The AI Edge Podcast
The AI Edge podcast is where AI pop culture meets marketing and technology. Hosted by trusted educators in the space: Shiv Gupta, founder of U of Digital, and Myles Younger, ad tech veteran, the show breaks down what’s actually happening in AI and what it means for marketers, agencies, and leaders focused on tech. Each week, Shiv and Myles cover the latest AI news, and dive deep with a guest into topics like the future of work with AI or how marketers should think about building their AI tech stack. If you want someone to cut through the noise, decode what’s really happening, and help you stay ahead, this is your AI edge.
Episodes
Meta launched Muse Wonder Models to power its personal AI assistant. Google dropped Gemini Argon — faster, better at brand guidelines, better at writing. A startup called TypeSafe launched Jev, a model purpose-built for fast decision-making in multiple choice scenarios. And Character AI — once one of the top sources of AI ad inventory on the open web — filed for bankruptcy and is now being acquired by...
Amazon rebranded its entire ad platform — there's no more DSP, the default is now a PMax replica, and they're calling it Amazon Ads Agent. Meta's Muse started crawling Amazon and got shut down within hours. OpenAI launched Dots as a small business tool overnight — apparently because Zuckerberg can't beat Sam Altman, not even on a Tuesday. And President Trump signed an executive order renaming AI to SI. Supe...
Amazon just partnered with ChatGPT to let advertisers buy AI inventory through Amazon's DSP — and ChatGPT still won't let Amazon crawl its product catalog. Meta charged advertisers a software fee for the first time in company history. Big tech captured 56% of all ad spend this year, up from 53% last year, and AI is the tailwind driving every bit of that growth. And OpenAI's IPO apparently isn't happening this yea...
Salesforce just gave the "Force" suffix to another brand for the first time in its history — and the stock jumped 25%. ChatGPT ads are getting roasted on LinkedIn for underperforming. The Trade Desk launched Kokai Zuma, their most AI-forward interface yet. And Google quietly embedded its most powerful image generation model directly into Workspace. A busy couple of weeks.
This week, Shiv sits down so...
Pepsi is shopping for an AI transformation partner and the whole industry is watching — consultancies or agencies, who wins? Alexa for Shopping now gives you one or two recommendations instead of a page of results, and brands are quietly panicking about how to become the one that gets surfaced. Google bought Spirit Airlines' entire data archive for $10 million. And SpaceX AI paid $60 billion for Cursor, the agent...
Time Magazine started selling sponsored FAQ sections to AI crawlers — and Perplexity shut it down, threatened to lower their quality score, and called it a trust issue. Publishers are wondering whether to block AI crawlers entirely. OpenAI quietly filed for its IPO while churning through senior executives. Anthropic is proactively watermarking Claude...
A new Chinese AI model called Kimi K3 just matched frontier model performance at half the cost — and nobody saw it coming. Again. Google launched three new Gemini models in one week, each optimized for different tasks. OpenAI is reportedly building a screenless device with sensors, a camera, and a microphone. And Meta's AI creative tools are generati...
AI-generated content is back on the rise in ad inventory — and it's not just MFA farms anymore. Reddit deleted 25,000 spammy AI posts in Q1. Google took down 50,000 AI slop networks. And the ANA's latest brand safety report shows the problem is getting worse after years of improvement. Meanwhile, Mark Zuckerberg logged onto X for the first time in years to ann...
Amazon just launched Alexa Plus Agentic Ads — native checkout through voice, shoppable ads across third-party publishers, and a monetization machine that just keeps accelerating. WPP and Horizon are building agent-to-agent infrastructure. Databricks announced an agentic CDP. And Hightouch made a public offer for LiveRamp's identity spine while simultaneously r...
Apple announced its long-awaited Siri overhaul — and the reviews are basically "welcome to 2023." It's built on Gemini under the hood, while Apple simultaneously runs a privacy campaign aimed squarely at Google. Meanwhile, SpaceX went public at a two-trillion-dollar valuation, Anthropic and OpenAI both filed for IPOs with wildly different burn rates, and Anthr...
Google just announced the biggest overhaul to search in 25 years. The blue links aren't going away — they're just being buried. AI mode is now the default. Agents can be dispatched from the search bar. Native checkout is live. And five new ad formats launched alongside all of it. Meanwhile, OpenAI is quietly moving toward a CPA pricing model for ...
Amazon just killed Rufus. The upfronts just tried to sell data like it was primetime inventory. And every streaming platform announced an AI tool that sounds exactly like every other streaming platform's AI tool. Meanwhile, the industry is barreling toward agentic commerce built on data that excludes half the world — and most marketers haven't no...
The MarTech landscape just flatlined for the first time in 15 years. Not because AI killed it — but because the companies that were always going to lose finally ran out of time. Meanwhile, marketers are building software without knowing they're building software, SaaS platforms are going headless, and the new constraint isn't data or budget or cr...
The New York Times says AI is making digital advertising boring. Meta just posted its biggest earnings quarter ever. Google's CapEx story is looking smarter by the day. And OpenAI is quietly building toward a $100 billion ad business while the three-headed AI monster — Gemini, Claude, and ChatGPT — keeps getting more tangled by the week.
OpenAI launched GPT-5.5 and called it a step toward a super app. Anthropic dropped Claude Design and quietly kept building what might be today's version of G Suite. Google launched a native agent builder in Gemini Enterprise. And Meta got caught secretly tracking employee keystrokes to train AI — then told the employees who objected: no.
OpenAI wants to be a $100 billion ad business by 2030. Meta just overtook Google as the largest ad company in the world. Anthropic launched a new model, built a design studio, and is now worth more on the private market than OpenAI. And Allbirds — yes, the sneaker company — rebranded as an AI infrastructure company and watched their penny s...
Sam Altman is either a visionary genius, a pathological liar, or both. OpenAI wants to be a $100 billion ad business by 2030. Anthropic dropped a mysterious model called Mythos that's apparently too powerful for the public to use. And the AEO/GEO industry has officially jumped the shark.
OpenAI just raised $122 billion at an $852 billion valuation — and apparently that only gives them 18 to 24 months of runway. They bought a live streaming network for over $100 million. They're building conversational ads with Smartly. Amazon is quietly opting every search advertiser into sponsored prompts inside Rufus. And Walmart is going the o...
OpenAI killed Sora. Disney pulled its billion-dollar commitment. The headlines called it proof that AI video is dead. It isn't. But the breathless takes — in both directions — are a pretty good sign that marketers are still figuring out how to think about all of this clearly.
Mark Zuckerberg says just tell AI what you want to sell and it handles the rest. Brian Tomasette — 25-year ad tech veteran, former Amazon DSP product leader, and current PhD researcher — says that's high school physics without friction. The business rules, privacy constraints, and data ownership that make advertising actually work don't dis...
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