Attackers Use Stolen AWS Credentials in Cryptomining Campaign
Attackers compromised AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) credentials and used them to launch cryptomining workloads on Amazon EC2 and ECS within ten minutes of initial access. AWS GuardDuty flagged the activity, revealing a coordinated campaign that leveraged dry‑run API calls, role creation, and instance‑termination protection to evade detection and maintain persistence. The threat actors operated entirely with valid, stolen credentials, meaning no AWS infrastructure vulnerability was exploited. AWS advises customers to tighten IAM controls, employ MFA, and monitor for the disclosed indicators of compromise.
Semantic Shelf: The Dynamics Of Commerce Across Answer Engines
The episode explains how AI‑driven answer engines like ChatGPT, Google Gemini, and Perplexity are reshaping the top and middle of the commerce funnel by turning lengthy product research into rapid, guided Q&A and offering intuitive comparison tables, while their impact...
Highlight Unique B2C Strengths to Secure Better Sale
A key aspect of marketing a B2C software company is helping prospective buyers/investors evaluate the asset on its own merits instead of against the backdrop of B2B software. Unfortunately, B2C software businesses usually don't receive the same caliber of treatment...
Collective General Intelligence Enables Science to Solve Any Solvable Problem
I would say there is no such thing as "universal" intelligence but there is definitely such a thing as "general" intelligence, and as a collective, we have it. "Science", modeled as an intelligent system (primarily powered by human intelligence) can solve...
The $10 Billion Loop: Amazon Could Pay OpenAI so OpenAI Can Pay Amazon
Amazon is in advanced talks to invest at least $10 billion in OpenAI, a move that could lift the startup’s valuation past $500 billion. The cash infusion is aimed at covering OpenAI’s soaring server expenses, including a $38 billion cloud agreement with Amazon...
Inside a Crypto-Only Lifestyle - Joel Valenzuela | ATC #590
In this episode, Stephen Sargeant talks with crypto pioneer Joël Valenzuela about his transition from early Bitcoin involvement to a fully crypto‑only lifestyle, eschewing traditional fiat banking. Valenzuela explains how Dash’s focus on privacy and instant transactions makes it uniquely...
Gemini 3 Flash: Pro‑grade Reasoning, Lightning‑fast Performance
We’re expanding the Gemini 3 family with the launch of Gemini 3 Flash. This model: — Combines Gemini 3’s Pro-grade reasoning with Flash-level latency, efficiency, and cost — Delivers frontier-level performance on PHD-level reasoning and knowledge benchmarks — Is our most impressive model...
Google's Next Experimental AI Project Is Called CC, And There's Already A Waitlist To Try It
Google announced its next experimental AI project, CC, which delivers a personalized "Your Day Ahead" email by accessing Gmail, Calendar, and Drive data. The service is currently in a U.S. and Canada waitlist, with priority given to AI Ultra and...
Testing With Purpose: How a Consistent Experimentation Framework Drives Measurable ROI
Marketing leaders recognize optimization’s value, yet many treat testing as ad‑hoc. A disciplined experimentation framework—covering hypothesis formulation, adequate sample sizing, clear success metrics, and repeatable cadence—turns isolated tests into a compounding growth engine. Meta‑analysis of 2,732 e‑commerce A/B tests shows...
Google Launches Gemini 3 Flash, Makes It the Default Model in the Gemini App
Google unveiled Gemini 3 Flash, a faster and cheaper AI model that now serves as the default engine in the Gemini app and AI‑enhanced search. The model hits 33.7% on the Humanity’s Last Exam benchmark and 81.2% on the MMMU‑Pro multimodal reasoning...
Sales Success Starts with Empathy, Alignment, and User‑First Focus
Revisiting a favorite Science of Scaling podcast episode with Aliisa Rosenthal (Founding Sales Leader at OpenAI). Cool stories and learnings from the launch of one of the most important techs in history: 1) During her interview, Sam Altman was concerned...
AI Is Real Shift; Inspire Shows How to Implement
I've been in software long enough to know the difference between a hype cycle and a real shift in the way we work. AI is the REAL shift. What's happening AROUND it right now feels a lot like a hype...
