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Inside the Agentic AI Playbooks of Bayer, Zoom and a Health Tech Firm
Bayer is pushing six OTC brands into AI answer engines via an Amazon partnership, Zoom automated product naming with an ...
Pippa Pays Artists for AI Training — but Its Models Still Rest on Scraped Data
The text-to-video startup pays artists royalties for AI training, but its underlying models still use scraped data — and...
AI Now Runs the Ad Industry in 2026 — But Black-Box Platforms Test Marketers' Trust
AI is woven into nearly every stage of advertising in 2026, but transparency lags as agentic AI's first wave arrives. Ma...
Sam Altman's Exact ChatGPT Prompt Helped a Non-Coder Ship a Live Website in Two Hours
A Business Insider reporter copied Sam Altman's exact ChatGPT prompt and built a working travel-planning website in unde...
The Booming Business of Cutting Enterprise AI Costs
Consultants, measurement platforms and infrastructure startups are racing to help enterprises stop overpaying for AI. Me...
GigaOm Pitches Benchmark Reports as a Sales Weapon for Enterprise Tech Vendors
GigaOm is selling its benchmark reports as independent, lab-tested validation that helps enterprise tech vendors close t...
GigaOm Markets Analyst-Led Sales Enablement Built on Its Radar Reports
GigaOm is pitching a program that turns its Radar analyst research into sales messaging and competitive guidance for sof...
AI and IT Teams Don't Have to Fight: What Three Companies Got Right
Baringa Group, Southern Bank and PacificTel each resolved the AI-IT divide by changing structures, not just attitudes. T...
Okta Pitches Automated Identity Governance to Campuses Overwhelmed by Access Sprawl
A new Okta white paper argues universities' overlapping roles — students who are also staff, faculty running research — ...
Ethereum Explained: The 2015 Project Behind Smart Contracts, dApps and ETH
A plain-language look at Ethereum — the 2015 project that added smart contracts and decentralized apps to blockchain, an...
An Inside Look at Cardano, the 'Ethereum Killer' Built by Scientists
An Ethereum co-founder built Cardano to fix Ethereum's scaling problems. The project's scientific pitch is compelling — ...
Solana: Inside the Ultra-Fast Blockchain Built to Take On Ethereum
Ethereum's speed-focused rival claims a theoretical 50,000 transactions per second — but its profile comes with caveats ...
Ethereum Explained: Smart Contracts, the EVM and the Second-Largest Crypto
A plain-English look at Ethereum, the blockchain platform Vitalik Buterin launched in 2015, and why its smart-contract d...
Bitcoin Basics: How a 2008 Pseudonymous Invention Became Digital Gold
A clear breakdown of how Bitcoin works: blockchain, proof-of-work mining, the 21 million coin cap, and why its status as...
Ethereum Explained: Smart Contracts, Dapps and the ETH Token
An explainer of Ethereum, the 2015 blockchain platform that introduced smart contracts and the ETH token — and how it st...
Bitcoin's 2008 Origin and 21 Million Cap: A Primer on the Leading Cryptocurrency
An online finance explainer walks through Bitcoin's origins, blockchain mechanics and the 21 million-coin supply cap — a...
Chainlink Explained: How the Oracle Network Connects Blockchains to Real-World Data
A plain-English guide to Chainlink, the Ethereum-based oracle network that feeds verified real-world data into smart con...
What Is Binance Coin? A Look at BNB's Role in Binance's Ecosystem
BNB, created in 2017, is Binance's native utility token, used for fee discounts, staking, payments and more. Here is how...
Ethereum, Explained: How Smart Contracts Turned a Crypto Into a Platform
Ethereum, the second-largest cryptocurrency, is better understood as a programmable blockchain than a simple digital coi...
German Top Court Weighs If Leaked WhatsApp Chats Violate GDPR
Germany's highest ordinary court is weighing whether forwarding a private WhatsApp chat breaches the GDPR, in a dismissa...
Binance Coin Explained: What BNB Is and How It Is Used
A concise primer on BNB, the Binance-issued cryptocurrency, and the exchange services and discounts that give the token ...
Ethereum, Explained: The Smart-Contract Blockchain Behind Ether
Ethereum is far more than the second-largest cryptocurrency: its smart contracts and ERC-20 standard power thousands of ...
Bitcoin Explained: The 2008 Creation, Blockchain and Why Supply Is Capped at 21 Million
A plain-language primer on Bitcoin: the pseudonymous creator, the decentralized blockchain ledger, mining economics and ...
Russia Approves 2027 Pre-Installed App List, Adds Yandex’s Alisa AI
Moscow’s 2027 list keeps most mandatory Russian apps on phones, tablets and computers, drops Marusya and adds Alisa AI.
Ethereum Beyond Bitcoin: What the Smart-Contract Blockchain Actually Does
Ethereum extends blockchain beyond simple payments into smart contracts and decentralised apps. Here is how the network,...
Central Asian AI Film 'Kök Börü' Debuts at SIGGRAPH, Showcasing Higgsfield's Hybrid Pipeline
The short film, made by a ten-person team in two weeks, puts Higgsfield's model of AI-assisted animation in front of the...
EU Opens €30 Billion AI Megafactory Tender to Close the Gap on US and China
Brussels will back seven AI supercomputing centres worth €30 billion, betting on European models — but will still depend...
EU AI Act transparency rules kick in: deepfakes must be labelled
EU AI Act transparency obligations take effect Aug 2: AI-generated content must be labelled and chatbots must identify t...
Netgear Orbi 370 Tops ZDNET's Lab Test for Short-Range Signal Strength
ZDNET's lab test of 15 Wi-Fi routers put the Netgear Orbi 370 at the top for short-range signal strength. Here's what th...
Where $5M–$10M Seed Rounds Are Clustering: Proptech, Cancer Biotech, Space and Robotics
A Crunchbase analysis of about 800 seed financings finds $5M–$10M rounds clustering in proptech, cancer therapeutics, sp...