IQIYI Concludes First Virtual Production Open Day, Showcasing How AI and Technology Are Transforming Filmmaking
iQIYI held its first Virtual Production Open Day in Hengdian, drawing nearly 200 film and TV professionals and showcasing its IQStage platform, which integrates over 20 patented technologies. The company reported a 125% year‑over‑year rise in virtual‑production projects in 2025 and cut daily studio rates to RMB 35,000, making the technology more affordable. AI tools such as automated concept‑art generation and 3D Gaussian Splatting are now embedded in its workflow, supporting a digital‑asset library of more than 30,000 items and enabling cross‑industry applications from film to XR. iQIYI also completed its first full‑cycle collaboration on a major theatrical film, underscoring its growing influence in China’s content‑creation ecosystem.
Why Leading Brands Are Moving to SaaS Marketing Mix Modelling
Leading brands are shifting from traditional, consultancy‑driven Marketing Mix Modelling (MMM) to cloud‑based SaaS solutions that deliver real‑time analytics, predictive forecasting, and AI‑powered optimization. The legacy MMM approach has been costly, opaque and updated only annually, limiting marketers' ability to...
NymVPN Boosts Its Censorship-Unlocking Power with New Features
NymVPN released version 2025.17 for Windows, Linux and iOS, adding QUIC protocol support and a new Stealth API Connect feature to make traffic harder to detect and block by deep‑packet‑inspection tools. The update also introduces state‑level gateway selection for U.S....
The Future of SEO in a Machine-First World
Search is shifting from keyword‑centric rankings to AI‑driven, conversational answers, forcing marketers to treat SEO as a content‑ecosystem problem rather than a technical checklist. Brands must build interconnected, deep‑topic clusters with strong internal linking, clear taxonomy, transparent authorship and schema...
5 Ways to Make Gemini Your Everyday AI Art Teacher
TechRadar contributor Eric Hal Schwartz tests Google Gemini as a personal art tutor, outlining five practical ways the AI can help beginners improve drawing skills. Gemini provides detailed critiques, step‑by‑step technique lessons, style‑translation suggestions, visual storytelling guidance, and even translates...
Keeper Security’s Industry-First Forcefield™ Protects Against Memory-Based Attacks on Windows Endpoints
Keeper Security unveiled Keeper Forcefield™, a kernel‑level endpoint security product that blocks memory‑based attacks on Windows devices. The solution monitors and restricts memory access for protected applications—including major browsers and Keeper’s own suite—preventing credential theft from infostealers, fileless and zero‑day...
Nimble Adds AI Email Marketing Replaces Mailchimp, Outreach, and HubSpot for a Fraction of the Price
Nimble has integrated AI‑powered email‑marketing directly into its CRM, offering list management, segmentation, AI‑generated templates, double‑opt‑in, bounce verification and one‑click migration from platforms such as Mailchimp, HubSpot and Outreach. The unified solution combines sales‑force automation and marketing workflows in a...
The AI-Native Generation Is Coming, Are You Ready?
The UK government is rolling out a £187 million "TechFirst" initiative to embed AI education across the curriculum, from primary schools to university master’s programmes, aiming to produce a generation of AI‑native graduates. This talent pipeline will arrive with fluency in...
TrustMRR Delivers 6× ROAS, Outperforming Facebook Ads
How my FounderStack ad is doing on TrustMRR: - +1200 website visits - 4 sales (2 at $799, 2 at $1299) - ROAS: +6 The ROAS itself is now better than what I get with Facebook ads (which is 2-3.5 ish). @marc_louvion created an insane...
Compare Rapidly Evolving AI Agent Platforms Every Few Months
There are developer AI’s for AI agents like @FactoryAI or @cursor_ai. More than 1,000 of this on my lists here on X. Then there are more generalized platforms like @genspark_ai, @ManusAI, @n8n_io, @flowith_ai, @Pokee_AI which are better for running agents for...
