An article from The company offered guidance on how to plan for ad spending and promotional budgeting ahead of the upcoming shopping season. This audio is auto-generated. Please let us know if you have feedback. There are now just over 120 days until December, which means that marketers need to start locking in their holiday…
A new report from the U.K.’s Imperial College and France’s Emlyon Business School has mapped out the ways Silicon Valley’s VC-backed founders commit fraud — and the role investors play. For the report, published online in June, researchers built a database of tech founders and companies who faced civil and criminal securities fraud prosecutions from…
A good year for IPOs. A bit less so for their performance. And not a year at all for SaaS. Per PitchBook there has been $1,786.8 billion in US VC-backed IPO value through July 28. That’s not a record. That’s five prior years stacked on top of each other and then doubled. Then you do…
Microsoft is finally admitting what many IT teams already knew: It has too many Copilots. CEO Satya Nadella confirmed on the company’s fiscal Q4 2026 earnings call, held July 29, that Microsoft is folding its scattered Copilot experiences into a single app. The move will merge chat, coding, the Cowork research tool, and Microsoft’s autonomous…
Lil Tecca is bringing his music to the gaming world as the Season 15 Icon for Fortnite Festival. Beginning this Thursday, players can purchase new Festival gear with the Neon Dreams Music Pass, including the Lil Tecca Outfit, Mic Mace Pickaxe, Tecca’s World Back Bling and a guitar inspired by the rapper’s Dopamine Tour. Also…
Large language models understand text well, but they become less effective when information is scattered across documents or mixed with images and other media. Modern AI systems rely on vector databases, which store embeddings and enable similarity search across collections. LanceDB is a vector database built for AI workloads, with native support for multimodal data…
he Walt Disney Company and Charter Communications have expanded their 2023 carriage agreement, introducing Hulu’s ad-supported tier to Spectrum TV customers and restoring eight Disney-owned cable channels that were previously dropped from the lineup. This new deal marks a significant shift in how the two media giants are approaching video distribution. It builds upon the…
Telecommunications organizations are increasingly looking to AI to help teams navigate highly specialized domains, but generic models often lack the industry-specific knowledge needed to understand telecom networks, standards, and operations. To address that gap, AT&T created their Open Telco (OTel) models, the next generation of telecom-focused AI designed to bring deeper telecommunications expertise into AI…
