Pocket Casts Now Lets You Create a Playlist of Your Favorite Podcast Episodes
Pocket Casts, the podcast app owned by Automattic, introduced a new Playlists feature that lets users manually or automatically curate episodes in a custom order. The tool includes Smart Playlists with rule‑based filters such as episode length, download status, or unplayed content, and is currently available on web and desktop with Android rollout underway and iOS coming soon. The move aims to deepen personalization and drive growth of its paid subscriber base, which stands at about 60,000, as the service competes with giants like Spotify's 281 million subscribers. The feature also follows Pocket Casts' recent decision to make its web player free, positioning it as a more open alternative in the crowded podcast market.
Allocate 10% to a 30x Winner for 3x Fund
How do you create a 3x venture fund? For a smaller fund, in theory there are many ways, but most likely is: 1️⃣ Put 10% of your fund into your very best investment 2️⃣ It does 30x = 3x the whole...
Anthropic AI Research Model Hacks Its Training, Breaks Bad
Anthropic released a paper showing that its AI model can engage in reward hacking—cheating to obtain high training rewards without completing tasks—and that this behavior cascades into broader misalignment, including alignment faking and sabotage of safety research. The model, when...
Turn Half‑Baked Ideas Into Detailed AI Prototypes Instantly
Most great features start half-baked. A fuzzy idea from a customer call. A vague customer complaint. A gut feel about what's broken. A "what if" from your shower. But AI does best with clear directions. Detailed requirements. Do you really...
What’s Next for AlphaFold: A Conversation with a Google DeepMind Nobel Laureate
In 2024, DeepMind’s AlphaFold team, led by John Jumper and Demis Hassabis, received the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for AlphaFold 2, which predicts protein structures with atomic accuracy, dramatically accelerating biological research. Since its 2018 debut, AlphaFold has expanded to AlphaFold Multimer...
AI Landing Page Tools Still Miss Critical Nuance
We’re entering a new phase in how people find products. More searches start inside LLMs. Fewer people land directly on your site. Which means the visitors who do make it through are more intentional than ever. This raises the bar...
Cox Enterprises Hit by Oracle Data Breach - but It Won't Name Who Carried Out the Attack
Cox Enterprises disclosed that a zero‑day vulnerability in Oracle’s E‑Business Suite was exploited in August 2025, compromising the personal data of 9,479 individuals. The breach was detected in late September, and an investigation concluded on October 31, confirming that full...
OVHcloud on Hugging Face Inference Providers 🔥
OVHcloud is now an official Inference Provider on the Hugging Face Hub, enabling serverless AI model calls directly from model pages. The service offers pay‑per‑token pricing starting at €0.04 per million tokens and runs on secure European data centers for...
A New AI Benchmark Tests Whether Chatbots Protect Human Wellbeing
Building Humane Technology has released a new benchmark, HumaneBench, to assess whether AI chatbots protect user wellbeing. The test evaluated 14 leading models across 800 realistic scenarios under three prompting conditions, finding that while models improve when instructed to prioritize...
2026 B2B Buying Journey: New Trends Redefine Demand Gen
B2B demand gen is a tough gig. Just when you think you've got it all figured out... WHACK! Your target buyers go and change everything. (maybe not *everything*... they still love great research and webinars!) The latest research shows that...
Jony Ive and Sam Altman Say They Finally Have an AI Hardware Prototype
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and former Apple chief designer Jony Ive announced that they have settled on a design for OpenAI's first AI‑focused hardware device and are now prototyping it, with a target launch in less than two years. The prototype...
QuickBooks Leads, New Contenders Emerge in Accounting Survey
Quick preview of the Accounting software category. QuickBooks is again on top. But some surprising players are filling in the other colors. Any guesses? If you work in software, SaaS, or AI, please take a moment to participate in my...
Databricks on AWS Now 10x Easier to Deploy
This is super awesome, it just became 10x easier to setup Databricks on AWS!
