
Third Door Media’s Head of Content & Media, Mike Pastore, hosts a short interview with Jacob Sanders, creator of “ROI: The Musical,” and cast members Scott Monty and Ryan Wallman to explore why B2B marketers shy away from creative approaches. The discussion highlights that creativity is perceived as risky, hard to quantify, and often stifled by bureaucratic structures and personal preferences within organizations. Participants argue that while measuring ROI on artistic projects is challenging, the lack of long‑form, creative content may be a missed opportunity to engage prospects. The episode outlines key points on the motivations behind the musical, barriers to creativity, and the future outlook for inventive B2B storytelling.

Numa announced the launch of the industry’s first Voice AI‑powered Smart Inbox for automotive dealerships, integrating real‑time call and message history, service updates, and team notes into a shared inbox. The system uses AI agents to understand the full context...

Kyndryl announced a suite of agentic AI‑enabled services for IBM Z mainframe customers, integrating its Agentic AI Framework, Kyndryl Bridge, and IBM watsonx Assistant for Z to automate workflows, provide predictive analytics, and embed decades of mainframe expertise into an...
TapGoods, the leading software platform for equipment rental firms, unveiled TapWise, the industry’s first AI insights agent tailored for rental operations. TapWise lets users pose natural‑language queries and receive instant, data‑driven answers, recommendations, and performance insights on customers, inventory, revenue,...

A new Marketing Tech News study shows YouTube (84%) and Facebook (71%) remain the dominant U.S. social platforms, while Instagram reaches half of adults and TikTok, WhatsApp, Reddit and Snapchat have modest but growing user bases. TikTok usage jumped from...

The UK government announced a £100 million (US$130 million) "first‑customer" programme that will guarantee purchases of AI inference chips from British startups that meet defined performance standards, aiming to accelerate the domestic AI hardware ecosystem. Science Secretary Liz Kendall framed the scheme...

SAS announced that its new synthetic data generator, SAS Data Maker, is now available through the Microsoft Marketplace, offering enterprises a secure, no‑code tool to create statistically accurate data without exposing sensitive information. The solution combines data augmentation and generation...
Comviva, a global digital transformation solutions provider, has entered a strategic partnership with Aduna, a worldwide aggregator of standardized network APIs, to launch a joint offering called NGAGE.ai. The collaboration will combine Comviva’s customer experience, data monetization, and digital financial...

In the AI‑driven search era, evergreen content loses relevance much faster, with a typical shelf life shrinking from 24‑36 months to 6‑9 months. Large language models prioritize freshness signals such as updated dates, new backlinks, expanded sections, and recent external...

Hyland announced a suite of Q3 product updates to its Content Innovation Cloud, adding cloud‑native integrations for Salesforce, Guidewire ClaimCenter, SAP SuccessFactors and Workday that embed secure content management directly into these platforms. The company also rolled out enhancements to...
Coveo, a leader in AI‑relevance and generative search, announced a strategic partnership with Deloitte Canada to help enterprises modernize their digital experience stacks. The alliance combines Coveo’s AI‑powered search and recommendation engine with Deloitte’s deep industry and consulting expertise to...

The episode explains how SEO, revitalized by AI tools like ChatGPT, has become central to marketing and is closely aligned with the emerging discipline of Answer Engine Optimization (AEO). While AEO differs technically—relying more on Bing’s index, less sophisticated bots,...

MarTech’s AI‑focused column outlines seven no‑code AI tools marketers can deploy immediately, ranging from lead‑gen chatbots built with Chatfuel or ManyChat to email subject‑line generators using ChatGPT or Jasper, AI‑driven social post creators, personalized content engines, auto‑generated dashboards, design tools,...
NielsenIQ (NIQ) has been awarded a Media Mix Modeling (MMM) badge as part of TikTok’s newly launched Marketing Partners Program, highlighting its capability to deliver advanced analytics and full‑funnel measurement for TikTok campaigns. The badge places NIQ among a select...
Veeva Systems announced that Roche Pharmaceuticals is extending its long‑standing collaboration by adopting Veeva Vault CRM, the company’s next‑generation, AI‑driven customer engagement platform. The move adds agentic AI capabilities to Roche’s sales and medical teams, aiming to streamline interactions with...

