Google Shakes Up Its Browser Agent Team Amid OpenClaw Craze

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Google is shaking up the team behind Project Mariner, its AI agent that can navigate the Chrome browser and complete tasks on a user’s behalf, WIRED has learned. In recent months, some Google Labs staffers who worked on the research prototype have moved on to higher-priority projects, according to two people familiar with the matter.A Google spokesperson confirmed the changes,

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NewFronts leaned into CTV performance offerings this year

While performance marketing is being souped up with generative AI, it’s suffering from a lack of robust measurement of CTV marketing spend, which only continues to grow.That can make proving performance marketing’s worth a challenge.

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At Palantir’s Developer Conference, AI Is Built to Win Wars

It’s a chilly March morning in the undisclosed mid-Atlantic hotel hosting Palantir’s developer conference. The defense contractors, military officers, and corporate executives in attendance are unprepared for the weather; they’d assumed the previous day’s mid-70s

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How Ancestry is using America’s 250th birthday as a ‘backdrop’ to tell lesser-known stories

American history is rife with stories of important figures. Some of those stories are legends, told so many times that it’s impossible to hear a historical figure’s name without thinking of a tale that goes

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Growing down: How Major League Baseball is looking to capture younger audiences this season

Spring has sprung, and so has the 2026 Major League Baseball season.For fans, watching this year’s opening game was a little different than usual. MLB has been shifting away from regional sports networks and toward

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Iran Warns US Tech Firms Could Become Targets as War Expands

Major US technology companies have been named as potential targets as the war between Iran, Israel, and the United States

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Palantir Demos Show How the Military Could Use AI Chatbots to Generate War Plans

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‘The tide has turned’: Why the era of the Madison Avenue holding company is on its way out

Is it time to ring the death knell for the holding company model?It’d be easy to think so. Last month, as WPP revealed restructuring plans, CEO Cindy Rose stated that WPP was “no longer a holding company.” Instead, WPP will be a single operating company with four divisions: WPP Media,

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China’s OpenClaw Boom Is a Gold Rush for AI Companies

George Zhang thought OpenClaw could make him rich, even though he didn’t really understand how the viral AI agent software worked. But he saw a video of a Chinese social media influencer demonstrating how it could be deployed to manage stock portfolios and make investment decisions autonomously. Zhang, who works

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Why Hyundai locked up a jersey sponsorship with Boston Legacy FC early

Boston sports fandom is legendary, but it’s been almost a decade since women’s soccer fans in the city had a hometown team to root for.With a record-setting crowd of more than 30,000 at its debut game last weekend, it’s safe to say that fans are excited to welcome Boston Legacy

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Google Is Not Ruling Out Ads in Gemini

Second is advertiser tools. If you’re a small business, you’re not thinking about all the queries people are going to type in. AI is great at figuring out which keywords to use, what’s the optimal creative, and generating all of that.The third piece is the most nascent: ads in new

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NWSL kicks off 14th season with new marketing strategy

The NWSL season kicked off on Friday with two new teams and a new approach to marketing.The league’s fourth annual marketing campaign, “Imagine Missing This,” will be targeted more narrowly than campaigns from previous years, though it’s still geared toward top-of-funnel goals like awareness and brand building as the NWSL

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Nvidia Will Spend $26 Billion to Build Open-Weight AI Models, Filings Show

Nvidia will spend $26 billion over the next five years to build open source artificial intelligence models, according to a 2025 financial filing. Executives confirmed the news, which has not been previously reported, in interviews with WIRED.The sizable investment could see Nvidia evolve from a chipmaker with an impressive software

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Creators were all over SXSW. What does that mean for the industry?

The line between creators and traditional Hollywood is so blurry these days that even those with perfect vision are squinting.At SXSW this year, creator chat wasn’t hard to come by. Whether it was at the Creator Academy activation hosted by Sam’s Club (a major sponsor of the festival), on a

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The Iran War Is Throwing Global Shipping Into Chaos

After years of chaos in the global supply chain, Ryan Petersen, CEO of the logistics company Flexport, felt 2026 might offer some modicum of order. The pandemic was firmly in the rearview mirror. Red Sea shipping channels—which had been closed due to the Gaza crisis—were finally opening. The Supreme Court

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Coworking with Shane Norris

Each week, we spotlight Marketing Brew readers in our Coworking series. If you’d like to be featured, introduce yourself here.Shane Norris is head of sales at Fyllo, a contextual targeting platform. He has also worked at M3, Roku, and Funny or Die.How would you describe your job to someone who

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Why Coca-Cola made March Madness a moment for BodyArmor

Powerade has been a sponsor of the NCAA for nearly every year since 2010. This year, though, that sponsorship, including the designation as the official sports drink of March Madness, is going to a sister brand instead.It’s a unique year in the world of sports, with both the Olympics and

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