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Looking for a new television, but don’t want to break the bank on fancy QD-OLED technology and features you may not need? This 55-inch screen from Vizio is marked down to $237 at Walmart, a ten percent markdown from its usual, already quite low price. It would make a great second TV for your garage or guest room,With a plain old LED panel, the Vizio isn’t going to turn any heads or impress your most keen-eyed friends, but it’s more than good enough for a night in catching up on your stories. It still has full support for Dolby Vision,…
Criteo will sell chatbot ads, thanks to a new partnership with OpenAI.ChatGPT’s parent company announced in January that it would begin testing ads in the Free and Go tiers of its popular chatbot. Agencies including Dentsu, Omnicom, and WPP have invested in the pilot on behalf of clients, and Criteo is the first adtech company to get in on the test.The deal “represents an exciting step forward in advancing advertising in an emerging AI experience,” Michael Komasinski, CEO of Criteo, said in a statement. “We are helping shape how advertising can support discovery and consideration within large language model platforms,…
Many users are switching to Claude following a string of controversies surrounding ChatGPT and its parent company, OpenAI. The tipping point came after Anthropic, the company behind Claude, refused to allow the Department of Defense to use its AI models for mass domestic surveillance or fully autonomous weapons. In response, President Trump ordered all federal agencies to stop using Anthropic’s products, and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth announced plans to designate the company a supply-chain threat. Hours later, OpenAI announced its own agreement with the Pentagon, claiming to include safeguards, but the deal has still sparked widespread debate over privacy and…
Shipping through the Strait of Hormuz—the narrow but vital oil trade route in the Middle East—has almost ground to a halt since the start of the United States and Israel’s war against Iran. Tankers in the region have faced military strikes and a spike in GPS jamming attacks, a new analysis says.Since the first US-Israeli strikes against Iran on February 28, more than 1,100 ships operating across the Gulf region have had their GPS or automatic identification system (AIS) communications technology disrupted, says Ami Daniel, the CEO of maritime intelligence firm Windward. Ships have been made to appear as if…
The growth of AI-driven search has created new ways for consumers to research and buy products. While new generative engine optimization (GEO) firms are building tools to help influence which brands appear in answers from AI answer engines like OpenAI’s ChatGPT and Google’s Gemini, facilitating commerce is a bigger challenge.There aren’t consistent tech standards around how AI-driven commerce should be conducted, even though industry organizations like the Interactive Advertising Bureau are working on it.“If you have everyone building for it separately, it creates a complete mess,” said Justin Inman, founder and CEO of Emberos. “The industry as a whole needs…
Hundreds of tech workers have signed an open letter urging the Department of Defense to withdraw its designation of Anthropic as a “supply chain risk.” The letter also calls on Congress to step in and “examine whether the use of these extraordinary authorities against an American technology company is appropriate.” The letter includes signatories from major technology and venture capital firms including OpenAI, Slack, IBM, Cursor, Salesforce Ventures, and more. It follows a dispute between the DOD and Anthropic after the AI lab last week refused to give the military unrestricted access to its AI systems. Anthropic’s two red lines…
On the bank of the river that runs through the Swedish town of Borlänge, construction is underway on a sprawling new data center. The site previously housed a paper mill. When the developer, EcoDataCenter, broke ground in September, its CEO Peter Michelson declared, “The facility once produced paper, the raw material of the newspaper information age. Now, Borlänge will produce the raw material for AI and the next information age.”The Borlänge facility is one of more than 50 currently under construction or soon to be developed across the Nordics—the region made up of Norway, Sweden, Finland, Denmark, and Iceland—as demand…
ADWEEK has launched a new award to celebrate exceptional talent in the growing commerce space. ADWEEK’s inaugural Commerce All-Stars recognizes the most innovative and successful executives shaping the future of the commerce and retail media ecosystem. The list will honor executives (EVP and above) who redefine how brands, retailers, and technology partners collaborate to deliver measurable impact, customer value, and scalable growth across the shopper journey.From leveraging first-party data and innovative measurement solutions to delivering modern commerce experiences that drive performance, the ADWEEK Commerce All-Stars are reshaping the retail landscape.To submit a nominee, use the entry form below. The final deadline…
