Artificial Intelligence

Podcast: Deploying AI personalization at scale (with Christina Augustine)

https://open.spotify.com/episode/1kjJ6m3KZWq5P83K805mN7?si=cf96e19d4c2a4362 On this week's episode of the podcast, I am joined by Christina Augustine, the COO of Bloomreach, to discuss…

Might Meta step back from foundation model development?

Last week, The New York Times reported that Meta will delay the rollout of its next frontier foundation model, Avocado,…

Platforms and native agent proximity

This week, Perplexity's CEO uploaded a video to LinkedIn, showcasing the power of its new tool, Perplexity Computer, to automate…

Agentic commerce is a mirage (part 2)

OpenAI appears to be deprioritizing, if not abandoning, its Instant Checkout product within ChatGPT. From The Information (emphasis mine): OpenAI…

Can LLMs be used for ad ranking?

One interesting quirk about the ML research being conducted at the largest technology companies is how open much of it…

AI Tracking Transparency

On November 13th, 2025, Apple updated its App Store developer guidelines -- specifically, guideline 5.1.2 (i) -- to require developers…

February 24, 2026

The Prosperous Society, Part 1: The Primacy of Distribution

https://open.spotify.com/episode/2IiqN6F6Dpe0n36cBnTvmG?si=d61e52665cbf4aca The Prosperous Society is a podcast series by Mobile Dev Memo that articulates an AI Bull Thesis for the…

February 24, 2026

What is Meta’s GEM?

In a blog post published in March 2025, ahead of the company's Q1 2025 earnings release in May, Meta highlighted…

February 18, 2026

Podcast: Ads in ChatGPT (with Rishabh Jain)

https://open.spotify.com/episode/7a1DtNqSncQLyknOMP8stb?si=02dddf9c6e99452f My guest on this week's episode of the podcast is Rishabh Jain, the CEO and co-founder of FERMÀT Commerce, an…

February 3, 2026

Amazon-OpenAI: advertising, not agentic commerce

Amazon CEO Andy Jassy participated in an interview with The Information's Jessica Lessin at Davos two weeks ago in which…

February 3, 2026