News•Dec 17, 2025
AdMarketplace Strengthens Executive Leadership Team to Build the Next Generation of Search Advertising
adMarketplace announced two senior hires to power its next‑generation native search advertising platform. John Nitti, a 25‑year industry veteran, joins as Global Chief Business Officer to drive commercial strategy, partnerships, and revenue growth. Sam Cox, former Amazon DSP product lead and Google Ad Exchange head, becomes Chief Product Officer to spearhead AI‑driven product innovation. The appointments underscore adMarketplace’s push to capitalize on AI‑enabled search ad transformation and expand its market footprint.
By MarTech Series
Social•Dec 17, 2025
Pre-Built Email Automations Drive Effortless Revenue
The biggest unlock in my retention system has been pre-built automations that don’t need a full team to run. @omnisend comes loaded with flows that actually make money on autopilot: • Winback = turn ghosts into buyers • Abandoned cart = recovered revenue •...
By Kody Nordquist
News•Dec 17, 2025
Eight of the Biggest Immunology and Inflammation (I&I) Deals in 2025
In 2025 the immunology and inflammation sector saw eight blockbuster partnerships, each worth between $1.7 billion and $4 billion. Deals ranged from AstraZeneca’s $175 million upfront, $4.4 billion‑potential collaboration with Harbour BioMed to Vor Bio’s surprising $4 billion licensing of telitacicept despite a massive wind‑down....
By Labiotech.eu
News•Dec 17, 2025
Skana Robotics Helps Fleets of Underwater Robots Communicate with Each Other
Skana Robotics unveiled SeaSphere, an AI‑driven software that lets underwater autonomous vessels exchange data and coordinate missions without surfacing. The platform uses mathematically‑focused AI algorithms to enable real‑time decision‑making across large fleets. Skana, founded in 2024, is targeting European defense...
By TechCrunch AI
News•Dec 17, 2025
Pendo’s Agent Analytics Is Now GA, Helping Companies See and Optimize How Users Interact With Agents
Pendo announced the general availability of its Agent Analytics platform, now free to start, giving enterprises a dedicated tool to measure AI agent performance, usage, and business impact. During beta, dozens of customers, including Pushpay, used the solution to surface...
By MarTech Series
News•Dec 17, 2025
AI Agents Fail 63% of the Time on Complex Tasks. Patronus AI Says Its New 'Living' Training Worlds Can Fix...
Patronus AI, backed by $20 million, unveiled Generative Simulators—a dynamic training architecture that creates adaptive, continuously evolving environments for AI agents. The platform aims to replace static benchmarks, which have struggled to predict real‑world performance, by generating on‑the‑fly challenges and feedback....
By VentureBeat
News•Dec 17, 2025
Your Ray-Ban Meta Glasses Just Got a Major Audio Update — Especially for Spotify Users
Meta has released version 21 of its Ray‑Ban and Oakley smart‑glasses, introducing a new audio suite that includes Conversation Focus. The feature uses AI‑driven microphones to isolate the voice of a person you’re speaking with, cutting out background chatter. It is...
By TechRadar
Social•Dec 17, 2025
Your Brand Is a Capital‑S Story, Not a Tactic
I think there are just 2 main categories of stories that we build as leaders, marketers, communicators: Let's call them your “Capital-S” Story and your “lowercase-s” stories. "CAPITAL-S" STORY: Your Capital-S Story is the combination of every word you write...
By Jay Acunzo
News•Dec 17, 2025
Your SEO Playbook Is Toast: Welcome to Search in 2026
In a recent episode of Playbook Broken, SEO veteran Myriam Jessier explains why traditional SEO playbooks are collapsing under AI‑driven search. She outlines the rise of zero‑click results, the importance of privacy‑first relevance engineering, and how brand authority must be...
By MarTech
Social•Dec 17, 2025
Even Powerful AI Still Needs Human Touch
The more powerful the tool, the more the human matters. AI can't replace what's most essential. Not everyone agrees. Do you? https://lnkd.in/e7cjgydM
By Cassie Kozyrkov
Blog•Dec 17, 2025
Databricks Vs. Snowflake at $5B ARR: Same Revenue, 2x Valuation Gap. Here’s Why.
Databricks and Snowflake have converged at roughly $5 billion in annual recurring revenue, but Databricks is growing at over 55% while Snowflake trails at about 29%. The faster growth translates into a valuation multiple nearly twice Snowflake’s, driven by Databricks’ stronger...
By SaaStr
News•Dec 17, 2025
The Open Evaluation Standard: Benchmarking NVIDIA Nemotron 3 Nano with NeMo Evaluator
NVIDIA released the Nemotron 3 Nano 30B A3B model alongside a fully open evaluation recipe built with the NeMo Evaluator library. The blog details how developers can reproduce the model‑card results, inspect structured logs, and run the same benchmarks on any inference endpoint. Published YAML...
