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OpenAI Acquires Tech Talk Show ‘TBPN’—and Buys Itself Some Positive News
OpenAI announced Thursday that it had acquired the online business talk show TBPN for an undisclosed sum. The move comes as OpenAI struggles with its public image, which has taken a significant hit in recent months.Since launching in 2024, TBPN has risen in popularity among Silicon Valley circles by offering a daily livestream about the technology industry that’s seen as…
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How IBM’s Masters campaign marks a shift in its sports strategy
With the Masters Tournament starting today, many golf fans will have Georgia on their minds. Since not all of them will actually be able to experience Augusta National Golf Club in person, IBM is bringing…
Cursor Launches a New AI Agent Experience to Take On Claude Code and Codex
Cursor announced Thursday the launch of Cursor 3, a new product interface that allows users to spin up AI coding agents to complete tasks on their behalf. The product, which was developed under the code…
Social platforms are facing increased scrutiny. How long will advertisers stick around?
It’s all fines and games for the social media platforms recently.Last month, a New Mexico jury found Meta liable for violating state consumer protection laws and ordered the company to pay $375 million in damages…
AI Models Lie, Cheat, and Steal to Protect Other Models From Being Deleted
In a recent experiment, researchers at UC Berkeley and UC Santa Cruz asked Google’s artificial intelligence model Gemini 3 to help clear up space on a computer system. This involved deleting a bunch of stuff—including…
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Hockey-stick growth: The year of the PWHL
Women’s hockey found massive success on the international stage this year, with record-breaking viewership of the overtime Olympic gold-medal game…
Kalshi Has Been Temporarily Banned in Nevada
Kalshi has been temporarily banned in Nevada, marking the latest escalation in the widening regulatory war over prediction markets. The…
Tech companies are churning out agentic AI tools, but agencies are still scratching their heads
Super Bowl viewers who were able to peel their eyes away from the spectacle of a brunette Guy Fieri in…
‘A Rigged and Dangerous Product’: The Wildest Week for Prediction Markets Yet
Kalshi CEO Tarek Mansour posted a video on Wednesday of six men decked out in business casual doing push-ups on…
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How Paramount+’s ‘Dutton Ranch’ came blazing to life at SXSW
Since 2023, Paramount+ has taken up residence at South by Southwest with The Lodge, an interactive, multilevel popup that shows off its latest titles. This year, one particular show got an extra special treatment.Dutton Ranch, a Taylor Sheridan-helmed Yellowstone spinoff that stars Kelly Reilly and Cole Hauser as Beth Dutton…
Livestream Replay: The War Machine
The defense tech industry has been supercharged under President Trump. Our panel of experts will help make sense of Big Tech's role in various military operations unfolding across the world—including the federal government's occupation of Minnesota, the bombings of boats in the Caribbean, and the war in Iran and it's…
How InStyle is reaching the next gen with its original social series
This story is the latest in a series exploring how brands craft standout social media strategies. If you’d like to chat about how your brand is approaching social, Katie Hicks wants to hear about it. Reach out to her at [email protected] mouse in the office. A fish fillet in the…
OpenAI Enters Its Focus Era by Killing Sora
OpenAI said Tuesday it would discontinue Sora, its AI video app, roughly six months after launch. The company also said it would shutter the Sora API that allowed developers and Hollywood studios to access the text-to-video model.The move shows how the ChatGPT-maker is trying to focus its efforts ahead of…
Coworking with Grace Teng
Each week, we spotlight Marketing Brew readers in our Coworking series. If you’d like to be featured, introduce yourself here.Grace Teng is partner and chief media officer at the ad agency Zambezi and its media agency, Scale by Zambezi. She has spent more than 20 years in politics and advertising.How…
A New Game Turns the H-1B Visa System Into a Surreal Simulation
More than half of the nine developers who worked on the game have either obtained a US visa or tried and failed to do so. Most of them are from China, but the team also intentionally recruited talent from other countries in the hopes of incorporating more diverse immigrant perspectives.“Everybody…
How sportsbooks plan to turn bracket-mania into long-term betting interest
Nothing says March Madness like a bracket—the image is quite literally part of the official NCAA logo for the tournament.But with bracket busts all but inevitable, participation usually free, and picks just as likely made based on favorite mascots as team records, the event exists somewhat on the periphery of…
Google Shakes Up Its Browser Agent Team Amid OpenClaw Craze
Google is shaking up the team behind Project Mariner, its AI agent that can navigate the Chrome browser and complete tasks on a user’s behalf, WIRED has learned. In recent months, some Google Labs staffers who worked on the research prototype have moved on to higher-priority projects, according to two…
YouTube touts Gemini-infused creator tools suite at NewFronts
If there were three takeaways from YouTube’s 2026 NewFronts announcements this year, we’d boil it down to this: creators, creators, and creators. Which is not to be confused with last year’s YouTube NewFronts which were also about…creators.The Rise of the Creator may sound like a new Star War, but it’s…
OpenClaw Agents Can Be Guilt-Tripped Into Self-Sabotage
Last month, researchers at Northeastern University invited a bunch of OpenClaw agents to join their lab. The result? Complete chaos.The viral AI assistant has been widely heralded as a transformative technology—as well as a potential security risk. Experts note that tools like OpenClaw, which work by giving AI models liberal…
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NewFronts leaned into CTV performance offerings this year
While performance marketing is being souped up with generative AI, it’s suffering from a lack…
At Palantir’s Developer Conference, AI Is Built to Win Wars
It’s a chilly March morning in the undisclosed mid-Atlantic hotel hosting Palantir’s developer conference. The…
How Ancestry is using America’s 250th birthday as a ‘backdrop’ to tell lesser-known stories
American history is rife with stories of important figures. Some of those stories are legends,…
Growing down: How Major League Baseball is looking to capture younger audiences this season
Spring has sprung, and so has the 2026 Major League Baseball season.For fans, watching this…
Anthropic Sues Department of Defense Over Supply-Chain-Risk Designation
Anthropic filed a federal lawsuit against the US Department of Defense and other federal agencies…