AI Blindness Is Costing Your Business: How to Build Trust in the Data Powering AI
AI blindness – the failure to verify data fitness for AI – is costing businesses billions as inaccurate outputs drive poor decisions. Research shows only 42% of executives fully trust AI‑generated insights, highlighting a widening trust gap. Legacy data tools,...
Free Trials Rarely Turn Into Paid Enterprise Customers
% of Free edition SMB users that convert to paid: 1%-5%, typically % of Free Pilot “customers” in Enterprise that pay nothing, that then magically convert to paid at end of a free pilot: 0.00000000001%
Ask Two Questions Before Delivering Bad News
As a leader, the WAY you deliver bad news often matters more than the news itself. Your team could walk away feeling deflated or inspired. But many leaders barrel forward with the conversation before they’re clear on what kind of...
Mozilla’s New CEO Says AI Is Coming to Firefox, but Will Remain a Choice
Mozilla has named Anthony Enzor‑DeMeo as its new chief executive, signaling a fresh strategic direction for the Firefox maker. The appointment arrives as AI‑driven browsers from Perplexity, Arc, OpenAI and Opera pressure traditional players. Enzor‑DeMeo pledged to embed AI features...
Why Naive Transformers Stall Production LLM Serving
📢 The Existential Problems in LLM Serving Naive Transformers might be fine for lab experiments - but they don’t hold up in production. The real challenge lies in Autoregressive Inference, where performance bottlenecks can cripple even the most powerful GPUs. If you’ve...
62% of B2B CMOs Not Ready to Compete Against AI-Enabled Companies: Report
A new 3Thinkrs survey of 400 B2B tech CMOs reveals that 62% feel ill‑equipped to compete with AI‑enabled rivals, citing gaps in skills, budget and resources. Traditional marketing levers are eroding fast, with website traffic down 34% year‑over‑year and AI‑generated...
Fake Video Claiming ‘Coup in France’ Goes Viral – Not Even Macron Could Immediately Get It Removed
A fabricated AI‑generated video claiming a coup in France and the ousting of President Emmanuel Macron went viral, reaching 13 million views before Meta finally removed it. The clip, posted by a user named “ISLAM,” featured staged footage of police and...
How to Orchestrate a Fully Autonomous Multi-Agent Research and Writing Pipeline Using CrewAI and Gemini for Real-Time Intelligent Collaboration
The tutorial demonstrates how to build a two‑agent CrewAI pipeline that leverages the Gemini Flash model for real‑time research and writing. It walks through environment setup, secure Gemini authentication, and the definition of a researcher and a writer agent with...
Archive Intel Adds Microsoft Dynamics 365 as Integration Partner, Enabling Automatic Contact Whitelisting for MS Ecosystem Users
Archive Intel announced a new integration with Microsoft Dynamics 365 that automatically imports and syncs business contacts for compliant text‑message archiving. The connection uses OAuth 2.0 to pull contacts from the CRM into Archive Intel’s AI‑driven platform, eliminating manual whitelisting across iMessage...
Top 10 Duct Tape Marketing Podcast Episodes of 2025
John Jantsch’s year‑end roundup spotlights the ten most influential Duct Tape Marketing Podcast episodes of 2025. The selected shows capture how small‑business marketers navigated rapid AI adoption, evolving privacy rules, and the rise of voice‑first search. Each episode delivers actionable...
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Small Business Tech Tips: A Guide to Getting More Done with Zoom Workplace [Sponsored]
Zoom Workplace bundles phone, chat, meetings, whiteboard and AI Companion into a single platform aimed at small businesses. The AI Companion, included at no extra cost, can generate meeting summaries, draft emails, schedule appointments and extract insights from calls. By...
Innovid’s Feature Beat: New Social Power Tools for Marketers
Innovid’s latest Feature Beat introduces a suite of social‑media enhancements that bring Reddit, Meta Opportunity Score, Google CM360 integration, a cross‑publisher performance dashboard, and digital‑asset‑manager bulk uploads into its Social Ads Manager. The updates let marketers manage creative trafficking, campaign...