Social network X on Monday announced the introduction of a new “Paid Partnership” label that creators can apply to their posts to indicate they’re advertisements. The feature could help improve creators’ authenticity, so fans know when a product recommendation is an original sentiment, versus a paid sponsorship, while also complying with regulations that say ads on social media need labels. Similar tags have existed for years on other platforms, like Instagram, after the U.S. Federal Trade Commission warned influencers back in 2017 that they needed to “clearly and conspicuously disclose” when a post was sponsored by an advertiser, or if that…
Oil prices surged on Monday following the United States and Israel’s attacks on Iran this weekend, as some analysts predict that it could soon reach over $100 a barrel. Amid escalating attacks on oil and gas infrastructure in the region and stopped traffic in a crucial shipping route, experts tell WIRED that how the White House directs the conflict over the coming week—as well as Iran’s and other oil producers’ responses—will be key in determining just how high prices eventually climb.The price of Brent crude jumped to almost $80 a barrel—a nearly 13 percent increase over Friday’s prices—when markets opened…
The U.S and Israel launched joint coordinated strikes on Iran early Saturday morning, apparently in an effort to keep the country from obtaining nuclear weapons.The strikes led to the death of Ayatollah Khamenei, Iran’s supreme leader, who led the country for nearly four decades. Iran retaliated with its own strikes, hitting U.S.military bases in the region, which killed four U.S. service members. The strikes also targeted other densely populated locations in various Middle Eastern countries.The rapid escalation of events forced the various news outlets into breaking-news mode, which felt eerily similar in timing to when news of the Venezuelan military…
The customer service industry is in a bit of flux, thanks to AI. Investors and corporate leaders have rung alarm bells for the BPO (Business Process Outsourcing) industry. On the other hand, AI-powered customer support startups such as Decagon, Parloa, and Sierra have picked up millions of dollars in funding from venture capitalists. 14.ai, a Y-Combinator-backed startup, is taking an approach of building an AI-native agency that has replaced legacy customer support teams at many startups it has worked with. The company has raised $3 million in seed funding led by Y Combinator with participation from General Catalyst, Base Case…
Apple has kicked off the week with the announcement of a new iPad Air, now powered by the M4 chip. This is a fairly modest update, moving the device from the previous M3 to the M4, but otherwise keeping the same hardware and design. The company also announced a new price-friendly smartphone, the iPhone 17e.It still comes in 11-inch and 13-inch sizes, and otherwise looks identical to the previous generation. The only other significant change is the switch to Apple’s N1 networking chip, which rolled out in the iPhone 17 and iPad Pro last fall. This is Apple’s home-brewed Wi-Fi…
In this episode of Marketing Vanguard, live from the 2026 World Economic Forum in Davos, Nic Brandenberger, CMO of Mammut, the 164-year-old Swiss mountaineering gear company, unpacks why Davos represents a unique opportunity for C-suite marketers and how the experiences brands create matter far more than the products they sell.What you’ll learn: How to shift the definition of “brand” from product provider to experience giver Why breaking out of the marketing silo is a critical competitive advantage The strategic advantage of being a part of Davos How to balance wholesale and direct-to-consumer channels How consumer-centric foundation separates great marketing from…
Early on Saturday, cities across Iran, including its capital Tehran, were rocked by a series of U.S. and Israel-led airstrikes that killed the country’s supreme leader, Ali Hosseini Khamenei, and top leadership. According to reports, the military campaign coincided with cyberattacks targeting the country, one of which flooded a popular phone app with notifications, amid an ongoing outage across the Iranian internet. The strikes came after several days of failed negotiations between Tehran and Washington. The negotiations were held after weeks of mass protests that saw thousands of people killed alongside the country’s longest internet shutdown to date. As missiles…
ByteDance, the Chinese company best known for creating TikTok, got into the virtual reality game when it bought the startup Pico in 2021. Now, Pico is taking its mixed reality (XR) efforts even more seriously by building out software that lets people use multiple applications in 3D digital workspaces. Many of its features sound very much like what you can find in the Apple Vision Pro, two years after that device launched.At Mobile World Congress 2026 in Barcelona, Pico announced its newest XR operating system, Pico OS 6. The OS will not work on the company’s existing Pico 4 from…