If you’ve made an impulse purchase on Instagram late and night and regretted it in the morning you’re not alone, according to WalletHub, even if 54% is not a huge majority of second-thinkers. Eighty percent would spend less if they deleted their social media accounts. Meanwhile, 86% of shoppers aged 18-44 say they miss being able to touch and handle real products (The Harris Poll).

Customer experience and reputation management platform Birdeye has unveiled a new, AI-powered social publishing agent that will help hyperlocal brands raise their profiles on social media. Social AI Publishing Agent will generate and automatically schedule brand-aligned content across channels. Users can configure post frequency and time, theme and channel selection. They can also choose whether to approve the content or allow it to be posted autonomously.

The web search tool Perplexity looks like it’s taking on Google with its latest release, a web browser named Comet. Comet claims to move “from browsing to thinking,” surfacing information and search results in response to natural language queries. Comet is available immediately to Perplexity Max subscribers; others can join a wait list.