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Brad Geddes let Google's automatic ad writing loose on three real accounts and watched it shuffle demand rather than create it. Total revenue fell even as the new campaigns looked like winners on their own dashboards.

Disclosure has stopped being an advertiser's choice. Google now stamps an AI label on ad images and video automatically when they come from its own creative tools, and the badge follows the ad wherever it runs.

Agencies and reporting dashboards that plug into Google Ads have a deadline. From 5 August new connections will need a passkey rather than a password or a texted code, and the tools most businesses never think about are the ones that break.

Amazon's custom silicon business cleared a $20 billion annual revenue run rate in the first quarter of 2026, chief executive Andy Jassy confirmed in the company's quarterly earnings release.

Sendle is getting a second life. McKenna Worldwide Services has bought the collapsed parcel brand from liquidators and wants the small-business shipping service running again by September.

IMAX Corporation posted total revenue of US$102.8 million in the second quarter of 2026, a 12% rise on the same period a year earlier, according to the company's earnings release.

Gradeo, Cluey Learning and Education Perfect lead a new wave of Australian EdTech growth driven by demand for secure digital assessment and AI-powered personalised learning.

The Federal Court has ordered ASX Ltd to pay $20.5m after it admitted a 2022 claim that the CHESS replacement was 'progressing well' misled the market.