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How Pet Brands Use Bylo.ai’s Emoji Maker to Create More Shareable Content

The episode explains how pet brands can leverage Bylo.ai’s AI-powered emoji maker to turn customer photos and brand phrases into custom, on‑brand emojis that boost shareability across social, email, and SMS. It walks listeners through a three‑step workflow—selecting core reactions,...

14 Ways to Use Microsoft Copilot More Effectively at Work

Microsoft Copilot is embedded across Microsoft 365, but many users see only generic, corporate‑sounding output. The article outlines 14 ready‑to‑use prompts that treat Copilot like a literal intern, guiding it with clear roles, goals, and guardrails. Examples range from pre‑meeting briefings and...

Same URL in AI Overviews and Blue Links Counts as One Google Search Console Impression

Google Search Console treats a URL that appears in both an AI Overview and the traditional blue‑link list as a single impression. John Mueller confirmed that the platform aggregates multiple appearances of the same URL on a SERP into one...

OpenAI Targets Monetization, $1.4T Commitments by 2034

OpenAI’s CFO Sarah Friar outlined a rapid monetization push, linking a three‑fold increase in compute capacity to a surge in annual recurring revenue that topped $20 billion in the last year. The company now faces $1.4 trillion of spending commitments through 2034,...

OpenEvidence, An AI-Powered ‘Brain Extender’ For Doctors, Doubles Valuation To $12B With $250M Series D

OpenEvidence, a Miami‑based AI medical search platform, closed a $250 million Series D round that doubled its valuation to $12 billion. The funding, led by Thrive Capital and DST with participation from GV, Sequoia, Kleiner Perkins and Coatue, brings total capital raised to...

Ollama Brings Local AI Image Generation to Mac

Ollama, the platform for running AI models locally, has launched an experimental image‑generation feature for macOS. The initial release includes two models: Alibaba’s Z‑Image Turbo, a 6‑billion‑parameter photorealistic generator, and Black Forest Labs’ Flux 2 Klein, offered in 4‑billion and 9‑billion‑parameter variants....

AI and the Future of Marketing: Strategy, Human Value, and the CMO Role

In a Duct Tape Marketing podcast, Peter Benei explains that artificial intelligence is reshaping marketing far beyond a new gadget, automating large‑scale content production while leaving strategic judgment and creative taste to humans. He argues that CMOs will transition from...

OpenAI’s Former Sales Leader Joins VC Firm Acrew: OpenAI Taught Her Where Startups Can Build a ‘Moat’

Aliisa Rosenthal, OpenAI’s first sales leader, has become a general partner at venture‑capital firm Acrew Capital. During her three‑year stint at OpenAI she built an enterprise sales organization that launched products such as DALL·E, ChatGPT, and Sora. Rosenthal says AI startups...

Focus on ‘Don’ts’ to Build Systems that Know when to Say ‘No’

The article argues that AI knowledge bases must go beyond listing policies and include explicit "don’ts" to prevent harmful behavior. By integrating negative examples, decision‑logic trees, and relational knowledge graphs, organizations can give agents contextual guardrails and judgment akin to...

Finding New Targets on the Surface of Misfolded Proteins

In this episode of The Bio Report, host and guests discuss Immuto Scientific’s novel approach to drug discovery that targets disease‑specific protein conformations rather than genetic sequences. CEO Faraz Choudhury explains how the company’s AI‑driven structural surfaceomics platform maps the...

This Lightweight Exoskeleton Lets You Unleash Your Inner Tony Stark Thanks to AI

The Vigx π6 is a lightweight, AI‑powered exoskeleton that assists walking, standing and light fitness activities. Weighing just 2 kg and folding to umbrella size, it uses a built‑in camera and AI processor to analyze terrain and modulate power every 30 milliseconds, improving...

Google Says There Aren't 'Any Plans' To Put Ads in Gemini as ChatGPT Tries Them

At Davos, Google DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis said there are no plans to embed advertisements in its Gemini AI assistant. This contrasts with OpenAI, which announced it will pilot ads in the free and Go versions of ChatGPT, sparking user...

Zucora Offers AI Powered Training Platform for Retailers

Zucora, Canada’s leading home‑furnishing protection provider, has launched Champions, an AI‑driven, mobile training platform for retail sales associates, offered free to its SmartOne partners. The platform delivers bite‑sized, gamified modules, virtual webinars, and a points‑based incentive system that rewards learning...

