News•Nov 13, 2025
The Future of Disney Plus Could Involve AI-Generated Videos
Disney CEO Bob Iger said the company is "really excited about AI" and envisions Disney+ letting subscribers both create and consume short‑form AI‑generated videos. He also hinted at adding game‑like features through Disney’s partnership with Epic Games and turning the service into a commerce hub for park tickets, hotels and cruises. Disney reported adding 1.5 million U.S. and Canada subscribers in Q4 2025, bringing its North‑American base to 59.3 million after recent price hikes. The AI and interactive initiatives are presented as ways to make the platform more dynamic and sticky for users.
By The Verge AI
News•Nov 13, 2025
CDAO Responsibilities Are Evolving: Why AI Strategy Now Starts at the Top
The Chief Data and Analytics Officer (CDAO) is rapidly becoming a core C‑suite role as companies shift from data collection to AI‑driven operations. A recent survey shows 73.7% of firms now have a formal CDO/CDAO, up from 12% a decade...
By TechRadar
News•Nov 13, 2025
Google DeepMind Is Using Gemini to Train Agents Inside Goat Simulator 3
Google DeepMind unveiled SIMA 2, a new video‑game‑playing agent that leverages the Gemini large‑language model to interpret text, voice or drawing commands and act on pixel‑level inputs across a range of 3D worlds, including Goat Simulator 3. Trained on human gameplay from...
By MIT Technology Review
News•Nov 13, 2025
Marigold PR Launches PRplus: AI Influence for the New Era of Search
Marigold PR has introduced PRplus: AI Influence, a strategic communications service aimed at boosting B2B brands’ presence in AI‑generated search results through earned media coverage and AI discoverability reporting. The program, targeting North‑American firms in cannabis, technology and industrial sectors,...
By MarTech Series
News•Nov 13, 2025
Google Is Rolling Out Conversational Shopping—And Ads—In AI Mode Search
Google is rolling out conversational shopping in AI Mode search, letting U.S. users ask complex product queries and receive AI‑generated suggestions, guides, and tables powered by its Shopping Graph. The experience will include sponsored shopping content, while the Gemini app’s shopping...
By Ars Technica AI
News•Nov 13, 2025
Google Augments AI Shopping with Conversational Search, Agentic Checkout and an AI that Calls Stores for You
Google announced a suite of AI‑powered shopping tools ahead of the holiday season, including conversational search in AI Mode, enhanced Gemini app responses, agentic checkout that can auto‑purchase items via Google Pay, and a Duplex‑based feature that calls local stores...
By TechCrunch AI
News•Nov 13, 2025
Google Will Let Users Call Stores, Browse Products, and Check Out Using AI
Google is launching a suite of AI‑powered shopping tools for U.S. users ahead of the holiday season, adding conversational product search to Search’s AI Mode, an agentic "Let Google Call" feature that phones local stores on a shopper’s behalf, and...
By The Verge
News•Nov 13, 2025
IAB Tech Lab Unveils Agentic RTB Framework to Boost Real-Time Ad Trading Efficiency
The IAB Tech Lab released version 1.0 of the Agentic RTB Framework (ARTF) for public comment, a new specification that standardizes agentic interoperability among demand‑side platforms, supply‑side platforms and related services in shared data‑center environments. The framework claims to cut...
By MarTech
News•Nov 13, 2025
AI Is Forcing a Shift From Data Silos to Shared Customer Context
AI is reshaping enterprise data strategy by replacing siloed, system‑centric metrics with shared, customer‑defined context. The technology requires real‑time signals—clicks, language, intent—to generate meaningful insights, forcing organizations to integrate data around the customer journey rather than around internal platforms. This...
By MarTech
News•Nov 13, 2025
Mitel Unveils Workflow Studio: Low-Code/No-Code GenAI-Powered Automation for The Modern Workplace
Mitel announced the global launch of Workflow Studio, a low‑code/no‑code integration platform that uses Generative AI to automate communication workflows across its voice, collaboration and contact‑center solutions. The drag‑and‑drop tool lets enterprises create AI‑driven processes such as smart call routing,...
