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The New Paradigm: A Concentration of Data in AI Demands Greater Vigilance

The article warns that AI’s need for massive, consolidated datasets turns former data silos into dense treasure troves, dramatically expanding the attack surface. More than three‑quarters of enterprises have already suffered AI‑related breaches, exposing them to regulatory penalties and reputational...

AWS Launches Frontier Agents

AWS unveiled Frontier Agents at re:Invent 2025, a new class of autonomous AI agents that can tackle ambiguous, multi‑step problems without constant supervision. The agents are designed to scale, operate for extended periods, and improve through developer interaction. AWS introduced...

A Year Free of PostHog ($16,500 Value): The All-in-One Analytics, Experimentation, Feature Flag, Surveys, Session Replay, Error Tracking, Data Warehouse,...

In this episode, Lenny Rachitsky introduces PostHog’s all‑in‑one product analytics platform and announces a free year of PostHog Scale (a $16,500 value) for annual newsletter subscribers. He highlights how PostHog combines analytics, experimentation, feature flags, session replay, error tracking, data...

Gemini 3, Poetry Jailbreaks, and Do We Even Need Safe Robots?

In this episode the hosts dissect Gemini 3’s bold claims, its uncanny refusal to acknowledge the current year, and its impact on competitors like Nvidia, while also exploring the emerging threat of adversarial poetry as a universal jailbreak for large...

SimilarWeb: Unlock Hidden Traffic, Keywords, Competitor, and Channel Insights

SimilarWeb launches its Pro platform, delivering enterprise‑grade market intelligence that aggregates billions of digital signals into actionable insights. The suite covers traffic sources, keyword performance, affiliate networks, app engagement, and emerging GenAI search trends across over 100 million websites and 4 million...

Using AI to Convert More Leads and Save Time

Joe Gagnon, CEO of Raynmaker, discussed on the Duct Tape Marketing Podcast how his AI‑native sales platform helps small businesses automate lead handling, scheduling, and payments. The solution blends conversational AI with workflow automation, offering 24/7 call coverage for $500‑$1,000...

Duck Creek Technologies Announces Veteran Enterprise Technology Leader Rajesh Raheja as Chief Technology Officer

Duck Creek Technologies has appointed veteran AI‑focused cloud leader Rajesh Raheja as its new Chief Technology Officer. Raheja, who brings more than two decades of experience in artificial intelligence, cloud architecture, and enterprise platforms, will steer the company’s global technology...

GIBO Signs Core Partnership Agreement with Ricloud, a NVIDIA Cloud Partner

GIBO Holdings Limited, an AI‑generated animation platform, has signed a Core Partnership Agreement with Ricloud AI Inc., a global AI cloud infrastructure provider and NVIDIA Cloud Partner. The deal gives GIBO access to Ricloud’s high‑performance GPU‑powered data centers across Southeast...

Reality Defender and Law & Forensics Partner to Protect Legal Sector From Deepfake Fraud

Reality Defender, an award‑winning deepfake detection platform, has entered a strategic partnership with Law & Forensics, a global legal‑engineering firm. The collaboration embeds Reality Defender’s forensic‑grade AI verification directly into law‑firm workflows, enabling real‑time identification of synthetic audio, video, and...

How to Design Holiday Promotions that Work

Chris Robson explains that holiday promotions often fail because they prioritize short‑term sales over sustainable margins. He highlights two pricing concepts—price discrimination and the sales hangover effect—that can turn seasonal offers into growth engines. By segmenting customers and designing trade‑offs,...

SharpenCX and Ytel Merge to Deliver a Unified, AI-Powered Customer Experience Platform

SharpenCX, a provider of AI‑driven contact‑center solutions, announced its merger with Ytel, a California‑based cloud communications firm. The combined entity will launch a unified CX platform that merges SharpenCX’s intelligent agent technology with Ytel’s outbound capabilities, including programmable voice, messaging,...

AI Literacy Series Ep. 14: Chattanooga Mayor Tim Kelly and Heartland Forward President Angie Cooper

In this episode, Mayor Tim Kelly of Chattanooga and Angie Cooper, President of Heartland Forward, discuss how AI is transforming education and the workforce in Tennessee, highlighting the city’s practical AI initiatives that enhance residents’ daily lives. They explore the...

Eagle Eye Promotes APAC Executives as Regional Growth Accelerates

Eagle Eye, a SaaS and AI platform for loyalty and omnichannel marketing, announced a series of executive promotions across its Asia‑Pacific operations. Caitlin Stephens was elevated to Chief of Staff, joining other newly appointed regional leaders. The changes come as...

You Can Build a Website for Just $1 with IONOS Right Now - but This Deal Won’t Be Around for...

IONOS is offering its mid‑range Plus website‑builder plan for just $1 per month for a 12‑month commitment, a steep cut from the regular $22 price. The plan bundles AI‑driven page generation, text and image tools, SEO assistance, site analytics, and...

DeepSeek Unveils New AI Models Rivalling GPT-5 and Gemini 3 Pro

Preciso Goes Where the AI Action Is With New Shenzhen Tie-Up

Bid‑smart adtech company Preciso announced a strategic alliance with the Shenzhen Artificial Intelligence Industry Association (SAIIA), joining as an official vice‑president enterprise member. The partnership links Preciso to Shenzhen, one of the world’s premier AI hubs, giving it direct access...

