The AI + Marketing Weekly

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Microsoft AI's new CMO

Microsoft Hires AI CMO, ChatGPT Announces Ads, and Brands Risk Becoming Interchangeable

Jan 22, 2026

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9 min read

Microsoft Hires AI CMO, ChatGPT Announces Ads, and Brands Risk Becoming Interchangeable

Plus, why AI tools trying to "sound like you" are hollowing out marketing, and B2B teams should stop mass content production, please!

Carley Lake

Anthropic's on a roll

Jan 14, 2026

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10 min read

Anthropic keeps winning, Google launches agentic commerce, and your brand probably isn't showing up in AI

Plus: fresh content now beats SEO, Gamma outperforms humans in 6 minutes, and Lego hands the AI conversation to kids instead of adults.

Carley Lake

The robot does our shopping.

Meta's Big Buy, OpenAI's Ad Experiment, and the Rise of Whimsical Brands

Jan 6, 2026

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11 min read

Meta's Big Buy, OpenAI's Ad Experiment, and the Rise of Whimsical Brands

Plus, as AI flattens everything, the brands winning in 2026 will be off-kilter, human, and a little nonsensical.

Carley Lake