By MarTech Series
News•Nov 13, 2025
Spotify’s New Audiobook Recap Feature Uses AI to Remind You of the Story so Far
Spotify is rolling out an AI‑driven "Recaps" feature in its iOS app that automatically generates a spoken summary of the portion of an audiobook a listener has already heard, after 15‑20 minutes of playback. The tool, initially limited to a...
By The Verge
News•Nov 13, 2025
How To Increase The Productivity Of Your Agency
The post argues that agency productivity hinges on aligning clear performance metrics, fostering a culture that embraces digital tools, and automating repetitive tasks, rather than relying solely on automation. It highlights common management pitfalls—vague expectations and resistance to change—and offers...
By Martech Zone Interviews
News•Nov 13, 2025
The Download: AI to Measure Pain, and How to Deal with Conspiracy Theorists
AI-driven pain assessment tools like PainChek are gaining regulatory clearance across three continents and have recorded over 10 million evaluations, signaling a shift toward objective pain measurement. Social psychologist Sander van der Linden offers strategies for families to counteract the pull of conspiracy‑theory...
By MIT Technology Review
News•Nov 13, 2025
Google Drive Is Offering Dropbox Users an Easy Way to Spruce up Their Cloud Storage
Google Drive has launched a Data Migration Service that lets administrators transfer Dropbox files directly into Drive while preserving folder structures and permissions, but migrations must be done in batches of up to 100 users or team folders at a...
By TechRadar
News•Nov 13, 2025
Microsoft’s Plan to Fix Its Chip Problem Is, Partly, to Let OpenAI Do the Heavy Lifting
Microsoft announced a revised partnership with OpenAI that grants it full access to OpenAI’s custom AI chip designs, which are being co‑developed with Broadcom. The deal also secures Microsoft’s rights to use OpenAI’s models through 2032 while excluding OpenAI’s consumer‑hardware...
By TechCrunch AI
News•Nov 13, 2025
DJI’s Neo 2 Selfie Drone Launches Globally, but Not in the US
DJI is rolling out its Neo 2 selfie drone to a broader set of markets—including Japan, Canada, the UK and other regions—after an exclusive launch in China, but the device will not be sold through DJI’s official channels in the...
By The Verge
News•Nov 13, 2025
Joe Hill On AI: 'It's Just Part Of The General Rot'
Horror author Joe Hill warned that AI, exemplified by OpenAI’s Sora video generators, is accelerating a wave of misinformation and reflects a broader "rot" in tech driven by billionaire‑run companies that evade regulation. In his new novel *King Sorrow* and...
By Mashable AI
News•Nov 13, 2025
Forget Blink – This Award-Winning Security Camera Is Half Price for Black Friday, and It's Subscription-Free
The Reolink Altas PT Ultra security camera is now priced at £119.99 on Amazon, a 50% discount from its original £239.99, as part of Black Friday. It delivers pan‑and‑tilt coverage, internal SD‑card storage, AI subject‑detection, ColorX full‑color night vision and...
By TechRadar
News•Nov 13, 2025
Cash App Debuts a New AI Assistant that Answers Questions About Your Finances
Cash App rolled out a fall update that introduces Moneybot, an AI chatbot that can analyze users' spending, income and savings and suggest actions such as bill splitting or Bitcoin transactions. The assistant launches to a limited user group with...
By TechCrunch Apps
News•Nov 13, 2025
One-Size-Fits-All AI Guardrails Do Not Work in the Enterprise
The piece warns that one‑size‑fits‑all AI safety filters, modeled on consumer parental controls, are ill‑suited for enterprise environments where users’ roles and data sensitivities vary dramatically. It proposes persona‑based access controls (PBAC) that tailor AI responses to a user’s department,...