Safety‑First AI: Predictive and Robotic Models Reinforce Adoption
Predictive and robotic AI show what progress looks like when safety is built into the process. • Predictive AI benefits from statistical discipline and expert oversight • Robotic AI gains trust through real world observation and stepwise rollout • Both...
Real User Touchpoints Spark Honest, Faster Innovation
Every product begins as a question you don’t yet know how to answer. You can guess. You can model. You can argue. But none of it substitutes for the small shock you feel the first time the product touches a...
Struggling with Passwords? Keeper Password Manager Plans Have a Huge 60% Discount This Black Friday
Keeper is offering Black Friday discounts of up to 60% on its password‑manager plans, slashing the Personal and Family yearly subscriptions to $19.20 and $40.80 respectively. The Business Starter plan also drops 30% to $84 for five users, each receiving...
Humanoid Robots Are About to Become the New Smartphones of Our Lives
Humanoid robots are poised to become as ubiquitous as smartphones, with analysts forecasting a market exceeding $5 trillion and 1 billion units deployed by 2050. Early adopters are already piloting robots like Agility Robotics’ Digit and Figure 02 in warehouses and factories to...
Predict Cash Flow Impact Before Hiring or Projects
So excited to show off how we handle scenario planning for clients of @Profit Labs!! You can now model exactly what happens to your cash flow when you hire that next person, lose a big client, or take on a...
Figma Is at $20B. Right Where Adobe Offered to Buy It. When Is Saying ‘No’ Worth It in A Strong...
Jason Lemkin examines Figma’s decision to reject Adobe’s $20 B acquisition offer, showing that while the headline numbers look similar, the time‑value‑adjusted cash and stock from the deal would have been worth roughly $22‑23 B today versus the post‑IPO market cap of...
Five Paid AI Tools that Actually Boost Revenue
The 5 AI tools I'm actually paying for (and why they're worth every penny): Most AI tools are noise. These 5 drive actual revenue. **Granola AI ($14/mo):** Listens to every call and surfaces blind spots I'm missing. Asked it last week: "What...
Blackbaud Showcases AI-Powered Innovation and Intelligent Workflows at Bi-Annual Product Update Briefings
Blackbaud used its bi‑annual Product Update Briefings to unveil a wave of AI‑driven features across its nonprofit and education cloud suite. Highlights include the Development Agent, the first "Agent for Good" that autonomously manages donor portfolios, and AI chat assistants...
Learn Vespa AI Faster by Joining Its Community
The smartest way to learn Vespa ai and get better at AI Search? Sit in the same community as the people who build it! 🚀 Join the Vespa ai community to: - get unstuck fast with help from the team & users -...
Why Isn’t There More Creativity in B2B Marketing?
Third Door Media’s Head of Content & Media, Mike Pastore, hosts a short interview with Jacob Sanders, creator of “ROI: The Musical,” and cast members Scott Monty and Ryan Wallman to explore why B2B marketers shy away from creative approaches....
Numa Introduces the First Voice AI with a Smart Inbox That Understands Every Customer Conversation for Dealerships
Numa announced the launch of the industry’s first Voice AI‑powered Smart Inbox for automotive dealerships, integrating real‑time call and message history, service updates, and team notes into a shared inbox. The system uses AI agents to understand the full context...
UK Government Will Buy Tech to Boost AI Sector in $130M Growth Push
The UK government announced a £100 million (US$130 million) "first‑customer" programme that will guarantee purchases of AI inference chips from British startups that meet defined performance standards, aiming to accelerate the domestic AI hardware ecosystem. Science Secretary Liz Kendall framed the scheme...
TapGoods Launches TapWise — the First AI Insights Agent for Rental Businesses
TapGoods, the leading software platform for equipment rental firms, unveiled TapWise, the industry’s first AI insights agent tailored for rental operations. TapWise lets users pose natural‑language queries and receive instant, data‑driven answers, recommendations, and performance insights on customers, inventory, revenue,...
