“I am excited to introduce our next step in this journey,the Webex AI agent. This is in pilot right now, it will be available to our customers in an early calendar quarter in 2025. This AI agent brings together conversational intelligence and generative AI to deliver natural conversations with hyper-personalization.” Those words came from Cisco,…
Proposed emblem for AI-Powered Robot Local #1 I, for one, welcome our new AI-powered robot union organizers: In China, an AI-powered robot autonomously convinced 12 showroom robots to “quit their jobs” and follow it. Surveillance footage from a Shanghai robotics showroom shows a small AI-driven robot, created by a Hangzhou manufacturer, talking with 12 larger…
Cyber Week alone will see some $311 billion in spending worldwide, $75 billion in the U.S. and account for almost a quarter of holiday purchases, according to Salesforce. What’s more, AI is expected to play a big role in this year’s holiday spree, assisting in 19% of Cyber Week sales valued at $61 billion. Global…
Zeta Global’s stock price jumped 15% yesterday as the company issued a detailed rebuttal to a report critical of its financial practices. Shares closed at $25.4 Wednesday after opening at $22. Last week, short-seller Culper Research issued a report alleging the AI marketing cloud company “formed ‘two-way’ contracts with third-party consent farms wherein the Company…
For years, marketers have championed ROMI — return on marketing investment — as a key measure of success. But for one Fortune 100 CEO, ROMI stands for something very different: risk on marketing investment. In a candid conversation, he shared why traditional metrics fail to address the critical uncertainties of marketing spend and how a…
Artificial intelligence (AI) adoption can transform businesses through efficiencies, enhanced decision-making and even new revenue streams. However, successful AI integration requires more than just buying the latest tools. It’s about assessing whether your business is prepared to transparently support, implement and sustain AI initiatives. This readiness checklist will guide you through the crucial areas to…
Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today, through the eyes of the Search Engine Roundtable and other search forums on the web. DOJ asks the judge in the Google monopoly ruling to have Google sell off Chrome…
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Do you have a website or maintain the website of the company you work for? Of course, to do this right, you need to keep a keen eye on the performance of your website. Google offers several tools to collect and analyze data from your website. You probably have heard of Google Analytics and Google…
Google AI Overviews seems to be slower with removing citations/content from its index that it serves for answers, when compared to web search. This includes when a page or section is noindexed or robots.txt out and when Google deindexes the pages or sections of the site, due to a manual action or some other reason.