By TechRadar
News•Nov 13, 2025
What Enterprises Can Learn From NTT’s Approach to Customer Insight
NTT and NTT DOCOMO have introduced a Large Action Model (LAM) that analyzes the sequence of customer actions across digital and physical channels, moving beyond traditional demographic segmentation. The platform structures data using a 4W1H framework and leverages time‑series modeling to...
By Marketing Tech News
News•Nov 13, 2025
Workers Are Getting Depressed by Everyday Tech Challenges - Could AI Be the Answer?
TeamViewer’s new "Impact of Digital Friction" report finds that 46% of UK firms blame IT inefficiencies for slowing work and 47% say tech frustration fuels employee turnover, with similar concerns in the US and India. One‑third of UK workers expect...
By TechRadar
News•Nov 13, 2025
6sense Introduces RevvyAI, Turning the Platform Into an AI-Powered GTM Command Center
6sense unveiled RevvyAI, an AI‑powered command center embedded in its platform that introduces a conversational interface, specialized agents for ad‑campaign optimization, keyword advice, and account qualification, plus persona‑based workspaces. The rollout expands signal coverage, customizable scoring, workflow intelligence and AI‑driven...
By MarTech Series
News•Nov 13, 2025
New DBS–Ant International Plans for Cross-Border Payments
DBS and Ant International announced an expanded partnership at the Singapore Fintech Festival to integrate DBS’s digital banking platform with Ant’s Alipay+ network, aiming to streamline cross‑border payments across Southeast Asia. The memorandum outlines four focus areas: enhanced payment access,...
By Marketing Tech News
News•Nov 13, 2025
Building for an Open Future - Our New Partnership with Google Cloud
The post announces a deeper partnership between Hugging Face and Google Cloud aimed at making it easier for companies to build and customize AI using open models. It highlights integrated services such as Vertex AI Model Garden, GKE, Cloud Run,...
By Hugging Face
News•Nov 12, 2025
This ARM-Based Mini PC Sports a Full X16 PCIe Slot for Discrete GPUs - Minisforum Says "Desktop ARM" Starts Now,...
Minisforum unveiled the MS‑R1, its first ARM‑based mini PC built around a 12‑core Cixin P1 SoC (eight Cortex‑A720 and four Cortex‑A520 cores) that can boost to 2.6 GHz and includes an Immortalis‑G720 MC10 integrated GPU. The compact 1.7‑liter machine supports up to...
By TechRadar
News•Nov 12, 2025
SaasRise Mastermind Recap - Nov 12, 2025
The SaasRise Mastermind recap covered practical peer advice for SaaS CEOs, ranging from transitioning Google PPC in‑house and scaling multi‑channel cold outreach to navigating private‑equity discussions and exit planning. Key takeaways included focusing product insight for PPC, unifying email/LinkedIn sequences,...
By SaasRise
News•Nov 12, 2025
ChatGPT's Quiet Slump, Zuck's AI Bubble Warning
The episode examines OpenAI CFO Sarah Friar’s remarks that, despite overall growth, ChatGPT’s user engagement appears to be plateauing, signaling a potential slowdown in the model’s momentum. It also covers Mark Zuckerberg’s internal memo warning Meta staff about an emerging...
By Sources
News•Nov 12, 2025
New Nvidia DGX Spark Competitor Shows Strong Benchmark Performance - and at Half the Price, Could It Be Enough to...
GMKtec’s EVO‑X2 mini PC is positioning itself as a low‑cost alternative to Nvidia’s DGX Spark, delivering faster generation speeds for medium‑to‑large models such as GPT‑OSS 20B and Llama 3.3 70B and lower first‑token latency in benchmark tests. The system leverages AMD’s Ryzen...
By TechRadar
News•Nov 12, 2025
Data Breach at Mysterious Chinese Firm Reveals State-Owned Cyber Weapons and Even a List of Targets
A breach at Chinese security firm Knownsec exposed more than 12,000 classified files that detail state‑linked cyber weapons, internal AI tools, and a target list spanning over twenty countries, including Japan, India, the UK and Nigeria. The leak includes massive...