Cisco Integrates OpenAI Codex for Enterprise Engineering

Cisco has partnered with OpenAI to embed Codex into its engineering workflows, creating an autonomous AI teammate that assists with complex system development. The deployment has slashed build times by 20% and freed roughly 1,500 engineering hours each month through...

Attackers Are Getting Stealthier – How Can Defenders Stay Ahead?

Attackers are abandoning noisy, brute‑force attacks for stealth‑first, multi‑stage malware that can linger for weeks. OPSWAT telemetry shows a 127% rise in malware complexity and an increase from eight to 18 behavioral nodes per sample in six months. Traditional signature‑based...

Has Gemini Surpassed ChatGPT? We Put the AI Models to the Test.

Ars Technica tested the free‑tier versions of OpenAI’s ChatGPT 5.2 and Google’s Gemini 3.2 Fast across eight diverse prompts, ranging from dad jokes to technical instructions. Gemini secured four wins, ChatGPT three, with one tie, highlighting Gemini’s gains in clarity, factual depth, and...

From $100M Seed to Unicorn: Upscale AI Raises $200M Series A

Upscale AI announced a $200 million Series A round led by Tiger Global, Premji Invest and Xora Innovation, taking its total financing above $300 million and earning unicorn status just months after a $100 million seed. The capital will accelerate the rollout of its...

Microsoft Research Reveals Rho-Alpha Vision-Language-Action Model for Robots

Microsoft Research unveiled Rho-alpha, the first robotics model built on its Phi vision-language series, extending capabilities with tactile sensing and bimanual manipulation. The model translates natural‑language commands into control signals, co‑training on physical demonstrations, simulated tasks, and web‑scale visual question‑answering...

Channel99 Introduces AI-Driven Paid Search Optimization for B2B Marketers

Channel99 unveiled an AI‑driven Paid Search Optimization tool aimed at B2B marketers, shifting measurement from click‑based metrics to cost‑to‑engage target accounts. The platform scores keywords and ad groups by their ability to reach ideal customers, surfacing waste and recommending budget...

Samsung Revives Its Bixby Assistant with an AI Brain Transplant From Perplexity

Samsung is relaunching its Bixby assistant with a new AI engine sourced from Perplexity, embedding it in the One UI 8.5 beta that is currently rolling out to Galaxy S25 test devices. The upgraded Bixby promises true conversational context, live answers and...

Executive Brief: Questions AI Is Creating that Security Can’t Answer Today

AI‑assisted development now dominates software creation, with 92% of developers using tools like GitHub Copilot and AI‑generated code comprising roughly 40% of new code. Traditional application security controls, designed for post‑commit review, fail to see code at the moment it...

Stellar Cyber Appoints Eric Van Sommeren as Vice President of EMEA to Accelerate Regional Expansion

Stellar Cyber announced the appointment of Eric van Sommeren as Vice President of EMEA, accelerating the firm’s push into Europe, the Middle East and Africa. Van Sommeren brings senior leadership experience from SentinelOne, Palo Alto Networks and Corelight, positioning the company...

XBOW Appoints WonLae Lee as General Manager, South Korea

XBOW has named former Samsung SDS penetration‑testing leader WonLae Lee as General Manager for South Korea, tasking him with spearheading the company’s Asia‑Pacific expansion. Lee brings three decades of Red Team, vulnerability research and incident‑response experience to the autonomous offensive...

Furl Lands $10M for AI-Powered Security Remediation

Furl, a security remediation platform, closed a $10 million seed round led by Ten Eleven Ventures, with participation from Rapid7 CEO Corey Thomas and Open Opportunity Fund. The company targets the chronic execution gap in cybersecurity, where only one in ten...

I Scanned 2,500 Hugging Face Models for Malware/Issues. Here Is the Data

Veritensor launches as a zero‑trust security solution for the AI model supply chain, offering deep static analysis and cryptographic verification of popular model formats such as Pickle, PyTorch, Keras, GGUF, and Python wheels. The tool can detect malicious code—including RCE,...

Meta’s New AI Team Delivered First Key Models Internally This Month, CTO Says

Meta’s newly formed Meta Superintelligence Labs announced it has delivered its first high‑profile AI models internally, just six months after the team’s inception. CTO Andrew Bosworth highlighted the models—codenamed Avocado for text and Mango for vision—as “very good,” though he...

