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Viral ‘De-Influencing’ Movement Costs Beauty Brands $340M in Q1 as Creators Reject Sponsorships
Viral ‘De-Influencing’ Movement Costs Beauty Brands $340M in Q1 as Creators Reject Sponsorships The influencer marketing playbook that beauty brands spent a decade perfecting is being rewritten—not…
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Submarine Cable Damage Disrupts Internet Access for 40 Million Users Across East Africa
Submarine Cable Damage Disrupts Internet Access for 40 Million Users Across East Africa When a single fiber-optic cable lying thousands of feet beneath the Indian Ocean suffers damage,…
AI
Major Cloud Platforms Roll Out New AI Safety Controls Following Enterprise Pressure
Major Cloud Platforms Roll Out New AI Safety Controls Following Enterprise Pressure When a Fortune 500 financial services company discovered its developers had inadvertently exposed customer data t…
AI
Salesforce Launches AI Agent Marketplace as Enterprise Automation Spending Hits $12B
Salesforce Launches AI Agent Marketplace as Enterprise Automation Spending Hits $12B The race to automate business processes just accelerated dramatically. Salesforce has unveiled a dedicated marke…
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Cloudflare Reports 67% Spike in DDoS Attacks Targeting Small Business Websites
Cloudflare Reports 67% Spike in DDoS Attacks Targeting Small Business Websites Your small business website could be under attack right now, and you might not even know it.…
AI
Major AI Coding Assistants Now Writing 41% of Corporate Code, Raising Security Questions
Major AI Coding Assistants Now Writing 41% of Corporate Code, Raising Security Questions The invisible hand writing nearly half of your company’s codebase isn’t human anymore. AI coding…
Internet Culture
Viral ‘Invisible Challenge’ TikTok Trend Sparks Privacy Concerns Over AR Filter Data
Viral ‘Invisible Challenge’ TikTok Trend Sparks Privacy Concerns Over AR Filter Data When millions of users point their cameras at seemingly empty rooms to reveal “invisible” friends and…
AI
Microsoft Reports 47% Azure AI Services Growth as Enterprise Adoption Accelerates
Microsoft Reports 47% Azure AI Services Growth as Enterprise Adoption Accelerates Microsoft’s quarterly earnings revealed that Azure AI services grew 47% year-over-year, confirming what enterprise …
Internet Culture
X Rolls Out Encrypted DMs to All Users After 8-Month Premium Exclusivity, Signaling Platform Security Pivot
X Rolls Out Encrypted DMs to All Users After 8-Month Premium Exclusivity, Signaling Platform Security Pivot After nearly a year of keeping encrypted direct messages behind a paywall,…
Business
Instagram Tests ‘Collabs 2.0’ Revenue Sharing Model, Offering Creators 70% of Ad Revenue on Co-Branded Content
Instagram Tests ‘Collabs 2.0’ Revenue Sharing Model, Offering Creators 70% of Ad Revenue on Co-Branded Content The creator economy just got its most significant shake-up in years. Instagram…
Business
Stripe Acquires Tax Automation Startup TaxJar for $1.2B, Expanding SMB Services Portfolio
Stripe Acquires Tax Automation Startup TaxJar for $1.2B, Expanding SMB Services Portfolio The compliance headache that keeps small business owners awake at night just became Stripe’s next billion-d…
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Nvidia Announces $12B Semiconductor Fab Investment in Arizona, Targeting 2027 Production Start
Nvidia Announces $12B Semiconductor Fab Investment in Arizona, Targeting 2027 Production Start The semiconductor industry’s supply chain map is being redrawn with permanent ink. Nvidia has committe…
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