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This week's theme is all about Ad Revenue growth and Generative AI.

My portfolio really likes this news. Nvidia and Lenovo want to bring Generative AI to everyone. (Source) Nvidia isn't the only company doing better than expected this year. Companies that claim to leverage AI seemingly leading the pack it's no wonder that everyone is adding "generative AI" to their products.

The story is the same. There are some huge leap in some efficiencies and "much ado about nothing" for the rest of the 80% of these news items.

Economy Adjacent News?

• Ad revenue is up for both Bing and Google. (Source)
• Ad revenue for Amazon is up as well. (Source)
• MSFT changes its CMO as company moves into the era of AI. (Source)
• Meta is being sued by boomers in 33 states for introducing addictive social media to kids. Unfortunately, it's the parents that were introduced and then gave it to their kids. Source - me a parent who introduced my kids to social media. Shame. (Here's the link)

Other Generative AI News

• Grammarly gets generative AI. (Source)
• Survey Monkey is adding generative AI. Because, maybe you don't know what questions to ask but AI does. (Source)
• Amazon is bringing Generative AI to sellers. In my opinion these new AI features appearing on Amazon take away from the experience. (Source)
• Want to feel smart? Read this about OpenAI's preparedness plan and grant. (Source)

Other News

• A guide to Tiktok shops from Tiktok. (Source) Don't sleep on Tiktok shops. There's going to be a lot of side hustlers out there peddling it.
• Now Bard can summarize the emails that Google has been reading of yours for years. (Source)
• Here's a course from Google for the world's most hated analytics platform (Source)
• Elon Musk thinks X will challenge all the platforms. (Source)
• Tired of using services like Zapier and Make to import your leads into your CRM from Tiktok? Hubspot announces integration. (Source)