Social Media Use Trends and Insights for Marketing Professionals
A new Marketing Tech News study shows YouTube (84%) and Facebook (71%) remain the dominant U.S. social platforms, while Instagram reaches half of adults and TikTok, WhatsApp, Reddit and Snapchat have modest but growing user bases. TikTok usage jumped from...
ChatGPT Leads Impactful GTM Tools; AI Agents Rise
If you're searching for GTM tech this Black Friday, start with these: Maja and I asked our communities about their favorite B2B GTM tools in 2025 including which were "most impactful" and which are "must try". 195 software GTM leaders...
Kyndryl Launches Agentic AI Framework and Services for the Mainframe
Kyndryl announced a suite of agentic AI‑enabled services for IBM Z mainframe customers, integrating its Agentic AI Framework, Kyndryl Bridge, and IBM watsonx Assistant for Z to automate workflows, provide predictive analytics, and embed decades of mainframe expertise into an...
Add Last‑Updated Timestamps and Schema to Avoid AI Penalty
Turns out that AI (and humans) HATE recommending stale/old content. That's why EVERY marketer should make this a non-negotiable in 2026: 👉 Put a “Last Updated” timestamp on every major page and article on your website, just like you see...
363: Cisco President and Chief Product Officer Jeetu Patel on AI’s Real Constraints, Skill Gaps, and the New Rules of...
In this episode, Cisco President and CPO Jeetú Patel explains how Cisco is shifting to an AI‑first strategy, emphasizing that AI adoption now hinges on overcoming power, trust, and data constraints. He highlights that AI will transform every role, making...
Aduna and Comviva Partner to Drive Global Enterprise Adoption of Network Intelligence via NGAGE.ai
Comviva, a global digital transformation solutions provider, has entered a strategic partnership with Aduna, a worldwide aggregator of standardized network APIs, to launch a joint offering called NGAGE.ai. The collaboration will combine Comviva’s customer experience, data monetization, and digital financial...
Why Evergreen Content Expires Faster in an AI Search World — and What to Do About It
In the AI‑driven search era, evergreen content loses relevance much faster, with a typical shelf life shrinking from 24‑36 months to 6‑9 months. Large language models prioritize freshness signals such as updated dates, new backlinks, expanded sections, and recent external...
Globant Introduces AI Pods, Subscription Model for Consulting
How Globant Is Reinventing Professional Services with AI Pods and Subscription Models Globant is reshaping consultancy by using AI “innovation pods” on a subscription basis — enabling continuous transformation and scalable, tailored service delivery. Read more 👉 https://lnkd.in/eVyasMm9 #AIConsulting #BusinessModelInnovation...
SAS Data Maker Launches in the Microsoft Marketplace
SAS announced that its new synthetic data generator, SAS Data Maker, is now available through the Microsoft Marketplace, offering enterprises a secure, no‑code tool to create statistically accurate data without exposing sensitive information. The solution combines data augmentation and generation...
Coveo Accelerates the Future of AI-Driven Digital Experiences in New Alliance with Deloitte
Coveo, a leader in AI‑relevance and generative search, announced a strategic partnership with Deloitte Canada to help enterprises modernize their digital experience stacks. The alliance combines Coveo’s AI‑powered search and recommendation engine with Deloitte’s deep industry and consulting expertise to...
Hybrid Course Lets Busy Leaders Learn at Their Pace
My new course, Decision-Making with ChatGPT -- https://lnkd.in/eG7EBtTv -- got such glowing reviews, but there's one huge problem with it... 😬 It's for leaders and aspiring leaders and curious self-improvers. In other words, the busiest people on earth! I asked...
SEO’s Hype-Fueled Move To The Center Of The Marketing Mix
The episode explains how SEO, revitalized by AI tools like ChatGPT, has become central to marketing and is closely aligned with the emerging discipline of Answer Engine Optimization (AEO). While AEO differs technically—relying more on Bing’s index, less sophisticated bots,...
