News•Nov 3, 2025
I Put Napster View AI on My MacBook Pro, and I'm Now Convinced No One Needs This Much Face Time
Napster View is a $99 hardware add‑on for M1‑based MacBooks that projects a circular holographic screen above the laptop, housing AI‑driven avatars that act as a “digital team” of specialists and can even create a personal digital twin. The system integrates multiple LLMs (including OpenAI and Gemini) and offers a subscription‑based AI service at $49 per month for tasks like financial analysis, coding assistance, and wellness guidance. Reviewers praise the sleek hardware and the novelty of the holographic effect, but criticize the uncanny‑valley avatars, limited practical utility, privacy concerns of an always‑on mic, and the Mac‑only ecosystem.
By TechRadar
Social•Nov 3, 2025
Employee Influence on Tech Doubles Job Satisfaction
I was reading a Gallup analysis on workplace tech adoption, and it sparked a bigger reflection. When employees have influence over the tools they use, their job satisfaction climbs sharply. In fact, workers who say they have a lot of...
By Tiffani Bova
Social•Nov 3, 2025
Dream Big First, Then Build With Available Resources
Melanie Perkins (co-founder and CEO of Canva) on "Column B" thinking: "There are two ways of planning. Imagine you you're building a castle on the hill. One way is imagining what would be the most magical, wonderful, mythical, castle you...
By Lenny Rachitsky
News•Nov 3, 2025
Adobe Warns Workforces Risk Being Left Behind without Creative and AI Skills
Adobe’s latest research shows 19% of UK workers feel they lack the creative and digital skills needed for an AI‑driven future, while 65% of job seekers consider AI expertise essential for landing their ideal role. A third of hiring managers...
By TechRadar
Social•Nov 3, 2025
AI Coaches Will Transform Preventative Health in Decade
AI coaching is going to revolutionize preventative health Whoop now tracks bloodwork and biomarkers, combining with sleep, strain, and recovery data for personalized AI plans It's just the start, but in 10 years everyone will probably have a personal AI coach/doctor that's...
By Rowan Cheung
Social•Nov 3, 2025
Top Marketing Legends Share AI Lead‑Gen Secrets – Free Webinar
Imagine an event where your heroes of digital marketing are all presenting. That event is happening on Wednesday. My heroes will be there. It's a free webinar totally focused on lead gen and conversion. I'm doing a session on AI for lead generation....
By Andy Crestodina
News•Nov 3, 2025
The State of AI: Is China About to Win the Race?
The Financial Times and MIT Technology Review debate the AI rivalry between the United States and China, noting that China now leads in AI citations (22.6% of global citations) and patents (69.7% of filings) and has overtaken the U.S. in...
By MIT Technology Review
Social•Nov 3, 2025
Tesla's AI Paves Way for Autonomous Humanoid Revolution
It won’t matter. Now that I see what Tesla and xAI is up to, building a world model, that knows EVERYTHING, I am 100% convinced that Tesla will be the world leader in humanoids. And will be all autonomous within three years. I...
By Robert Scoble
Social•Nov 3, 2025
TalkStories Lets Founders Grow Audiences by Speaking Daily
A few months ago, @MrWillNelson had a simple idea: What if founders could grow their audience on social media just by talking? That idea became TalkStories, a tool that calls you daily, captures your insights, and turns them into posts. I’ve used the...
By Hiten Shah
News•Nov 3, 2025
AI Belongs to Humanity, Not Superpowers
Professor Himanshu Tyagi critiques Donald Trump’s AI Action Plan, arguing that deregulation and a nationalist competition mindset misinterpret how AI advances. He stresses that AI’s progress depends on global talent, open‑source collaboration and diverse data, citing that immigrants founded 55 % of...
By TechRadar
Social•Nov 3, 2025
Buy AI Unless Your Data Is a True Moat
When should you buy AI vs build AI? Most teams start with the wrong assumption: that building means innovation. In reality, it usually means distraction. Buying wins when speed, scale, and integration matter. Building only pays off when your data itself is...
By Cassie Kozyrkov
Social•Nov 3, 2025
Elite Small Teams Beat Size for Speed and Scalability
Founder of company doing billions in revenue only has 300 employees. Doesn’t allow for hiring any new head count until it feels like people will quit from excruciating pain. Waits to see if the responsibilities can be absorbed by the org. Personally interviews...
By Eric Siu
News•Nov 3, 2025
OpenAI Strikes $38 Billion AI Training Deal with Amazon
OpenAI signed a seven‑year, $38 billion agreement with Amazon Web Services that grants the AI firm access to hundreds of thousands of Nvidia GPUs, with all capacity slated for deployment by the end of 2026 and the option to expand through...
