ElevenLabs’ New AI Marketplace Lets Brands Use Famous Voices for Ads
ElevenLabs has launched the Iconic Voice Marketplace, an online platform that lets brands license AI‑replicated voices of famous figures—both living celebrities like Michael Caine and historic personalities such as Mark Twain—through a consent‑based, performer‑first model. The service connects advertisers with the rights holders, formalizes licensing deals, and synthesizes the voices, using a mix of cloning technology and archival audio reconstruction. The curated catalog currently offers 28 verified voices, promising advertisers high‑profile vocal talent while ensuring permission, transparency and fair compensation.
Reddit’s Rise in Shows Every Brand Needs a Forum for Its genAI Search Strategy
Reddit’s stock has surged 177.6% and now accounts for more than 40% of AI‑generated citations, underscoring a shift toward forum‑style content in generative‑AI search results. The article argues that brands must build owned discussion boards or Q&A sites to capture...
5 ChatGPT Prompts Based on Expert Productivity Hacks From Viral Self-Help Books
The article lists five ChatGPT prompts that translate classic productivity frameworks—from the Eisenhower Matrix and David Allen’s Getting Things Done to Cal Newport’s Deep Work and Tim Ferriss’s 80/20 rule—into actionable AI‑driven workflows. Each prompt asks the model to categorize...
SaaS Gross Margins Are Easily Misstated—Check Your Expenses
🫢 The Dirty Secrets Behind SaaS Gross Margins Can you really trust the GP% on that P&L? Here are 7 ways to shuffle expenses to mislead readers of your P&L. I spend a lot of time with founders and accounting...
Leading AI Companies Keep Leaking Their Own Information on GitHub
Wiz researchers scanned GitHub repositories associated with the Forbes top‑50 AI companies and discovered that 65% of them expose verified secrets—API keys, tokens and credentials—often hidden in deleted forks, developer repos and gists. Their proprietary “Depth, Perimeter, and Coverage” methodology...
You Won’t Believe the Excuses Lawyers Have After Getting Busted for Using AI
A review of 23 recent cases shows an "epidemic" of AI‑generated fake citations prompting courts to sanction lawyers, with fines ranging from $1,000 to $10,000. Judges repeatedly urged attorneys to promptly admit AI use, self‑report errors, and take ethics training,...
AI Makes Safety Risky—Reclaim Your B2B Career
Big news! This will be my first time on the main stage at the MarketingProfs B2B Forum after seven incredible years of speaking at this event. And I get to close the show on Wednesday, the 19th, with a short...
Refresh Your Ad Inputs to Revive Meta Performance
Your Meta ad account isn’t “in a rut.” It’s just feeding on stale inputs. • Same offers • Same angles • Same formats • Same targeting Change the inputs, then give the algo something new to win with.
In the Wake of the Louvre Heist, Proton Steps in to Offer Free Password Protection
Proton, the Swiss privacy firm behind a leading VPN and secure‑email service, is offering two years of its Proton Pass professional password‑manager free to eligible cultural institutions worldwide after the Louvre’s surveillance system was compromised by a default "louvre" password. The...
CXOs Demand AI That Delivers Tangible GTM Results
I asked 100+ CXOs what they want to learn from each other, and three themes came up again and again. Tomorrow I'm moderating the Executive Experience as part of 6sense 's Breakthrough conference. We have a full afternoon with ~125...
Misinterpreted SaaS GTM Benchmarks Hide High-Value Opportunities
Great new SaaS Benchmarks report from High Alpha . But I have questions on this table of the effectiveness of go-to-market channels. What do these percentages represent? 1. The number of respondents in the study using that channel? 2. The...
Why Analytical AI Deserves Equal Attention in the Age of Generative AI
The piece warns that the hype around generative AI is eclipsing the equally vital role of analytical AI, which turns raw data into actionable insights for decision‑making and investor scrutiny. UK data shows ChatGPT spending surged 835% year‑on‑year while only...
Consciousness Stages Reveal AI’s Gap in Emotional Experience
Consciousness evolved in stages. Each one added a new way to engage with the world. Reflexes, habits, learning, emotion, and reasoning built upon each other to form the experience we call awareness. AI now reflects many of these stages, but...
Yes, AI Native Wins Today. But It’s Not Too Late. You Can Change. See, E.g., Clio and Gamma
The post argues that while AI‑native companies dominate today, legacy firms can still catch up by fundamentally redesigning their products to "do the work" rather than merely support workflows, as demonstrated by Clio and Gamma. It highlights that true AI‑native...
Infrastructure Modernization Is Key to AI Success
The United Kingdom, the world’s third‑largest AI market at £72.3 bn in 2024, faces a bottleneck as legacy systems and poor data quality impede AI adoption across sectors from construction to healthcare. Infosys EVP Umashankar Lakshmipathy argues that modern, cloud‑based infrastructure...
AI Self-Awareness, and the Death of Comedy
In this episode the hosts explore AI’s growing influence and oddities, from two U.S. judges mistakenly citing AI‑generated case law to a Chinese humanoid robot dramatically shedding its skin onstage, and Toyota’s unsettling walking chair. They discuss Google’s plan to...
