AI in Marketing (38)

OpenAI's $30M animated film Critterz slashes traditional Hollywood budgets by 85% and production time by 70%. We analyze why this AI-powered disruption could democratize filmmaking—or trigger industry revolt.

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OpenAI's Critterz: A $30M AI Film

Writing Team: Sep 9, 2025 8:00:00 AM

While Hollywood executives clutch their Hermès bags and wonder if ChatGPT can write better dialogue than their overpaid script doctors, OpenAI just dropped the mic with Critterz—a full-length animated feature that cost less than Robert Downey Jr.'s...

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Silicon Valley's $99 Friend necklace promises to cure loneliness with AI companionship but delivers harassment, social isolation, and surveillance. We examine why this

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The AI Friend Necklace

Writing Team: Sep 9, 2025 8:00:00 AM

A 22-year-old Harvard dropout wants to strap a listening device around your neck and charge you $99 for the privilege of being bullied by an AI...

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Switzerland releases Apertus, a fully open AI model with transparent training data and multilingual capabilities. This public infrastructure approach could reshape how we think about AI ownership and access.

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Switzerland's Apertus: A 100% Open AI Model

Writing Team: Sep 8, 2025 8:00:00 AM

While Silicon Valley treats AI development like a proprietary arms race, Switzerland just demonstrated what happens when you approach artificial...

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Healthcare organizations celebrate AI tool rollouts, but monitoring and governance determine actual success. The AMA's oversight framework reveals what happens when the celebration ends.

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Healthcare Organizations Accelerate AI Tool Rollouts, But...

Writing Team: Sep 8, 2025 8:00:00 AM

The confetti has been swept up, the press releases have been published, and your healthcare AI tool is officially "live." Congratulations—you've...

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Anker's $99 Soundcore Work AI recorder shrinks to coin size for

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Anker's Coin-Sized Voice Recording Device

Writing Team: Sep 8, 2025 8:00:00 AM

Nothing says "trust me, this isn't creepy" like designing a recording device specifically to be invisible. Anker's new Soundcore Work manages to cram...

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Cybercriminals Exploit X's Grok AI to Bypass Ad Restrictions

Writing Team: Sep 8, 2025 8:00:00 AM

The cybersecurity community just discovered something deeply unsettling: criminals have figured out how to weaponize X's AI assistant Grok as an...

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Africa's AI language gap leaves millions excluded from the digital revolution. But the African Next Voices project offers hope—9,000 hours of speech data in 18 languages could change everything.

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The 2,000 Languages Left Behind: Africa's AI Efforts to Reverse the Loss

Writing Team: Sep 8, 2025 8:00:00 AM

In the fields of Rustenburg, South Africa, farmer Kelebogile Mosime speaks to her phone in Setswana and receives agricultural advice that helps her...

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