New Video Frontiers 2026: What to Expect
VideoWeek’s New Video Frontiers 2026 conference kicks off tomorrow in London, gathering broadcasters, agencies, platforms and brands for two days of CTV, AI and ad‑tech discussions. Day 1 features a fireside on brand‑marketer pressures, Omdia’s CTV forecasts, AI‑powered ad‑trading infrastructure, and panels on fragmentation, OS layers and European broadcaster strategies. The parallel Future Stage explores AI‑enhanced creativity, sports streaming monetisation, creator economics and vertical video formats. Day 2 consolidates on the Main Stage with a TV Rise Forum, startup showcases, SME‑focused sessions and deep dives into measurement, agency AI adoption and media‑freedom issues.
Scale Only When Customers Truly See Your Value
One of the most common failure points I see in startup scaling isn't running out of money or losing to a competitor. It's scaling before the business is actually ready — and not having a rigorous way to know the...
GitHub Invokes Spirit of Phabricator with Preview of Stacked PRs
GitHub has introduced Stacked PRs, a private‑preview feature that lets developers create a series of dependent pull requests. Each PR in the stack can be reviewed and merged independently, provided its predecessors are merged first, encouraging smaller, more manageable changes....
GitHub Invokes Spirit of Phabricator with Preview of Stacked PRs
GitHub has opened a private preview of Stacked PRs, a feature that lets developers build a series of dependent pull requests that can be reviewed and merged one at a time or all together. By encouraging smaller, logical units of...
I Feel So Sorry for My A.I. Sunglasses
Meta has launched AI‑powered smart sunglasses that look like ordinary Ray‑Ban or Oakley frames but hide Wi‑Fi, Bluetooth, speakers, microphones and a wide‑angle camera. The glasses feature a voice assistant that can speak in celebrity tones such as Kristen Bell,...
ComfyUI Now Supports Sonilo via Partner Nodes
ComfyUI now integrates Sonilo, an AI‑powered video‑to‑music service, through Partner Nodes. The new node generates frame‑by‑frame soundtracks that align with a video's length, pacing, and emotional cues, delivering full‑length tracks in seconds. All output includes commercial‑ready usage rights, removing licensing...
When It Comes To Marketplaces, More Is Exponentially Better
Mirakl’s 2026 Sellers Report, covering 100,000 sellers and $15 billion in GMV, shows multi‑channel marketplace sellers vastly outperform single‑channel peers. Sellers on two or more marketplaces generate an average $10.1 million GMV, a 17.5‑fold increase over those on a single platform. Brands...
How to Record Video Content That Translates Cleanly with AI
The article explains that AI‑driven video translation only mirrors the quality of the original recording, so creators must treat multilingual distribution as a primary goal. It advises speakers to plan structure, pause briefly, keep sentences short, avoid idioms, and ensure...
Conversational CRM: What It Is and Why It Matters
Conversational CRM blends real‑time messaging, AI, and traditional customer data to let teams manage relationships directly within the collaboration tools they already use. By automatically capturing emails, chats, and SMS, the approach eliminates manual data entry and surfaces insights through...
HubSport Launches Spring 2026 Release
HubSpot announced its Spring 2026 release, adding over 100 new and updated products aimed at AI‑enhanced go‑to‑market operations. The flagship HubSpot AEO tool extends SEO into answer‑engine optimization for platforms like ChatGPT, Gemini and Perplexity. New assistants—including Breeze Assistant, Prospecting Agent,...
Genetically Switched Microbes Aim to Cut Synthetic Nitrogen Use
Nitrogen fertilizer feeds 4 billion people. It also uses 2% of global energy to produce and loses nearly half of what's applied to runoff. Biology has promised a fix for decades. The problem: engineered microbes that make nitrogen can't also compete...
Hardening the Silicon: Why Analog Anti-Tamper IP Is the New Security Baseline
Analog anti‑tamper IP is emerging as a baseline for hardware security as billions of IoT and automotive SoCs face increasingly sophisticated physical attacks. Hackers now employ fault injection, glitching, side‑channel, and micro‑probing techniques that can bypass software‑only protections and compromise...
