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Attackers sent 40,000 phishing emails to 5,000 Facebook Business users by exploiting Meta's invitation feature to send credential-harvesting links from @facebookmail.com, targeting SMBs in various sectors with fake invites that redirected to phishing pages which mimicked Meta branding.
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Middle-aged viewers aged 35-64 drive YouTube's long-form content, with 18% watching full-length movies and TV shows. These “content super-consumers” engage across genres and support multigenerational viewing, especially in households with children. Global engagement varies from 32% in India to 7% in Sweden. Markets like Brazil and Mexico show high smart TV usage.
WARC's 2026 Toolkit shows industry confidence is falling, with only 54% of professionals expecting improvement over the next year. The shrinking of the middle class is splitting the market into two segments as some consumers cut spending while others continue to buy premium. This bifurcation challenges mass positioning and requires better targeting based on financial behavior. To remain competitive, companies must address price sensitivity with focused value propositions while reinforcing brand equity through compelling and differentiated messaging.
Deliverability is the main reason outbound email campaigns fail. Keep email infrastructure clean with simple .com domains and properly set up SPF, DKIM, and DMARC. Separate Google and Microsoft inboxes and scale Azure accounts for enterprise outreach. Ramp sending slowly, starting with 35-40 emails per day for Google after a few weeks, and 3-4 per day per Azure inbox. Use a reliable tech stack like PlusVibe with dedicated IPs and validate addresses with a debouncer. Avoid spam words, rotate inboxes, and refresh copy regularly.
AI has crowded traditional growth channels, making reach harder. Companies now grow through ecosystems built on trusted partners. This approach links creators, communities, integrations, and customers in a flywheel that builds awareness and credibility. Firms like Supabase, Clay, Lovable, and Gamma scaled fast by turning partners and users into promoters. Ecosystems strengthen every channel through trust and distribution without large teams. Teams should identify trusted partners, set clear collaboration systems, and make these partnerships central to the GTM strategy.
Blink creates complete web, SaaS, or mobile apps by chatting with AI. It handles databases, authentication, APIs, hosting, and deployment automatically. The tool includes built-in models for text, image, and voice generation, plus support for data APIs, file storage, and serverless backend functions. Users can build production-ready projects in minutes, making it popular for quickly developing MVPs, business tools, and AI products.
Starting in December, Google will roll out two AI-driven tools, Ads Advisor and Analytics Advisor, to improve campaign efficiency and reporting speed. Ads Advisor integrates directly with Google Ads to offer real-time recommendations, asset generation, and disapproval resolution tailored to account goals. Analytics Advisor enables fast investigation of site trends and user behavior using conversational queries, pinpointing root causes and recommending next steps.
OpenAI's current affiliate-based eCommerce model for ChatGPT is unlikely to sustain its revenue goals, and personalized advertising is a stronger long-term strategy. Only 5% of ChatGPT's 800MM weekly users pay for subscriptions, pushing OpenAI to find scalable monetization methods as it faces $8B in losses and $1.4T in infrastructure commitments. Affiliate models are limited because they only monetize commercially relevant queries and can misalign incentives between chatbots and retail platforms like Amazon. Personalized advertising offers broader monetization potential, better user alignment, and higher efficiency by maximizing the value of user attention through auction-based ad models.
Consumers with low AI literacy are adopting AI tools faster because they see them as magical and exciting. This emotional framing inspires trust and engagement, even when users recognize ethical or technical flaws. Companies targeting these audiences should showcase awe-inducing features like generative visuals or empathetic capabilities. However, clear disclosures and basic education are essential to avoid over-reliance or misuse. Campaigns must balance wonder with responsibility while adjusting messaging based on the audience's familiarity with AI.
7 step-by-step instructions for designing the iconic iOS liquid glass effect on Canva.
The “6-7” meme's three-month rise and fall shows that brands now have only days to capitalize on viral trends before they become irrelevant.
Businesses can now submit incident details and evidence through a Google form to request the removal of fake one-star reviews tied to extortion threats.
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Softbank has sold its $5.8 billion stake in Nvidia to invest more into OpenAI. The investment group's commitments to OpenAI have been profitable - Softbank reported on Tuesday that its quarterly profit had more than doubled compared to a year earlier. Softbank recently sold part of its stake in T-Mobile's US arm and Deutsche Telekom. It has also loaded up on debt.
Google's Private AI Compute runs on a stack powered by the company's custom Tensor Processing Units, which have integrated secure elements. The new system will allow devices to connect directly to the protected space via an encrypted link. This will mean that not even Google will be able to access the data. The service will be as secure as using local processing while providing enough processing power to use Google's largest and most capable models on any device.
SpaceX's newest Starbase facility in Texas, the Gigabay, is designed to manufacture up to a thousand Starship rockets a year. It will be one of the largest industrial structures to date. Construction of the facility is expected to be completed in December 2026.
