Artificial Intelligence

Understanding the privileged position of chatbot advertising

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v7q8bvhsLUY This week's podcast episode is a long-form companion piece to an article I published last week: The privileged position…

September 2, 2026

RecSys, content concentration, and promoting the “middle tail”

Researchers at Netflix recently published a paper, Recommendation Quality and the Concentration of Consumption: Experimental Evidence from Netflix, that explores…

August 31, 2026

The privileged position of chatbot advertising

The dominant consumer-facing digital advertising models can be organized into five broad categories according to the availability, strength, and source…

August 26, 2026

Agentic commerce is a mirage (part 3)

See: Agentic commerce is a mirage parts one, two Walmart released earnings for its Q2 FY2027 quarter last week. The…

August 24, 2026

Meta launches a business agent for ad campaigns

Meta announced yesterday that it has introduced new functionality to Meta AI -- which can now be accessed via a…

August 20, 2026

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…