WhatsApp will now charge AI chatbots to operate in Italy
WhatsApp plans to charge developers of AI chatbots per message.
Inside the marketplace powering bespoke AI deepfakes of real women
Civitai—an online marketplace for buying and selling AI-generated content, backed by the venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz—is letting users buy custom instruction files for generating celebrity deepfakes. Some of these files were specifically designed to make pornographic images banned by the site, a new analysis has found. The study, from researchers at Stanford and Indiana…
Everyone’s Using AI for Email Marketing — Here’s Why Most Are Getting It Wrong
AI in email marketing isn’t just about automation; it’s also about anticipation.
Why Founders Who Underestimate PR Pay the Price — and How Strategic PR Wins Investors, Partners and Market Confidence
Talent alone won’t get founders noticed; your story must speak for you.
After Years of Leading Teams, I’ve Learned 3 Ways the Best Leaders Turn Problems Into Progress
Organizations are under pressure to boost efficiencies. The key is balancing people, systems and the outcomes that truly matter. Here’s how.
Jennifer Garner’s Once Upon a Farm resumes IPO plans
The organic kids’ snack food company may debut as soon as next week. It has issued a price range for shares, an SEC filing shows.
AI data labeler Handshake buys Cleanlab, an acquisition target of multiple others
The deal is structured as an acquihire of nine key Cleanlab’s researchers.
What Every Founder Needs to Know About Protecting Company Data in 2026
How safe is your company’s data? Take these simple steps to keep it from falling into the wrong hands.
Chrome takes on AI browsers with tighter Gemini integration, agentic features for autonomous tasks
Google Chrome is adding Gemini in sidebar and is rolling out an agentic feature for AI Pro and Ultra users
Apple tells Patreon to move creators to in-app purchase for subscriptions by November
Patreon isn’t happy about Apple’s new subscription billing mandate, arguing Apple’s shifting rules create uncertainty for creators.
Tiny startup Arcee AI built a 400B open source LLM from scratch to best Meta’s Llama
30-person startup Arcee AI has released a 400B model called Trinity, which it says is one of the biggest open source foundation models from a US company.