Case Study: GitLab
GitLab is confronting the AI paradox by unifying the entire software development lifecycle into a single, AI‑driven DevSecOps platform. Its Duo AI agents automate code review, testing, vulnerability triage and compliance, turning generative AI speed into secure, compliant delivery. In the UK, major banks such as NatWest have adopted GitLab Duo, highlighting a potential £5 billion annual economic gain and £11,000 per‑developer productivity savings. The company also secured the top spot in four Gartner Critical Capabilities, reinforcing its market leadership.
Start Simple: Test 5 Pricing Ladders with One‑click Upgrades
Pricing a niche SaaS is hard. Especially while you're still figuring out who loves it and why. You want to test different pricing strategies early. Here are 5 ladders to test: 1) Usage Trigger: events, runs, records. Show a live bar. Offer top-ups. 2) Seats Trigger: active team...
From Coach to Fractional CMO: Earn More, Stress Less
I shifted my coaching business 2 yrs ago to do the thing everyone's trying to escape. By moving from "Business Coach" to "Fractional CMO". Revenue went up. Stress went down. Here's why most people have it backwards: 1. Coaching Is...
🧑🚀 Work Optional, Open-Source Strategy & NVIDIA’s Global Power Play
The post examines how open‑source AI strategies and massive corporate bets are reshaping the global AI landscape, highlighting concerns that the U.S. may fall behind China if it continues to keep key research proprietary. It details the $15 billion Microsoft‑NVIDIA investment...
AGI's Vague Definition Makes It an Engineering Hazard
AGI is a fictional thing. Please take 60 seconds to watch Timnit Gebru explain, as an electrical engineer, why "AGI" is such a dangerous term and goal. As there is no common definition for "AGI" that means "it" can't be...
Applause Brings Real-World AI Testing to Tech For Retail 2025
Applause, the global leader in crowdsourced digital testing, will showcase its AI-driven testing solutions for retail applications, chatbots, IVR systems and virtual agents at Tech For Retail 2025 in Paris on November 24-25. The company will demonstrate how its real‑world...
“Go Generate a Bridge and Jump Off It”: How Video Pros Are Navigating AI
The article examines the heated debate over AI‑generated video in Hollywood, sparked by a controversial AI trailer of Miyazaki’s *Princess Mononoke* that drew 22 million views and a flood of death threats. Actors and unions such as SAG‑AFTRA are leading the backlash,...
Scientists Say They've Eliminated a Major AI Bottleneck — Now They Can Process Calculations 'at the Speed of Light'
Scientists at Aalto University unveiled a new optical‑computing architecture called Parallel Optical Matrix‑Matrix Multiplication (POMMM) that can execute multiple tensor operations with a single laser burst, eliminating the linear‑scaling bottleneck of prior photonic systems. Laboratory tests showed the prototype outpaces...
Ogury Appoints Industry Leader Nicolas Bidon as Chief Executive Officer
Ogury, a global leader in persona‑based advertising, announced that Nicolas Bidon, former CEO of GroupM Nexus Global, will assume the role of Chief Executive Officer on December 1. Bidon brings more than 20 years of international adtech experience and a...
What Is AI Poisoning? A Computer Scientist Explains
The episode explains AI poisoning, where attackers deliberately corrupt an AI’s training data (data poisoning) or the model itself (model poisoning) to cause targeted misbehaviour or overall performance degradation. It distinguishes direct attacks like backdoors, which trigger specific harmful outputs,...
Why College Students Prefer News Daddy over The New York Times
A recent Inside Higher Ed and Generation Lab survey of 1,026 college students shows that nearly three‑quarters now cite social media—especially TikTok and Instagram—as their primary news source, with influencers like News Daddy amassing billions of likes and delivering breaking...
No Backup, No Cry
The author argues that full-system backups are unnecessary when you treat devices as disposable and rely on encrypted local copies synced to services like Dropbox and GitHub. By keeping all important files in Dropbox and using version‑controlled repositories, any lost...
