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Code Metal Raises $125 Million to Rewrite the Defense Industry’s Code With AI
Code Metal, a Boston-based startup that uses AI to write code and translate it into other programming languages, just closed a $125 million Series B funding round from new and existing investors. The news comes just a few months after the startup raised $36 million in series A financing led by Accel.Code Metal is part of a new wave of…
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Zillow Has Gone Wild—for AI
This will not be a banner year for the real estate app Zillow. “We describe the home market as bouncing along the bottom,” CEO Jeremy Wacksman said in our conversation this week. Last year was…
Behind the scenes of the Washington Spirit’s Trinity Rodman campaign
It wasn’t easy for the Washington Spirit to re-sign star forward Trinity Rodman heading into this year’s NWSL season.Late last year, Rodman’s contract negotiations led to a back-and-forth over league salary caps, which had previously…
Jeffrey Epstein Advised an Elon Musk Associate on Taking Tesla Private
For Elon Musk, the US Justice Department’s release of 3 million additional files related to criminal investigations of Jeffrey Epstein last month was immediately embarrassing. Attention in particular fell on emails Musk sent the financier…
All things AI with Dipin Oberoi
Affiliate marketing has grown up. The new report from impact.com breaks down the five pillars of partner sophistication, shows how top teams measure creator performance with precision, and explains what actually drives revenue beyond the…
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Salesforce Workers Circulate Open Letter Urging CEO Marc Benioff to Denounce ICE
Employees at Salesforce are circulating an internal letter to chief executive Marc Benioff calling on him to denounce recent actions…
Getting in the game for a ‘bargain’: How brands hacked the Super Bowl
The Super Bowl is a high-stakes gamble for attention.For marketers, typical buy-in requires a media buy to the tune of…
More Than 800 Google Workers Urge Company to Cancel Any Contracts With ICE and CBP
More Than 880 employees and contractors working for Google signed a petition this week calling on the company to disclose…
Inside Vita Coco’s ‘super fluid,’ organic-first social strategy
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OpenAI Abandons ‘io’ Branding for Its AI Hardware
OpenAI will not use the name “io” for its forthcoming line of AI hardware devices, according to a Monday court filing.The motion is part of a trademark infringement lawsuit filed last year by audio device startup iyO, which sued OpenAI after the ChatGPT maker acquired famed Apple designer Jony Ive’s…
Creators showed up at this year’s Super Bowl ‘more than ever’
Affiliate marketing has grown up. The new report from impact.com breaks down the five pillars of partner sophistication, shows how top teams measure creator performance with precision, and explains what actually drives revenue beyond the first click. Read the report.There was no shortage of celebrity talent in this year’s Super…
Budweiser won the Super Bowl
Budweiser made like the Seattle Seahawks on Super Bowl Sunday and decisively declared victory over its rivals.The AB InBev beer brand scored a record 10th win on the USA Today Ad Meter, and its second in a row. Budweiser’s patriotic spot, called “American Icons,” celebrates the brand’s 150th anniversary with…
‘Uncanny Valley’: Tech Elites in the Epstein Files, Musk’s Mega Merger, and a Crypto Scam Compound
Leah Feiger: Talking about him. Yeah. Absolutely.Brian Barrett: Yeah. It's just this web. It fills out this web.Leah Feiger: Larry Page, Sergey Brin, Mark Zuckerberg, Eric Schmidt, these are the tech titans.Brian Barrett: Yeah. Up until as recently as 2019, I think some of these people were actively in touch.Leah…
OpenAI’s CMO on the brand’s Super Bowl spot, the AI Bowl, and Anthropic’s ads
Each Super Bowl there are typically a few dominant themes. Some are questionable (ahem, Toilet Bowl), while others are expected (the Beverage Bowl and, maybe, the Wellness Bowl).It’s no surprise that this year could also be called the AI Bowl, as companies like Google, Amazon (with spots for Alexa+ and…
How iPhones Made a Surprising Comeback in China
After a prolonged slump, Apple’s business is suddenly thriving again in China. The tech giant said in its latest earnings report last week that revenue from the country rose 38 percent year over year in the last quarter, primarily driven by surging demand for iPhones. The rebound came after Apple’s…
Double duty: How a filmmaking company made a Super Bowl ad while shooting a feature film
Film producer Andrew Panay is currently shooting Somedays, a feature film about an unusual friendship between a delivery driver and a teenage girl starring Billy Bob Thornton, Pamela Anderson, and Ariana Greenblatt. At the same time—and sometimes on the same set—he also hammered out the details for a Super Bowl…
Loyalty Is Dead in Silicon Valley
Since the middle of last year, there have been at least three major AI “acqui-hires” in Silicon Valley. Meta invested more than $14 billion in Scale AI and brought on its CEO, Alexandr Wang; Google spent a cool $2.4 billion to license Windsurf’s technology and fold its cofounders and research…
This Super Bowl, the ads are in the toilet. Literally
During the Super Bowl, advertisers aim to leave a lasting impression with viewers. This year, some hope to do it by grossing them out.During the commercial breaks of this year’s game between the New England Patriots and Seattle Seahawks, potty humor will abound. Liquid I.V. is slated to run a…
Why the Cadillac F1 team is unveiling its race-car livery in a Super Bowl ad
Crossover Formula 1 and NFL fans, fasten your seatbelts.The Cadillac F1 team, which is set to make its debut on the grid when the 2026 F1 season gets up and running in Australia in March, is releasing its car livery this weekend on marketing’s biggest stage: the Super Bowl.Standing up…
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It was November 12, 2016, four days after Donald Trump won his first presidential election.…
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The Tech Elites in the Epstein Files
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‘He Gets Us’ wants to be more than ‘the Super Bowl ad about Jesus’
Every Super Bowl there are a few advertiser wild cards—the ads or brands that make…
A Yann LeCun–Linked Startup Charts a New Path to AGI
If you ask Yann LeCun, Silicon Valley has a groupthink problem. Since leaving Meta in…