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Lowe’s wants to do more with AI shopping in 2026
The story was first published by Digiday sibling Modern Retail. Expect more AI-powered recommendations and personalization from Lowe’s next year as the home improvement retailer continues to hone...

‘This isn’t the old pre-roll world’: YouTube has been talking TV — now it’s selling that way
YouTube has been chasing TV ad budgets for years. What’s changed recently is the approach. Marketers who’ve sat through recent pitches say the difference is clear. The VIP packages, sold both d...

Digiday Scorecard: Publishers’ rate Big Tech’s AI licensing deals
AI licensing has gone from niche to crowded fast: Meta, Microsoft and Amazon have entered the fray in the last six months, and publishers are now juggling a growing menu of deals — each with differe...

As every screen becomes shoppable, attribution problems resurface
In the latest “every surface becomes shoppable” news, more platforms are inking deals and rolling out shoppable ad formats across the open web. As more media environments become points of purchase...

More Than Half of Telecoms Run AI Agents in Production, Google Cloud Finds
While many sectors use AI mainly for back-office tasks, telecommunications involve live infrastructure where problems can escalate quickly and manual coordination often fails. As 5G densification, gro...

As Federal Prisons Run Low On Food And Toilet Paper, Corrections Officers Are Leaving In Droves For ICE
This story was originally published by ProPublica. Republished under a CC BY-NC-ND 3.0 license. After years of struggling to find enough workers for some of the nation’s toughest lockups, th...

Aussie Hero Meme Coin Rallies Community Support After Sydney Terrorist Attack
A meme coin called HERO has gained traction over the past few days, created in honor of a man who helped disarm one of two attackers during a deadly assault at a Hanukkah celebration in Sydney, Austra...

A vague study on Nazi bots created chaos in the Taylor Swift fan universe
On December 9th, Rolling Stone published a story that some saw as a bombshell: a network of coordinated, "inauthentic" social media accounts had a hand in the weekslong discourse that trailed t...

Letter from the Editor-in-Chief
Not long ago, like many of you, I read what I feared might be The Next Web’s final article. In late September, TNW’s co-founder announced that the tech conference and news site would be winding do...

Databricks Targets $134 Billion Valuation in New Funding Round
Data analytics/artificial intelligence (AI) firm Databricks is reportedly raising $4 billion in a new funding round. This Series L round would value the company at $134 billion, up 34% from...

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