Will ChatGPT Ads Become a Meaningful Part of the Performance Media Mix?
ChatGPT advertising is entering the performance media arena, drawing early spend thanks to its large, intent‑rich audience. The article argues that lasting budget allocation will depend less on user numbers and more on the ability to measure outcomes against other channels. It draws parallels with mobile and connected TV, which only secured mature spend after robust attribution frameworks were built. The piece urges the industry to embed third‑party measurement from day one to turn LLM ads into a permanent media mix component.
Artemis Flight Day 8: “Bubble Wrap Nominal”
Artemis II’s Flight Day 8 focused on validating return‑flight operations as the Orion crew approached Earth. A minor bulkhead issue—likely expanded bubble wrap—was resolved, prompting Mission Control to confirm “bubble wrap nominal.” The crew conducted a manual tail‑to‑Sun maneuver to gather guidance,...
Waters Expands Cervical Cancer Screening Access with At-Home HPV Test Approval
The U.S. FDA has cleared the Onclarity HPV Self‑Collection Kit and approved the BD Onclarity HPV Assay for at‑home cervical cancer screening. The kit detects every high‑risk HPV genotype, delivering both individual and pooled results, and is processed on the...
How to Use Real-World Data to Improve Drug Development, Starting with the Patient Journey
A new eBook from PurpleLab and MedCity News highlights how real‑world data (RWD) can expose hidden gaps in the non‑small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) patient journey, such as missed biomarker testing and transportation barriers. Recent state legislation now requires insurers...
Yospace Tops 10 Billion Monthly Ad Insertions Amid Streaming Growth
Yospace reported a historic month, stitching over 10 billion ads and delivering 11.6 billion one‑to‑one addressable impressions—a 35% year‑on‑year rise. The growth was fueled by a dense international sports schedule, including Six Nations and the start of the 2026 Formula One season. Yospace...
Data Centers to Consume 220% More Power by 2030
Goldman Sachs "now projects global power demand from data centers to grow 220% by 2030 relative to 2023 levels, up from 175% previously."
GigaDevice Names ACP Distribution Partner for Brazil
GigaDevice, a leading semiconductor maker, has appointed ACP Componentes Eletrônicos as its strategic long‑term distribution partner for Brazil. ACP will handle the full GigaDevice portfolio—including flash memory, specialty DRAM, 32‑bit MCUs, sensors and analog products—across all 26 Brazilian states. The...
Sora Fuel Raises $14.6 Million to Produce Jet Fuel From Air, Water, and Clean Energy
Climate‑tech startup Sora Fuel announced a $14.6 million financing round to accelerate its air‑to‑fuel technology that converts water, ambient CO₂ and renewable electricity into carbon‑negative jet fuel. The Boston‑based company claims its integrated direct‑air‑capture process can capture CO₂ for under $50...
India's Data Center Boom a Bottomless Pit
India’s data‑centre market is surging, with projected investment exceeding $100 billion by 2027 and capacity slated to hit 10 GW by 2030. AI, 5G and data‑localisation rules are driving the growth, but the build‑out will demand an extra 40 TWh of power, pushing...
Intruder Expands Cloud Security with Agentless Container Image Scanning
Intruder introduced Container Image Scanning, an agent‑less service that automatically checks container images for vulnerabilities across AWS Elastic Container Registry, Google Artifact Registry and Azure Container Registry. The feature runs daily, prioritizing active tags and presenting findings alongside other attack‑surface...
Sateliot Seeks €100M in Latest Funding Round
Sateliot, the Spanish low‑Earth‑orbit (LEO) satellite operator, has opened a Series C round seeking roughly $108 million to finance the launch of 16 additional 5G‑capable satellites. The company already has six satellites in orbit and plans to add five more this year,...
Unlock 2026 Martech Insights and 70+ AI Use Cases
🚀 Registration is now open for #MartechDay. On May 5, Frans Riemersma and I will debut the new State of Martech 2026 report and the updated 2026 Marketing Technology Landscape. If you register, you’ll be first to receive both — along with...
