Priyanshi Kharwade
A 55-day proxy-log study from Alli AI, covering 24,411,048 requests across 78,000+ pages on 69 customer websites, found that OpenAI’s ChatGPT-User crawler made 3.6x more requests than Googlebot between January and March 2026. Search Engine Journal published the dataset on April 7. The headline number reframes how B2B teams should think about crawl budget for … Read more
On April 27, Commerce (Nasdaq: CMRC), parent of BigCommerce and Feedonomics, announced that merchants are syndicating product catalogs to agentic discovery channels through Feedonomics Agentic Catalog Exports (ACE), a new enterprise service. ACE delivers optimized catalogs to OpenAI/ChatGPT, Google AI surfaces including Gemini, Microsoft Copilot, PayPal, Stripe, Perplexity, and Amazon. Dell is the named launch … Read more
On April 24, Google committed up to $40 billion in Anthropic — $10 billion now at a $350 billion valuation, $30 billion milestone-tied, plus 5 gigawatts of Google Cloud TPU capacity over five years. Amazon added another $5 billion days earlier, and Anthropic pledged up to $100 billion on AWS for roughly 5 gigawatts of … Read more
On April 28, The B2B CMO Project — founded by Marketo co-founder Jon Miller and former SalesLoft and G2 CMO Sydney Sloan — published “The B2B CMO Imperative: The New Rules for B2B Marketing Leadership,” based on interviews with more than 50 senior B2B CMOs conducted via G2’s AI Voice interview solution. The report distills … Read more
DemandScience released its 2026 B2B Buying Behavior Report on April 24, anchoring on a single number that should reset how mid-market RevOps teams measure intent. The firm analyzed 5,903 companies researching demand-generation solutions across its dataset. Only 62 qualified as genuinely in-market. That is a 98.9% false positive rate. The report goes further than the … Read more
DALL-E 3 retires on May 12, 2026 on OpenAI’s API and consumer surfaces. Microsoft’s Azure OpenAI service set its own deprecation date of February 18, 2026, with a six-month extension for customers who requested one. Both deadlines fall inside Q2, leaving B2B marketing teams that built workflows on DALL-E 3 with a hard migration cliff … Read more
OpenAI shipped Workspace Agents in ChatGPT on April 22, the day before the GPT-5.5 launch absorbed most of the coverage. Workspace Agents are Codex-powered, always-on agents that run in the cloud, integrate with apps like Gmail, Slack, and SharePoint, and execute multi-step workflows on a schedule rather than waiting for a prompt. They are designed … Read more
A new Growth Memo analysis published last week, by Kevin Indig, ran 115 prompts across ChatGPT, Google AI Overviews, Gemini, and Google AI Mode in 14 countries, recording 3,981 domain appearances. The headline finding is that 61.7% of AI citations are “ghost citations.” A domain gets a source link, but the brand name never appears … Read more
Forrester opened B2B Summit North America today in Phoenix with a keynote built around a single phrase: the GTM singularity. VP and research director Dave Frankland framed it as a structural break, not a trend cycle, where AI-powered buyer autonomy is collapsing the assumptions that have organized B2B go-to-market for two decades. Forrester’s underlying research, … Read more
Microsoft launched AI Max ad controls and agentic-web brand-visibility features in Copilot, putting all three major AI surfaces (Google, OpenAI, Microsoft) on the same monetization track.
AI tool pricing is shifting from flat seat-based subscriptions to consumption and outcome-based models. What B2B buyers need to know about budgeting in this transition.
OpenAI shifted ChatGPT advertising from CPM to cost-per-click this month, with bids between $3 and $5. The minimum spend dropped from $250,000 to $50,000. A self-serve ads manager opened to global advertisers on April 15, expanding from the US-only pilot into Canada, Australia, and New Zealand within 48 hours. The Information broke the CPC shift, … Read more
