybody else, for…

The Trump administration is doubling down on its Bitcoin strategy, with top officials emphasizing their commitment to growing the U.S. government’s BTC holdings. Speaking at the Digital Assets Summit today in New York, Bo Hines, Executive Director on Digital Assets for President Trump, made it clear that the United States is determined to accumulate Bitcoin at an unprecedented scale. “I think it’s high time that our President started accumulating assets for the American people, which is what President Trump is doing rather than taking it away,” Hines stated. He went on to reveal that at President Trump’s first-ever digital assets…

The latest chapter in the Department of Justice’s antitrust case against Google’s ad tech empire wrapped on Friday (Oct. 3). Over the past two weeks, both sides — the DOJ and Google — laid out their competing visions for how to dismantle a business that, for years, set the rules for the game while playing all positions.Unfortunately, Digiday wasn’t in the courtroom (we’ve got day jobs) but we’ve been trading notes with people who were. Below is a breakdown of what really happened, what matters and what to keep an eye on as the case barrels toward resolution. The TL;DR…