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Anthropic

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Claude Cowork and Claude Code are deployable on Bedrock, Vertex AI, and Microsoft Foundry

Anthropic has made Claude Cowork and Claude Code deployable on inference infrastructure from Amazon Bedrock, Google Cloud Vertex AI, and Microsoft Foundry, and has made them available in public research preview. The release means enterprise marketing and engineering teams can run Claude products on the cloud infrastructure they already operate, with the existing security, compliance, and procurement pathways their organisations have already approved.

SourceLinkedIn
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Google publishes a resource on optimising sites for AI agents

Chris Long has flagged a new Google resource on building "agent-friendly websites" on the WebDev resources page. The page treats AI agents as a new type of visitor that takes screenshots, uses the accessibility tree, and combines visual cues with semantic HTML to navigate sites: and provides specific guidance for sites that want to be navigable by agentic AI.

SourceLinkedIn
First ContributorChris Long

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Google open-sources Agent Skills repository for production agent workflows

Google has open-sourced an Agent Skills repository providing a one-command install of seven production-ready skills into Claude Code, Gemini CLI, Codex, or Antigravity. The skills cover the full agent lifecycle: ADK Python (agents, tools, state management), scaffold (project creation and version upgrades), eval (metrics and LLM-as-judge scoring), deploy (Agent Runtime, Cloud Run, or GKE), publish (Gemini Enterprise registration), observability (Cloud Trace and logging), and workflow (model selection and dev loop).

SourceBasia Kubicka, workflow and image source
First ContributorBasia Kubicka +1

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Adobe launches Firefly AI Assistant in public beta

Adobe has released the Firefly AI Assistant in public beta, positioning it as a conversational layer over the broader Firefly creative tooling: turning manual editing workflows into chat-driven instructions. Kris Kashtanova has flagged the public beta and notes the practical shift: complete edits that previously required manual layer manipulation can now be issued as a single conversational instruction.

SourceLinkedIn
First ContributorKris Kashtanova

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Two planning references to keep handy

Reddit’s holiday guide can inform seasonal research and planning. LinkedIn’s Thought Leader Ads guide is useful when designing an employee or expert-content programme. Both belong in the reference folder: a newly resurfaced guide does not establish a new advertising capability.

SourceReddit holiday guide
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Meta Ads

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Meta updates Placements controls with format previews and aspect ratios

Bram Van der Hallen has also flagged a refresh of Meta's Placements controls view, which now highlights the differences between platforms and placements more explicitly. Hovering over the eye icon for each placement displays a preview of how the ad will appear on that specific surface, along with recommended formats and aspect ratios, supported images, and supported videos.

SourceLinkedIn
First ContributorBram Van der Hallen

Meta Ads

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Ales Sturala flags the Meta Ads account ban risk from improperly configured AI integrations

Ales Sturala has published a clear analysis of the Meta Ads bans associated with AI tool integrations. The trigger is not "AI touched the account": it is the setup pattern: creating a Meta Developer App on a personal Facebook profile, leaving it in the default Development tier, using a personal access token, running an open-source MCP locally, and performing bulk writes.

SourceLinkedIn
First ContributorAles Sturala

Meta Ads

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Instagram API adds partnership ads label, new metrics, collaborative media, and engagement actions

Meta has published a substantial update to the Instagram Graph API, available through the Instagram API with Facebook Login. The Content Publishing API now supports the partnership ads label at publish time: third-party scheduling tools can publish organic posts with the "Paid partnership with [Brand]" disclosure label, including brand tagging via the Business Discovery API for brand ID lookup.

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Meta Ads

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Meta Pixel AI enrichment excluded from special ad categories; Location Fees take effect April 20

The Meta Pixel AI enrichment feature is explicitly excluded for advertisers in special ad categories: financial products and services, employment, health, and housing. Meta's existing consent frameworks and Business Tools terms continue to govern what data can be shared.

SourceMeta for Business
First ContributorYoann Ferrand

Meta Ads

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Meta introduces "Preview to Publish" flow in Ads Manager

VIVEK GUPTA has flagged that Meta Ads Manager has introduced a new "Preview Ad Setup" step, and renamed the "Publish" button to "Preview to Publish." The updated flow allows advertisers to review their full ad setup: including creative, targeting, and placements: in a preview window before the ad goes live.

SourceLinkedIn
First ContributorVIVEK GUPTA

Meta Ads

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eMarketer: Meta to overtake Google in global digital ad revenues in 2026

eMarketer has published a forecast projecting Meta's global net ad revenue at $243.46 billion in 2026, ahead of Google's $239.54 billion: the first time Meta is forecast to lead globally. Meta's year-on-year growth rate is 24.1%, roughly double Google's 11.9%.

SourceLinkedIn
First ContributorLiam Brennan

Meta Ads

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Meta Pixel adds AI enrichment for event data; one-click CAPI setup launches in Events Manager

Meta has announced two significant updates to its advertising measurement infrastructure. An AI-powered enrichment feature for the Meta Pixel now automatically reads page content and infers product attributes: including name, price, currency, and availability: as well as business information, enriching conversion events without manual annotation.

