James Smith March 14, 2026 — Seoul, South Korea LINE Plus, the Korean subsidiary of LINE Corporation, launched ActEngine AI on March 11, a B2B AI agent infrastructure platform designed to automate customer service and sales tasks directly within messaging apps. The platform allows businesses to deploy AI agents for handling inquiries, complaints, and personalized promotions based … Read more
March 14, 2026 — A Graphite.io study published by CEO Ethan Smith shows that AI assistants make up 56% of global search volume, equivalent to 45 billion monthly sessions worldwide and 34% in the U.S. with 5.4 billion sessions. The report, analyzing data from major AI tools including ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity, Grok and Claude, adjusts … Read more
March 12, 2026 — Adobe CEO Shantanu Narayen to step down after 18 years amid AI pressures.[1][2][3] Announced on March 12, 2026, Shantanu Narayen, who led Adobe through its shift to cloud-based creative tools central to digital marketing, will transition once a successor is named. He remains board chair. The move follows investor concerns over … Read more
March 14, 2026 — Worldwide — A new Graphite.io study titled “AI Is Much Bigger Than You Think” reveals that AI assistants dominate global search, powering 45 billion monthly sessions worldwide, equivalent to 56% of global search engine volume, and 5.4 billion sessions in the US at 34% share. The report, part of Graphite.io’s “Five … Read more
March 12, 2026 — Minneapolis Digi International Inc. (NASDAQ: DGII) unveiled the One Digi AI Discovery Engine, a natural language AI interface designed to unify product discovery across its portfolio of Digi, Opengear, Particle, and SmartSense brands, transforming B2B solution search for industrial IoT customers. The new tool, live at www.digi.com, leverages a custom-tuned large … Read more
March 10, 2026 — Meta Platforms announced the acquisition of Moltbook, a viral social network built exclusively for AI agents to interact autonomously, often compared to a Reddit for bots. The deal integrates Moltbook’s founders, CEO Matt Schlicht and COO Ben Parr, into Meta’s Superintelligence Labs (MSL), led by Alexandr Wang, to enhance AI agent … Read more
March 14, 2026 — Tokyo — LINE Plus, a subsidiary of LINE Corporation, launched ActEngine AI, a B2B platform deploying action-oriented AI agents to automate customer service and sales tasks within messaging apps like LINE. This move by LINE’s AI agents signal messaging apps evolving into direct sales channels, particularly in Asian super-app ecosystems for … Read more
March 2, 2026 — Criteo announced its role as the first advertising technology partner for OpenAI’s advertising pilot in ChatGPT’s Free and Go tiers, initially in the United States, providing programmatic ad access to its network of approximately 17,000 advertisers globally. The integration, rolling out in the weeks following the announcement, shifts from OpenAI’s prior … Read more
March 12, 2026 — Paris — Publicis Groupe announced the acquisition of Israel-based startup AdgeAI to strengthen its AI-driven creative analytics and predictive performance measurement capabilities amid the surge in AI-generated content. Publicis acquires AdgeAI to enhance creative evaluation in digital marketing, enabling marketers to filter high-quality creatives from a content glut, according to reports … Read more
March 14, 2026 — Seoul, South Korea — LINE Plus Corporation, a subsidiary of LINE, launched ActEngine AI on March 12, 2026, a B2B AI agent platform designed to automate customer service and sales processes directly within messaging apps, particularly targeting small merchants in Asia. The platform enables businesses to deploy AI agents for handling … Read more