Your Next Partnership: How to Scale Co-Marketing with Marketing Technology
Partner marketing is shifting from one‑to‑one deals to ecosystem‑led marketing, where many partners collaborate through a shared MarTech platform. The article outlines four essential platform features—central asset library, co‑branded campaign builder, automated content sharing, and fund‑management tools—that enable scaling from...
New Smartsheet Report Finds AI Adoption Is Racing Ahead of Readiness in Project and Portfolio Management
Smartsheet’s 2026 Project and Portfolio Management Priorities Report finds that while 98% of PPM professionals are reshuffling work to meet shifting business demands and 87% view AI as a strategic opportunity, most firms lack the unified tools and governance needed...
Ship Fast, Optimize Later: Top AI Engineers Don't Care About Cost — They're Prioritizing Deployment
Leading AI teams at companies like Wonder and Recursion are de‑emphasizing compute cost in favor of rapid deployment, low latency and scalable capacity. Wonder finds AI adds only a few cents per order but is now hitting cloud‑capacity limits, prompting...
488: One Promise, One Motion: How NetApp Built Strategic Demand
In this episode, Gabie Boko explains how NetApp shifted from a scattered "brand of commas" to a unified narrative centered on Intelligent Data Infrastructure, creating a single promise that aligns the entire organization. By defining "strategic demand" as a company‑wide...
Mobile AI Apps Are Reviving Consumer Innovation
I am flying to Abu Dhabi tomorrow. So bummed I am missing this. But today I got one of the best interviews of my career with @ekuyda. Video up tomorrow. Her new app on iPhone, @wabi is so awesome. Let’s you build...
Hyros: Turn Every Click Into Revenue With AI-Powered Tracking and Remarketing
The post introduces Hyros, an AI‑driven ad tracking and remarketing platform that solves marketers' data‑integrity challenges by delivering precise multi‑touch attribution and automated, personalized follow‑ups through its AIR system. It highlights key results—average 15% ROI lift and 3‑7% extra revenue—backed...
Chloe Wix Of Spotify On Building An Ad Platform For The Future
In this episode, Chloe Wix, Spotify’s Global Head of Product and Commercial Growth, explains how Spotify’s advertising platform has evolved from big branding pushes to a self‑service, always‑on model, detailing the split between the walled‑garden Ads Manager and the programmatic...
AI Agents Will Unlock Work Humans Never Could Do
In 5 years from now, probably 95% of the tokens used by AI agents will be used on tasks that humans never did before. I just met with about 30 enterprises across 2 days and a dinner, and some of...
Track Your Name, Company, and Key Products
Everyone should, imo, track at least: 1) your name 2) company name 3) name of key products I also track some industry terms (like "zero click marketing") but you don't have to unless opportunities arise from those mentions.
Are We In An AI Bubble? In Defense of Sam Altman & AI in The Enterprise | EP99.24
In this episode, Michael and Chris debate whether the current hype around AI constitutes a bubble while defending Sam Altman’s role and the practical value of AI in enterprise settings. They share personal experiments, from AI‑generated music to prank calls,...
Vibe Coding Lets You Ship Fast without Learning New Tools
One interesting think about vibe coding on @Replit is I can do things with it I in theory could do with other tools, maybe better -- but I don't have time or skills to learn those tools. For example, I...
AI Adoption Soars: 29% Use, 44% Plan, Apps Evolve
🌟 Salesmate: - 29% use autonomous AI & 44% plan to - Generative AI is embedded in everyday apps - Key trends include improved reasoning - Multimodal & no-code platforms - Responsible governance https://t.co/34jVOXyasg #AI2025 #AgenticAI #IoT #5G https://t.co/JzYYX4dPpI
Conversational Business Intelligence: The New Era of Measurement Analysis
The post argues that traditional BI dashboards create a gap between abundant data and actionable insight, and that conversational, AI‑driven analytics are closing that gap by letting marketers ask plain‑English questions and receive real‑time visual answers. It explains how large‑language...