Prioritize Core Growth Tactics Over Busywork in SaaS Marketing
Most SaaS marketing teams aren’t ineffective because they lack skill. They’re operating in environments where the urgent often replaces the important. So the work that consumes the week isn’t always the work that moves pipeline. There’s a simple hierarchy to...
Akii Launches AI Engage to Train AI Search Engines on Brand Content
Akii introduced AI Engage, a platform that runs automated, geo‑targeted campaigns to teach AI search engines like Google AI Search, ChatGPT, Perplexity and Microsoft Copilot about a brand’s content and positioning. The service deploys queries from over 150 million residential IP addresses...
Pre-Built Email Automations Drive Effortless Revenue
The biggest unlock in my retention system has been pre-built automations that don’t need a full team to run. @omnisend comes loaded with flows that actually make money on autopilot: • Winback = turn ghosts into buyers • Abandoned cart = recovered revenue •...
Eight of the Biggest Immunology and Inflammation (I&I) Deals in 2025
In 2025 the immunology and inflammation sector saw eight blockbuster partnerships, each worth between $1.7 billion and $4 billion. Deals ranged from AstraZeneca’s $175 million upfront, $4.4 billion‑potential collaboration with Harbour BioMed to Vor Bio’s surprising $4 billion licensing of telitacicept despite a massive wind‑down....
AdMarketplace Strengthens Executive Leadership Team to Build the Next Generation of Search Advertising
adMarketplace announced two senior hires to power its next‑generation native search advertising platform. John Nitti, a 25‑year industry veteran, joins as Global Chief Business Officer to drive commercial strategy, partnerships, and revenue growth. Sam Cox, former Amazon DSP product lead...
Skana Robotics Helps Fleets of Underwater Robots Communicate with Each Other
Skana Robotics unveiled SeaSphere, an AI‑driven software that lets underwater autonomous vessels exchange data and coordinate missions without surfacing. The platform uses mathematically‑focused AI algorithms to enable real‑time decision‑making across large fleets. Skana, founded in 2024, is targeting European defense...
Pendo’s Agent Analytics Is Now GA, Helping Companies See and Optimize How Users Interact With Agents
Pendo announced the general availability of its Agent Analytics platform, now free to start, giving enterprises a dedicated tool to measure AI agent performance, usage, and business impact. During beta, dozens of customers, including Pushpay, used the solution to surface...
AI Agents Fail 63% of the Time on Complex Tasks. Patronus AI Says Its New 'Living' Training Worlds Can Fix...
Patronus AI, backed by $20 million, unveiled Generative Simulators—a dynamic training architecture that creates adaptive, continuously evolving environments for AI agents. The platform aims to replace static benchmarks, which have struggled to predict real‑world performance, by generating on‑the‑fly challenges and feedback....
Your Ray-Ban Meta Glasses Just Got a Major Audio Update — Especially for Spotify Users
Meta has released version 21 of its Ray‑Ban and Oakley smart‑glasses, introducing a new audio suite that includes Conversation Focus. The feature uses AI‑driven microphones to isolate the voice of a person you’re speaking with, cutting out background chatter. It is...
Your Brand Is a Capital‑S Story, Not a Tactic
I think there are just 2 main categories of stories that we build as leaders, marketers, communicators: Let's call them your “Capital-S” Story and your “lowercase-s” stories. "CAPITAL-S" STORY: Your Capital-S Story is the combination of every word you write...
Your SEO Playbook Is Toast: Welcome to Search in 2026
In a recent episode of Playbook Broken, SEO veteran Myriam Jessier explains why traditional SEO playbooks are collapsing under AI‑driven search. She outlines the rise of zero‑click results, the importance of privacy‑first relevance engineering, and how brand authority must be...
Even Powerful AI Still Needs Human Touch
The more powerful the tool, the more the human matters. AI can't replace what's most essential. Not everyone agrees. Do you? https://lnkd.in/e7cjgydM
Databricks Vs. Snowflake at $5B ARR: Same Revenue, 2x Valuation Gap. Here’s Why.
