Meta AI’s App Downloads and Daily Users Spiked After Launch of ‘Vibes’ AI Video Feed
Meta’s AI mobile app saw a sharp uptick in users and downloads after introducing its Vibes short‑form AI video feed, with daily active users rising to 2.7 million as of Oct. 17 from about 775,000 four weeks earlier and installs climbing to roughly 300,000 per day versus under 200,000 weeks prior (compared with just 4,000 daily downloads a year ago). The surge, which began after the Sept. 25 Vibes launch, coincides with heightened interest in AI video following OpenAI’s Sora release, though Similarweb cautions its data doesn’t prove causation and may not capture Meta’s internal promotions. The growth suggests Meta is gaining traction in the AI content market and may be siphoning engagement from rivals or capturing users locked out of invite‑only competitors, with potential implications for market share and competition among AI chat and video generators.
AI Amplifies Bad Data—Clean Foundations First
Most teams dream of using AI to save them from complexity. The dashboards, the messy reports and the endless debates over numbers. Everyone wants a magic switch. The reality is less cinematic. AI doesn’t clean up the mess for you. It...
OpenAI's 41x Valuation Makes Sense Against $0 Rivals
Machines Lab at $12B at $0 revenue. OpenAI at $500B but with $12B in real revenue. Why OpenAI's 41x doesn’t look so crazy anymore 👇
The Friend AI Pendant’s Creator Publicized a ‘Friend Protest’ in NYC
Friend AI’s founder publicly highlighted a spontaneous “Friend protest” in New York after the company’s $129 chatbot-necklace and its >$1 million subway ad push drew widespread ridicule and vandalism. Founded in 2023 and only shipping this summer, the wearable has...
GPTQ Brings Int4 Layerwise Quantization to Keras 3
GPTQ is a post-training, weights-only quantization method that compresses a model to int4 layer by layer. For each layer, it uses a second-order method to update weights while minimizing the error on a calibration dataset. It comes built-in in Keras 3...
Revenue-Backed AI Valuations Beat Hype-Driven Valuations
Machines Lab at $12B at $0 revenue. OpenAI at $500B but with $12B in real revenue. Why OpenAI's 41x doesn’t look so crazy anymore👇 Valuation without revenue is just a story. This chart makes it clear that the AI market...
FTC Removes Lina Khan-Era Posts About AI Risks and Open Source
The Federal Trade Commission quietly removed three Lina Khan‑era blog posts on open‑source AI and consumer harms—published July 2024, October 2023 and January 2025—according to Wired, part of a broader purge that previously included roughly 300 AI‑related posts. The deletions...
Prepare Early: BFCM Playbook to Avoid Last‑Minute Chaos
BFCM is just 39 days away. If you’re like any of the brands that fail to prep properly, you’ll end up with: → Campaigns rushed with no testing → Ads competing for attention (but not optimized for peak CPMs) →...
Why Explainability Is Key to Trusting AI
Excited to announce the next session in my Smart SaaSy Webinar Series — “The Black Box Problem: Do We Need to Understand How AI Works to Trust It?” I’ll be joined by Dr. Eva-Marie Müller-Stüler — global AI & data...
Kohler’s New Toilet Camera Provides Health Insights Based on Your Bathroom Breaks
Kohler introduced the Dekoda, a clamp-on toilet sensor that uses optical spectroscopy to analyze waste for hydration and gut-health indicators and to discreetly alert users to blood; the device is available for preorder at $599 with shipments starting Oct. 21....
Early AI‑GTM Adopters Scaling Fast, Laggards Scrambling
It's time. 🏃♀️It's time to get ahead of the pack in AI + B2B. At SaaStr AI London Dec 1-2 -> https://t.co/ufOgU4yrs6 The companies that figured out AI + GTM this year already are now scaling aggressively—closing bigger deals, reducing...
Struggling to Define My Role Without Buzzwords
I’ve been on LinkedIn for years and I still have no idea how to explain what I do without sounding like a walking buzzword. My husband says I “help people be less weird online.” My mom tells people I “do...
Automattic CEO Calls Tumblr His ‘Biggest Failure’ so Far
Automattic CEO Matt Mullenweg called the company’s acquisition of Tumblr his “biggest failure,” saying a planned migration of Tumblr’s more than 500 million blogs to the WordPress back end has been paused because the platform is unprofitable and too...
How to Scale Your Business with a 3-Tier Pricing Strategy
The article argues that a three-tier pricing strategy—entry, core, and premium—helps companies shore up revenue by matching offerings to distinct customer budgets and use cases, improving product-market fit amid economic uncertainty. It advises clear feature differentiation, value-based pricing, and deliberate...
GenAI Turns Signals Into Meetings in Minutes
What if you could turn any signal into a meeting in minutes? That’s the level of GenAI efficiency we’re unlocking — where insights don’t just inform action, they become action. I’ll be sharing exactly how this is possible during my...
Unexpected Sustainability Links Across Jeans, Data Centers, Construction, Waymo
What do Levi Jeans, data centers, the construction industry and dirty Waymo cars have in common? Turns out quite a bit! Check out this snippet from last Friday's Coffee with Brent Adamson and Matt episode.
