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Microsoft's open-source VibeVoice-1.5B generates 90 minutes of multi-speaker dialogue for free, challenging ElevenLabs' premium TTS monopoly with MIT-licensed breakthrough technology.

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Microsoft Just Gave Away What ElevenLabs Charges $22/Month For

While ElevenLabs charges $22 monthly for multi-speaker voice generation, Microsoft just dropped VibeVoice-1.5B as a completely free, MIT-licensed alternative that can synthesize up to 90 minutes of expressive, four-speaker dialogue in a single...

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Perplexity's $42.5 million publisher revenue-sharing program launches as Japanese media giants Nikkei and Asahi demand $30 million in copyright infringement damages.

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Perplexity's $42.5 Million Peace Offering Won't Stop the Lawsuit Avalanche

Perplexity's timing couldn't be worse—or more revealing. Just as the AI search startup announced a $42.5 million revenue-sharing pool for publishers,...

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OpenAI retires Assistants API by August 2026 as Responses API achieves feature parity, streamlining agent development while preserving reasoning tokens across GPT-5 turns.

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OpenAI Just Killed Its First API—And It's About Time

OpenAI just did something they've never done before: officially killed one of their APIs. The Assistants API, their ambitious but perpetually beta...

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Nvidia's Q2 earnings test the AI bubble theory while Jetson Thor brings

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Nvidia Earnings: The $4 Trillion Question Nobody's Asking

Tonight, after markets close, Nvidia will deliver what amounts to a stress test for the entire AI economy. Wall Street expects $46 billion in...

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Stanford research shows AI has cut entry-level jobs by 16% since 2022, threatening the future of marketing talent development and industry growth.

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We're Eating Our Young: AI Is Destroying Gen-Z Careers

Stanford just confirmed what we all suspected but nobody wanted to admit: we're systematically eliminating the very people who should be our...

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Clay Shirky's call for oral exams and in-class assessment offers a blueprint for developing authentic marketing talent in the age of AI automation.

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Universities Are Finally Fighting Back Against AI Cheating

Clay Shirky just delivered the most important wake-up call higher education has received in decades, and marketing leaders should be paying...

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Corporate America's reckless embrace of agentic AI agents ignores glaring security vulnerabilities that could devastate marketing operations and customer trust.

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The Agentic AI Gold Rush Is Missing One Tiny Detail: Basic Security

We're watching the tech equivalent of handing car keys to toddlers, and somehow everyone's calling it innovation. Eight in ten corporations are now...

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Will Smith's AI-generated audience footage reveals how celebrities and brands are sacrificing authenticity for algorithmic convenience—and why marketers should care.

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Will Smith's AI Crowd Proves We've Lost the Plot

Will Smith just handed us the perfect case study in how not to use AI in marketing, complete with six-fingered fans and faces that look like they've...

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Zero Trust security frameworks for AI agents offer the only sane approach to deploying autonomous systems in enterprise marketing environments without catastrophic risk.

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Zero Trust for AI Agents Isn't Paranoia—It's Common Sense

While most companies treat AI agent security like a suggestion box, Krishna Bhatt from Webuters Technologies just dropped the blueprint for not...

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YouTube secretly used AI to edit creators' videos without consent, altering faces and skin. This hidden manipulation threatens digital authenticity and creator trust.

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YouTube Used AI to Edit User Videos (Without Them Knowing...)

YouTube just crossed a line that should terrify anyone who cares about truth, trust, and the future of authentic content. The revelation that YouTube...

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China's unified AI computing platform spans 10 provinces with 11 trillion yuan GDP potential by 2035. DeepSeek proves efficiency beats excess in AI development.

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The Numbers From China's Computing Power Conference

China just delivered the most compelling proof-of-concept for AI-driven economic transformation, and the West should be taking notes instead of...

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Manufacturing's AI transformation creates unprecedented career opportunities. With $430B in government investment and smart training programs, skilled workers are entering a golden age.

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AI Dominates Projections For the Future of Manufacturing

Rockwell Automation's latest State of Smart Manufacturing Report reveals a sector racing toward the future with remarkable velocity: 56% of...

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10 AI Prompts That'll Actually Save You Time (Not Just Impress Your Coworkers)

Forget the robots-taking-over headlines. These 10 prompts will show you how to use AI for the boring stuff you actually need to get done—like writing emails that don't suck, brainstorming ideas when your brain is fried, and automating the repetitive tasks eating your day.

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