By The Verge AI
Social•Nov 3, 2025
Innovation Thrives on Iteration, Not One‑off Ideas
Most big companies get innovation all wrong. They think it's about chasing the next big idea. But IBM's top software leader, Rob Thomas, points out, what really drives innovation isn't ideation, it's iteration. Too many teams treat innovation like a one-and-done event. They...
By Carla Johnson
Social•Nov 3, 2025
VC Carry Reveals How Much of You They Own
Founders: Ask your VCs in a quiet moment how much carry they have in the fund Very roughly, multiple this by the funds' ownership stake in your startup … and then once again by 0.2 That's about how much they own of you
By Jason Lemkin
News•Nov 3, 2025
Five Ways to Build a Data Foundation that Actually Lasts
The article outlines five essential strategies for creating a durable data foundation that powers AI, beginning with unifying customer identities across systems to eliminate fragmented profiles. It stresses the need for clean, up‑to‑date data to prevent AI failures, recommends a...
By TechRadar
Blog•Nov 3, 2025
AI Wins When It Does The GTM Work … People Won’t
Jason Lemkin reports that SaaStr’s AI‑driven SDR booked a six‑figure sponsor meeting at 6:02 PM on a Saturday, a task virtually no human rep would perform. He argues AI’s value lies in handling the low‑energy, time‑sensitive GTM work that humans avoid,...
By SaaStr
News•Nov 3, 2025
The Rise of Agentic AI in Cybersecurity
Agentic AI, autonomous systems that can reason, adapt and act without constant prompting, is poised to become a major disruptor in cybersecurity, with forecasts that one‑third of enterprise applications will embed such agents by 2028. The technology promises to alleviate...
By TechRadar
Social•Nov 3, 2025
Engineer Informal Moments to Build Remote Trust
Trust is what happens between the meetings. Not in the agenda. Not in the slides. It's built in the tiny moments—the hallway chats, the "how's your dad doing?" check-ins, the post-call laughs. That's where culture quietly compounds. Remote teams don't get those moments...
By Simon Sinek
Social•Nov 3, 2025
Startups Advance in Small Leaps, Not Silver Bullets
Startups are 1 step back, 2 steps forward, 1 step back, 2 steps forward, etc. From the outside, HubSpot might seem like a smooth up-and-to-the-right story. It belies what actually goes on inside. The best way I’d describe HubSpot is two...
By Brian Halligan
News•Nov 3, 2025
Windows 11 Is Finally Getting a Handy Bluetooth Headphone Sharing Feature for some – Here's How It Works
Microsoft has rolled out a preview of a new "shared audio" feature in Windows 11 (build 26220.7051) that lets two Bluetooth LE Audio headsets receive the same sound stream from a single PC. The capability is accessed via a Quick Settings tile and...
By TechRadar
News•Nov 3, 2025
Brand Networks Expands Aimy with AI-Powered TV Advertising, Built on Comcast’s Universal Ads API
Brand Networks announced that its AI‑driven advertising platform Aimy will now support TV campaigns through integration with Comcast’s Universal Ads API. The upgrade enables advertisers to generate, target and optimize TV spots automatically, using real‑time audience data from Comcast’s X1...
By MarTech Series
News•Nov 3, 2025
Cisco Debuts New Unified Edge Platform for Distributed Agentic AI Workloads
Cisco unveiled the Unified Edge platform, a converged system that bundles compute, networking, storage and built‑in zero‑trust security into a single, modular chassis designed for distributed, agentic AI workloads at the edge. The solution offers zero‑touch deployment, centralized management via...
By MarTech Series
News•Nov 3, 2025
Google Has a New Experimental DeepMind AI Tool to Help Your SMB Scale Marketing Fast
Google Labs, in partnership with DeepMind, has launched Pomelli, an experimental AI marketing platform aimed at small and medium‑size businesses. The tool builds a brand profile from a company’s website, then suggests custom campaign ideas and generates on‑brand assets that...
By TechRadar
News•Nov 3, 2025
Cisco Supercharges Its Secure Enterprise Network Architecture for the AI Era
Cisco unveiled a suite of AI‑ready networking innovations aimed at modernizing campus, branch and industrial environments. The rollout introduces AgenticOps—a platform that blends a proprietary large‑language model with AI Assistant to automate tasks, provide unified Meraki‑Catalyst visibility, and enable AI‑driven...
