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Yesterday’s Marketing Technology & AI News | July 1, 2026

Jul 1, 2026

The pattern across yesterday’s news is not about AI features. It is about who owns the intelligence layer. Zeta Global’s agentic commerce research reveals that 70% of AI shoppers still prefer to complete transactions on brand-owned channels, but AI is already controlling discovery and evaluation before the customer ever…

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