These Nonprofits Lobbied to Regulate OpenAI — Then the Subpoenas Came
OpenAI has issued broad subpoenas to at least seven nonprofits that criticized its shift from nonprofit to commercial governance as part of its legal battle with Elon Musk, demanding extensive financial records, communications and documents related to OpenAI’s restructuring. Recipients...
Unlock Behavioral Science Tactics to Boost Conference ROI
“From delivery to insight - absolutely phenomenal.” That’s how one attendee described a recent presentation I did. And now 2026 is coming up fast! Want your conference/event audience to be entertained…inspired … and leave with surprising yet easy to use...
Zocdoc CEO: ‘Dr. Google Is Going to Be Replaced by Dr. AI’
Zocdoc CEO Oliver Kharraz told TechFutures that AI chatbots are poised to replace “Dr. Google,” but Zocdoc expects to remain the underlying infrastructure that powers AI-driven scheduling and access to care. The company touts that a plurality of bookings occur...
5 Sensitive Details to Never Share with ChatGPT
ChatGPT Danger: 5 Things You Should Never Tell The AI Bot Protect yourself and your privacy. Here are five sensitive things you should avoid sharing with ChatGPT or any conversational AI. Read more 👉 https://lnkd.in/eD2ARRhq #ChatGPT #Privacy #AIUsage #BernardMarr
Founder’s Audit: Blueprint for Clarity, Efficiency, Growth
The Founder’s Audit: A Roadmap to Clarity, Efficiency, and Growth Thank you for reading my newsletter, Un-Ignorable Brands, where I share my tips for small business owners and brands who want to go from feeling invisible online to being the...
Import AI 432: AI Malware; Frankencomputing; and Poolside's Big Cluster
A Dreadnode proof‑of‑concept demonstrates AI malware that runs locally on on‑device LLMs (Phi‑3‑mini via ONNX), autonomously exploiting misconfigured Windows services to escalate privileges—flagging a nascent threat limited today to high‑end workstations and CoPilot+ PCs but with serious security implications as...
Celebrating Excellence: Bank Of America Wins Forrester’s 2025 Data & AI Impact Award
Bank of America won Forrester’s inaugural 2025 Data & AI Impact Award for an enterprise‑wide AI strategy that blends scale, trust and enablement to drive measurable business outcomes. The bank’s AI footprint includes 50 million users of its Erica virtual...
Whoz Launches Mission-Ready AI Agents—Turning Resource Management Into a Competitive Growth Engine
Whoz launched a mission‑ready, agentic workforce orchestration platform that uses a network of AI agents—built on over 1 billion operational data points—to automate and optimize staffing, team assembly, and bench management for professional services and engineering firms. Early adopters report...
Sell Their Wants, Deliver Their Needs: Trojan Horse Strategy
How you frame an offer matters: What people need often isn’t what they want They want new opportunities > new tactics > new channels > new business models But they often *need* optimization Do more of what’s working, better Your play? Sometimes you’ve got to sell...
Napster Returns as an AI Companion for Your MacBook – Seriously
Napster has relaunched as a hardware and software AI company with Napster View, a $99 holographic screen that mounts to MacBooks (M1+) and surfaces a library of some 15,000 agentic AIs for tasks from design and wellbeing to business planning....
AI Will Create Content; Human Connection Remains Key
I spent last week at MAICON in Cleveland talking with some of the smartest minds in AI and marketing. Here’s what I heard again and again: We have about three years before the way content is created, delivered, and consumed...
AI SEO, Claude Gets New Skills, and the UK’s Big AI Training Push
In this episode Paul and Martin cut through AI hype for marketers, emphasizing that generative search demands high‑quality, well‑structured content and strong distribution rather than chasing fleeting "AI SEO" tricks. They review Anthropic’s new Haiku 4.5 and Claude Skills, note Claude’s...
AI Search Is Collapsing the B2B Buyer Journey
AI‑powered search tools like ChatGPT, Perplexity and Google’s AI Overviews are radically shortening and reshaping the B2B buyer journey by delivering conversational, synthesized answers that reduce clicks to vendor sites. The shift already drives 2–6% of B2B organic traffic, AI...
Building a Martech Stack that Fits Local Business Reality
Small businesses should avoid enterprise-grade marketing platforms and instead build a hyperlocal martech stack focused on discoverability, community engagement and manageable costs. The article outlines a three-tier hierarchy—Tier 1 essentials like local SEO/listings (e.g., Yext), neighborhood-aware CRM, hyperlocal social channels...
From Fine‑tuned CNNs to ChatGPT’s Pixel‑perfect Descriptions
It do be like that these days... 😅 I remember when we had to fine-tune an ImageNet-pre-trained CNN and preprocess the image to then send it and get a top-5 classification that was somewhat accurate... Now ChatGPT describes every pixel...
Specific Upgrade Messaging Drives Conversions for B2B Marketplace
Our ProductLed Implementer 🔥 Anastasia Kudrow has been CRUSHING it for a new client we onboarded in August. They're a B2B marketplace helping people find and buy small businesses. Think: executives looking to escape the 9-5 grind and become financially...
