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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 name Glass, is Cursor’s response to agentic coding tools like Anthropic’s Claude Code and OpenAI’s Codex, which have taken off with millions of developers in…
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How Meta’s AI push is changing ad creation
Mark Zuckerberg has laid out a vision for the future of Meta’s core business: One day, advertising on the company’s platforms will be as simple as inputting a credit card number and a business goal.…
John Perry Barlow, JFK Jr., and a Night of Grief I Can’t Forget
Watching the wildly popular television series Love Story took me back to a strange week in my past. One day in April 1994, I was working in a studio apartment that I used as an…
Welcome to the era of the college jersey patch
Think you’ve seen a logo on every inch of sports stadium and uniform imaginable? Think again.Earlier this year, the NCAA’s Division I Cabinet approved a proposal that will allow teams to have up to two…
Where should retail media networks make their pitch for ad dollars?
Retail media is in a liminal space.WPP’s 2025 forecast has retail media accounting for almost a fifth of total ad revenue by 2030, and the channel has outgrown retail, with financial and travel businesses getting…
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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…
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…
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…
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…
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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…
NewFronts leaned into CTV performance offerings this year
While performance marketing is being souped up with generative AI, it’s suffering from a lack of robust measurement of CTV marketing spend, which only continues to grow.That can make proving performance marketing’s worth a challenge. Many companies at this year’s IAB NewFronts, like Comcast Advertising, DoubleVerify, and Future Today, touted…
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 defense contractors, military officers, and corporate executives in attendance are unprepared for the weather; they’d assumed the previous day’s mid-70s temperatures would hold. A cold rain turns to steady snowfall, and Palantir passes out heavy…
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, told so many times that it’s impossible to hear a historical figure’s name without thinking of a tale that goes with it. George Washington and the cherry tree myth. Benjamin Franklin and his kite. Others,…
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 year’s opening game was a little different than usual. MLB has been shifting away from regional sports networks and toward modern media rights deals, a change that was on full display last night when Netflix…
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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…
How the Atlanta Braves are fostering fandom across six states
In New York, there are only about 10 miles separating Yankee Stadium in the Bronx…
Meta Ramps Up Efforts to Disrupt Industrialized Scamming
With organized, industrial-scale scamming causing a multibillion-dollar crisis around the world, Meta announced new account…
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Yann LeCun Raises $1 Billion to Build AI That Understands the Physical World
Advanced Machine Intelligence (AMI), a new Paris-based startup cofounded by Meta’s former chief AI scientist…