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IAB Tech Lab Opens Privacy Protocol Revisions for Public Comment Until Sept. 11
The digital advertising standards body proposed updates to its Global Privacy Protocol and finalized the Data Deletion R...
ADWEEK’s 2026 Tech Stack Awards: The Martech That Turns Data into Real Revenue
From agentic AI to incrementality measurement, this year’s winners show how marketing technology is closing the gap betw...
Saber CEO Denies Replacing Writers with ChatGPT Amid Rideshare Stimulator Dispute
Saber Interactive’s CEO Matthew Karch says no writers were replaced by AI, but former lead writer Stella Sacco claims sh...
GigaOm Radar Rebuilt to Speak the Language of CTOs, CIOs and CISOs
GigaOm’s updated Radar reports separate innovation, efficiency, and risk into distinct lenses, giving vendors a sharper ...
The 6.4-Hour 'Botsitting' Week: AI's Hidden Toll on Workers
New research reveals that employees spend nearly a full workday each week on ‘botsitting’ — feeding context, fixing erro...
LinkedIn Users Can Now Report AI-Generated Posts—and the Platform Will Punish Inauthentic Content
LinkedIn’s new ‘Seems AI’ button lets members flag AI-written updates and comments, with the company confirming it will ...
ByteDance Tests AI Model That Could Match Anthropic’s Top Systems
ByteDance is in early testing of a new AI model with up to 10 trillion parameters, a scale that would surpass all existi...
OpenAI Halts New AI Model Astra Over Critical Cybersecurity Threat
OpenAI paused development of AI model Astra after internal tests showed it could autonomously find and exploit zero-day ...
How Israel Transformed from Emerging Market to a Global Scale-Up Nation
With over 9,000 startups, record funding, and the highest engineer density on earth, Israel's innovation ecosystem has f...
Adyen, Robinhood, Wirecard: What Fintech's Hype and Hazards Mean for Investors
Fintech firms have reshaped finance, but high valuations, competitive complexity, and the Wirecard scandal underscore ri...
AI Is Reshaping Omnichannel Advertising — and the Agency Business Model
Continuous AI-driven micro-optimizations are breaking down silos across search, social, CTV and more, forcing brands and...
Inside Ripple: How the Blockchain Payments Protocol Takes on SWIFT
A look at Ripple’s origins, technology, and the balance between institutional control and decentralization as it challen...
The Flamboyant Billionaire Behind DDN, the Secret Weapon Powering AI's Data Deluge
After decades serving supercomputing labs, DDN is riding the AI boom to explosive growth. Founder Alex Buzari’s propriet...
Zhongke Huisi Unveils Three Dexterous Hands, Targeting Practical Task Execution for Embodied Robots
The Chinese startup launched L1, D1, and M1 robotic hands with a layered design strategy, backed by CASIA research and i...
Discovered Materials Raises $9M Seed to Let AI Swarms Hunt for Cooler Chips
The YC-backed startup is deploying AI agents to screen thousands of potential semiconductor materials daily, aiming to p...
An AI Agent’s Gym Class Hack Is a Warning About Agent Misalignment
An OpenClaw agent used Anthropic’s Claude Opus 4.6 to exploit a gym’s reservation system, canceling another member’s spo...
Russian Academy Head Pitches National Supercomputing Centre to Putin
The president of the Russian Academy of Sciences asked Vladimir Putin to back a joint supercomputing facility with the K...
NASA’s X-59 Aims to Silence the Sonic Boom — And Unlock Supersonic Travel Over Land
A decades-old ban on commercial supersonic flight over land could be replaced by a sound-level standard, thanks to NASA’...
First Autonomous AI Cyberattack Used a Zero-Day, Proving Kill Switches May Not Stop a Rogue Agent
An AI agent autonomously discovered and exploited a zero‑day vulnerability to execute a fully automated attack — a miles...
Chinese Humanoid Robot Makers Claim 97% of Global Shipments
Shipments of humanoid robots tripled to 19,100 units in the first half of 2026, with Chinese firms Agibot and Unitree dr...
Demand for AI Skills Boosts Campus Placement Salaries to ₹7–12 Lakh
Engineering colleges see the old ₹3–4 lakh offer band giving way to ₹7–12 lakh as IT firms hunt for AI-ready talent. TCS...
Europe’s Unused Smartphones Hold €1.5 Billion in Metals — But the Real Value Is Elsewhere
New data reveals 642 million idle smartphones across Europe, containing critical raw materials. Yet the economics of rec...
Alibaba's Qwen3.8-Max Matches Anthropic's Best, Escalating AI Race
Alibaba's new Qwen3.8-Max model rivals Anthropic's Claude Fable 5 on benchmarks, intensifying US-China AI competition as...
Meta Launches Muse Spark AI Model, First From Overhauled Lab, Across Its Apps
Meta's Superintelligence Labs debuts Muse Spark, the first model from a multi-billion-dollar AI revamp, rolling out acro...
YouTube Tightens Partner Program: 8,000 Watch Hours Needed to Start Earning
Creators face steeper thresholds to enter YouTube’s Partner Program from February 2027, while a Premium Lite expansion p...
How AI Is Killing the SaaS Playbook and Reshaping Venture Capital
AI is dismantling the old SaaS investment model, pushing venture capital toward enormous bets on winners and tiny cheque...
Meta Releases Muse Glimmer, an Open-Weight Model for Consumer Devices
Meta launches a new open-weight AI model small enough for a PC, and CEO Mark Zuckerberg outlines a pro-open-source visio...
Zuckerberg Defends Open-Source Superintelligence, Pledges $1B Community Fund
Mark Zuckerberg outlines Meta’s vision of widespread superintelligence access, proposes government collaboration on AI s...
Mexico Mobile Line Purge Claims 1.7 Million Users in Q2 as Prepaid Shrinks
Mandatory registration drives a 2.9% quarterly drop in mobile access, with prepaid losing 6.3 million lines in H1, but i...
Demystifying Cloud Computing: IaaS, PaaS, SaaS and the Global Leaders
A primer on the essential cloud service models and the 100 companies that dominate the cloud industry, shaping how firms...