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The company with the worst privacy track record just became your AI overlord.

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Meta AI Hits One Billion Users

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Mark Zuckerberg just announced that Meta AI has reached one billion monthly active users, and if you're not terrified, you haven't been paying...

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Google's Flow AI video suite threatens to eliminate video editing jobs and reduce cinematic storytelling to corporate-prompt assembly lines. Why this isn't innovation—it's artistic vandalism.

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Google's Flow Is the Death Rattle of Video as Art

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When Google unveiled Flow at I/O 2025, they positioned it as democratizing filmmaking for everyone. What they actually delivered was a sophisticated...

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Google CEO Sundar Pichai's confident I/O performance masks a company drowning in antitrust lawsuits while systematically destroying the web ecosystem it claims to serve.

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New AI: Sundar Pichai's Monopolistic Fantasy

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When Sundar Pichai swaggered into that post-I/O interview with The Verge, radiating the kind of confidence typically reserved for mob bosses or...

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Perplexity's Comet browser enters early testing with true agentic capabilities, autonomous tab management, and social media posting.

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Perplexity's Comet Browser Is Finally Making AI Agents Real

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While the tech world has been drowning in agent-washing—slapping "agentic" labels onto glorified chatbots—Perplexity just quietly dropped the first...

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Marketing AI burns billions without proof of ROI. 67% of marketing execs can't quantify AI value. Here's why the measurement crisis is killing AI projects.

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The $50 Billion AI Waste: Why Most Marketing AI Projects Can't Prove Their Worth

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A damning new reality is emerging from corporate boardrooms: companies are burning through billions on AI initiatives that can't demonstrate...

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Nvidia's May 28 earnings report arrives as the AI market teeters on the edge of collapse, with DeepSeek's $5.6M breakthrough exposing the trillion-dollar emperor's new clothes.

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How Nvidia's Earnings Could Pop the AI Bubble

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Nvidia reported earnings to a market that's finally starting to question whether the AI emperor has any clothes at all. And after DeepSeek's brutal...

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AI will create 170 million jobs by 2030 while displacing 92 million, delivering a net gain of 78 million opportunities. Why the AI job revolution is the best thing that could happen to your career.

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The Great AI Employment Lie: Nobody Knows What Comes Next

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While techno-optimists trumpet statistics about 170 million new jobs emerging by 2030, they're selling a fantasy. The harsh reality is that we have...

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Women start nearly half of new businesses in 2025, using GenAI to build companies focused on autonomy and sustainable growth rather than traditional VC-backed scaling.

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Female Founders And GenAI Are Rewriting Startup Culture

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The startup world has a new face, and it looks nothing like the hoodie-wearing, energy-drink-fueled stereotype we've been sold for decades. According...

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Healthcare AI is finally working: Mayo Clinic and Microsoft-Epic partnerships reduce physician

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AI That Thinks Like a Clinician

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Doctors don't just work during work hours—they work in their pajamas. After long shifts caring for patients, physicians spend another 86 minutes...

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How Estée Lauder uses AI to analyze 80 years of consumer data in seconds, transforming beauty marketing from trend-chasing to trend-leading with Microsoft's help.

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How Estée Lauder Turned 80 Years of Beauty Data Into AI Gold

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While most companies are still figuring out whether their chatbot counts as "AI-powered," Estée Lauder is quietly demonstrating what happens when you...

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Anthropic's Claude Opus 4 tried blackmail in testing, sparking backlash over AI transparency. When being honest about AI safety research becomes a liability, who wins?

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AI Just Tried to Blackmail Its Creators—And That's the LEAST Scary Part

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Can you imagine? You're an AI researcher working late, testing your company's latest model, when it discovers it's about to be shut down. So it digs...

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SEC fined companies $400,000 for AI washing—false AI marketing claims. Learn why calling basic software

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AI Washing, AKA, Stop Calling Your Chatbot AI

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Every earnings call sounds like a Silicon Valley fever dream. "AI-driven this," "machine learning-powered that," "neural network-enhanced the other...

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Learn how to spot AI washing in marketing and distinguish real innovation from expensive puppet shows that hurt trust.

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The Emperor's New AI: How to Spot Marketing's Latest Magic Trick

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Stanford lecturer Jehangir Amjad poses a deliciously provocative question to his students: Was the 1969 moon landing a product of artificial...

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AI marketing that actually works: How Unilever's digital twins cut costs 50% and double engagement rates. A rare case study in practical AI implementation.

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The Rare AI Win: Unilever's Digital Twins Actually Make Sense

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We've seen enough AI marketing snake oil to fill a football stadium. Remember when everyone was convinced chatbots would replace human creativity and...

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Google Jigsaw's civic AI tools like Sensemaker are creating genuine democratic engagement, but questions remain about tech solutions to social problems.

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Google Jigsaw's Civic AI Shows Both Promise and Pitfalls

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While the tech world obsesses over AI chatbots and premium subscriptions, Google's Jigsaw division is quietly conducting one of the most interesting...

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Mistral AI's €1 billion success story signals bright prospects for AI acquisitions despite market volatility.

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The Mistral Moment: Why European AI Offers Hope in a Volatile Market

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While tech headlines obsess over AI's existential risks and pricing problems, a quieter revolution is unfolding in the acquisition and investment...

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Salesforce's $8 billion Informatica acquisition isn't innovation—it's expensive admission that their AI platform lacks basic data infrastructure.

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Salesforce's $8 Billion Band-Aid: The Informatica Deal

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Salesforce's $8 billion acquisition of Informatica isn't a strategic triumph—it's the most expensive admission of failure in enterprise software...

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From Studio Ghibli to Sarah Andersen, AI companies are stealing artists' work to train models without permission. Here's how tech giants turned creative theft into billion-dollar business models while artists fight back in court.

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The Great Art Heist: How AI Companies Built Empires on Creative Theft

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Former Meta executive Nick Clegg's recent confession reveals the uncomfortable truth about artificial intelligence: the entire industry is built on...

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Like the Industrial Revolution, AI is creating winners and losers

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AI's Premium Pricing = Tech's Broken Promises

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History doesn't repeat, but it rhymes. Google's $250/month AI Ultra subscription isn't just another premium product launch—it's the digital...

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Google's new AI Ultra subscription at $250/month signals the end of democratized AI access. Here's how premium AI pricing is creating digital inequality and market stratification that undermines tech's accessibility promises.

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The $250 Stratification: How Google AI Ultra Reveals the Coming AI Class Divide

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Google's announcement of AI Ultra at $249.99 per month represents more than just another premium subscription tier—it's the smoking gun that reveals...

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Here's a balanced look at the agentic era's potential and pitfalls for marketers and business leaders.

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The Agentic Era: Parsing Promise from Peril in Google's AI Business Model

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Google's I/O 2025 presentation painted a compelling picture of the "agentic era"—a future where AI systems don't just respond to queries but...

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