Evergent Introduces Agentic Revenue Orchestration Platform
Evergent unveiled its Agentic Revenue Orchestration Platform, a suite of AI‑driven tools designed for subscription businesses in streaming, pay‑TV, telecom and gaming. The platform introduces three agents—Retention, Operations and Customer Support—that predict churn, streamline product creation via natural language, and...
Tekmetric Launches Digital Ads and Tekmetric Phones
Tekmetric announced at its Tektonic 2026 conference the launch of two new services: Tekmetric Digital Ads, a self‑serve platform that boosts auto‑repair shops’ visibility on Google Maps and Yelp, and Tekmetric Phones, an integrated calling solution that surfaces customer history, vehicle...
Artificial Intelligence Is Changing Medical Writing Today
Artificial intelligence is rapidly becoming a staple in medical writing, helping clinicians draft, edit, and synthesize research faster than ever. Yet many writers feel a lingering shame, treating AI assistance as a secret and even disguising their prose to appear...
Khoros Launches Iris AI
Khoros unveiled Iris AI, an AI‑native platform that merges social listening, publishing, engagement and analytics into a single system. The tool processes billions of posts in 187 languages, offering real‑time moderation, sentiment analysis and automated routing of interactions to the right...
AutoRaptor Launches AI Voice Agent
AutoRaptor, a CRM provider for independent auto dealerships, unveiled its AI Voice Agent, a fully automated conversational system that answers inbound calls, qualifies prospects, captures lead details, and schedules appointments. The agent instantly identifies caller intent, routes queries, and logs...
You Are Using Claude Wrong (And So Is Everyone You Know)
Claude surged to the top of the US App Store in early 2026 after a high‑profile Pentagon demo, prompting millions of new users to treat it like ChatGPT. The article argues this is a framing error, because Claude is built...
The CCaaS Opportunity Ahead: How Vendors Can Lead the Next Wave
The contact‑center‑as‑a‑service (CCaaS) market remains a core platform for CX organizations, delivering telephony, omnichannel orchestration, and session management. While AI is emerging as the intelligence layer, it relies on CCaaS for channel transport and data flow. Vendors must expand the...
How Public Records Requests Could Help ‘Fight AI with AI’
Public records requests are overwhelming state and local agencies, a problem amplified by AI‑generated bulk inquiries. Experts argue that the same technology can be repurposed to automate document retrieval, initial review, and redaction, easing the administrative load. Madison AI’s CEO...
Google Adds AI Skills to Chrome to Help You Save Favorite Workflows
Google announced "Skills," a new Chrome feature that lets users save and reuse AI prompts across web pages. The capability builds on Gemini, Google’s generative AI already embedded in the browser, and can be triggered via a slash command or...
Social Media Platforms Need To Stop Never-Ending Scrolling, UK's Starmer Says
UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer urged social‑media firms to strip away infinite‑scroll features for users under 16, as Britain widens its child‑online‑safety consultation. The government is weighing bans, curfews and app‑time limits to curb addictive usage, and more than 45,000...
How to Use Google Chrome’s New AI-Powered ‘Skills’
Google Chrome introduced "Skills," a suite of more than 50 AI‑powered prompts that run through the Gemini chatbot in the browser sidebar. Users can invoke a Skill with a forward slash command, letting Gemini analyze page content to summarize videos,...
Chrome Skills Let You Save Your Favorite Gemini Prompts for Easy Access
Google is rolling out a new "Skills" feature to Chrome on desktop, letting users save favorite Gemini prompts for instant reuse. Users can store prompts directly from the Gemini chat history and retrieve them with a forward slash or the...
OneAZ Credit Union Extends Strategic Digital Banking Partnership with Lumin Digital
OneAZ Credit Union has renewed its strategic partnership with cloud‑native provider Lumin Digital for an additional five years, extending a relationship that began in 2021. The credit union, serving more than 230,000 members and holding $4.3 billion in assets, relies on...
