AI in Marketing

A-Eye Spy: Daily Brief

  • There are no suggestions because the search field is empty.
Meta will let parents disable AI chatbots on Instagram in early 2025—18 months after deploying them to teenagers without adequate safeguards, revealing how platforms prioritize growth over safety.

5 min read

Meta Finally Admits AI Chatbots Don't Belong in Teenagers' DMs

Meta will let parents disable AI chatbots on Instagram "early next year," which raises an obvious question: why were unsupervised AI conversations with teenagers ever enabled by default?

Read More
Tokens are AI's fundamental currency. Understanding token economics—consumption, caching, efficiency, pricing—determines which AI applications scale profitably versus bleeding money.

6 min read

The Token Economy: Why AI's Currency Will Determine Which Applications Survive

Every conversation with ChatGPT, every document processed by Claude, every image analyzed by a multimodal AI—they all run on tokens. If you're...

Read More
DeepSeek's new OCR system compresses documents by 10x while retaining 97% accuracy, making AI document processing dramatically cheaper and enabling previously cost-prohibitive applications.

4 min read

DeepSeek Just Made AI 10x Cheaper at Reading Documents

Chinese AI company DeepSeek released an OCR system that compresses image-based text by a factor of ten while retaining 97% of the original...

Read More
Model Context Protocol (MCP) enables AI models to access live data and execute tools in real-time. A technical tutorial reveals why this infrastructure matters for practical AI deployment.

4 min read

Model Context Protocol: The Plumbing That Makes AI Actually Useful

There's a particular species of technical tutorial that explains how to build something without ever clarifying why you'd want to. This isn't one of...

Read More
OpenAI will soon allow verified adults to generate erotica in ChatGPT, reversing previous policies. Experts warn of privacy risks and emotional commodification.

4 min read

We're Talking About ChatGPT's Erotica Update Because Apparently We Have To

Look, we didn't want to write this piece. We had a perfectly good editorial calendar lined up covering things like AI search optimization and...

Read More
OpenAI's Atlas Agent handles simple web tasks well but quits mid-job due to session limits. Ars Technica's testing reveals promising tech that can't yet replace human work.

3 min read

OpenAI's Atlas Agent Is a Promising Intern Who Can't Work a Full Shift

We watched a seasoned tech journalist put OpenAI's new Atlas browser through its paces, and the results are exactly what you'd expect from a...

Read More
Amazon is testing smart glasses for delivery drivers with AI navigation and hands-free scanning. The tech could help workers—or just help Amazon extract more productivity.

3 min read

Amazon's Delivery Glasses: Solving Problems Nobody Knew Existed

Amazon wants its delivery drivers to wear smart glasses that provide turn-by-turn directions to your front door, hands-free package scanning, and...

Read More
YouTube rolls out AI likeness-detection technology to Partner Program creators, allowing removal requests for deepfake content. We examine what it does well—and what it can't solve.

5 min read

YouTube's Likeness Detection Finally Launches: Practical Protection, Not Perfect Solution

YouTube officially launched its likeness-detection technology on Tuesday, moving from pilot phase to general rollout for eligible creators in the...

Read More
Google revamps AI Studio with one-click Cloud Run deployment, modular AI features, and context-aware suggestions. We examine why making AI development accessible matters—and what it gets right.

5 min read

Google AI Studio's New Build Interface: Lowering the Floor Without Raising the Ceiling

Google just rolled out a significant redesign of AI Studio's "Build" interface, and the target is clear: eliminate the friction between "I have an...

Read More
A 24-hour Singapore hackathon where non-coders beat engineers reveals how AI coding tools are fundamentally changing software development and team structures.

4 min read

The 24-Hour Hackathon Where Non-Coders Beat Engineers

A CNBC correspondent with no technical background just helped build a functional app in 24 hours. That sentence would have been absurd three years...

Read More
ChatGPT's mobile app shows slowing download growth and declining daily use, per Apptopia analysis. We examine what happens when AI tools transition from shiny new toy to utility—and why that's the real test.

5 min read

ChatGPT's Mobile Slowdown: Is the Novelty Wearing Off?

The honeymoon is over. According to new analysis from app intelligence firm Apptopia, ChatGPT's mobile app growth has plateaued. Download growth...

Read More
After Bryan Cranston, MLK's estate, and SAG-AFTRA pressure OpenAI over Sora 2 deepfakes, the company promises better guardrails. We explain why the damage is already done—and why

4 min read

Bryan Cranston's Likeness Prompts a Retooling of Sora 2

OpenAI launched Sora 2 on September 30th with the ability to generate video from text prompts. By October 3rd—three days later—CEO Sam Altman was...

Read More
 

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.

GRAB THE PROMPTS