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The internet fractured one giant audience into thousands of tight-knit communities, and the brands paying attention are following the trust, not the follower count. Having run performance-based influencer marketing campaigns across more than 2,000 brand partnerships, Tallinn-based Odience has started to notice some patterns. One of them, harder to
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Axos is buying Arc Technologies, an AI-native fintech that banks tech startups, and bolting its software onto a chartered bank. Axos Financial, a US digital bank with about $29bn in assets, has agreed to acquire Arc Technologies, the company announced. Arc runs a financial platform for technology and growth companies,
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Hackers are constantly looking for new ways to gain access to businesses and it’s rare that it’s through the front door. For most organisations cybersecurity still focuses on protecting internal systems and preventing unauthorised access through measures such as firewalls, encryption and employee training. However, this approach assumes
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China’s open AI models have been a gift to developers everywhere. Now Beijing may pull them back in. Chinese officials have discussed limiting who outside the country can use the nation’s best AI models, Reuters reports. The Ministry of Commerce ran the meetings over the past month, and
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Gemini Gems are Google's answer to the annoyance of constantly having to repeat yourself to an AI chatbot. Like ChatGPT's custom GPTs, Gemini Gems are customized, reusable variations of Gemini that remember a specific role, history, and personality, so you don't have to keep
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In 2026, buying a new laptop, whether that's the best Windows laptop or the best MacBook, is still a fairly involved process that requires balancing an ever-expanding array of features and specs with your everyday requirements. With the proliferation of AI, as both a new set of features
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Being more proactive continues to be a leading goal for security organizations. As AI accelerates the pace of vulnerability discovery and exploitation, organizations will rely on the personalization of their security investments to help prioritize their defenses. To help you be more proactive by matching your real-world exposures with real-time
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If you’re an IT leader, you might be getting a lot of questions about how to build and deploy agents. The pressure to move fast is intense, but the engineering reality is incredibly complex. Where do your teams even begin? How do you untangle a fragmented mess of disconnected
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For years, enterprise AI has been synonymous with conversational AI — the customer service bots and digital assistants we interact with every day. But today, the market has shifted. We’ve officially moved from moving from AI that answers through simple chats, to AI that takes action, automated workflows, and executes
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Software-as-a-service (SaaS) is evolving into Agents-as-a-service (AaaS). Instead of isolated applications, developers are creating AI agents that interoperate using standardized open protocols such as the Agent2Agent (A2A) protocol and can be orchestrated through centralized agent platforms like Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform. When building for your specific use case, we believe
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While the SaaS industry has managed to calm nerves about a so-called SaaSpocalypse — the fear that its dominance of enterprise applications would fall victim to a new generation of AI-native challengers — it's still a tumultuous time for established SaaS vendors. Not only is the rise of AI agents
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Two laptops recently joined the ranks among my Windows favorites in the HP OmniBook Ultra 14 and Asus Zenbook A16. The OmniBook Ultra 14 offers a choice of Intel Panther Lake or Qualcomm Snapdragon X2 processors, and I tested both. I lean toward the Qualcomm model, but there are reasons
