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⚡ WHAT'S AT STAKE TODAY ⚡
- 🤖📢 Google adds AI bot to Ad Manager
- 📱✨ Beyond Siri: Here are the practical AI features coming to your iPhone in iOS 27
- 🏛️🤔 Is the US government's Anthropic ban accidentally helping the brand?
- 👟🧠 The CEO of Allbirds' new AI biz has a plan. Now she needs a "brand-new team"
- 💰📡 Billionaire Ambani wants AI in every call, app, and home
- 🔒💬 Signal's Meredith Whittaker wants you to remember that AI chatbots 'are not your friends'
- 🏅🔬 Nobel laureate John Jumper is leaving DeepMind for rival Anthropic
- 🔍🧬 In the Weights is your new AI-centric vanity search
- 🏛️⚖️ When the Trump administration cracks down on Anthropic, who benefits?
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Google's new AI assistant helps advertisers troubleshoot campaigns and analyze performance.
Google adds AI bot to Ad Manager
Google has introduced a new AI-powered assistant directly inside Google Ad Manager. Called "Ask Ad Manager," the tool is built on Google's Gemini AI model and is designed to give publishers and advertisers a smarter, faster way to manage their campaigns.
Rather than spending time manually pulling reports or digging through data to figure out what's going wrong with a campaign, users can now simply ask the bot. It will surface relevant insights, highlight issues, and even answer follow-up questions — all within the platform.
According to Google: "Instead of manually trying to find out what's wrong with a line item by generating reports and sifting through data, now you can use Ask Ad Manager. You'll get insights and guidance and can ask follow up questions, which can help you identify and resolve issues and unblock revenue."
What sets this tool apart from a standard help feature is that it works with each user's own data. The guidance it provides is tailored to the specific advertiser's campaigns and performance metrics, rather than pointing users toward generic documentation or support articles.
Google also noted that the assistant takes care of the navigation side of things: "Instead of clicking around the platform, you'll get personalized guidance and strategically created links that direct you to the right place in Ad Manager. Ask Ad Manager loads the right filters and settings based on the context of your conversation so you can see the details you were looking for."
The bot can also generate custom reports that pull together multiple data points at once, saving advertisers significant time. Each response additionally includes a link to a broader overview of the relevant feature or component, giving users the option to dive deeper if needed.
This launch reflects a broader shift in how people are starting to interact with complex platforms — using conversational AI to get quick, relevant answers instead of navigating through layers of menus and settings. For a platform as feature-rich and intricate as Google Ad Manager, having an intelligent assistant on hand could make a real difference in day-to-day workflow.
While there is always some level of caution warranted when relying on AI-generated analysis, Google's Gemini model has been steadily improving. Combined with the fact that the tool draws on each user's actual performance data, Ask Ad Manager has the potential to become a genuinely useful resource for advertisers looking to get more out of their campaigns.
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Apple's iOS 27 brings smart AI features beyond Siri to everyday apps.
Beyond Siri: Here are the practical AI features coming to your iPhone in iOS 27
Apple's iOS 27 is quietly embedding AI into the apps you already use daily. Rather than relying solely on a smarter Siri, Apple Intelligence powers practical tools across iOS.
Highlights include splitting restaurant bills from a receipt photo, automatically updating compromised passwords, smart one-tap suggestions in Messages, and Calendar event creation via natural language. Safari organizes open tabs by topic, Shortcuts can be built by description, and the Home app groups smart home alerts into single, meaningful notifications.
These features arrive with iOS 27's public release this fall.
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The Supercharged Podcast is quickly becoming a space for real, unfiltered conversations about AI — beyond the hype, tools, and surface-level takes.
Each episode dives deep with founders, operators, and builders who are actively working with AI — or building AI-first companies — to uncover how it’s truly changing the way work gets done.
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Is the US government's Anthropic ban accidentally helping the brand?
The US government's ban on Anthropic's newest AI models may be boosting the company's profile.
In a surprising move at the close of last week, the US government ordered Anthropic to pull its two newest models, Fable 5 and Mythos 5, from the market. Officials cited national security concerns after Amazon researchers reportedly discovered a method to bypass Fable 5's safety guardrails, raising alarms at the federal level.
The decision, however, has not gone without pushback. A group of cybersecurity researchers quickly signed an open letter criticizing the ban, calling it dangerous and potentially counterproductive. Anthropic itself weighed in, pointing out that the same types of jailbreaks used against Fable 5 exist across other AI models currently available on the market — raising questions about whether the company is being singled out unfairly.
This has led many observers to ask whether this is a legitimate national security response or simply the latest flashpoint in an increasingly complicated relationship between Anthropic and the Trump administration. The timing and selective nature of the ban have fueled speculation that political factors may be at play.
On a recent episode of TechCrunch's Equity podcast, hosts Anthony Ha, Sean O'Kane, and Rebecca Bellan dug into the implications of the ban. One of the more unexpected angles they explored is the possibility that the government's action may actually be working in Anthropic's favor. The controversy has thrust the company into the spotlight, generating significant attention from developers, investors, and the broader tech community.
For developers currently building on Anthropic's platform, the ban creates real uncertainty around tooling and long-term planning. For those watching Anthropic's anticipated IPO, the situation is more nuanced — while regulatory friction is rarely a good sign, the visibility and the company's positioning as a responsible AI actor could resonate positively with investors.
Whether the ban ultimately helps or hurts Anthropic may depend on how quickly the situation is resolved and whether the government's concerns are seen as credible. For now, all eyes remain on Washington and on what Anthropic does next.
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Tell us what you’d want AI to handle — or where you feel stuck.
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