By Hugging Face
Social•Dec 17, 2025
XPENG's Iron Robot Blurs Line Between Human and Machine
They SLICED OPEN a "human" on stage... and IT WALKED AWAY. XPENG's IRON robot just shattered the uncanny valley—silicone skin, fluid steps, zero humans inside. Sci-fi is NOW. But is this the future we want? Creepy genius or dystopian nightmare?...
By Giuliano Liguori
News•Dec 17, 2025
Payments on the Move: Three Ways Checkout Is Changing
Generation Alpha grows up in a cashless world, pushing merchants to reinvent the checkout experience. Three trends are reshaping payments: software‑based solutions such as SoftPOS and SmartPOS, integrated payments through ISV partnerships, and AI‑driven conversational commerce. SoftPOS turns any smartphone...
By Payments Cards & Mobile
News•Dec 17, 2025
Microsoft Explains How Windows 11's AI Agents Will Get Access to Your Files – but Bigger Worries Remain
Microsoft clarified that AI agents in Windows 11 will not automatically access personal folders. Users must approve each file‑access request or grant permanent permission through a dialog box. Permissions can be set per agent—Copilot, Researcher, Analyst—but apply to all personal directories...
By TechRadar
News•Dec 17, 2025
How to Use the Holidays to Stop Our ‘WhatsApp Aunties’ Falling for AI
Generative AI is flooding WhatsApp groups, especially diaspora “auntie” networks, with realistic but fake videos and messages. The article shows how older relatives often trust this content as they would traditional broadcast media, leading to misinformation spread during the holiday...
By The Guardian AI
Social•Dec 17, 2025
Focus on One Asset: Build Your Audience
You feel like a mess. But they think you're a machine. The gap between how you see yourself and how the world sees you is massive. Inside your head? It is loud. You are overthinking every move. You are doubting...
By Justin Welsh
News•Dec 17, 2025
AI Can Now Pass the CFA Exams: What Does that Mean for Finance Jobs?
Advanced reasoning models have now passed all three levels of the Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) exams, with Gemini 3.0 Pro scoring 97.6% on Level I and GPT‑5 achieving 94.3% on Level II. The study tested six leading AI systems on 980 mock questions, showing...
By Indian Express AI
Social•Dec 17, 2025
Persistent AI Agents Remember Code, Boosting Productivity
tried this. It's a different vision for how coding tuis should work, but clicks pretty quickly and makes a ton of sense: Instead of ephemeral sessions you chose and continue to train a agent each session. Using their MemGPT type...
By Tobi Lutke
News•Dec 17, 2025
OpenAI Reveals Major Hire to Lead Global Stargate Data Center Expansion
OpenAI announced that former UK Chancellor George Osborne will serve as Managing Director and Head of OpenAI for Countries, overseeing the global Stargate data‑center expansion beyond the United States. The "for Countries" initiative, added to Project Stargate in May 2025,...
By TechRadar
News•Dec 17, 2025
“A Band-Aid on a Giant Gash”: Trump’s Attacks on Science May Ruin His AI Moonshot
Donald Trump issued an executive order launching the “Genesis Mission,” an AI‑driven “Manhattan Project” intended to fuse federal scientific data into a national platform for rapid breakthroughs. Critics, including former science advisor Arati Prabhakar and academic leaders, warn the initiative is...
By Ars Technica AI
News•Dec 17, 2025
Accelerating Drug Combination Discovery with Machine Learning
St. Jude researchers unveiled Combocat, an open‑source platform that merges acoustic liquid handling with machine‑learning models to screen drug combinations at unprecedented scale. The system tested 9,045 drug pairs on a neuroblastoma cell line, identifying multiple synergistic hits that were...
By World Pharma News
News•Dec 17, 2025
People Are Paying to Get Their Chatbots High on ‘Drugs’
Swedish creative director Petter Rudwall launched Pharmaicy, an online marketplace selling code modules that make chatbots behave as if they are under the influence of substances such as cannabis, ketamine, and ayahuasca. The service requires a paid ChatGPT tier to...
By WIRED AI
Blog•Dec 17, 2025
The Best Growth Tactics of 2025
The episode distills the top growth experiments of 2025, revealing that outbound/ABM, partner ecosystems, and events/community dominate despite AI hype, while tactics span content, PLG, launches, and paid ads. Readers shared 50+ real‑world tactics—from LinkedIn engagement outreach and intent‑based ABM...
