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Loops is scaling its AI platform for brands and retailers, bringing search, product discovery, shopping assistance, customer operations, product enrichment and virtual try-on into one system.

Treasure AI co-founder and CEO Kaz Ohta on governing autonomous AI agents: start at zero permission, audit every action, and build on governed customer data.

he recent consolidation of over twenty websites into a single global platform by Federated Hermes, following a significant rebranding, offers a masterclass in navigating this complexity. In a conversation with Melissa Ryan, their Senior Digital Marketing Manager, she peeled back the curtain on the realities of such an undertaking…

Most conversations about AI transformation start with models and use cases. Fewer start with the hardware and systems underneath them. That is a mistake, because the infrastructure layer is where ambitious AI plans either hold up under real workloads or quietly fall apart.

Martech news for October 9, 2026: ZoomInfo and Nectar ship MCP connectors, Hightouch acquires Strata, and sites deny 13.47% of AI bot requests in Q3 2026.

We’ve poured billions into Retail Media Networks (RMN), shifting budgets from other channels in pursuit of a clearer line of sight to the sale. Simultaneously, we’re seeing a renaissance in physical retail, a reinvestment in the store as an experience hub. Yet, for all this investment and focus, a…

Martech news for October 8, 2026: Channel V Media finds 7.7% of U.S. adults use agentic AI. Newegg adds Gemini checkout and MessageGears ships an MCP.

Animations generated in Anthropic’s Claude Motion can open directly in Adobe’s Firefly Video Editor for timeline editing, extending Adobe’s effort to make its tools reachable from the AI assistants where work increasingly starts.

According to Pranav Dalal, CEO of Office Beacon, a company that has been at the forefront of building distributed teams for a quarter-century, this isn’t a temporary trend. It’s the new strategic foundation for high-performance marketing.

Ankur Goyal, CEO and Co-Founder of Fibr AI, on AI agents as a website’s second audience and why being cited correctly now matters more than being cited.