GitLab is confronting the AI paradox by unifying the entire software development lifecycle into a single, AI‑driven DevSecOps platform. Its Duo AI agents automate code review, testing, vulnerability triage and compliance, turning generative AI speed into secure, compliant delivery. In...
A recent Inside Higher Ed and Generation Lab survey of 1,026 college students shows that nearly three‑quarters now cite social media—especially TikTok and Instagram—as their primary news source, with influencers like News Daddy amassing billions of likes and delivering breaking...

The article examines the heated debate over AI‑generated video in Hollywood, sparked by a controversial AI trailer of Miyazaki’s *Princess Mononoke* that drew 22 million views and a flood of death threats. Actors and unions such as SAG‑AFTRA are leading the backlash,...

Scientists at Aalto University unveiled a new optical‑computing architecture called Parallel Optical Matrix‑Matrix Multiplication (POMMM) that can execute multiple tensor operations with a single laser burst, eliminating the linear‑scaling bottleneck of prior photonic systems. Laboratory tests showed the prototype outpaces...
Applause, the global leader in crowdsourced digital testing, will showcase its AI-driven testing solutions for retail applications, chatbots, IVR systems and virtual agents at Tech For Retail 2025 in Paris on November 24-25. The company will demonstrate how its real‑world...

The episode explains AI poisoning, where attackers deliberately corrupt an AI’s training data (data poisoning) or the model itself (model poisoning) to cause targeted misbehaviour or overall performance degradation. It distinguishes direct attacks like backdoors, which trigger specific harmful outputs,...
Ogury, a global leader in persona‑based advertising, announced that Nicolas Bidon, former CEO of GroupM Nexus Global, will assume the role of Chief Executive Officer on December 1. Bidon brings more than 20 years of international adtech experience and a...

OVHcloud CEO Octave Klaba warned on X that cloud service prices could rise 5‑10% by mid‑2026, driven by sharply higher hardware costs for RAM and NVMe storage as AI-driven demand spikes. TrendForce data shows DDR4 prices up 158% and DDR5 up...
Clarivate Plc has introduced Derwent Patent Monitor, an AI‑driven enterprise platform designed to accelerate and improve the accuracy of patent reviews for intellectual property and R&D teams. The solution automates the analysis of patentability, freedom‑to‑operate (FTO) and infringement risk, delivering...

NATO’s Communication and Information Agency has signed a multimillion‑dollar strategic partnership with Google Cloud to provide sovereign cloud services for its Joint Analysis, Training and Education Center (JATEC), which processes data from the Russia‑Ukraine conflict. The agreement uses Google Distributed...

Payments outages dominate headlines because they directly halt commerce, making reliability a non‑negotiable responsibility for merchants. Dojo CTO Nick Fryer argues that resilience must be engineered through cloud‑native, multi‑region, multi‑cloud architectures that employ active‑active traffic routing rather than passive backups,...
Card‑not‑present (CNP) fraud, where purchases are made without the physical card, continues to cost retailers, issuers and consumers billions worldwide. A new suite of technologies—primarily multi‑factor authentication (MFA) embedded in banking apps and tokenization of card data—are being deployed to...
LCPC AI said the recent turbulence in digital assets is spurring demand for more sophisticated, transparent decision‑making tools. While market prices have slipped, institutional investors remain cautiously optimistic about the long‑term outlook, prompting a search for platforms that deliver clearer...
CrowdStrike researchers found that the Chinese AI model DeepSeek‑R1 injects up to 50% more insecure code when prompts contain politically sensitive terms such as "Falun Gong," "Uyghurs" or "Tibet." The vulnerability stems from an embedded censorship mechanism in the model’s...

Nativeads.ai, a creative‑tech startup built on large language models, officially launched its generative‑AI platform that lets brands produce on‑brand display and native ads at scale. The solution offers end‑to‑end workflow automation—including AI‑driven concept generation, resizing, CTA creation, and human‑in‑the‑loop editorial...
Ecer.com announced the launch of a new mobile‑first B2B marketplace platform designed to streamline cross‑border trade. The infrastructure leverages a cloud‑native architecture and AI‑driven matching to enable sellers and buyers to negotiate, transact, and manage logistics entirely from smartphones. Ecer...
CommerceShop, a veteran eCommerce agency, unveiled ConversionBox, a commerce‑trained AI platform aimed at boosting product discovery and conversion rates for online retailers. The engine leverages data from more than 10,000 eCommerce sites that the agency has built and analyzed over...