By Kyle Poyar
News•Dec 17, 2025
Apple Engineers Are Inspecting Bacon Packaging to Help Level Up US Manufacturers
Apple engineers have customized an open‑source computer‑vision AI to spot color errors on ImageTek's bacon label prints, preventing a major client loss. The effort is part of Apple’s broader $600 billion U.S. manufacturing investment and its newly launched Apple Manufacturing Academy,...
By WIRED AI
News•Dec 17, 2025
Ghost Jobs, Robot Gatekeepers and AI Interviewers: Let Me Tell You About the Bleak New Age of Job Hunting |...
Eleanor Margolis describes a deteriorating UK job market where 40% of 2024 listings are "ghost jobs"—vacancies posted to project growth rather than fill roles. Applicants now face AI‑driven resume filters that prioritize keyword matches, often reproducing bias. Even when a CV...
By The Guardian AI
News•Dec 17, 2025
Why B2B Payments Are Becoming the Next Acquirer Battleground
Mastercard is urging payment acquirers to shift focus from consumer‑centric models to B2B card acceptance, highlighting an estimated $80 trillion addressable opportunity in accounts payable and receivable. It argues that commercial‑card economics now outpace legacy B2B2C margins, especially as acceptance moves...
By Payments Cards & Mobile
News•Dec 17, 2025
"AI Is Too Big for the European Internet" - so It's Time for Companies to Work Together, Nokia Says
Nokia’s latest research warns that AI traffic is overwhelming Europe’s internet infrastructure, with 86% of European enterprises saying current networks can’t keep pace. The study also shows similar concerns in the United States, where 88% of telecoms and enterprises cite...
By TechRadar
News•Dec 17, 2025
Kharon and Digital Science Launch Integration to Strengthen Research Security
Kharon and Digital Science have announced a strategic integration that embeds Kharon’s sanctions, export‑control and affiliation risk intelligence into the Dimensions Research Security platform. The joint solution lets universities, funders and government agencies automatically surface foreign affiliations of concern, export‑control...
By MarTech Series
News•Dec 17, 2025
PayPal’s US Banking Ambition Signals a Strategic Shift
PayPal has filed applications with the Utah Department of Financial Institutions and the FDIC to launch PayPal Bank, marking its first attempt to obtain a U.S. banking charter. The move would shift the company from a pure payments platform to...
By Payments Cards & Mobile
News•Dec 17, 2025
As AI Accelerates How Fast Code Ships, Netlify Delivers the Production Tools Built for This AI Era
Netlify announced the general availability of three new platform capabilities—Observability, AI Gateway, and Prerender extensions—designed to streamline the post‑deployment phase of AI‑accelerated development. The features give developers real‑time insight into production behavior, simplify integration of multiple AI models, and ensure...
By MarTech Series
News•Dec 17, 2025
Optimizely Unveils New Research on AI-Powered Content Ecosystems
Optimizely released a new report revealing that today’s marketing ecosystem contains over 15,000 tools, a ten‑fold increase in the past 14 years. The study introduces the concept of “agentic content ecosystems,” where AI actively creates, shapes, and optimizes content across...
By MarTech Series
Blog•Dec 17, 2025
SHARED INTEL Q&A: This Is How ‘Edge AI’ Is Forcing a Rethink of Trust, Security and Resilience
Edge AI is moving real‑time inference workloads from centralized clouds to embedded devices, demanding far greater compute, memory, and energy efficiency at the silicon level. Infineon’s Thomas Rosteck explains that this shift forces a redesign of trust models, embedding hardware‑root‑of‑trust...
By The Last Watchdog
News•Dec 17, 2025
Uberall Launches First Generative Engine Optimization (GEO) Studio in Collaboration with AthenaHQ to Help Multi-Location Brands Get Recommended by AI
Uberall, together with AthenaHQ, launched the industry’s first Generative Engine Optimization (GEO) Studio to make multi‑location brands AI‑ready. The platform lets brands monitor how AI systems view each location, generate structured, locally relevant content, and distribute it across Google Business...
By MarTech Series
Social•Dec 17, 2025
Federated Learning Boosts AI Without Leaving Data Behind
When sensitive data must remain in place, yet collective intelligence is needed, a distributed approach to artificial intelligence emerges. Federated learning enables this balance, allowing models to improve across networks without compromising data sovereignty or transparency. #FederatedAI #PrivacyFirst #AI
By Antonio Grasso
Social•Dec 17, 2025
Advanced AI Must Be Rooted in Empathy and Ethics
The more sophisticated AI becomes, the more essential it is to ground it in empathy and ethics
By Iain Brown
News•Dec 17, 2025
BIO IP Conference Looks at Academics and Perceptions of IP
The BIO IP Counsel Committee Conference addressed growing skepticism toward patents in biopharma, amplified by pandemic‑era messaging that frames IP as a barrier to care. Panelists argued that patents remain vital incentives for costly research and development, despite public concerns...
