AI in Marketing (9)

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Academy CEO Says AI "Neither Helps Nor Harms"

Writing Team: Mar 17, 2026 8:00:01 AM

The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has 11,000 members, a century of cultural authority, and an official position on AI that amounts to: we're watching it.

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Conan O'Brien opened the 98th Academy Awards with a pointed AI joke — calling himself

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Conan O'Brien Called Himself "The Last Human Host"

Writing Team: Mar 17, 2026 8:00:01 AM

The 98th Academy Awards opened with a joke. It landed like a warning.

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Marc Andreessen Says AI Will Trigger the Biggest Productivity Boom in 100 Years

Writing Team: Mar 17, 2026 8:00:01 AM

Marc Andreessen believes artificial intelligence is arriving at exactly the right moment to reverse decades of productivity stagnation and...

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George Washington University sold its Virginia campus to Amazon for nearly $500 million amid a $24 million budget deficit. The deal is financially rational — and raises questions about AI infrastructure, community impact, and who bears the costs.

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George Washington University Just Sold Its Campus to Amazon for $500 Million

Writing Team: Mar 17, 2026 8:00:01 AM

A university with a $24 million budget deficit sells its science and technology campus to Amazon for nearly $500 million. Amazon hasn't confirmed...

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DiligenceSquared uses AI voice agents to deliver M&A commercial due diligence for $50,000 — versus $500,000 to $1 million from McKinsey or BCG. Here's why the price drop changes the entire decision-making structure.

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M&A Due Diligence Costs $1 Million But This Startup Just Made It Cost $50,000

Writing Team: Mar 17, 2026 8:00:01 AM

Private equity firms routinely spend between $500,000 and $1 million hiring McKinsey, Bain, or BCG to interview corporate customers and produce the...

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xAI is hemorrhaging co-founders, pausing its biggest project, and rebuilding

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xAI Is Being Rebuilt From Scratch

Writing Team: Mar 17, 2026 8:00:00 AM

"Not built right the first time." That's not a critic talking. That's Elon Musk, on his own platform, describing his own AI company.

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Grammarly's new Expert Review feature simulates feedback from famous authors — living and dead — without their permission. The concept has real merit. The execution raises serious IP and ethical questions marketers need to understand.

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Grammarly Is Simulating Dead Authors to Review Your Writing

Writing Team: Mar 16, 2026 8:00:01 AM

There is a genuinely useful product buried inside what Grammarly — now operating under the parent brand Superhuman — just launched. The idea of...

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Black Forest Labs' Self-Flow framework trains AI models to teach themselves — eliminating external encoder dependencies and cutting training steps by nearly 50x. Here's what it means for enterprise AI and content teams.

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AI Just Learned to Teach Itself, Which Changes the Math

Writing Team: Mar 16, 2026 8:00:01 AM

The way generative AI models learn has had a structural dependency problem for years, and a German startup just published a credible solution to it.

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Perplexity is adding Skills — reusable workflow instructions — to its Computer platform, plus a document review feature called Final Pass. Here's what the features signal about where Perplexity is headed and what it means for professional AI users.

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Perplexity Is Building a Work Platform

Writing Team: Mar 16, 2026 8:00:01 AM

Perplexity launched Computer in late February — a $200/month agentic platform for Max subscribers that orchestrates 19 AI models across complex,...

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Researchers at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory have proposed a thermodynamic computing framework that runs on thermal noise instead of power — potentially transforming the energy economics of AI. Here's what it means.

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What If AI Could Run on Noise Instead of Power?

Writing Team: Mar 16, 2026 8:00:00 AM

Every Google search you run uses enough energy to power a 6-watt LED for 3 minutes. Scale that by billions of daily queries across every AI system...

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Netflix acquired Ben Affleck's AI filmmaking company InterPositive, built on purpose-trained datasets and a creator-first design philosophy. Here's what it actually means — and what's still unanswered.

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Netflix Bought Ben Affleck's AI Film Company

Writing Team: Mar 12, 2026 8:00:03 AM

Netflix has acquired InterPositive, the filmmaking AI company founded by Ben Affleck in 2022, bringing the entire team into Netflix and adding...

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Gemini inside Google Sheets can build formulas, add dropdowns, shade cells, and generate charts — if you know how to prompt it correctly. Here's the practical breakdown.

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How to Use Gemini in Google Sheets to Build Complex Spreadsheet Models

Joy Youell: Mar 12, 2026 8:00:02 AM

Most people have a spreadsheet they know they need to build and keep not building. Maybe it's a lead scoring model. Maybe it's a forecasting tracker...

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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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