Samuel Sévigny cofounded short-term rental manager Chaletô with friends, starting with four cabins, and the company now manages more than 500 properties.
OpenAI hired Patreon co-founder Sam Yam to run its Creator Product division, and his team has announced a parenting series with tech creator Chloe Shih built on OpenAI's own tools.
Google researchers published a January 2026 paper proving a single language model can rank unlimited documents without a separate search index, building on research the company has published since 2021.
Newfold Digital CEO Sachin Puri, whose company owns Bluehost, says AI assistants can now find a business and book it without the customer ever visiting the business's homepage, which shifts a website's job from attracting clicks to feeding AI systems accurate information.
OpenAI is rolling out GPT-6 and a new Intelligent UI in ChatGPT, letting the model generate buttons, charts, and on-the-fly tools like calculators instead of plain text answers.
Omnicom Media and in-content ad platform Rembrand have partnered to let brands identify, plan and place ads inside premium streaming content after it's already been shot.
Media buyers tell Digiday that client spending on Amazon Ads ahead of Prime Big Deal Days (Oct. 6-7) is up 15-40% year over year, with growth concentrated in Amazon's DSP and video inventory rather than sponsored product listings.
A federal court found Google charged above-market prices for general search text ads and used internal "pricing knobs" to raise what winning ads paid without advertisers being told.
Google is opening Search profiles to creators and publishers in India and Canada, with Brazil set to follow, though the company hasn't said whether the U.S. follower threshold carries over.
Twitch has launched a Shopping category with homepage placement, and Kotaku reports the creators currently featured there aren't necessarily Twitch stars.