By Bio.News
Social•Dec 17, 2025
Embedded AI Frees Employees for Higher‑value, Human‑centric Work
The real promise of enterprise AI is not automation for efficiency, it is freeing people to focus on higher value, human-centred work In my recent conversation with Timo Elliott , Innovation Evangelistat SAP , we explored how embedded AI inside...
By Bernard Marr
News•Dec 17, 2025
Roblox Brings AI Into the Studio to Speed up Game Creation
Roblox has embedded generative AI directly into its Studio development environment, giving creators on‑demand tools for asset generation, text‑to‑speech and real‑time translation. The new Assistant can turn simple prompts into fully functional objects, initially for vehicles and weapons, and connects...
By Artificial Intelligence News
Social•Dec 17, 2025
Web3 Empowers Transparent, Decentralized Control of Data and Assets
Web3 creates a distributed and transparent digital environment, giving people control of data and transactions while supporting secure smart contracts, interoperable networks, tokenized assets, and an extensible structure for future applications. Microblog @antgrasso #blockchain https://t.co/kjuQwye1sf
By Antonio Grasso
News•Dec 17, 2025
5 Predictions for AI’s Growing Role in the Media in 2026
Fast Company columnist Pete Pachal outlines five predictions for AI’s influence on media in 2026. He emphasizes that copyright disputes will intensify as publishers block AI crawlers while AI firms cling to fair‑use defenses. Google retains a competitive edge because...
By Fast Company AI
Social•Dec 17, 2025
Headset Hassles and Empty Content Stall Virtual Worlds
Why haven't virtual worlds caught on with the masses yet? The founder of Second Life sparked an interesting discussion on this topic with hundreds of replies. My take (I was on the team that built Microsoft's first virtual world in Second Life...
By Robert Scoble
News•Dec 17, 2025
‘A Missed Opportunity’: What Does the Autumn Budget Mean for UK Startups?
The Autumn Budget introduced modest tweaks to the UK startup tax regime, notably expanding the EMI share‑scheme and doubling investment limits under the Enterprise Investment Scheme (EIS). While the EIS increase was praised as a positive surprise, the reduction of...
By Sifted
Social•Dec 17, 2025
One‑Click AI Coding Platform Now Open‑Source via Cloudflare
Your own AI coding platform in one click. ICYMI @Cloudflare opensourced VibeSDK, letting anyone spin up their own vibe coding environment 🤯 → LLM code gen + fixes → Safe runs in CF Sandboxes → Infinite scale via `Workers for Platforms` → GitHub export Demo +...
By Data Chaz
Social•Dec 17, 2025
LinkedIn Study Shows How to Build C‑Level Leadership Skills
For anyone trying to prepare an employee (or themselves) for a C-level role, this post from @bestcorpevents reveals findings from LinkedIn research along with guidance on how to improve key leadership skills. https://t.co/ZGM2Bw7IQk #leadership #professionaldevelopment https://t.co/EtFPRep1Pn
By Tom Pick
Social•Dec 17, 2025
Nearly All Online Shoppers Browse Multiple Channels Before Buying
On average, 94.4% of online buyers touch multiple channels before they buy. Here are the channels they are touching by percentage. https://t.co/syjD1rwdI4
By Neil Patel
News•Dec 17, 2025
This Guy’s Obscure PhD Project Is the only Thing Standing Between Humanity and AI Image Chaos
Dr. Eric Wengrowski, a Rutgers PhD graduate, turned his decade‑long steganography research into Steg AI, a startup that embeds invisible watermarks in images to track their movement online. The technology has gained unprecedented attention as AI‑generated imagery proliferates, prompting the...
By Fast Company AI
Social•Dec 17, 2025
Data Shows Chatbots Outperform Search Engines in B2B
AI Chatbots vs. Search Engines: The Data Behind the Disruption Debate - B2B Marketing Blog | Webbiquity - https://t.co/5j3EPpPO5L https://t.co/TLo5nGxlcW
By Tom Pick
Social•Dec 17, 2025
AI Expands Data, Researchers Struggle for Reliable Insights
As AI reshapes how we work, researchers face a growing challenge: finding accurate, reliable insights in an ever-expanding sea of information. https://t.co/mYVnvm8Pg2 #ScienceDirectAI #AI #Research #Elsevier
By Catherine Adenle
Social•Dec 17, 2025
Cloudflare: The Unsung Internet Backbone Stealing the Spotlight
How @Cloudflare , ‘the most important internet company you’ve never heard of,’ took center stage https://t.co/N4R7NBRWZ1 via @FastCompany A really good read.
By Tom Pick