Argentum AI Selects Rafay for Infrastructure Orchestration
Argentum AI has chosen the Rafay Platform to orchestrate its rapidly expanding AI infrastructure portfolio, which spans more than 3 GW of power across the U.S., Europe and other regions. The unified software‑orchestration layer lets Argentum provision customized GPU compute environments...
IBKR's Peterffy Pushes Institutional Prediction Markets Despite Regulation
NEW ODD LOTS It's Interactive Brokers founder and chairman Thomas Peterffy on building a prediction market for professional (institutional) investors. Lots to dig into here. Peterffy is incredibly influential in markets, basically pioneering automated trading. He's very much worth listening to when...
The Top Priority for Adobe’s Next CEO? Prepping for the ‘Age of Agents’
Adobe announced that longtime CEO Shantanu Narayen will step down after 18 years, triggering a board search for a successor. Analysts say the top priority for the next leader will be reshaping Adobe’s portfolio for the emerging "agentic AI" era,...
CoreWeave, Meta Strike Another $21 Billion Deal for AI Computing
CoreWeave Inc. has inked a new $21 billion agreement to provide AI‑cloud capacity to Meta Platforms through December 2032. The contract builds on a prior $14.2 billion deal that ran until the end of 2021, extending the partnership by an additional year. Compute...
AI Semiconductor Market to Reach USD 1.1 Trillion by 2035
The AI semiconductor market is set to exceed $1.1 trillion by 2035, according to a new industry report. Valued at roughly $102.8 billion in 2025, it is expected to grow at a 27‑33% compound annual growth rate. Growth is fueled by expanding...
Guidance: MOD Law Enforcement Privacy Notices
The UK Ministry of Defence (MOD) has updated its Law Enforcement Privacy Notices, originally published in January 2024, to clarify how personal data is processed for policing and security purposes. The April 2026 revision renamed the notice, expanded the "Details" section, and...
Media Distillery Targets Sports Streamers with New Engagement Platform
Media Distillery unveiled an AI‑driven Sports Engagement Suite that automates highlights, real‑time key‑moment detection, chapter navigation, and related shoulder content. The platform aims to ease the labor‑intensive workflow of packaging sports coverage for broadcasters and streaming services. Football will be...
Digital Goods Could Now Face Tariffs
After three decades of WTO protection, the moratorium on customs duties for electronic transmissions lapsed on March 31, 2026. Brazil and Turkey blocked consensus to extend the rule, leaving the door open for individual nations to levy tariffs on software, digital...
FCA Imposes Restrictions on Bazar Money Transfer Limited
On 21 November 2025 the FCA imposed restrictions on Bazar Money Transfer Limited, preventing it from providing regulated payment services. The firm failed to meet registration conditions as a small payment institution, prompting the regulator’s protective action. After BMTL’s representations,...
How LECO Process Could Push TOPCon Solar Cell Efficiency Beyond 26%
Researchers at UNSW and Chinese specialist Laplace have demonstrated that laser‑enhanced contact optimization (LECO) can lift industrial TOPCon solar cell efficiency beyond 26%. By applying intense laser pulses to under‑fired contacts while maintaining a reverse bias, LECO dramatically lowers contact...
UK to Require 62,000 New Rapid Chargers by 2030 to Meet EV Demand
Knight Frank’s latest report warns that the UK will need an extra 62,000 rapid EV chargers by 2030, requiring roughly 1,900 acres of land. The country’s electric‑vehicle fleet is expected to swell to 7.6 million vehicles, representing about 20% of all...
Reusable "Skills" Are Coming To Gemini In Chrome
Google has introduced a new "Skills" button to Gemini in Chrome, currently available in Chrome Canary. The feature lets users save a prompt as a reusable skill and summon it later with a slash command. Google also ships a few pre‑built...