Instagram’s Top Boss Is Missing the Point About AI on the Platform

Instagram CEO Adam Mosseri warned that AI‑generated content will flood the platform and threaten authentic creator voices. He argues that authenticity will become “infinitely reproducible” and that labeling AI work will be harder than watermarking. The article counters that Instagram...

Vectra AI Helps Organizations Prevent AI-Powered Cyberattacks

Vectra AI unveiled a next‑generation platform designed to safeguard the emerging AI enterprise, where machine‑speed workloads span on‑premises, multi‑cloud, SaaS, IoT and edge environments. The solution delivers unified observability, automatically discovers AI agents as first‑class identities, and uses behavior‑driven AI...

AiFWall Emerges From Stealth With an AI Firewall

aiFWall Inc emerged from stealth, releasing a free AI firewall that protects both inbound prompts and outbound responses of agentic AI deployments. The product leverages contextual analysis and a central AI engine to create just‑in‑time threat markers from malicious prompts....

SiFly and Taranis Launch Field Validation Program to Accelerate Aerial Crop Intelligence at Scale

SiFly Aviation and Taranis have launched a 2026 Field Validation Program to test a new operational model that pairs SiFly’s long‑endurance Q12 VTOL drone with Taranis’s AI‑driven, leaf‑level crop intelligence. The program aims to demonstrate how three‑hour autonomous flights can...

House Passes Historic AI Bill for US Small Businesses

The U.S. House passed the AI for Main Street Act with a 395‑14 vote, mandating AI education for small businesses via SBA training hubs. Adoption of AI among small firms rose 18% year‑over‑year, yet 65% fear compliance costs from fragmented...

Adobe Acrobat Now Lets Users Turn PDFs Into Notebook LM-Style Podcasts Using AI

OpenAI Promises AI Data Centers Won't Raise Local Electricity Prices

OpenAI announced its Stargate Community program, pledging that new AI data centers will not raise local electricity rates. The company will finance its own power generation, battery storage, and grid upgrades tailored to each site, while also protecting water resources...

Wix Introduces Harmony AI Website Builder via @Sejournal, @Martinibuster

Wix unveiled Harmony, an AI‑powered website builder that blends natural‑language prompts with its existing visual editor. The new platform, featuring the Aria AI agent, lets users generate pages, adjust designs, and add commerce features through simple commands. Harmony supports seamless...

Saltbox Mgmt Introduces S1, Defining a New Category of AI-Enabled Salesforce Services

Saltbox Management launched Saltbox.One (S1), an AI‑powered platform that creates a shared intelligence layer for Salesforce services. S1 aggregates over a century of consulting experience, architectural patterns, and revenue‑driving insights into a single knowledge base used by every consultant. The...

Nightfall Expands Data Protection with AI Browser Security for Browsers, Endpoints and SaaS

Nightfall unveiled an AI Browser Security solution that protects browsers, endpoints, and SaaS applications from real‑time data theft driven by AI tools. The offering intercepts uploads, clipboard pastes, screenshots and other browser‑based actions that traditional DLP cannot see. Powered by...

Everyone Wants AI Sovereignty. No One Can Truly Have It.

Governments are earmarking about $1.3 trillion through 2030 for domestic AI infrastructure, aiming for sovereign capabilities. The effort confronts the reality that AI supply chains—chips, data, talent—are fundamentally global and energy‑intensive. Analysts argue that true sovereignty requires an orchestrated approach, blending...

TrueFoundry Launches TrueFailover to Automatically Reroute Enterprise AI Traffic During Model Outages

TrueFoundry unveiled TrueFailover, an autonomous resilience layer that detects AI provider outages, slowdowns, or quality drops and instantly reroutes enterprise traffic to backup models and regions. The system integrates multi‑model, multi‑region routing, degradation‑aware monitoring, and dynamic prompt adjustment to preserve...

Accelerating Digital Transformation Is the Keystone to Deterring Space War

The article argues that the United States must accelerate digital transformation in its national‑security space architecture to maintain deterrence against a rapidly modernizing China. It highlights current shortcomings such as legacy single‑prime contracts, stovepiped systems, and slow acquisition cycles that...