Why CEOs Often Push Back on Marketing Investment — and the Language Shift That Gets Budgets Approved
The gap between marketing dashboards and boardroom decisions is behavioral, not strategic. Here’s how to close it.
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Uber is deploying its own self-driving cars again, just not as robotaxis
Uber is putting its own autonomous vehicles back on the road as part of its new AV Lab project to collect data for its dozens of robotaxi partners. The cars will be fitted with all the sensors typical of self-driving cars, like cameras, lidar, and radar. But notably the vehicles will not be operating as […]
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This mechanical bird drops dead when your home’s air quality worsens
The original Birdie debuted in 2022 with a morbid-but-fun design – an air-quality monitor with a literal canary in a coal mine. When the CO2 in your home hit a certain level, a mechanical bird mounted on your wall would appear to drop dead, then prompt you to open a window to air things out. […]
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Brett Adcock’s AI hardware startup Hark raises $700m at $6bn valuation
Two months out of stealth, the founder of Figure and Archer has a chip-and-model stack and a chip-and-model-stack-sized cheque to match. Hark, the AI hardware company that Brett Adcock began funding out of his own pocket late last year, has raised more than $700m in a Series A that values it at $6bn, according to Bloomberg. […]
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Spotify and Universal sign licensing deal for AI covers and remixes
Premium subscribers will be able to generate AI versions of songs by participating UMG artists. The financial terms were not disclosed. Spotify and Universal Music Group have signed licensing agreements that will let premium subscribers generate AI covers and remixes of songs by participating UMG artists, the two companies said on Thursday. It is the first […]
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We organized 60+ of the best Memorial Day deals: TVs, mattresses, headphones, and more on sale
Memorial Day is on May 25, but sales have already started. Shop live deals from Bose, Ruggable, TCL, Shark, Ninja, and so many more.
IBM lands $1bn as US backs nine quantum companies for $2bn
Nine CHIPS Act letters of intent, $1bn for IBM, and a government cap table that now includes most of the publicly traded quantum names. The US Department of Commerce has signed nine letters of intent to provide $2.013bn in CHIPS Act funding to quantum computing companies, in exchange for federal equity stakes in each recipient. […]
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Europe’s go-to-market accelerator for AI Startups launches
AcceleratorX, a new breed of startup accelerator purpose-built for AI founders opens Cohort 1 applications – offering startups unprecedented access to a pan-European network of 2,000+ marketing and communications professionals across 30 countries as real pilot clients from day one. Most AI startups don’t fail because they can’t build. In 2026, building has become cheap […]
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Google, Meta, TikTok face EU complaints over financial scam protections
The tech giants were named in a complaint filed by European consumer groups, alleging violations of the Digital Services Act.
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The cost of the smart home is going up
Selling the smart home has been hard. Even Amazon has lost money in the space, despite putting hundreds of millions of Echo devices in people’s homes. Google has also reportedly struggled to turn a profit from its substantial investment in Nest. But now Google is seeing dollar signs in the prospect of selling AI-driven subscriptions […]
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