How Cleantech Companies Can Reach More Buyers Online
Cleantech firms face unusually long, multi‑stakeholder sales cycles that demand educational, trust‑building digital outreach. Buyers now start research online, with 89% of B2B inquiries originating from search engines, shaping preferences before any vendor contact. The article advises creating high‑intent, solution‑specific...
How Temu Gave a Quokka Coffee the Boost It Needed
Quokka Coffee, a two‑person UK coffee startup, listed its products on Temu in August 2025 and quickly saw the platform become a vital sales channel. Within five months Temu accounts for roughly 15% of the company’s orders—about 20 weekly shipments—and...
Google’s CEO Predicts Search Will Become An AI Agent Manager via @Sejournal, @Martinibuster
Google CEO Sundar Pichai said search is evolving from a simple results list into an AI‑driven agent manager that can plan, execute, and coordinate tasks. He envisions future queries becoming "agentic" searches where multiple AI agents run in parallel to...
Built a Custom iPad Bible App in an Hour
Whipped up a wide margin Bible app for the iPad today with Claude Code. I love marking up my Bible, but also love reading the Bible on my iPad. So now I can do both. → I started off with "How...
North West Accelerates Digital Shift with SmartGov Rollout
The North West province of South Africa launched its SmartGov platform across all departments on April 1, shifting from paper‑based to integrated digital administration. The rollout includes migration to Microsoft 365, Azure cloud, real‑time dashboards and strengthened cybersecurity, aiming to streamline procurement,...
How AI and Data Analytics Are Driving Payout Optimization Across Platforms
Payout optimization has shifted from a back‑office task to a real‑time business imperative, with AI and analytics now guiding speed, cost, and fraud decisions. Global real‑time payments surged 42% in 2023 and are projected to exceed 511 billion transactions by 2028,...
Mastering Extremes: The UAS Trio that Could Tackle Latin America’s Diverse Needs
At FIDAE 2026 in Santiago, Airbus unveiled three uncrewed aerial systems—Flexrotor, Aliaca and SIRTAP—designed to meet Latin America’s varied terrain and mission sets. Flexrotor’s VTOL design and 12‑hour endurance make it ideal for wildfire monitoring and maritime ISR. Aliaca offers rapid...
Zhipu AI's GLM-5.1 Can Rethink Its Own Coding Strategy Across Hundreds of Iterations
Zhipu AI released GLM-5.1 under an MIT license, an open‑weight model that can self‑revise its coding strategy across hundreds of iterations. In internal tests it generated 21,500 queries per second on a vector‑database benchmark—a six‑fold improvement over Claude Opus 4.6—and delivered...
Fragmented Infrastructure Data Driving Trillions in Inefficiencies
A UMIP Inc. report titled “The $2 Trillion Infrastructure Identity Gap” warns that fragmented lifecycle data across buildings and infrastructure creates more than $2 trillion in annual global inefficiencies. In the United States, commercial properties alone may lose over $300 billion, while residential assets could...
Tubi Launches First ChatGPT Streaming Integration
Tubi has become the first streaming service to embed a native experience inside OpenAI’s ChatGPT. The integration lets users ask natural‑language queries for movies and TV shows, with recommendations displayed directly in the chat and linked to Tubi’s ad‑supported catalog....
Littler Appoints Stephanie Goutos as Inaugural Chief AI Officer
Littler, the leading U.S. employment‑law firm, has hired Stephanie Goutos as its inaugural chief artificial intelligence officer. Goutos joins from Gunderson Dettmer, where she led AI‑driven practice innovation and piloted Perplexity Enterprise. In her new role she will shape Littler’s...
Alstom Acquires Cummins Hydrogen Fuel Cell Business
Alstom announced the acquisition of Cummins' rail hydrogen fuel‑cell business, adding engineering, product and support capabilities along with the Herten, Germany manufacturing site. The deal value was not disclosed. Cummins had earlier halted new electrolyser sales after incurring $458 million in...