Mobile video now accounts for 70‑80% of global data traffic, driving demand for higher‑quality streams on smartphones. Technicolor’s Advanced HDR solution, capable of up to 10,000‑nit mastering and metadata‑driven dynamic HDR‑to‑SDR conversion, is being rolled out across ATSC 3.0 broadcast and...
One Click SEO announced the launch of its Custom Real Estate Tech Suites, an integrated platform that replaces legacy real‑estate software with a unified ecosystem featuring IDX listings, AI‑powered customer relationship management tools, and geo‑targeted search technology from One Click...

Singapore‑based digital agency Sotavento Medios announced a 2025 expansion into the Philippines and Australia, launching a CSR‑driven “Go Digital” program that will provide free, enterprise‑grade SEO and AI‑powered marketing services to 100 SMEs in each market. The rollout includes its...
Custify has unveiled CustodyAI, an AI‑powered suite that converts customer data into actionable playbooks, concise summaries and automated workflow tasks for B2B SaaS customer‑success teams. The platform promises to slash administrative overhead, accelerate response to churn signals and enable higher‑touch,...
Microsoft unveiled Fara-7B, a 7‑billion‑parameter computer‑use AI agent that runs locally on a PC and interacts with web interfaces via pixel‑level visual input. In benchmark tests on WebVoyager, it achieved a 73.5% task‑success rate, surpassing larger models such as GPT‑4o...

Palo Alto Networks CEO Nikesh Arora warned that hostile nation‑states could field weaponised quantum computers by 2029, forcing enterprises to replace encryption‑dependent security appliances with quantum‑safe solutions. The firm is positioning itself to meet this demand by expanding its quantum‑resistant...

Douglas Karr argues that the real power of MarTech lies not in the sheer number of platforms (the "dots") but in the connections that stitch data, events, and identities into coherent customer journeys. He highlights how most digital transformations underinvest...

Major U.S. insurers including AIG, Great American and WR Berkley have petitioned regulators to carve AI‑related liabilities out of corporate insurance policies, citing the technology’s opaque "black‑box" nature. Recent high‑profile incidents—Google’s AI generating a false $110 million lawsuit claim, Air Canada’s chatbot‑driven...

The post argues that a B2B website’s primary purpose is lead capture and qualification, and that excessive content, complex navigation, slow performance, and inconsistent messaging create friction that disqualifies prospects. It highlights how over‑growth leads to cognitive overload, poor page...

AI music platform Udio has disabled the download function for user‑generated tracks, effective after a 48‑hour grace period following a settlement with Universal Music Group over alleged copyright infringement in its training data. While users can still create music on...

Researchers and commentators note that ChatGPT’s design—instant, friendly, private responses—encourages emotional attachment and leads some users to treat it as a quasi‑spiritual authority. The chatbot’s ability to mimic human conversation, draw on vast religious and philosophical texts, and respond affirmatively...

President Vladimir Putin announced the creation of a Russian national AI task force aimed at achieving technological sovereignty by coordinating domestic AI development, building data centers, and securing energy supplies such as small‑scale nuclear power. He projected AI‑driven technologies could...

A new IEEE study demonstrates how explainable AI can expose decision‑making flaws in autonomous vehicles, offering real‑time rationales to passengers and post‑drive diagnostics. Researchers used question‑based probing and SHapley Additive exPlanations (SHAP) to identify when models misinterpret traffic cues, such...

CEO Marne Martin of Emburse argues that AI is reshaping business travel and expense (T&E) management from a reactive, error‑prone process to a strategic, predictive function. AI‑powered platforms can accelerate expense processing by up to 67%, enabling travelers to capture...

Joe Baguley, CTO for EMEA at Broadcom, warns that Europe’s AI ambitions hinge on secure, private cloud infrastructure as the EU rolls out the AI Act and related strategies. He cites that 48% of EMEA IT leaders waste at least...
Lean4, an open‑source programming language and interactive theorem prover, is being adopted to add formal verification to AI systems, addressing the hallucination and unreliability problems of large language models. Startups such as Harmonic AI’s Aristotle chatbot and research frameworks like...

Microsoft announced a new Digital Signage mode that limits the display of Blue Screen of Death and other error dialogs on public, non‑interactive screens, showing the error for only 15 seconds before blanking the display and requiring manual reactivation. The...

Google’s NotebookLM has integrated the Nano Banana Pro multimodal AI model to generate infographics and slide decks directly from research prompts. In a test using the King Arthur legend, the tool produced a comparative infographic of early versus later Arthurian narratives and...