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HeyGen's Avatar IV creates indistinguishable digital twins, offering unprecedented content scaling opportunities while raising critical questions about trust, authenticity, and the future of video marketing.

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HeyGen's Avatar IV = Your Digital Twin is Ready for Business

HeyGen's Avatar IV just accomplished something genuinely remarkable: they've created digital twins that are genuinely indistinguishable from their human counterparts. After testing their latest release, we have to admit—this technology is not just...

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New research from MIT, Stanford, and Cornell reveals why AI coding tools excel at collaboration but struggle with autonomy, offering a reality check on automation promises while highlighting genuine productivity benefits.

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AI Coding Reality Check: Collaboration Beats Automation

The hype around AI coding tools has reached fever pitch. We're told that AI will soon replace programmers, that non-coders are now "vibe-coding"...

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Microsoft Copilot on Samsung TVs represents a concerning escalation in living room surveillance, combining existing smart TV data collection with comprehensive AI-powered behavioral profiling.

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Samsung TVs Now Come With Copilot

So Microsoft has decided to plant their AI assistant in your Samsung TV, complete with a cute little animated avatar that "lip-syncs as it speaks"...

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AI slop is flooding the internet with low-quality content, eroding brand trust and creating unprecedented challenges for professional marketers. Here's why authenticity matters more than ever.

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Is the Internet Drowning in Digital (AI-Generated) Garbage?

We're drowning in digital garbage, and frankly, it's time to stop pretending otherwise. The internet has become a septic tank of AI-generated content...

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Google launches Gemini 2.5 Flash Image with character consistency and precise editing at $0.04 per image, directly challenging Adobe Photoshop's dominance in professional image editing.

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Google's Gemini 2.5 Flash Image Is Coming for Adobe's Crown

We've watched Adobe milk the creative industry for decades with subscription models that turn software into rent. Now Google just dropped something...

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Anthropic limits Claude Chrome pilot to 1,000 users after discovering 23.6% prompt injection success rate, settling copyright lawsuit while competitors rush browser AI to market.

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Anthropic Limits Claude Chrome Pilot to 1,000 Users

While OpenAI's ChatGPT Agent bypasses security tests and Google pushes Gemini into every corner of Chrome, Anthropic just dropped a masterclass in...

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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...

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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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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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