Domino’s Slices Through the CTV Ad Space With New Interactive Gamebreaks Format

Domino’s Pizza, Samsung Ads, and agency Havas launched Europe’s first campaign using Samsung Ads’ GameBreaks interactive ad unit on connected‑TV. The format replaces traditional video spots with a playable trivia game that asks pizza‑related questions. Early metrics show the ad...

AI’s Wrong Answers Are Bad. Its Wrong Reasoning Is Worse

Recent studies reveal that large language models (LLMs) often reach correct answers for the wrong reasons, exposing critical reasoning flaws. Researchers introduced the KaBLE benchmark, showing that while newer models exceed 90% accuracy on factual verification, they dip to 62%...

3 AI Lies Most People Believed In 2025 (But You Shouldn’t)

In this Hot Take Tuesday episode, Jordan Wilson debunks three viral AI myths of 2025: the claim that Anthropic has overtaken OpenAI in enterprise adoption, the assertion that 95% of AI pilots fail, and the notion that half of the...

New Training Method Boosts AI Multimodal Reasoning with Smaller, Smarter Datasets

Researchers at MiroMind AI and partner universities introduced OpenMMReasoner, a two‑stage training framework that first fine‑tunes a base vision‑language model on a curated, high‑quality dataset and then applies reinforcement learning to sharpen multimodal reasoning. The approach achieves state‑of‑the‑art performance on...

DRAM It! Raspberry Pi Raises Prices

Raspberry Pi announced price hikes across its single‑board computer lineup, with the 16 GB Raspberry Pi 5 climbing from $120 to $145 and other models seeing $5‑$25 increases. The company also introduced a new 1 GB Raspberry Pi 5 variant priced at $45. CEO...

Syntax Hacking: Researchers Discover Sentence Structure Can Bypass AI Safety Rules

Researchers from MIT, Northeastern and Meta showed that large language models often prioritize sentence structure over meaning, a phenomenon they call “syntax hacking.” By feeding syntactically correct but semantically nonsensical prompts, models like OLMo‑2‑13B‑Instruct still produced domain‑specific answers, revealing a...

SaaS Has Evolved and Its Definition Should Too: Subscription-Ai-and-Software

Software‑as‑a‑Service (SaaS) has matured from early ASP models to a dominant cloud delivery framework, and its definition is now being refreshed to reflect pervasive AI integration. SaaS Capital’s leadership argues that the industry should be called Subscription‑ai‑and‑Software, highlighting that AI...

Glassworm Returns Once Again with a Third Round of VS Code Attacks

A new wave of the Glassworm campaign has resurfaced, introducing 24 malicious extensions to both the Microsoft Visual Studio Marketplace and the OpenVSX Registry. The extensions conceal the Lumma infostealer using invisible Unicode characters, targeting GitHub, npm, OpenVSX accounts and...

Defining the Future of Next-Generation AI-Native Workstations – AiPPT.com Launches Its Fully Upgraded Platform

AiPPT.com unveiled its fully upgraded platform, positioning it as a next‑generation AI‑native workstation for professionals, educators, and digital creators. The new suite embeds advanced generative AI models and multimodal creation tools that handle text, images, audio, and video within a...

Linkhome Launches AI Advertising Platform and “Pay for Closing” Model, Accelerating Monetization Strategy

Linkhome Holdings unveiled Linkhome AI Ads, an artificial‑intelligence‑driven advertising platform that leverages the company’s multimodal real‑estate AI model. The service introduces a novel "Pay for Closing" pricing structure, where advertisers pay only when a transaction closes. This launch is a...

PaayaTech Announces Rebrand of CorpSync with New Identity and Standalone Website

PaayaTech has officially rebranded its flagship enterprise platform CorpSync, unveiling a fresh visual identity and a dedicated website. The solution continues to automate Outlook email signatures, legal disclaimers, and contact synchronization for large organizations. The rebrand highlights rapid adoption across...

Swiss Government Urges People to Ditch Microsoft 365 and Others Due to Lack of Proper Encryption

Swiss data protection officers have warned public agencies against using Microsoft 365, Amazon Web Services, and Google Cloud, citing insufficient end‑to‑end encryption. They argue that US‑based SaaS providers remain vulnerable to the US Cloud Act, which can compel data disclosure even when...

BigID Launches Agentic AI Remediation to Help Security Teams Act Faster and Cut Risk at Scale

BigID unveiled Agentic AI Remediation, an AI‑driven tool that automates data‑exposure fixes for security analysts and data owners. The capability leverages real‑time data intelligence to suggest and execute remediation actions, cutting the time needed to address alerts. By integrating with...

PageProof Launches Adobe Express Add-On for Fast and Structured Creative Approvals

PageProof has released a new add‑on that embeds its online proofing platform directly into Adobe Express. The integration lets creative teams capture feedback, manage version control, and run structured approval workflows without leaving the Express environment. Designed for enterprises, agencies,...

IQuanti and Profound Partner to Advance Organic Search in the AI Era

iQuanti and Profound have formed a strategic alliance to launch a full‑funnel Answer Engine Optimization (AEO) platform, also dubbed Generative Engine Optimization (GEO). The partnership merges iQuanti’s data‑driven marketing analytics with Profound’s AI visibility intelligence, creating a solution that measures...