Launch: All-in-One AI Company Research Tool
Woo hoo! Launching my latest project, the Company Research agent. Was going to launch it at 1am last night, but decided there was no reason to tempt the fates. It's an agent that lets you...umm...easily do company research. I built...
Meta’s Chief AI Scientist Yann LeCun Reportedly Plans to Leave to Build His Own Startup
Meta’s chief AI scientist Yann LeCun is reportedly preparing to leave the company in the coming months to launch a startup focused on world‑model AI, according to the Financial Times. LeCun, a NYU professor and Turing Award winner, is already...
Predictions 2026: Trust & Privacy—How GenAI, Deepfakes, And Privacy Tech Will Affect Trust Globally
The episode outlines Forrester’s 2026 Trust & Privacy predictions, focusing on three disruptive trends: rising consumer use of generative AI in high‑risk decisions despite low trust, a rapid increase in deep‑fake detection spending, and a wave of consolidation in privacy‑preserving...
Looking for an IT Management Tool to Simplify Your Life? Try Rippling IT for Free This Black Friday
Rippling is offering TechRadar readers a free Black‑Friday trial of its Rippling IT platform, an award‑winning tool that consolidates device management, app provisioning, user access and security policies in a single dashboard. The solution works across Windows, macOS and Linux, enabling...
B2B Marketing Crisis Demands Holistic, Cross‑Pipeline Thinking
It is said that B2B tech is in a pipeline crisis, but I think we're really in a marketing crisis that requires harder conversations. There is no doubt that pipeline is very hard to come by for many right now,...
Authenticity on LinkedIn Attracts Followers, Not Perfection
Posted my raw, unfiltered story two days ago. The messy parts. The failures. The stuff that used to make me cringe. Thought I'd lose followers. Maybe get some judgment. Definitely expected crickets. Instead? ✅ 70 new followers in 24 hours...
Fake Facebook Business Pages Are Bombarding Users with Phishing Messages - so What Can Be Done?
Cybercriminals are exploiting Facebook Business Suite by sending phishing emails from the legitimate facebookmail.com domain, tricking SMBs and marketers into revealing credentials. Check Point Research recorded more than 40,000 fraudulent messages sent to roughly 5,000 entities, with some victims receiving...
DIRECTV Advertising Launches DIRECTV Elect, An AI-Powered Digital Platform for CTV Political Advertising
DIRECTV Advertising unveiled DIRECTV Elect, an AI‑powered CTV platform for political advertising, leveraging its addressable TV expertise to reach over 130 million monthly active users across DIRECTV and national cable networks. The service blends AI‑driven voter sentiment insights from DIRECTV Advantage...
How to Build a GEO-Ready CMS that Powers AI Search and Personalization
The article argues that traditional content management systems are ill‑suited for the AI era, where zero‑click, generative‑AI search (termed GEO) requires content to be cited in AI answers rather than merely ranked. It outlines five key challenges marketers face—AI‑driven search,...
Stop Over‑Giving Free: Tie Upgrades to Desired Outcomes
I've watched dozens of SaaS companies kill their freemium motion in the past year. They wonder why conversion rates are stuck at 2% and users ghost them after signup. Our ProductLed Implementer 🔥 Anastasia Kudrow recently helped a client fix...
78% See Experiential Value, Only One‑Third Invest
I was thrilled to contribute to TopRank Marketing and Ascend2 ’s "Answer Engine: The State of B2B Thought Leadership in 2026" report, which explores how leading marketers are building trust and engagement in a changing landscape. One finding stood out...
Marketing Has a New Blueprint — and It’s Shaped by the Customer
The article argues that the traditional marketing funnel is being replaced by AI‑driven, real‑time customer‑journey orchestration where consumers co‑create their paths. Brands are deploying decision‑making engines that synthesize behavioral, sentiment and contextual data to trigger personalized offers, content or conversational...
Build Production-Ready Backends From Natural Language in Minutes
Specific (@specific_dev) lets you build production-ready backends from natural language. Simply connect your coding agent and watch it build and deploy a backend in minutes. Congrats on the launch, @fabianlindfors and @imanradjavi! https://t.co/avB0aXfmpI https://t.co/BvJeKXcnT0
Accessibility Fixes Can Outpace BFCM A/B Tests
Right now, we're all A/B testing, rolling out promos, and optimizing load times - all just to move the needle a FEW points for BFCM. But did you know, closing accessibility gaps can drive bigger lifts than all those combined?...
Cloudimage: The Image CDN That Powers Lightning-Fast Websites
The post highlights Cloudimage, an image and video CDN by Scaleflex, that automates real‑time resizing, compression, caching and delivery to boost page speed, SEO and conversion rates, especially for visual‑heavy sites. It emphasizes low‑code integration, AI‑driven features like background removal...
