Artificial Intelligence

Podcast: AI’s impact on the labor market (with Brian Albrecht)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X-ZO4XGWkeE On this week's episode of the podcast, I am joined by Brian Albrecht, the Chief Economist at the International…

August 19, 2026

Spotify’s GLIDE: generative retrieval for podcast discovery

In a recently published paper, researchers from Spotify note that while podcast listening habits exhibit continuity -- users tend to…

August 14, 2026

Podcast: Applying AI to human intimacy (with Offer Yehudai)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3EchRepOmjE On this week's episode of the podcast, I am joined by Offer Yehudai, the co-founder of Arya, to discuss…

OpenAI introduces conversion optimization, app install attribution, and advanced matching

OpenAI sent an email to advertising clients last week introducing a litany of new features; among them, oCPC conversion optimization…

Apple’s Foundation Models framework and inference as app infrastructure

I make the case in my overview of WWDC 2026 that the most impactful revelation was the expansion of the…

Alphabet Q2 2026 earnings: 14% ad revenue growth, 500k advertisers on AI Max

Alphabet released its Q2 2026 earnings last night: Overall advertising revenue grew by 14.4% to $81.6BN. Search revenue grew by 16.8% to $63.3BN. YouTube…

Podcast: Quantifying the impact of AI Overviews on outbound clicks (with Ananya Sen and Saharsh Agarwal)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iZ_1rBtK-Xc On this week's episode of the podcast, I am joined by Ananya Sen and Saharsh Agarwal to discuss their…

DoorDash’s small-model approach to ad ranking

DoorDash published a blog post last month detailing its approach to fine-tuning a small language model (what they call a…

Podcast: Building ad tech for the chatbot era (with Tal Shoham)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gjG5yNOZDxg On this week's episode of the podcast, I am joined by Tal Shoham, the CEO and co-founder of Velocity,…

Meta’s Muse moat: integration into Advantage+

Yesterday, Meta launched Muse Image, its foundation image generation model. The new model is available to consumers in Meta AI…