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• The Stack: AI Enters Everything

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  This week, AI pushed deeper into shopping and food delivery, while major deals and legal developments reshaped the media and ad tech landscape. In today’s MadTech Daily, we cover Citi entering advertising with a new ad business and IAB Europe [...]

• The Next Battle for Media Transparency Isn't About Money. It's About Algorithms

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  Helen Rose, managing partner, the7stars looks at the enormous potential in the tech shaping our industry, noting that speed isn't the same thing as progress...

• Digest: Shopify Taps Meta’s Muse for Agentic Checkout; Brian O’Kelley’s Startup Makes AI Agent Pivot  

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  In today’s Digest, we discuss Shopify tapping Meta’s Muse for agentic checkout, Brian O’Kelley’s startup pivoting to AI agents, and a Microsoft patent revealing plans to pause games for ads.

• When AI is Everywhere, Where Does Original Thinking Come From?

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  Jennie Roper, VP OOH Intelligence at WPP Media, asks what the rise of AI means for creativity and genuinely original thinking?

• No CTV, No Choice: The Media Conditions of the Past

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  Shirley Marschall found herself in a hotel room with only local, linear TV to keep her company. Of course, it got her thinking about the state of modern media…

• Digest: Paramount Clears Legal Hurdle Ahead of Warner Merger; Amazon Bars Meta’s Muse From Agentic Shopping 

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  In today’s Digest, we look at Paramount clearing a legal hurdle ahead of its Warner merger, Amazon blocking Meta’s AI assistant in an agentic shopping standoff, and Ant Group reshaping Alipay for agentic commerce.

• Why a Three Hour Epic Still Captures Our Attention

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  Columnist Jess Treasure of Bountiful Cow asks if we’ve misunderstood how attention habits have really shifted?

• Digest: Infillion Acquires Foursquare; McCann Merges FP7 & MullenLowe in MENA

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  In today’s Digest, we cover Infillion acquiring Foursquare in a location data deal, McCann merging FP7 and MullenLowe in MENA, and OpenAI rolling out a youth safety plan for Australia.

• The Wires 2026 Shortlists Announced!

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  The Wires 2026 take place on November 12th. Let's find out who's been shortlisted for these prestigious awards...

• Opacity by Design: Will Ad Tech and Media Ever Be Transparent?

  2 months ago News

  

  Columnist Paul Evans looks at why the battle for transparency in ad tech is always going to be an uphill struggle…