AI-Driven Layoffs at Amazon Will Ultimately Backfire
Why AI-fueled layoffs like Amazon will backfire? https://t.co/Rgik21xWUI #AI #artificial_intelligence #layoffs #jobloss
AI Overviews Favor Questions, Long Queries Over News, Local
New Ahrefs analysis shows where AI Overviews show up in Google: more often on questions and longer queries, less on time-sensitive news and local searches. https://t.co/OCJJh4h0vo via @MattGSouthern, @sejournal
Memgraph to Offer a Unique Toolkit for Non-Graph Users to Jumpstart Their Journey to Full GraphRAG AI Capability
Memgraph announced an open‑source AI Graph Toolkit, featuring Unstructured2Graph and SQL2Graph utilities that automate the conversion of relational and unstructured data into knowledge graphs for GraphRAG pipelines. The toolkit, now available on GitHub and via Memgraph Cloud, claims to accelerate...
London AI Meetup Returns Dec 2 – Join Us
🇬🇧 we're back for a @londonai meetup on 2nd dec! come hang, it's been a minute since @raais :) airstreet(dot)com/londonai https://t.co/qvgbe1Nzw3
Unlock Real Pipeline with TechAdvice LEGO for B2B Marketers
Stoked to see this new TechnologyAdvice LEGO set for B2B marketers, complete with real pipeline! The Webinars & Events section is my fave, those are clearly senior decision-makers in the crowd 😅 Looking for new channels to reach your target...
ChatGPT 5.1 Could Launch Soon - 5 Features We’d Love to See From OpenAI’s Next Generation Chatbot
OpenAI is expected to roll out ChatGPT‑5.1 soon, after internal code traces labeled “gpt‑5‑1‑thinking” surfaced. The upgrade targets a smarter long‑term memory that selectively retains relevant context, richer creative multimodality that fuses text, images and audio, and tighter factual grounding...
Remote‑First Culture Thrives Through In‑Person Retreats
🌎 Remote-first, no office — but strong culture. Albert Gozzi, CEO of Aleph, joins The SaaS CFO Podcast to share how his team stays connected with in-person retreats (next stop: Cartagena 🇨🇴). 🎧 https://t.co/m2e1J4iN7U #SaaS #RemoteWork https://t.co/3fNRYuXhur
Designers Turn UI Edits Directly Into Production Code
Rivet (@designrivet) helps product designers own every detail in their live product. It’s a visual editor that lets designers translate precise UI changes into production code. https://t.co/uA5RhbsXk7 https://t.co/QN75N740uH
Ep 651: Apple’s $1 Billion Bailout: Why Siri Needs Gemini’s AI Brains
The episode examines Apple’s decision to pay Google $1 billion for a custom Gemini model to revive Siri after a series of generative‑AI missteps, high failure rates, and talent drain. It highlights how Apple’s lagged AI strategy hurt its market cap...
Legacy Products Unionize, Battling Lawyers Over Rate Limits
Great piece by @ByrneHobart on how legacy products are behaving like a union. This explains soo much of what I see the legacy incumbents doing, fighting product battles with lawyers and rate limits, vs product. article https://t.co/60C6EUFTxr https://t.co/cjy6Tc1v2P
Refresh Your Ad Inputs to Revive Meta Performance
Your Meta ad account isn’t “in a rut.” It’s just feeding on stale inputs. • Same offers • Same angles • Same formats • Same targeting Change the inputs, then give the algo something new to win with.
Scaling Starts With Loving and Staffing Recruitment
You can't scale if you can't recruit First, learn to love it Then, learn to staff it
Composio Releases Most Complete Open‑Source Claude Skills Repo
Wild. By far the most complete Claude Skills repo yet 🤯 @Composio’s Awesome-Claude-Skills packs 100`s of ready-to-use workflows: ↳ PDF tools, changelog generation ↳ Playwright automation ↳ AWS/CDK tools, MCP builders ... and much more! Free and open-source. Repo in 🧵↓ https://t.co/In0m5sI1mc
AI Now Writes 30% of Top‑tech Code; Hybrid Future
30% of code at top tech companies is now AI-generated. Most engineering leaders have no idea what that means for speed, quality, or ROI. Nivara (https://t.co/Ir6fwaoqHX) gives them visibility into how humans and AI build together. The future of engineering is...
Question and Delete Before Automating for Lean Business
Just ran the Elon algorithm: Question, Delete, Simplify, Speed up, Automate. Most skip straight to automation, but it's game-changing to question and delete first. Try it and watch your business get lean fast. https://t.co/l2yeoAY1Mz
NRR Reveals True Product‑Market Fit, Not Just Early Sales
You can feel like you have product-market fit, but your Net Revenue Retention will tell you the truth. I talk to founders all the time who are convinced they've nailed PMF because they have some paying customers and good feedback,...
Ownable Ideas, Not More Content, Drive Viral Growth
You don’t need more content. You need an ownable idea that sticks and spreads.
Comprehensive AI Infographic Covers ML to Generative AI
🌐 Explore the vast world of Artificial Intelligence with this detailed infographic by @AnalyticsVidhya. From machine learning to generative AI, this guide covers it all! 🚀 #AI #MachineLearning #DeepLearning https://t.co/A47XnxMNWJ
Learning TOFU, MOFU, BOFU Reshaped My GTM Strategy
TOFU. MOFU. BOFU. When I learned these three terms as a Founder,... It changed my view of GTM.
