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Your AI in Marketing News from The Latest Week 🤖 [January 5, 2026]

Meta buys Chinese-founded AI start-up Manus

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Meta buys Chinese-founded AI start-up Manus
Liv McMahon
Meta says it is acquiring the Chinese-founded AI firm Manus as it looks to boost the capabilities of its tech. Meta said the deal would help improve its own AI by giving people access to "agents" - tools which can do complex things with minimal user interaction, such as planning trips or making presentations.

Google's AI Frankenstein Recipes Are A Horror
Barry Schwartz
Adam and Joanne from Inspired Taste have been documenting a lot of really painful and shameful tactics Google is using for its AI responses to some recipes. Adam calls Google's AI Frankenstein recipes, where it pulls parts of the recipes from recipe bloggers, says it is the brand's recipe, but changes it enough that the recipe is not real and tastes horrible.

OpenAI bets big on audio as Silicon Valley declares war on screens
Connie Loizos
According to The Information, OpenAI has unified several engineering, product, and research teams over the past two months to overhaul its audio models, all in preparation for an audio-first personal device expected to launch in about a year.

Instagram Chief Outlines the Challenges of AI Content
Andrew Hutchinson
Mosseri has shared his thoughts on the year ahead for Instagram, in a long rant which discusses the future of content, with the key premise being that “authenticity is becoming infinitely reproducible” in the AI-empowered world.

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2025 State of AI Discovery Report: What 1.96 Million LLM Sessions Tell Us About the Future of Search
David Bell
David analyzed 1,963,544 LLM-driven sessions across 12 months from sites across SaaS, e-commerce, finance, and more reveals clear patterns: AI traffic is small in aggregate (0.13% of total sessions) but concentrated on high-intent pages, growing fastest in complex categories, and behaving fundamentally different from traditional referral sources.

Understanding & Explaining Query Fan-Out
Dan Taylor
“For marketers and business owners, all of this means older keyword tactics no longer work the way they used to. Visibility now depends on how well your content fits into this new AI-powered approach.

AI Marketing Examples: 13 Times AI Actually Delivered
Mateusz Makosiewicz
Fake influencers, robotic copy, obvious AI disasters, most brands get it wrong. Mateusz goes through how 13 brands used AI without the cringe.

AI search strategy: A guide for modern marketing teams
Alex Sventeckis
AI search changes how brands get discovered. Alex explains how to build an AI search strategy focused on authority, clarity, and citation.

Debating SEO vs. GEO misses the point: How to think in terms of visibility
Curtis Weyant
The SEO vs. GEO debate is a distraction. As discovery fragments across Google, ChatGPT, and social platforms, brands need unified visibility measurement — not separate strategies. Curtis goes through it.

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HubSpot
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