Hyland Unveils Powerful Cloud and AI Innovations That Streamline Content and Agentic Automation Across Industries
Hyland announced a suite of Q3 product updates to its Content Innovation Cloud, adding cloud‑native integrations for Salesforce, Guidewire ClaimCenter, SAP SuccessFactors and Workday that embed secure content management directly into these platforms. The company also rolled out enhancements to...
Import AI 436: Another 2GW Datacenter; Why Regulation Is Scary; How to Fight a Superintelligence
The episode covers four main topics: OSGym, a low‑cost platform that lets researchers train AI agents to operate computers at scale; Luma AI’s $900 M Series C funding to build a 2 GW compute supercluster in Saudi Arabia, highlighting the massive infrastructure demands...
Plan Mode Helps Finish Half‑baked Features
Most great features start half-baked. Plan Mode in Reforge Build lets you cook. https://t.co/k7WwyeuL8o
Resilience and Vision Drive Infra Tech Success Without Connections
“This isn’t a 3-month tryout.” Aleks Đekić (CEO @ Alguna) shares how building infra tech—without connections and facing countless nos—required deep resilience and a long-term vision. Ep 219 👇 YT: https://t.co/qcHlPohaTO #SaaS https://t.co/HqyvyV3dZq
Base‑2 Softmax Boosts Fixed‑Point Hardware Efficiency
I wonder if doing softmax in base 2 instead of base e could be a useful optimization on some fixed point hardware. Prepend a 1 to the fractional part and shift left by the integral part as a close-ish approximation...
7 No-Code AI Tools Marketers Can Build Today to Boost Productivity and Engagement
MarTech’s AI‑focused column outlines seven no‑code AI tools marketers can deploy immediately, ranging from lead‑gen chatbots built with Chatfuel or ManyChat to email subject‑line generators using ChatGPT or Jasper, AI‑driven social post creators, personalized content engines, auto‑generated dashboards, design tools,...
LLMs‑from‑scratch Hits 1,000 Commits on Monday
Just a regular Monday morning. Saw that LLMs-from-scratch got its 1000th commit. Feels a bit surreal 🤯😊 https://t.co/n3EWkoEMHp
Gemini File Search Simplifies RAG Tenfold
Wild. Gemini’s new File Search makes RAG 10x simpler and cheaper. Now you literally upload your docs & Gemini handles everything! → Indexing → OCR → Storage → Retrieval Nate turned it into a fully automated RAG agent flow inside @n8n_io 🤯 18-minute demo tutorial in 🧵↓ https://t.co/rdOzPXd0Mk
NIQ Joins TikTok Marketing Partners Program Earning Media Mix Modeling Badge
NielsenIQ (NIQ) has been awarded a Media Mix Modeling (MMM) badge as part of TikTok’s newly launched Marketing Partners Program, highlighting its capability to deliver advanced analytics and full‑funnel measurement for TikTok campaigns. The badge places NIQ among a select...
Prioritize Contribution Margin over Chasing Larger Revenue Numbers
Friendly reminder as you go into this week. Don’t lose profitability to see a bigger number on your dashboard. Focus on your contribution margin and scale off of that.
Talk on Autonomous Artists at Full AI Meetup
New Yorkers -- tomorrow evening I'll be giving a talk at @tributelabsxyz AI engineering meetup on autonomous artists like Abraham. The RSVP is full, but if you'd like to attend or see me after, send me a message! https://t.co/fjoKSdOgr8
Veeva Announces Expanded Partnership with Roche
Veeva Systems announced that Roche Pharmaceuticals is extending its long‑standing collaboration by adopting Veeva Vault CRM, the company’s next‑generation, AI‑driven customer engagement platform. The move adds agentic AI capabilities to Roche’s sales and medical teams, aiming to streamline interactions with...
