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New Character AI feature offers opt-in parental reports: While better than nothing, teen users still control visibility鈥攈ighlighting fragmented safety standards across AI chatbots.

On today's episode, we discuss how a new era of social media is rising, whether folks want to pay for things with their hand, when the best time to email your co-worker is, how Walmart+ is getting on, what AI in the home might look like, the most popular cars in the US, and more. Tune in to the discussion with our analysts Ross Benes and Blake Droesch and forecasting director Oscar Orozco.

Adobe鈥檚 new Email Designer addresses content delays with cloning, GenStudio integration, and improved reuse鈥攕treamlining production for time-starved teams.

Ads can target specific device data based on when users access their laptop, common apps they interact with, purchase history, location, and email address. The trend: HP isn鈥檛 the only company going all-in on ads. Messaging platform Discord dove into advertising last year after being staunchly ad-averse for years, and has recently made moves to expand its ad ambitions.

The news: Google Chrome could soon face intensified competition from OpenAI and Perplexity. On Wednesday, Perplexity launched its long-awaited agentic AI browser, Comet. It鈥檚 currently exclusive to subscribers on its $200-per-month Max plan, but other users can sign up on a waitlist. OpenAI is expected to launch its own browser in the coming weeks, per Reuters, bringing more AI tools to its over 400 million weekly ChatGPT users. As AI search tools continue to expand, companies should plan their generative engine optimization (GEO) strategies now by ensuring content can be summarized by chatbots and that copy in graphics is clear and accessible to AI tools.

Users can ask questions and it will make multiple searches and offer citations in its response. It鈥檚 in beta for Max, Team, and Enterprise subscribers. Claude can connect to Gmail, Calendar, and Docs to summarize meetings, search documents and emails, and plan events or meetings. It鈥檚 available in beta to all users.

AI and changes in email sender requirements. Google and Yahoo recently changed their email sender requirements to enhance email security and improve user experiences. Email marketers may be ready for the changes, but the requirements apply at the domain level, meaning they apply to all emails sent by a company.

These solutions use information known to belong to an individual (e.g., email addresses, phone numbers) to match user profiles with a high degree of accuracy. The IDs are usually encrypted but persistent across the ecosystem, meaning two parties targeting the same end user would be using the same ID.

Search engines are increasingly sophisticated at identifying and prioritizing high-quality content that best answers user queries, Holland argues. Email engagement serves as a natural filtering system, with low-quality senders receiving diminished visibility鈥擜I or not. Simply producing more content faster with AI won't improve results without corresponding quality improvements.