Databricks and Snowflake have converged at roughly $5 billion in annual recurring revenue, but Databricks is growing at over 55% while Snowflake trails at about 29%. The faster growth translates into a valuation multiple nearly twice Snowflake’s, driven by Databricks’ stronger...
The Open Evaluation Standard: Benchmarking NVIDIA Nemotron 3 Nano with NeMo Evaluator
NVIDIA released the Nemotron 3 Nano 30B A3B model alongside a fully open evaluation recipe built with the NeMo Evaluator library. The blog details how developers can reproduce the model‑card results, inspect structured logs, and run the same benchmarks on any inference endpoint. Published YAML...
XPENG's Iron Robot Blurs Line Between Human and Machine
They SLICED OPEN a "human" on stage... and IT WALKED AWAY. XPENG's IRON robot just shattered the uncanny valley—silicone skin, fluid steps, zero humans inside. Sci-fi is NOW. But is this the future we want? Creepy genius or dystopian nightmare?...
Assuming Continuity Costs Companies; Change Arrives Unannounced
The costliest habit in a growing company is assuming tomorrow will resemble yesterday. Change rarely announces itself politely.
How to Use the Holidays to Stop Our ‘WhatsApp Aunties’ Falling for AI
Generative AI is flooding WhatsApp groups, especially diaspora “auntie” networks, with realistic but fake videos and messages. The article shows how older relatives often trust this content as they would traditional broadcast media, leading to misinformation spread during the holiday...
Gemini 3 Flash Delivers Lightning‑Fast, Smart AI Everywhere
For a fast model, Gemini 3 Flash offers incredible performance, allowing us to provide frontier intelligence to everyone globally. Try the 'fast' mode from the model picker in the @GeminiApp - it’s shockingly speedy AND smart. Best pound-for-pound model out...
Stop Waiting for Perfect AI—Just Start Building
Waiting for LLMs to become ~perfect in the AI era is like waiting for AJAX/CSS to work perfectly in every browser during in the Web 2.0 era; it never did and that didn't matter. Stop waiting, start building.
Bernie Claims AI Restrictions Aid China’s Dominance
Bernie makes clear that the debate over AI is not about states rights or affordability. He would block new data centers even if states want them & they generate their own power. It’s about stopping progress completely so China wins...
AI Platforms to Grow 10x by 2030, Inference Leads
AI Platforms market will surge more than 10x by 2030, driven by the enterprise adoption of model training, inference, and AI agents. This highlights the power shift from hyperscalers to emerging independents and the rise of inference as the dominant...
Marketing Mix Attribution Uncovers True ROI
RT @VisionEdgeMktg 💰 Marketing mix attribution: the model that reveals your true ROI. Stop guessing, start knowing: https://t.co/NUdMo35MUU #MarketingStrategy #DataDriven #GrowthStrategy
Your Website Silently Makes or Breaks Enterprise Value
The website is the silent asset driving or draining enterprise value that can determine how efficiently brands create, retain, and compound enterprise value. https://t.co/qPWZ5mvUDY via @billhunt, @sejournal
Web3 Empowers Transparent, Decentralized Control of Data and Assets
Web3 creates a distributed and transparent digital environment, giving people control of data and transactions while supporting secure smart contracts, interoperable networks, tokenized assets, and an extensible structure for future applications. Microblog @antgrasso #blockchain https://t.co/kjuQwye1sf
LinkedIn Study Shows How to Build C‑Level Leadership Skills
For anyone trying to prepare an employee (or themselves) for a C-level role, this post from @bestcorpevents reveals findings from LinkedIn research along with guidance on how to improve key leadership skills. https://t.co/ZGM2Bw7IQk #leadership #professionaldevelopment https://t.co/EtFPRep1Pn
Nearly All Online Shoppers Browse Multiple Channels Before Buying
On average, 94.4% of online buyers touch multiple channels before they buy. Here are the channels they are touching by percentage. https://t.co/syjD1rwdI4