E-commerce Performance & Innovation Club (EPIC) Monthly News (April 26)
American Express ACE protects AI-agent buyers, Walmart opens retail-media data, Anthropic-Amazon commit 5GW computing, Etsy bets on human service.

American Express ACE protects AI-agent buyers, Walmart opens retail-media data, Anthropic-Amazon commit 5GW computing, Etsy bets on human service.

Bing reaches 1 billion MAU. Google AI Max moves into Shopping and Travel. OpenAI crawl tripled since GPT-5. Google’s back-button deadline.

OpenAI launches GPT-5.5 and ChatGPT Images 2.0, Anthropic secures $65bn from Amazon and Google, DeepSeek V4 lands and Claude goes inside Freshfields.

Marketer’s guide to pushing a finished blog post from a Claude Code session to WordPress as a draft, using the WordPress REST API. No copy-pasting into the WordPress editor. One Claude Code instruction does the upload.

ChatGPT Ads now bid $3-$5 CPC. The EU may force Google to share search data. AI search is feeding on its own synthetic content.

AI in marketing and management weekly update for 20th April 2026: Google retires DSA for AI Max, Anthropic ships Claude Opus 4.7 + Routines + Design, OpenAI Codex + Stargate + GPT-Rosalind, Netflix vertical feed, UK Sovereign AI Fund + OpenAI and Anthropic London offices, Amazon Bio Discovery, Snap layoffs.

What’s new in Claude Code this week. Ann Stanley’s weekly round-up of the latest Claude Code launches and features for marketers and managers. This week: Claude Desktop redesign (14 April), Claude Routines (14 April), Opus 4.7 (16 April) and Claude Design (17 April), plus a bonus tip on managing multiple chat tabs and projects.

Google’s March 2026 core update caused major ranking shifts. Plus DSA retiring for AI Max, new spam penalties and the rise of agentic search.

This week in AI marketing: AI News, Tech and Tools, AI in Marketing, AI in Management, AI for Sectors and Industries and more. Expert analysis from Anicca Digital.

Ann Stanley joins Fred Vallaeys on PPC Town Hall to discuss building reliable AI workflows, from n8n to Claude Code and the Human AI Sandwich.

