Perplexity will pay Snap $400M to power AI search inside Snapchat, bringing conversational search to millions of users and reshaping how people discover content.

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AI search is reshaping ecommerce by connecting customer intent with product discovery. This guide shows IT leaders and decision-makers how to optimize structured data, feeds, and content for AI visibility, reduce manual merchandising work, and measure ROI with clear guardrails for compliance and governance.

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Après avoir secoué Google avec leur moteur de recherche IA qui cartonne (près de 2% du trafic mondial de recherche, quand même), Perplexity débarque maintenant avec Comet, un navigateur qui pourrait bien mettre tout le monde d’accord. En plus, la beta Windows vient tout juste d’être lancée pour quelques chanceux testeurs !

Durant des années, on a tous galéré avec nos navigateurs, à jongler entre 50 onglets ouverts, à chercher ce mail important auquel on a jamais répondu, ou à comparer des prix sur 15 sites différents. Eh bien figurez-vous que les mecs de Perplexity se sont dit “et si on foutait une IA directement dans le navigateur pour que ça fasse tout ça tout seul ?”.

Most IT leaders believe generative AI will increase the cost of their security tools, according to Sophos research. But, by the looks of cyber crime forums, hackers are barely using AI.

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Third-party comparison sites and suppliers will be able to display more detailed information, such as prices and images, within search results.

This indicates that the most prominent ransomware groups are succumbing to law enforcement takedowns, according to researchers from Cyberint.

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AI workloads could grow by between 25% and 35% annually up to 2027, according to consultancy Bain and Company, putting pressure on suppliers of data centre equipment and AI-augmented products.

Google owns four prominent ad tech tools, and the Competition and Markets Authority said it is using its industry dominance to prevent competition from rivals.

Judge Amit Mehta ruled Google’s “default distribution” of its search engine contributed to advertising revenue and illegally suppressed competition.

CFOs are sitting alongside CIOs for at least 60% of the technology decisions companies are making in 2024. New Rimini Street research finds this closer collaboration could end up benefiting IT budgets.

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Wading through a long list of links is no longer the only way we get search results from Google or emerging AI-aided alternatives.

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