By TechRadar
News•Nov 12, 2025
Watch This – the Latest Humanoid Robots Are Both Unnervingly Sassy and Comfortingly Error-Prone
Chinese EV maker XPeng unveiled IRON, a highly stylized humanoid robot with a feminine appearance that sparked a live demo where the foam skin was stripped to expose its metal frame. Days later, Russia introduced its first humanoid, “Idol,” which...
By TechRadar
News•Nov 12, 2025
Court Rules that OpenAI Violated German Copyright Law; Ordered It to Pay Damages
A German court ruled that OpenAI’s ChatGPT infringed German copyright law by training its models on licensed musical works without permission, in a lawsuit filed by music‑rights collective GEMA. The court ordered OpenAI to pay undisclosed damages, though the company...
By TechCrunch AI
News•Nov 12, 2025
OpenAI Slams Court Order that Lets NYT Read 20 Million Complete User Chats
OpenAI petitioned a U.S. District Court in New York to overturn a November order that compels the company to provide 20 million de‑identified ChatGPT conversation logs to the New York Times and other news plaintiffs in a copyright lawsuit. The firm contends the...
By Ars Technica AI
News•Nov 12, 2025
Microsoft’s Windows President Says Windows Is Becoming an ‘Agentic OS,’ and the Internet Is Having None of It
Microsoft Windows president Pavan Davuluri announced that the OS will evolve into an "agentic" platform, meaning it will incorporate more autonomous AI capabilities across devices, cloud, and productivity tools. The tweet sparked a wave of negative reactions on X, with...
By Mashable AI
News•Nov 12, 2025
Anthropic Will Invest $50 Billion in Building AI Data Centers in the US
Anthropic announced a $50 billion investment to build AI data centers in the United States, partnering with Fluidstack to launch facilities in Texas and New York with additional sites planned. The centers are slated to become operational throughout 2026 and are...
By The Verge
News•Nov 12, 2025
Waymo Is Hitting the Highway — but Can It Handle the Speed?
Waymo announced that its fully driverless robotaxis will begin offering highway routes in Phoenix, Los Angeles and the San Francisco Bay Area, initially to early‑access riders, while extending its Bay Area service to San Jose with 24/7 curbside access at both...
By The Verge
News•Nov 12, 2025
Anthropic Announces $50 Billion Data Center Plan
Anthropic announced a $50 billion data‑center partnership with U.K. neocloud provider Fluidstack, targeting custom facilities in Texas and New York that will come online in 2026 to power its Claude AI models. The investment aligns with the company’s internal forecast of...
By TechCrunch AI
News•Nov 12, 2025
Airbnb’s Testing a ‘Kitchen Stocking’ Service that Lets Guests Place Instacart Orders Before Their Stay
Airbnb is piloting a kitchen‑stocking service with Instacart that lets guests order groceries through the Airbnb app up to three weeks before arrival. The trial, limited to Phoenix, Orlando and Los Angeles, pays hosts $25 for each fulfilled order and...
By TechCrunch Apps
News•Nov 12, 2025
5 Things I Love About Amazon’s New Echo Shows — and 3 Things I Don’t
Amazon unveiled the new Echo Show 8 and Echo Show 11, featuring a sleeker design, faster AZ3 Pro processor, 13‑MP camera, Wi‑Fi 6E, Thread, Matter and Zigbee support, and a fabric‑wrapped speaker system. Both devices run the updated Vega OS with Alexa Plus, delivering more responsive...
By The Verge
News•Nov 12, 2025
Top Infostealer Disrupted After Criminals Lose Server Access
The Rhadamanthys infostealer, a leading malware‑as‑a‑service platform, has been disrupted after German police reportedly accessed its web panels, locking out many criminal customers. Researchers noted the Tor site is offline and that SSH access now requires certificates, forcing users to...