Google Ads Advertisers Report Wave of Unexplained Ad Disapprovals
Google Ads advertisers are facing a wave of sudden ad disapprovals tied to DNS lookup failures and HTTP 500 server errors, even though their landing pages appear functional for users. In some cases, more than 1,500 ads were rejected within minutes,...
BMW Digital Founder Urges Brands to Trade Moments for Commitments
NeAndre Broussard, chief executive of BMW Digital and founder of the Black Menswear movement, told ADWEEK’s Social Media Week that brands should abandon fleeting viral moments in favor of lasting community commitments. Drawing on six years of building a culturally resonant Black‑men’s fashion...
Solo Founders Need One Unified AI Business Brain
I tried running a “solo founder stack” with 13 different tools. It looked productive. It felt chaotic. Content in Notion. Launch plans in ClickUp. Finances in random sheets. AI scattered across 5 apps that all forget context. That experiment is why I’m building Vora IQ as a...
Bull and Equal1 Partner to Accelerate Hybrid Quantum-HPC Integration in Europe
Bull, a European HPC and AI leader, and Dublin‑based Equal1 have signed a Memorandum of Understanding to fuse Bull’s Qaptiva supercomputing platform with Equal1’s silicon‑spin quantum servers. The collaboration will create a high‑speed connector that lets classical supercomputers run quantum‑accelerated...
Claude Code Routines
Anthropic introduced Claude Code Routines, a cloud‑hosted automation feature that bundles a prompt, repositories, and connectors into a reusable task. Routines can be triggered on a schedule, via an API call, or by GitHub events, and multiple triggers may be...
7 Hip-Hop Artists Who Have Experimented With AI
A Vice/Noisey feature spotlights seven hip‑hop artists—50 Cent, Timbaland, Wyclef Jean, RZA, Will.i.am, K Camp and Kanye West—who are actively experimenting with generative AI in music creation. The piece details how each artist uses AI, from 50 Cent’s AI‑reimagined classics to RZA’s cost‑saving...
TechJutsu Launches Browser Extension to Bring MFA to the Web
TechJutsu, a Calgary‑based identity‑access firm founded in 2015, unveiled its Caller Verify Universal Connector, a browser extension that embeds multi‑factor authentication (MFA) into any web application. The plug‑in works in Chrome and Edge and integrates with major CRM and collaboration...
'Sweater for Houses' Could Reduce Heating Bills by at Least 15%
Researchers at UMass Amherst have created a photothermal “skin” for buildings—a removable fabric panel coated with a PEDOT‑Cl polymer that converts sunlight into heat. Lab tests show the panels can raise indoor temperatures by about 4.8 °C and slash heating energy...
Global South Chooses Modular Electrification Over Fossil Fuels
Emerging Economies Embrace Electrification Over Oil and Gas Daan Walter of ember_energy dishes on why bottom-up, modular electrotech is wildly popular in the Global South. #energytransition https://youtu.be/82uq9hblH4U
Free Custom Video Ads Skyrocket Cold Outreach Responses
A 19-year-old freelancer scraped 5,000 Shopify stores from his bedroom. No degree. No portfolio. No LinkedIn with 10k followers. Just a spreadsheet, Apollo for contacts, and one weird idea that he tested on a loaf of bread Bakers don't hand out menus. They...
How Computer Vision Libraries Are Used in Real Life
Computer vision libraries have moved from research labs to everyday systems, enabling real‑time interpretation of video streams across sectors. Platforms such as Savant AI provide end‑to‑end pipelines, letting developers focus on business logic rather than low‑level image processing. The technology now...
Choose Generalist Super Agent or Specialist Team for CX
Where are you placing your CX chips—a Generalist Super Agent or a Specialist Team of Agents? https://t.co/3kPw7nU30d #AI #AIagent #agenticAI #automation #customersuccess #customerexperience @CastDotApp https://t.co/Xt6Kh3BnZ9
Drop the Checkout Gate, Boost Conversions Like Italic
Italic tested removing their membership gate for Black Friday. 30% of non-member shoppers later converted to paid members. Meanwhile you're forcing customers to create an account before checkout and wondering why your top-of-funnel traffic bounces.