By MarTech Series
News•Nov 3, 2025
DXC Named a Leader by IDC MarketScape in Worldwide AI Services for National Civilian Government
DXC Technology was named a Leader in IDC’s 2025 MarketScape for Worldwide AI Services for National Civilian Government, topping a review of 20 vendors. The report cites DXC’s AI‑driven legacy‑modernization tools, deep sector expertise across tax, welfare, justice and home‑affairs...
By MarTech Series
Social•Nov 3, 2025
Turn ChatGPT Into a Friendly Therapist with Simple Prompts
3 AI Prompts That Turn ChatGPT Into Your Friend and Therapist Exploring unconventional uses of AI—this article shares practical prompts to shift ChatGPT from a tool to a companion or support aid, with caution around boundaries and ethics. Read more https://lnkd.in/eJXKC4Rw #ChatGPT...
By Bernard Marr
News•Nov 3, 2025
Codacy Launches Free AI Coding Risk Assessment to Benchmark AI Security and Compliance Posture
Codacy announced a free AI Coding Risk Assessment service that lets developers benchmark the security, privacy and regulatory compliance of AI‑generated code. The tool scans codebases for vulnerabilities, data‑handling issues and compliance gaps, delivering a risk score and remediation recommendations,...
By MarTech Series
News•Nov 3, 2025
Acxiom and ReachTV Partner to Launch Industry-First Data-Powered Travel Media Network
Acxiom and ReachTV announced a partnership to create the industry’s first data‑powered travel media network, combining Acxiom’s granular consumer‑travel data with ReachTV’s linear TV inventory across more than 100 stations. The joint platform will enable advertisers to deliver real‑time, location‑based...
By MarTech Series
News•Nov 3, 2025
Microsoft Inks $9.7B Deal with Australia’s IREN for AI Cloud Capacity
Microsoft signed a five‑year, $9.7 billion contract with Australia’s IREN to secure AI cloud capacity built on Nvidia’s GB300 GPUs, to be deployed at IREN’s 750‑megawatt facility in Childress, Texas, through 2026. IREN is concurrently investing about $5.8 billion in GPUs and...
By TechCrunch AI
News•Nov 3, 2025
Merkle Partners with Airship to Create Mobile Loyalty Accelerator Solution for Salesforce Marketing Cloud
Merkle, the dentsu‑owned CX consultancy, has teamed with Airship and Salesforce Marketing Cloud to launch a mobile‑first loyalty accelerator that integrates Salesforce Loyalty Management with Airship’s real‑time mobile messaging and wallet capabilities. The solution lets marketers design and deploy loyalty...
By MarTech Series
News•Nov 3, 2025
Zenity Launches Runtime Protection for AI Agents Built with OpenAI AgentKit
Zenity announced a new Runtime Protection solution designed specifically for AI agents built on OpenAI’s AgentKit. The offering adds a lightweight security layer that monitors agent behavior in real time, enforces policy controls, and blocks malicious or out‑of‑bounds actions without...
By MarTech Series
News•Nov 3, 2025
LG Founder’s Grandson, Production Firm Partner up to Bring AI to Filmmaking
LG Group founder’s grandson Brian Koo, via investment firm Stock Farm Road, has launched a 50‑50 joint venture with AI film producer Utopai Studios called Utopai East. The JV will develop AI‑focused infrastructure, anchored by a planned 3‑GW data center...
By TechCrunch AI
Blog•Nov 3, 2025
The Top 10 Mistakes I See In The VP of Sales Hiring Process
The post lists the ten most common errors founders make when hiring a VP of Sales, emphasizing that a successful hire must deeply understand the product, be willing to sell and close deals themselves, and bring a ready pipeline of...
By Jason Lemkin
News•Nov 3, 2025
System1 Introduces Test Your Ad Competitive Edge, the Only Emotion-Driven Creative Intelligence Platform to Help Brands Shape Creative Strategy
System1 unveiled Test Your Ad Competitive Edge, an emotion‑driven creative intelligence platform that aggregates more than 100,000 ads into the world’s largest open effectiveness database. The service combines System1’s proprietary Premium emotional response metrics—Star, Spike and Fluency—with daily refreshed ad...
By MarTech Series
Social•Nov 3, 2025
Q3 Sees Surge in Martech and Adtech Deals
Terence Kawaja and the team at LUMA Partners share the latest data on #martech and #adtech M&A activity from Q3. Overall, the market for martech acquisitions has remained healthy. Although, given how many pre-2020 martech companies are looking for an exit,...
By Scott Brinker
Social•Nov 3, 2025
Transparent Pricing Builds Trust, Drives Massive Sales
In 2009 I became the first pool builder in the world to aggressively discuss pricing online. That one decision led to millions in sales. In 2019 I became the first fiberglass pool manufacturer in the world to have a pricing calculator...