Year-End AI Roadmap: Kimi‑K2, GPT‑5.1, Gemini 3.0, More
The end of the year is going to be packed! 👀 - Kimi-K2 Thinking ✅ - GPT-5.1 ⏳ - Gemini 3.0 Pro Preview ⏳ - DeepSeek-V4 ⏳ - laude 4.6 Sonnet and Opus ⏳ - Arcee/PI Trinity models ⏳
Robots Master New Skills in Minutes, Not Weeks
"Robots now learn new skills in tens of MINUTES (not weeks)"
Founder Growth Accelerates Through YC Community Collaboration
For @priyak_9 and her company @withnixo, the key to growing fast was being part of a community of founders solving tough problems together. She found that sense of momentum and shared purpose at YC. And so can you. https://t.co/gNl84El3BS https://t.co/FeQisg32Pu
XPeng Unveils Most Human-Like Humanoid Robot Yet
This is an insane leap! The most human-like humanoid robot in history! Designed by the Chinese company #XPENG https://t.co/RtcYunTeOL #humanoidrobotics #humanoid #AI #Robot #humanoidrobotics @enilev @efipm @FutureStacked @sulefati7 @Fisher85M
👾 Day in the Life of a Researcher at Microsoft
The post profiles two Microsoft AI and quantum researchers, Trista Chen and Flavio Griggio, detailing their daily routines, research focus, and personal motivations. Chen leads work on AI trust, emphasizing live‑person authentication, anti‑spoofing, and the broader pipeline needed for responsible...
AvallonAI Secures $4.6M to Automate Insurance Claims
Congrats to @AvallonAI on their $4.6M seed! They're building AI agents that automate insurance claims operations—handling intake calls, document processing, and case tracking. Helping TPAs and carriers tackle the industry's critical staffing shortage. https://t.co/wyH8WQDRLY https://t.co/UomzYV8uI3
Acer's New Workstation Brings a Frankly Ridiculous 1 Petaflop AI Performance to Your Desktop - Get an Nvidia Grace Blackwell...
Acer unveiled the Veriton GN100 AI mini‑workstation, a 1.2 kg desktop that packs Nvidia’s GB10 Grace Blackwell Superchip and claims up to 1 petaflop of FP4 AI performance. The unit offers up to 128 GB of LPDDR5x unified memory, 4 TB of self‑encrypting NVMe storage, and...
AI Is the New Engine Driving Industrial Revolution
What is an AI factory and why it matters? At @NVIDIA GTC, Anne Hecht (Sr Director Product Marketing for Enterprise) gave me an answer that changed how I think about AI infrastructure. AI is not a tool, it's a transformation engine that...
Great Code Can't Save a Product without Market Demand
When I moved to the Bay Area in 2007, everyone wanted to go viral. Growth was the dream. Marketing was decoration. People believed great products sold themselves. That idea wasn’t new. HP’s founders said the same in the 1950s. They thought marketing...
Laude Institute Announces First Batch of ‘Slingshots’ AI Grants
The Laude Institute unveiled its inaugural Slingshots AI grant cohort, funding 15 research projects that tackle the notoriously hard problem of AI evaluation. The program supplies resources—cash, compute, and engineering support—in exchange for deliverables such as startups, open‑source codebases, or...
Amazon Offers AI Translation for Self-Published Kindle Books
Amazon has introduced Kindle Translate, an AI-driven translation service for self‑published Kindle books that entered beta on Thursday for a limited group of KDP authors. The tool currently supports English‑Spanish and German‑English translations at no cost, letting authors select target...
Migrate only for Concrete Needs, Not Trendy Buzzwords
Ouch. If this is your list of reasons for doing something, don't do it. "Why we migrated: - New investor wanted 'cloud-native' - Engineers wanted K8s experience - Competitors were using it - Seemed like the future"
QE Prize Honors Us, Calls for Shared AI Responsibility
It’s an honor to have received the @QEPrize along with my fellow laureates! But it’s also a responsibility. AI’s impact to humanity is in the hands of all of us.