RBM20 Genetic Variants Linked to Arrhythmogenic Dilated Cardiomyopathy
A large cohort study using UK Biobank, All of Us, and an international registry shows that RBM20 gene variants contribute to arrhythmogenic dilated cardiomyopathy (DCM). While pathogenic missense RBM20 variants are linked to severe disease, truncating RBM20 variants present later...
OpenAI Credits Microsoft, Seeks New Partnerships
Microsoft was "foundational" to OpenAI's success, but the ChatGPT maker is exploring new partnerships. https://t.co/jLgwCoUClp
Future Jobs Thrive in Human‑Centric Relational Roles
Where will jobs be in a post-AGI world? "I argue it's what I call the relational sector. Categories where the human isn't just an input into production, it is part of the value." Very good read.
Rent the Runway Turns to Marketplace, Other Sideline Businesses to Stoke Revenue
Rent the Runway is diversifying beyond rentals by offering dry‑cleaning services to hotels, expanding its advertising arm, and launching an online marketplace in March. Revenue rose 7.7% year‑over‑year to about $330 million, while gross margin slipped, yet the company posted a...
As AI Agents Transform Digital Advertising, Where’s the Privacy Architecture?
AI agents are reshaping digital advertising by autonomously creating, placing, and optimizing campaigns, yet privacy considerations are largely missing from the conversation. Rowena Lam argues that without built‑in privacy guardrails, agents could misuse consumer data, create sensitive inferences, and obscure...
NEW STUDY: Frog-Derived Gut Bacterium Completely Eradicates 100% of Tumors After a Single Dose in Mice
A peer‑reviewed study in *Gut Microbes* reports that a single intravenous dose of the frog‑derived gut bacterium Ewingella americana eradicated colorectal tumors in 100% of immunocompetent mice. The live microbe outperformed both doxorubicin chemotherapy and anti‑PD‑L1 checkpoint blockade, achieving complete...
How Your CCTV Becomes a Hacker’s Spy
CCTV systems are increasingly exploited by hackers who use default factory passwords to breach IP cameras worldwide. In India, a cyber‑crime ring stole 50,000 video clips from 80 cameras across 20 states, selling each for roughly $9‑$50. In response, India...
The Compute Crunch
The AI industry is hitting a compute crunch, with token throughput now the real scarcity rather than raw GPU counts. OpenAI’s API traffic surged from roughly 6 billion to 15 billion tokens per minute in five months, and agentic AI models multiply...
Core AI Holdings, Allianca Launch JV to Speed AI Data Center Delivery
Core AI Holdings and Allianca Group have launched a joint venture to fast‑track AI‑ready data center delivery, combining Core AI’s capital‑market expertise with Allianca’s turnkey construction model. The partnership promises an integrated platform that handles site selection, power planning, modular...
Distributed Batteries Get Legislative, Utility Lift in California
California lawmakers are advancing SB 913 to count aggregated residential batteries and electric vehicles as resource‑adequacy capacity, leveling them with traditional generators. Ava Community Energy has launched an $11.25 million SmartHome Battery incentive, offering $500/kWh rebates for low‑income households and $90/kWh for...
Shawn Davis, MD, on Access, Coverage, and the Future of Obesity Therapy
The FDA’s approval of oral semaglutide (Rybelsus) was hailed as a breakthrough for obesity treatment, yet uptake has lagged as patients on injectable GLP‑1s show little interest in switching to a daily pill. Early market confusion stemmed from the drug’s...
Unseen AI, Unchecked Risk: The CISO Wake-Up Call
Shadow AI—unauthorized use of generative AI tools—is emerging as a blind spot for security teams, exposing proprietary code and sensitive data without detection. More than a third of companies still lack formal AI compliance policies, leaving employees free to paste...