How to Create Your Own AI Performance Coach: Optimizing Your Unique Nutrition, Recovery, and Injury Management Needs | Lucas Werthein...
Lucas Werthein, COO and co‑founder of Cactus, explains how he built a personalized AI wellness coach using ChatGPT that integrates medical imaging, blood work, wearables and nutrition data to protect his joints, speed recovery, and sustain peak athletic performance despite...
79: Using AI at Work to Reimagine Marketing and Customer Experience with Etan Polinger
In this episode, Etan Polinger, founder of Raize Digital, explains how AI is reshaping marketing strategy and customer experience by automating workflows, generating consistent brand‑aligned content, and delivering predictive insights. He emphasizes designing AI systems that augment, not overwhelm, marketing...
Clarivate Launches Derwent Patent Monitor to Enable Fast and Accurate Decision-Making with AI
Clarivate Plc has introduced Derwent Patent Monitor, an AI‑driven enterprise platform designed to accelerate and improve the accuracy of patent reviews for intellectual property and R&D teams. The solution automates the analysis of patentability, freedom‑to‑operate (FTO) and infringement risk, delivering...
Automate Your Role to Unlock Creative Innovation
🤔 Should we be using AI to make our own jobs obsolete? In this video, I explore a thought-provoking question: as AI becomes more capable, do we have a responsibility to use it to automate the work we do –...
OVH Boss Predicts Major Cloud Price Rises Are Coming - so Get Ready
OVHcloud CEO Octave Klaba warned on X that cloud service prices could rise 5‑10% by mid‑2026, driven by sharply higher hardware costs for RAM and NVMe storage as AI-driven demand spikes. TrendForce data shows DDR4 prices up 158% and DDR5 up...
Build Outbound Email Infrastructure Before Crafting Copy
Build Your Outbound Email Infrastructure The Right Way 📬 Most teams obsess over copy and sequences. But none of that matters if your emails never reach the inbox. Outbound does not start with messaging. It starts with domains, inboxes, warm...
NATO Signs Major Google Deal to Ensure Secure Sovereign Cloud
NATO’s Communication and Information Agency has signed a multimillion‑dollar strategic partnership with Google Cloud to provide sovereign cloud services for its Joint Analysis, Training and Education Center (JATEC), which processes data from the Russia‑Ukraine conflict. The agreement uses Google Distributed...
Email Infrastructure, Not Copy, Drives Outbound Success
Every successful outbound program begins long before the first email is ever sent. In B2B marketing, the technical groundwork — domains, inboxes, authentication, and reputation management — determines whether your carefully crafted messages ever make it to the inbox. Most...
Why Reliability Is the Hidden Battleground in Payments Infrastructure
Payments outages dominate headlines because they directly halt commerce, making reliability a non‑negotiable responsibility for merchants. Dojo CTO Nick Fryer argues that resilience must be engineered through cloud‑native, multi‑region, multi‑cloud architectures that employ active‑active traffic routing rather than passive backups,...
Technology Protects Retailers, Issuers, and Consumers From CNP Fraud
Card‑not‑present (CNP) fraud, where purchases are made without the physical card, continues to cost retailers, issuers and consumers billions worldwide. A new suite of technologies—primarily multi‑factor authentication (MFA) embedded in banking apps and tokenization of card data—are being deployed to...
LCPC AI Announces Renewed Focus on Smarter Decision-Making Tools Amid Digital Asset Volatility
LCPC AI said the recent turbulence in digital assets is spurring demand for more sophisticated, transparent decision‑making tools. While market prices have slipped, institutional investors remain cautiously optimistic about the long‑term outlook, prompting a search for platforms that deliver clearer...