By TechRadar
News•Nov 12, 2025
Windows 11 Boosts Security Even Further by Adding Native 1Password Passkey Support
Microsoft’s November 2025 Windows 11 update adds native support for 1Password passkeys, letting users choose between Microsoft’s built‑in password manager and third‑party solutions for password‑less sign‑ins. The integration uses a new credential‑manager API plugin, placing 1Password on equal footing with Microsoft’s own...
By TechRadar
News•Nov 12, 2025
The Unmissable Channel: Your 2026 OOH Playbook for Proving Performance and Defying Digital Fatigue
The post argues that out‑of‑home (OOH) advertising, when powered by modern data and privacy‑first targeting, is the essential, unskippable channel for 2026, shifting from a blunt awareness tool to a performance‑driven asset. It outlines three mandates: treating each OOH placement...
By Martech Zone Interviews
News•Nov 12, 2025
Hightouch Enters the Fray for Agentic AI for Marketers
Hightouch launched Hightouch Agents, AI-driven tools that connect directly to a company’s data warehouse and marketing stack to automate slow, manual marketing tasks. The agents incorporate a "marketing context layer"—customer data, campaign details, creative assets, spend, and brand guidelines—to answer...
By MarTech
News•Nov 12, 2025
Quiq Advances Contact Center Quality Management with New Agentic AI Analyst
Quiq unveiled Conversation Analyst, an agentic AI‑driven quality‑management platform that scrutinizes every AI and human‑agent interaction across voice, web chat, SMS and other messaging channels. The solution lets CX teams set custom prompts and metrics, delivering AI‑generated performance indicators and...
By MarTech Series
News•Nov 12, 2025
Hackers Hijacked Antivirus Features to Install Malware - Here's What We Know
Google Mandiant researchers disclosed a critical 9.1‑severity vulnerability (CVE‑2025‑12480) in Triofox’s built‑in antivirus that allowed improper access control, enabling the UNC6485 threat cluster to hijack the feature and install remote‑access tools such as Zoho Assist, AnyDesk, Plink and PuTTY. The...
By TechRadar
News•Nov 12, 2025
Google Relaunches Cameyo to Entice Businesses From Windows to ChromeOS
Google has relaunched the CameyobyGoogle virtual app delivery platform, a revamped version of the Cameyo virtualization software it acquired in 2024, to help Windows‑centric enterprises transition to ChromeOS. The service streams individual Windows applications—such as Excel and AutoCAD—directly in the...
By The Verge
News•Nov 12, 2025
How to (Re)build a Playbook that Helps People Buy
In the latest "Playbook Broken" episode, Philip Armstrong, SVP of insights at Truth in Data and former Nike data leader, argues that most dashboards and AI tools are failing to drive real purchases, citing data paralysis, ownership gaps, and the...
By MarTech
News•Nov 12, 2025
Fei-Fei Li’s World Labs Speeds up the World Model Race with Marble, Its First Commercial Product
World Labs, the AI startup founded by Fei‑Fei Li, has launched Marble, its first commercial world‑model product, offering freemium and paid tiers that turn text, images, video or panoramas into editable, downloadable 3D environments. Unlike competitors that generate worlds on the...
By TechCrunch AI
News•Nov 12, 2025
MikMak Announces New MCP-Powered and AI-Driven Innovations to Help Global Brands Drive More Profitable Growth
MikMak announced a major upgrade to its platform, MikMak 3.0, featuring Model Context Protocol (MCP) capabilities and AI‑driven conversational insights that let brands interact with commerce data in natural language and enable AI agents to act on that data in real...
By MarTech Series
News•Nov 12, 2025
I Founded an Intelligent Phone Startup and Here’s How AI Agents Are Going to Change the Way We Do Business
Mahyar Raissi, co‑founder and CEO of Quo, argues that AI agents are moving beyond the enterprise‑only arena and becoming affordable tools for small and growing businesses. He notes that while 90% of Fortune 500 firms already use AI, just over half...
By TechRadar