By Marcus Sheridan
News•Nov 3, 2025
Dahua Technology Unveils Regional Hub in Budapest, Strategically Elevating Global AIoT Ecosystem and Localized Value Creation
Dahua Technology inaugurated a new regional showroom in Budapest on Oct. 23, creating a dedicated hub for its Central Eastern Europe, Nordic and Türkiye markets. The facility will showcase the company’s latest AIoT products—such as Full‑color, WizColor, AcuPick, DoLynk Cloud and...
By MarTech Series
Social•Nov 3, 2025
Google's World Model Paradoxically Benefits Apple
Google is building a world model that knows everything too. This is a big win for Apple, even though it looks like a loss.
By Robert Scoble
News•Nov 3, 2025
How to Turn Holiday Shoppers Into Loyal Friends, Not One-Time Buyers
Ed Poppe argues that holiday shoppers can be turned into long‑term brand advocates by replacing discount‑driven loyalty programs with genuine, friend‑like interactions. He cites La Quinta’s 2012‑2014 postcard experiment, where personalized handwritten notes from the VP of Loyalty doubled member...
By MarTech
Social•Nov 3, 2025
Key Traits for Choosing a CSR Team‑Building Partner
11 Qualities to Look for When Partnering with a #CSR #TeamBuilding Company https://t.co/dWk5zRdUxI via @bestcorpevents Here's how to choose a provider that can produce a memorable experience for your employees and make a real impact. #meetingprofs #corporateevents https://t.co/hD5OKgKrdY
By Tom Pick
Social•Nov 3, 2025
Adapt to AI or Risk Becoming Redundant
Will AI replace you, or empower you? 🤔 Artificial Intelligence: Change, Adapt and Evolve or Become Redundant https://t.co/MXS9sqG0f4 A thought-provoking article, by @grattonboy #AI #FutureOfWork @grattongirl https://t.co/vhroANardT
By Harold Sinnott
News•Nov 3, 2025
Why Behavioral Segmentation Beats Personas for Real Personalization
The article argues that traditional demographic or persona‑based targeting oversimplifies customers, while behavioral segmentation captures the motivations and contexts that drive intent. By clustering users around actions, content consumption, and trust signals, brands can build dynamic personalization engines that anticipate...
By MarTech
Social•Nov 3, 2025
Open-Source AI Guide: 200+ Pages, Full Transparency
No excuse anymore not to train your own models! This 200+ pages with full transparency. Let's go open-source AI!
By Clément Delangue
Blog•Nov 3, 2025
How to Price Your AI-First Product: The Death of SaaS Pricing and the Rise of Transactional Models with Defy Ventures’...
Medha Agarwal of Defy VC warned that traditional seat‑based SaaS pricing is being eclipsed by transactional models as AI‑first products can replace or augment labor, allowing companies to sell into larger labor budgets. Transactional pricing—either input‑ or output‑based—captures more value...
By SaaStr
Social•Nov 3, 2025
Gemma AI Uncovers Novel Cancer Therapy Pathway
How a Gemma model helped discover a new potential cancer therapy pathway https://t.co/lMiONmkR5m @GoogleDeepMind #ai #iot #5g #agenticai #ces2026 #Healthcare https://t.co/jGcrTLlnfO
By Harold Sinnott
Social•Nov 3, 2025
Original Thinking Cuts Through AI‑generated Content Flood
Content isn't king (Not anymore) With AI, now anyone can create endless “good-enough” content. How do you break through? Original thinking.
By Katelyn Bourgoin
News•Nov 3, 2025
Why Do Disconnected Data and Silos Persist in Marketing Organizations?
Marketing teams continue to wrestle with data silos caused by departmental ownership, fragmented legacy systems, and cultural resistance to sharing. These technical and organizational barriers prevent a unified customer view, limit AI-driven insights, and create integration and scalability challenges. Overcoming...
By MarTech
Social•Nov 3, 2025
Target Bottom‑Funnel Queries for 6‑10× Higher Conversions
Want more high-intent traffic that actually converts? ChatGPT channel delivers 6-10X better conversion rates, if you leverage bottom-funnel, transactional content. Focus less on generic info, more on topics like "cheap hotels in Tokyo" not "what is Tokyo." LLMs reward high-intent answers.
By Eric Siu
News•Nov 3, 2025
How Agentic AI Is Changing the Future of Marketing
The article promotes the upcoming MarTech Conference keynote on Nov. 4, 2025, where Scott Brinker will discuss the rise of agentic AI—autonomous, goal‑driven systems that act as teammates rather than mere tools. It explains how these AI agents are reshaping research, creative,...
By MarTech