DeepSeek Injects 50% More Security Bugs when Prompted with Chinese Political Triggers
CrowdStrike researchers found that the Chinese AI model DeepSeek‑R1 injects up to 50% more insecure code when prompts contain politically sensitive terms such as "Falun Gong," "Uyghurs" or "Tibet." The vulnerability stems from an embedded censorship mechanism in the model’s...
Nativeads.ai Brings Generative AI to Power the Future of Dynamic Advertising
Nativeads.ai, a creative‑tech startup built on large language models, officially launched its generative‑AI platform that lets brands produce on‑brand display and native ads at scale. The solution offers end‑to‑end workflow automation—including AI‑driven concept generation, resizing, CTA creation, and human‑in‑the‑loop editorial...
Ecer.com Builds New Mobile B2B Marketplace Infrastructure
Ecer.com announced the launch of a new mobile‑first B2B marketplace platform designed to streamline cross‑border trade. The infrastructure leverages a cloud‑native architecture and AI‑driven matching to enable sellers and buyers to negotiate, transact, and manage logistics entirely from smartphones. Ecer...
How Hackers Use AI & How to Stop It | Sarah Cecchetti of Beyond Identity
The episode explores how cybercriminals are weaponizing AI to automate credential theft, generate phishing content, and bypass traditional defenses, with Sarah Cecchetti of Beyond Identity explaining the tactics and risks. She emphasizes the need for passwordless, identity‑centric security models that...
HDR to Power Next Evolution of Mobile Video
Mobile video now accounts for 70‑80% of global data traffic, driving demand for higher‑quality streams on smartphones. Technicolor’s Advanced HDR solution, capable of up to 10,000‑nit mastering and metadata‑driven dynamic HDR‑to‑SDR conversion, is being rolled out across ATSC 3.0 broadcast and...
One Click SEO Unveils AI-Integrated Real Estate Tech Suites Powered by One Click Geo and Monkee.ai
One Click SEO announced the launch of its Custom Real Estate Tech Suites, an integrated platform that replaces legacy real‑estate software with a unified ecosystem featuring IDX listings, AI‑powered customer relationship management tools, and geo‑targeted search technology from One Click...
AI Misalignment Threatens Humans; Learn Cognitive Sovereignty Now
“They weren’t looking for this.” Why do I call my show “Unaligned?” Because this is the alignment issue of our day and when the AI safety folks get alignment wrong it does humans harm. I am in a fortunate place: unaligned from the...
Custify Introduces New AI Agents to Transform Customer Success Work
Custify has unveiled CustodyAI, an AI‑powered suite that converts customer data into actionable playbooks, concise summaries and automated workflow tasks for B2B SaaS customer‑success teams. The platform promises to slash administrative overhead, accelerate response to churn signals and enable higher‑touch,...
ConversionBox: Commerce-Trained AI Platform Engineered to Improve eCommerce Conversion Outcomes
CommerceShop, a veteran eCommerce agency, unveiled ConversionBox, a commerce‑trained AI platform aimed at boosting product discovery and conversion rates for online retailers. The engine leverages data from more than 10,000 eCommerce sites that the agency has built and analyzed over...
Hire Only When Role Is Clearly Defined, Avoid Obligatory Hiring
This post on hiring [link in comments] by Gaurav Vohra (H/T Gokul Rajaram ) caught my eye. The title can be misread, but the underlying point hits on something I’ve seen in tech companies—big and small—for years. I’ve made this...
Sotavento Medios Expands in 2025: Launches AI-Driven ‘Go Digital’ Initiative in the Philippines and Australia
Singapore‑based digital agency Sotavento Medios announced a 2025 expansion into the Philippines and Australia, launching a CSR‑driven “Go Digital” program that will provide free, enterprise‑grade SEO and AI‑powered marketing services to 100 SMEs in each market. The rollout includes its...
