Cyber Monday 2025 falls on December 1, requiring retailers to prepare based on 2024 data showing $13.3 billion in sales, with 57% mobile transactions and extended shopping periods.

HubSpot announced on October 31, 2025, the acquisition of XFunnel, an answer engine optimization platform, strengthening its marketing automation capabilities.

Microsoft Clarity begins final enforcement of cookie consent requirements for European traffic on October 31, 2025, affecting analytics features.

Bluesky announced October 31, 2025 testing social proximity ranking, dislikes beta, toxicity detection, and reply controls to enhance conversation quality.

Cloudflare introduces registry format enabling website operators to discover and validate cryptographic keys from bots and agents at scale, addressing authentication needs.

LG Ad Solutions launched Agentiv on October 30, integrating over 20 AI agents for media planning and data collaboration in Connected TV advertising workflows.

OpenX introduces specialized connected TV and premium video offerings targeting Mexico, Brazil, and Latin America's rapidly growing digital advertising market.

IAB releases guide showing Conversion APIs can bridge Connected TV's measurement gap with search and social. Two-thirds of advertisers improved ROAS after CAPI.

Researchers test 26 languages across seven synthetic tasks at context lengths from 8K to 128K tokens, finding performance gaps widen at longer contexts for low-resource languages.

AWS brings online Project Rainier with nearly 500,000 Trainium2 chips in under a year. Anthropic scales Claude training to over 1 million chips by year-end.

Six companies launched Ad Context Protocol on October 15, but skepticism emerged about whether another protocol is needed for agentic AI advertising automation.

Meta Andromeda's thirst for creative diversification isn't just about creating more ads. I explain what it actually means in this video.

Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella announced workforce expansion plans with AI enabling higher productivity per employee, following flat headcount in fiscal 2025.

Sam Altman grew defensive when questioned about OpenAI's compute commitments exceeding revenues, offering stock sales instead of financial clarity.

Transport for London says comedian's controversial vodka ads highlighting knife crime were never submitted, contradicting viral social media claims.

Lorelight's founder Benjamin Houy closes the generative engine optimization platform on October 31, 2025, after realizing AI search visibility requires same fundamentals.

Artists group questions consent, compensation, and clarity in Universal Music Group's deal with AI music generator Udio announced October 30, 2025.

Uber Advertising announces the first custom attention model combining brand lift data with predictive attention measurement for ride and food delivery ads.

SISTRIX analyzed millions of AI Mode responses after the October 31, 2025 German launch, finding YouTube and Google.com dominate citations at 40% and 31% respectively.

Disney channels including ABC, ESPN and FX disappeared from YouTube TV on October 30, 2025, affecting over 9 million subscribers after failed contract negotiations.

Commission's scoring system weights supply chain 20% and legal jurisdiction 10%, letting US providers win contracts despite foreign government access.