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Amazon has launched a “creative partner” AI chatbot to help small businesses create ads and distribute them. The tool, currently in beta, helps users create the ads themselves, including video, with text prompts and then can place them across Amazon’s ad inventory, including outside websites and platforms Amazon has deals with, including Netflix.
Typically an announcement like this one pummels big advertising firms, whose livelihoods may or may not be threatened by the tech, but today Omnicom, Interpublic, WPP aren’t sinking on the news.
But perhaps the continuous stream of AI ad tool announcements from tech giants like Google, Amazon, and Meta is already baked into ad agencies’ stock prices. The ad agencies listed above are all down for the year.
Or perhaps these tools really are only for small businesses that can’t afford to work with big ad agencies.
“We’re not talking about professional marketers. These are customers that really need our help growing their business,” Jay Richman, Amazon’s vice president of product and technology, told The Wall Street Journal. Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg, whose company expects to fully automate ad creation next year, said something similar on the company’s latest earnings call.
Typically an announcement like this one pummels big advertising firms, whose livelihoods may or may not be threatened by the tech, but today Omnicom, Interpublic, WPP aren’t sinking on the news.
But perhaps the continuous stream of AI ad tool announcements from tech giants like Google, Amazon, and Meta is already baked into ad agencies’ stock prices. The ad agencies listed above are all down for the year.
Or perhaps these tools really are only for small businesses that can’t afford to work with big ad agencies.
“We’re not talking about professional marketers. These are customers that really need our help growing their business,” Jay Richman, Amazon’s vice president of product and technology, told The Wall Street Journal. Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg, whose company expects to fully automate ad creation next year, said something similar on the company’s latest earnings call.
Oracle’s potential TikTok takeover is a big deal to US competitors like Meta and Snap.
Nvidia, Microsoft, and CoreWeave announced pledges to invest tens of billions to build out the UK’s AI infrastructure.
Coinciding with President Trump’s visit to the UK, the companies announced new data centers, hundreds of thousands of Nvidia Blackwell GPUs, and support for the UK’s sovereign AI programs.
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang and OpenAI CEO Sam Altman are joining Trump for the visit.
Nvidia, CoreWeave, and UK AI infrastructure startup Nscale announced plans to roll out 120,000 Blackwell GPUs in UK data centers, including OpenAI’s “Stargate UK” data center project.
Part of the UK’s sovereign AI initiatives include the development of the country’s own “UK-LLM” and “Isambard-AI,” the UK’s most powerful supercomputer, which uses Nvidia’s Blackwell GPUs.
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang and OpenAI CEO Sam Altman are joining Trump for the visit.
Nvidia, CoreWeave, and UK AI infrastructure startup Nscale announced plans to roll out 120,000 Blackwell GPUs in UK data centers, including OpenAI’s “Stargate UK” data center project.
Part of the UK’s sovereign AI initiatives include the development of the country’s own “UK-LLM” and “Isambard-AI,” the UK’s most powerful supercomputer, which uses Nvidia’s Blackwell GPUs.
The Trump administration’s warm embrace of AI companies has led to many federal agencies using chatbots from OpenAI, Google, and Anthropic for many different applications.
Like its competitors, Anthropic is offering the government version of its chatbot — Claude for Government — for $1 per year to any agency that requests it, through the General Services Administration.
Semafor reports that contractors working for federal law enforcement agencies have encountered an obstacle: Anthropic’s policies don’t permit law enforcement to use Claude for surveillance applications. According to the report, Anthropic’s refusal to carve out an exception for federal law enforcement applications has “deepened hostility to the company” in the White House.
Under a section in Anthropic’s policy titled, “Do Not Use for Criminal Justice, Censorship, Surveillance, or Prohibited Law Enforcement Purposes,” the company explicitly prohibits the use of its products to “target or track a person’s physical location, emotional state, or communication without their consent, including using our products for facial recognition, battlefield management applications or predictive policing.”
Semafor reports that contractors working for federal law enforcement agencies have encountered an obstacle: Anthropic’s policies don’t permit law enforcement to use Claude for surveillance applications. According to the report, Anthropic’s refusal to carve out an exception for federal law enforcement applications has “deepened hostility to the company” in the White House.
Under a section in Anthropic’s policy titled, “Do Not Use for Criminal Justice, Censorship, Surveillance, or Prohibited Law Enforcement Purposes,” the company explicitly prohibits the use of its products to “target or track a person’s physical location, emotional state, or communication without their consent, including using our products for facial recognition, battlefield management applications or predictive policing.”
Waymo is currently in five cities, and intends to operate soon in six more.
A surge of interest in Gemini’s popular Veo 3 video generator and Nano Banana image generator has rocketed the app to the top of the iOS App Store, dethroning ChatGPT from its long-standing perch atop the leaderboard.