LMT Group Traffic Monitoring Solution Drives 66% Reduction in Red-Light Violations in Riga
LMT Group’s AI‑driven traffic monitoring system, installed at nine intersections in Riga in March 2025, cut red‑light violations by 66% over six months, dropping from a peak of 3,636 in August 2025 to 1,134 by February 2026. The automated solution...
5 Best Zero Trust Networking Software I Recommend for 2026
The G2‑based roundup identifies the five leading zero‑trust networking platforms for 2026: Zscaler Private Access, Cisco Duo, Palo Alto Networks IoT/OT Security, Okta, and FortiClient. Each tool was evaluated on policy depth, identity and device integrations, deployment speed, and day‑two...
The Sequence Opinion #840: The Agent-Native Rewrite: Why Every Piece of Software Infrastructure Needs to Be Reimagined for AI Agents
The post argues that today’s software infrastructure was engineered for human users who read screens, interpret exceptions, and issue explicit commands. AI agents, however, operate by interpreting intent, generating code, and acting autonomously, breaking the traditional contract between runtime and...
BMO to Open Institute to Boost Quantum Computing and AI Capabilities
Bank of Montreal announced the launch of the BMO Institute for Applied Artificial Intelligence and Quantum, headed by former chief AI and data officer Kristin Milchanowski. The institute will fuse AI and quantum research, aiming to move quantum from experimental...
‘AI Isn’t Replacing Human Talent’: UK Tech Workers Are Insulated From Automation – at Least for Now
Hays’ new study finds UK tech workers are largely insulated from AI, with most roles scoring around 50 out of 100 on an AI impact scale. Cloud engineers sit at 45, software engineers at 56, while test analysts register the...
Anthropic Is the Center of the AI Orbit at HumanX Conference
Anthropic emerged as the focal point of the HumanX conference, drawing the most attention among AI leaders. Founder Dario Amodei used the stage to showcase Claude 3’s safety and alignment progress. Meanwhile, Meta unveiled its first post‑reorg model, Muse Spark, signaling a...
Scaling B2B Marketing: The Gem and Demand Spring Story
Gem, an AI‑first recruiting platform, was shouldering all campaign execution with a single marketer, handling three to four webinars each month and multiple quarterly campaigns. To alleviate the bottleneck, Gem partnered with Demand Spring, a revenue‑marketing agency that provides both...
Maryland Senate Passes Bill Aimed at Managing Impact of Large Load Users on the Grid
The Maryland Senate approved the Utility Relief Act, targeting the grid impact of large load users such as data centers, and sent it to a conference committee for reconciliation with the House version. The Senate lowered the load‑factor threshold, potentially...
Penn State Health’s DeFlitch & Hijjawi Say Past Lessons Can Help Guide Today’s AI Implementations
In this episode, Penn State Health’s Chief Medical Information Officer Dr. Chris DeFlich and Associate CMIO Dr. Shadi Hijawi discuss how past experiences with electronic health record (EHR) implementation can inform today’s rapid rollout of artificial intelligence (AI) tools in...
Rethink Responsibility in the Age of AI
The MIT Sloan article argues that traditional blame‑centric accountability is obsolete in an era where AI and autonomous systems disperse decision‑making across humans and machines. It introduces “narrative responsibility” – a framework that maps the full story of an incident,...
AI Finds Winning Products in Minutes, Skipping Manual Research
🤯 I found 5 winning products in 10 minutes. 🔥 AI scanned for high demand, low competition. 🛠️ AI wrote ad angles for each one. 🤵 AI sourced suppliers instantly. 📦 Ready to build stores. This is crushing hours of manual research. Want the method? RT...
Open‑Source AI Now Seen As Chinese‑Driven
i really like this project and it’s increasingly looking like open (source) ai is synonymous with chinese ai
New Tool Fixes Photo App Search Frustrations
ever grumbled about your favorite photo app really sucking at photo search? here’s your salvation:
AI Speeds Content, but Makes Marketing Tougher
AI makes marketing harder not easier Yes, you can produce marketing and sales content at 10x the speed But so can everyone else