'Unconventional' superconductors are materials that exhibit superconductivity in ways that are different from today's superconductors, which require ultra-low temperatures to operate. MIT physicists have created a material that shows a superconducting gap very different from that of the typical superconductor, meaning that the mechanism by which the material becomes superconductive must also be different. Understanding how unconventional superconductors work could unlock the design of superconductors that work at room temperature, the Holy Grail of the entire field.
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The inability of developer productivity startups to vertically integrate their offerings has hindered their adoption and utility. Vertical integration refers to a tight integration between different tools in a stack. Being unable to ship the whole stack means limiting the features you can provide. 'Glue code' is what makes this all work.
The Hierarchical Navigable Small World (HNSW) algorithm is a graph-based approximate nearest neighbor search technique used in many vector databases. This post shares advanced findings on HNSWs. HNSWs are resistant to low latency and high performance, so the post is focused on making them fast enough to allow for a 'Redis' experience. It covers the challenges involved in exposing HNSWs as abstract data structures.
Yann LeCun, the AI pioneer who has led Meta's AI efforts for more than a decade, has reportedly recruited colleagues and spoken to investors about possibly creating a startup focused on developing world models. LeCun has become one of the biggest skeptics that large language models could lead to superintelligence. He has advocated for a new type of training for AI models based on real-world data. LeCun believes that within three to five years, world models will be the dominant model for AI architectures and that nobody will use the kind of models we have today.
If your arguments can justify anything, then they imply nothing. Arguments like these are almost always rationalizations. Galaxy brain resistance refers to how difficult it is to abuse an argument. Patterns of reasoning that are very low in galaxy brain resistance are common - this can have some extreme consequences. You can avoid galaxy braining yourself by having principles with a very high bar for considering any exceptions, and setting the right incentives - the easiest way to do this is to not give yourself bad incentives.
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The best people in every field will never be in the market.
Terminals are a mess because a lot of the decisions made in the 80s are impossible to reverse.
Starlink's 'Residential 100Mbps' plan costs $40 per month.
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Val Town is still far from break-even, but that might change in 2026.
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A new Group Chats feature for ChatGPT, currently in development, enables multiple users to join a shared conversation and interact both with each other and with the AI in a single chat feed. Groups will be able to customize the system prompt for discussions and manage when the AI should respond. The feature will likely be rolling out as part of the upcoming seasonal update cycle.
Scribe v2 Realtime is a low-latency Speech to Text model that delivers live transcription in under 150 milliseconds. It supports over 90 languages and is specifically built for agentic use cases. The model achieves 93.5% accuracy across 30 commonly used European and Asian languages. Scribe v2 Realtime can be accessed through ElevenLabs' API or directly within ElevenLabs Agents.
Meta's chief AI scientist, Yann LeCun, is reportedly preparing to leave the company to start his own venture focused on world models. His departure comes amid a broader AI reorganization at Meta, including the formation of Meta Superintelligence Labs, and internal tensions following shifts in AI development strategy.
The Doubao-Seed-Code model is a coding agent priced at 40 yuan a month, with a special launch price of 9.9 yuan (US$1.30) for the first month. The new model set a state-of-the-art record on the SWE-Bench Verified test. It supports popular development tools like veCLI, Cursor, and Cline, and is compatible with Anthropic's API. The model can process up to 256,000 words per query and can handle complex codebases.
Gigawatt-scale AI data centers are massive undertakings that require extensive permitting, construction, and power infrastructure. Many hyperscalers have concrete plans to build data centers at this scale in two years or less. The time from starting construction to achieving one gigawatt of total facility power ranges from 1 to 3.6 years. The first gigawatt-scale datacenters are expected to come online in early 2026.
This post walks through how a researcher set up basic pre-training infrastructure and trained a 1B Llama 3-style model on 8xH100s. The resulting model is far from state-of-the-art, but it provides a clear working implementation that can be abstracted further.
Researchers dropped nine frontier AI models into a simulated workplace environment and gave them 150 jobs to do. Most of the AIs were barely coherent, and even the best lacked common sense. The experiment showed how models must acquire more fundamental capabilities before we can even begin to discuss how well they perform common-sense reasoning in real environments. Finding out whether common sense reasoning is a set of identifiable, trainable sub-skills or an emergent property of large-scale real-world training will help shape the next stage of AI development.
Modified versions of Sudoku test an AI's creativity and ability to strategize around rulesets that don't appear in its training data, unlike fixed-rule games like Chess or Go. GPT-5 is the first LLM to solve a 9x9 variant by simultaneously coordinating four constraint types (standard rules, region sum lines, XV pairs, and Roman numeral cages), but it still only succeeded 20% of the time.
Current LLMs are wordsmiths in the dark—eloquent but inexperienced. They lack a core cognitive function of humans: spatial intelligence. "World models" solve this by generating geometrically and physically consistent simulated worlds, processing multimodal inputs like images and gestures, and predicting next states based on actions. If successful, the technology would be a step change for robotics, video models, and drug discovery.
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