Researchers Claim ChatGPT Has a Whole Host of Worrying Security Flaws - Here's What They Found
Security firm Tenable identified seven prompt‑injection vulnerabilities in OpenAI’s ChatGPT‑4o, collectively dubbed “HackedGPT,” ranging from indirect injection via trusted web sites and 0‑click search exploits to persistent memory injection that can embed malicious commands in saved chats. The researchers demonstrated...
AI Agents Automate Market Due Diligence for Top PE Funds
DiligenceSquared (@DiligenceSqrd) is automating market due diligence for investment decisions, deploying AI agents that conduct expert interviews and synthesize insights. They're already working with some of the world's largest PE funds. https://t.co/J4rb0mdmqV
Building a Visual AI Platform | Brian Moore, CEO of Voxel51
In this interview, Voxel51 CEO Brian Moore explains how visual AI goes beyond traditional computer vision and why managing image and video data is uniquely challenging. He highlights common dataset pitfalls, the trade‑offs between data quality and storage costs, and...
Amazon Launches an AI-Powered Kindle Translate Service for E-Book Authors
Amazon announced Kindle Translate, an AI‑powered translation service for Kindle Direct Publishing authors that currently supports English‑Spanish and German‑English pairs in beta and is offered for free. The tool lets authors preview AI‑generated translations, set pricing and publish directly from...
Tips to Appear in AI-Driven Search Results
Here's how to show up in #AI driven searches. Hopefully @Padilla_Comm knows the model. https://t.co/XebYxayQ7E #GEO #SEO #AIO #WPO https://t.co/NtDPSiDNGv
MCP Code Execution Cuts AI Agent Token Usage 98.7%
Wow. Anthropic’s latest piece shows MCP code execution slashes token usage in AI agents by 98.7% 🤯 https://t.co/erzyhFhRG0
AppSumo Teases Upcoming Black Friday Deals
🤘AppSumo Black Friday Teaser... 🤘 https://t.co/ogzb0S1TTK
Turn ChatGPT History Into a Searchable Knowledge Base
Nessie (@NessieLabs) turns your scattered ChatGPT history into a personal knowledge base, auto-organized around topics you care about. Instantly search your entire AI memory, discover insights from past conversations, and spark your next big idea. https://t.co/RxqMCsvYoF
Boost Colab Training Speed 4‑5× with TPU and Steps_per_execution
If you're using Colab and you feel like training your model on GPU is slow, switch to the TPU runtime and tune the "steps_per_execution" parameter in model.compile() (higher = more work being done on device before moving back to host...
Marketers Target AI and Influencers for 2026 Strategies
How #Marketers Are Planning To Use AI, Influencers and More in 2026 https://t.co/WO5DYN4XDJ
AI Associates Automate Legal Workflow, Freeing Lawyers' Focus
Lexi (@getlexi_io) is building AI Associates for law firms and legal teams—handling the full spectrum of legal work from intake to delivery so lawyers can focus on what really matters. https://t.co/6rM6Vh0ycO
Essential Testing Tips for Your Gradio App
Best practices for testing your Gradio app 👇
Constraints Fuel Chinese AI: 100× Compute Savings
Necessity is the mother of invention Also - training optimally on small amounts of chips with focus on data means the Chinese models take 10-100x less compute to run as well & have that cost advantage $150/mGPT 4.5 vs $0.5/m DeepSeek v3...
Google Open‑Sources MCP Toolbox: Unified DB Backend for AI Agents
Google's MCP Toolbox for Databases is now open source! 🔥 A single backend for connections, security, and schema-aware SQL tools, built for AI agents. Compatible with Python, JS, Go, LangChain, and more. Repo in 🧵 ↓ https://t.co/F4PSWLY3J9