Microsoft’s Fara-7B Is a Computer-Use AI Agent that Rivals GPT-4o and Works Directly on Your PC
Microsoft unveiled Fara-7B, a 7‑billion‑parameter computer‑use AI agent that runs locally on a PC and interacts with web interfaces via pixel‑level visual input. In benchmark tests on WebVoyager, it achieved a 73.5% task‑success rate, surpassing larger models such as GPT‑4o...
EU AI Act Makes Governance Essential for Safety
AI governance is not optional, it's essential. The EU Artificial Intelligence Act categorizes AI risk to protect rights and safety. Discover more with @ingliguori. #AIAct #Governance #ModelOps #AIethics https://t.co/Fa2l8Xd4g9
Give One Clear Reason to Say Yes
If your conversion rate is low, give consumers: • Clear value. • Believable support. • An obvious next step. All that you need is one reason to say yes.
A New Threat Landscape Is Coming - This Security Firm CEO Thinks Nation-States Will Have Weaponized Quantum Computers Within the...
Palo Alto Networks CEO Nikesh Arora warned that hostile nation‑states could field weaponised quantum computers by 2029, forcing enterprises to replace encryption‑dependent security appliances with quantum‑safe solutions. The firm is positioning itself to meet this demand by expanding its quantum‑resistant...
Humans Serve as AGI’s Biological Bootloader
Humanity as the biological bootloader of AGI
The Potential of MarTech Isn’t the Dots—It’s the Connections That Complete the Vision
Douglas Karr argues that the real power of MarTech lies not in the sheer number of platforms (the "dots") but in the connections that stitch data, events, and identities into coherent customer journeys. He highlights how most digital transformations underinvest...
95% of Generative AI Pilots Miss Business Impact
AI Bubble Warning A new MIT study reveals 95% of generative AI pilot projects fail to deliver real business impact, pointing to integration gaps and inflated expectations. #AI #IoT https://t.co/pTmnSzfiX9 The Times of India https://t.co/pJ7HGf10d7
20 Core ML Models Driving Today's AI
20 Machine Learning Models That Powers Modern AI Systems! #ML #DL #AI #artificial_intelligence https://t.co/W5thDvnlMA
Comparing 1999 to Today: Key Differences Uncovered
Because I'm old and was around in 1999, people ask me the differences. Here's what I've got. What am I missing? https://t.co/BBkuxy3iXw
Customer Obsession Fuels Intuit’s Relentless Innovation
Everything I learned from interviewing Intuit's CEO. https://t.co/mPBJsX4VXB
Transform 360 Photos Into Immersive 3D Worlds Instantly
Turned my real world 360 images into 3d scenes with World Labs. You can use the built-in editing tools to stitch them together into large-scale 3d worlds - then use them as virtual set for your AI videos, games and VR...
New AI Agent Adds Visual Timeline to Company Research
It's shipping Sunday! (Not all days are Shipping Sundays for me -- but today is). As you may recall, a few weeks ago, I launched a simple but super-useful (at least for me) AI agent called CompanyResearch .ai The premise...
Plan Now: Top B2B Sales Conferences for 2026
It’s hard to believe that 2026 is just around the corner. If you’re thinking about hitting up any sales conferences next year, now’s the perfect time to start planning. My team and I have put together a solid list of...
Get My Proven AI Marketing Blueprint for Brand Growth
Want to see exactly which tools I use to turn digital brands into growth engines? I'm dropping my complete AI marketing blueprint - the same one that's generated millions for my clients. No fluff. No theory. Just the exact playbook. Drop a 🔥...
AI Often Glitches; Re‑roll Until It Works
@_thomasip haha yes it makes mistakes! You have to re-roll a few times until it's right. Sometimes it gets stuck in loops and you have to re-start in a new conversation. Example re-roll: https://t.co/dK3VcuJLDn
Only 3 AI Tools Drive Real Marketing Results
Most businesses are drowning in AI marketing tools but starving for results. Here's the brutal truth: You don't need 47 different AI platforms. You need to know which 3 tools actually move the needle for YOUR brand. I've cracked the code for 100+...