How This Yelp AI PM Works Backward From “Golden Conversations” To Create High-Quality Prototypes Using Claude Artifacts and Magic Patterns...
Yelp product manager Priya Badger outlined a conversation‑first approach to building AI features, starting with curated “golden conversations” and working backward to design realistic prototypes and interfaces. She demonstrated using Claude to generate and refine dialogue, Claude Artifacts to embed...
Turning Mergers Into Synergy: 1+1=3
1 + 1 = 3: Successfully Navigating Post-Merger Integrations https://t.co/Qwfo9TA8XC via @TTCapPartners #mergers #PrivateEquity https://t.co/oRsxNplE8F
Stop Spending 80% on $10 Tasks—Scale Faster
If 80% of your week is spent on $10 tasks, you’re not scaling. You’re stalling.
Should an AI Copy of You Help Decide if You Live or Die?
Researchers at the University of Washington are piloting research into AI “surrogates” that could one day help doctors and families make end‑of‑life decisions for incapacitated patients, though no hospital has yet deployed such systems. The project, led by resident fellow...
Usage‑Based SaaS Converts Variable Revenue Into Predictable ARR
How do usage-based SaaS companies turn variable revenue into ARR? 💡 Learn how Confluent & Datadog do it — and why ARR is now every SaaS CFO’s North Star. 🎥 Watch: https://t.co/Uhfxk5xwJi #SaaS #ARR #SaaSMetrics https://t.co/EzQoU3sl3i
Human Learning Experts Essential to Prevent AI‑Driven Gaps
Key quote: "Learning professionals still need to develop and guide program strategy, oversee content accuracy, ensure that learners receive the right type of instructional support, and achieve the desired business outcomes. Without this essential human layer, #AI could expand performance...
What They Don’t Teach You About Marketing at Harvard Business School: Being Positionless by Optimove
Optimove argues for “Positionless Marketing,” a tech‑enabled approach that collapses handoffs so one marketer can access data, generate creative, launch campaigns and measure incrementality in minutes rather than weeks. The company cites proof points including Caesars cutting execution from five...
AI's Rapid Evolution Sparks Bubble Debate and Nvidia Dominance
got to chat about the @stateofaireport on @tbpn last fri w/@johncoogan @jordihays, incl. bits on financing dynamics, how today's ai is magical vs. 12 years ago when i started, ai bubble (yes, no?), nvidia's dominance, ai search/agent experience, industrial policy...
AppSumo's 24/7 AI Sales Team Automates Lead Generation
AppSumo Team built a 24/7 Sales team. Insane. 🤯 1- Give it your ideal customer 2- Scrapes entire web 3- Qualifies the lead 4- Helps setup outreach https://t.co/VSukyBndPk
AI Platform Automates Ads and Landing Pages, Replacing Agencies
Uplane (@uplane_com) is building software to replace marketing agencies. Their AI generates ads with matching landing pages and steers them across Meta, Google, TikTok, and others. https://t.co/WEay29YNYx Congrats on the launch, @juliuskoerfgen, @Marvin_A_M & @vollmer_lukas! https://t.co/CBq2rxJqTp
More Compute Trumps All Other AI Strategies
Without checking, what is the message behind the "Bitter Lesson", in your opinion? (a) all other things being equal, using more compute is better. (b) more compute is better than all the other things put together.
When AWS Fails, Self‑Hosting Suddenly Looks Viable
AWS is down, and for a brief, shimmering moment, self-hosting looks like a good idea. A broken clock that’s finally right.
Real Traction Speaks: Customers Return, Pay, and Refer
Most founders waste time trying to look like they have traction. When traction’s real, you don’t need to choreograph it. It shows up when people return, pay again, and bring their friends. Customers end up doing the advertising for you.
Excel AI Doubles Modeling Speed for Finance Professionals
Crunched (@usecrunched) is the first Excel AI built by and for Excel power users - tailored for consulting and finance workflows. The team has 10k+ hrs in Excel. Crunched is live with firms across Europe & US, with users report being...
Explore the Power of Mixture of Experts (MoE)
🔗 Mixture of Experts (MoE): https://t.co/3CGjgO4H9p https://t.co/QA12nBeW0i
Safer, Smarter Connected Transit with First Student and Samsara
Ringing in a safer, smarter, connected operation with @FirstStudentInc and @Samsara 🔔🚍🗽 https://t.co/IHuW6Y1uiZ
Cloud Hype Scared Devs Into Costly Centralized Dependencies
Cloud marketing convinced a generation of programmers that the scariest thing in the world was to connect their own server to the internet. All so they could be sold and resold the same centralized dependencies at huge markups. https://t.co/2JlPY9Pcz0 https://t.co/yB9ZBPJr0J
Overreliance on AI Risks Undermining Critical Decision-Making
The danger of AI dependency https://t.co/HFtMCYQf9g #AI #GenAI #TechNews #Technology #healthcare #Innovation #Tech #ArtificialIntelligence