SourceMeta for Business
First ContributorYoann Ferrand

Meta Ads

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Meta Related Media bug routing spends to unintended ads

Barry Hott has flagged a serious bug in Meta Ads Manager: simply opening an ad to view its settings: even without making any changes: automatically queues Related Media to publish on the next save action. One account in Hott's analysis saw 96% of spend redirected to ads other than the intended one, rendering reporting unreliable.

SourceLinkedIn
First ContributorBarry Hott

Meta Ads

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Threads API adds ghost posts, text attachments, spoilers, GIFs, and tokenless embedding

Meta has published a major update to the Threads API. New content capabilities include: cross-sharing a Threads post to Instagram Stories; long-form text attachments up to 10,000 characters with formatting; ghost posts: ephemeral text-only posts that auto-archive after 24 hours; spoiler tags for text, image, and video; and GIF support via GIPHY.

SourceMeta for Developers
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Meta launches Muse Spark, the first model from Meta Superintelligence Labs

Meta has launched Muse Spark, the first model from Meta Superintelligence Labs led by Alexandr Wang. Muse Spark is a natively multimodal reasoning model with visual chain of thought, tool use, and multi-agent orchestration, built from a ground-up rebuild of Meta's AI infrastructure over nine months.

Sourcemeta.ai
First ContributorYoann Ferrand

Meta Ads

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Meta instant forms are now editable directly at the ad level

Bram Van der Hallen has spotted that Meta Ads Manager now allows advertisers to edit existing instant forms directly, rather than only Duplicate or Archive them. The edit option is accessible at the ad level in the updated interface.

SourceLinkedIn
First ContributorBram Van der Hallen

Meta Ads

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JD Group completes its first month in Europe

Mike Ryan has published a month-one analysis of JD Group's European entry: available at Smarter Ecommerce: examining how the Chinese retail giant has positioned itself across European markets and what its early presence signals for competitive dynamics in Google Shopping auctions.

SourceLinkedIn
First ContributorMike Ryan

Anthropic

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Claude adds Microsoft 365 connectors across all plans

Anthropic has launched Microsoft 365 connectors across all Claude plans, enabling users to connect Outlook, OneDrive, and SharePoint directly to Claude conversations, bringing email, documents, and files into context without manual attachment.

SourceLinkedIn
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Anthropic

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Claude Managed Agents launch in Notion in private alpha

Anthropic has announced that Claude Managed Agents are now available inside Notion in private alpha. Claude picks up tasks from a team board, pulls context from PRDs and connected documents, completes work, and surfaces outputs for human review and approval: all inside Notion's interface.

SourceLinkedIn
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Google Merchant Center

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UCP Merchant Centre onboarding guide published

Google has published the official onboarding guide for the Universal Commerce Protocol in Merchant Centre. UCP enables a native checkout button on eligible product listings in AI Mode and on Gemini.

SourceGoogle Merchant Centre Help
First ContributorAleyda Solís

OpenAI

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ChatGPT's browsable product catalog now permanent at the bottom of every shopping conversation

Juozas Kaziukėnas has reported that ChatGPT's browsable product catalogue: a block of four products with a "Browse All" expansion button: is now appearing at the bottom of all shopping conversations. Kaziukėnas draws a direct parallel to Amazon's "Frequently bought together" section, noting that those slots are now entirely sponsored products, and raises the question of how long ChatGPT will hold off from monetising this placement as it scales ad revenue.

SourceLinkedIn
First ContributorJuozas Kaziukėnas

Gemini

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Shopify AI Toolkit connects Claude Code, Cursor, Gemini CLI, and Codex directly to Shopify stores

Awais Nabi has reported that Shopify has launched the Shopify AI Toolkit, which connects AI agents: including Claude Code, Cursor, Gemini CLI, VS Code, and OpenAI Codex: directly to a merchant's store via a 2-minute installation. The toolkit enables natural-language instructions to execute store changes: product description updates, conversion funnel analysis, pricing adjustments, inventory management, and collection restructuring: through the agent rather than the admin interface.

SourceLinkedIn
First ContributorAwais Nabi

Meta Ads

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Google Search Central: median mobile homepage now 2.3MB: triple its 2015 size

Google Search Central has flagged that the median mobile homepage has reached 2.3MB: three times its 2015 size. A new podcast episode covers HTML bloat and its implications for the 2MB Googlebot fetch limit, identifying hidden bloat sources including JSON-LD and inline SVGs, and noting that faster networks do not resolve the processing overhead large pages impose on crawling and rendering.

SourceGoogle Search Central
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Meta Ads

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Ginny Marvin: Ads Decoded on feed optimisation for agentic commerce

Ginny Marvin has published a new edition of the Ads Decoded newsletter, focused on Google Merchant Centre data quality as the foundation for modern retail campaigns. It covers feed enrichment for AI Mode and conversational shopping, shoppable ad enablement in Demand Gen and PMax, advanced measurement, and practical agentic commerce-readiness steps.

SourceLinkedIn
First ContributorGinny Marvin

Meta Ads

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Criteo €40M GDPR fine confirmed by French Conseil d'État

David Pombar Lourido has flagged that the €40 million GDPR fine against Criteo has been confirmed by the French Conseil d'État: the highest administrative court in France: making it final and no longer subject to appeal. The fine reflects data collected and used without a proper legal basis across thousands of marketing stacks where Criteo is deeply embedded.

SourceLinkedIn
First ContributorDavid Pombar Lourido

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