Apple and Sydney Opera House Announce Yearlong Creativity Collaboration
iclarified - Apple and the Sydney Opera House are teaming up on a yearlong collaboration designed to support Australian creativity through new art, design, and culture initiatives, with a particular focus on young people and hands-on participation.Continue ReadingShar…
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X revamps Creator Subscriptions with new features, like exclusive threads and shareable cards
Sarah Perez / techcrunch - X is rolling out a series of new features for creators, like the ability to offer paid threads and other marketing tools.
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ZyG Raises $58M in Seed Funding
FinSMEs / finsmes - ZyG, a Tel Aviv, Israel-based developer of an agentic operating system for eCommerce, raised a $58m seed funding round. The round was led by Bessemer Venture Partners, Viola Ventures, and Lightspeed Venture Partners, with participation from Disruptive AI,…
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Facebook is down, interrupting your poking and Meta's ads business
Simon Sharwood / theregister - Go outside and smell some flowers Meta’s flagship service, Facebook, is experiencing an outage.…
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Pinterest lands $1B Elliott Notes, launches $3.5B buyback as shares pop 10%
Vignesh R / techfundingnews - Pinterest has announced a $1 billion strategic investment from affiliates of Elliott Investment Management. Additionally, the company unveiled…
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X lifts cryptocurrency and gambling bans for paid promotions
Emre Çıtak / dataconomy - X removed cryptocurrency from its list of prohibited industries for paid promotions, reversing a ban in place since June 2024. The policy shift also lifted restrictions on gambling promotions while adding pharmaceuticals, tobacco, weapons, and weight loss…
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Anthropic can't stop humanizing its AI models, now Claude Opus 3 gets a retirement blog
Jonathan Kemper / the-decoder - Anthropic is retiring its Claude Opus 3 AI model and letting it publish weekly essays on Substack. The company says it conducted "retirement interviews" to ask the model about its wishes, and it "enthusiastically" agreed. The move is a prime example of ho…
- Anthropic upgrades Claude: better vision, scheduled tasks, education research (3)
- CEO resists Pentagon demands; contract fight over safeguards (5)
- Retired Claude writes Substack essays, blurring PR and personhood (3)
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Anthropic upgrades Claude: better vision, scheduled tasks, education research
CEO resists Pentagon demands; contract fight over safeguards
Retired Claude writes Substack essays, blurring PR and personhood
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Back to Top / Thursday, February 26, 2026, 2:22 pm / permalink 19825 / 12 stories in 8 days
Canva acquires Cavalry and Mango AI to dominate motion design
Emre Çıtak / dataconomy - Canva announced the acquisition of Cavalry and Mango AI on Monday to strengthen its animation and marketing capabilities. UK-based Cavalry develops 2D motion animation tools for advertising, marketing, gaming, and generative art. Mango AI was building rei…
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Flexible agentic marketing startup Kana Intelligence scores $15M in seed funding
Mike Wheatley / siliconangle - Marketing professionals have a mountain of artificial intelligence tools to choose from, but the founders of a new startup called Kana Intelligence Inc. believe there’s still an urgent need for a platform that can adapt to user’s needs. The company today …
- Agentic sales AI emerges: startups turn calls into revenue signals (4)
- Industry adoption: private equity embeds AI to streamline operations (1)
- Kana seed raise: founders launch agentic marketing platform with $15M (3)
- Vertical AI agents for revenue: hotels and SMB marketing adoption (5)
Agentic sales AI emerges: startups turn calls into revenue signals
Industry adoption: private equity embeds AI to streamline operations
Kana seed raise: founders launch agentic marketing platform with $15M
Vertical AI agents for revenue: hotels and SMB marketing adoption
Back to Top / Wednesday, February 18, 2026, 8:21 pm / permalink 19393 / 13 stories in 16 days
Perplexity Abandons AI Advertising Strategy Over Trust Worries
Tim Hardwick / macrumors - AI company Perplexity is stepping away from advertising over concerns that it will erode user trust, despite moves by rivals to introduce ads as an alternative money-making strategy.Perplexity was one of the first AI services to embrace ads in 2024, after…
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Apple Launches Apple Music Connect With New Pitch and Marketing Tools
iclarified - Apple has officially launched Apple Music Connect, a new portal described as the home for direct music delivery partners. The platform launches first with a suite of marketing tools that let labels and distributors pitch upcoming releases to Apple's globa…
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Pinterest (PINS) Stock Plunges 18% on Disappointing Revenue Forecast
Trader Edge / parameter - TLDR Pinterest shares dropped 18% after-hours following Q1 revenue guidance of $951M-$971M, below analyst expectations of $980.1M Tariff-hit retailers are cutting advertising budgets across the platform to protect profit margins from trade pressures Q4 re…
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Electric Twin expands AI audience platform with $14M round
Tamara Djurickovic / tech - Electric Twin, an AIplatform developing synthetic audience models designed to simulate real-worldhuman thinking and behaviour, has raised $14 million in funding. The totalincludes a $10 million round ...
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U.S. TikTok Introduces 'Local Feed' to Surface Nearby Events and Content
Juli Clover / macrumors - The U.S. version of TikTok is being updated with a new community-focused "Local Feed," according to a blog post shared by the TikTok USDS Joint Venture.The Local Feed is designed to let TikTok users "discover and connect with content, businesses, and serv…
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OpenAI’s supposedly ‘leaked’ Super Bowl ad with ear buds and a shiny orb was a hoax
Richard Lawler / theverge - As if OpenAI didn't have enough drama around the Super Bowl and advertising, as the game wound down, word spread of a "leaked" ad that actually wasn't leaked at all; it was just a fake. Screenshots of a now-deleted Reddit thread told the tale of a frustra…
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Reddit (RDDT) Stock: Earnings Spark a 20% After-Hours Jump After 70% Revenue Surge and 75% Ad Revenue Growth
Yasmin Werner / parameter - TLDR Reddit spikes after hours as earnings reveal record revenue momentum Advertising growth fuels strongest quarterly expansion in company history Profit surge highlights major improvement in operating efficiency Full-year results confirm scaling strengt…
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OpenAI Will Soon Test Ads On ChatGPT
barry@rustybrick.com (Barry Schwartz) / seroundtable - OpenAI announced on Friday it will begin testing ads in the ChatGPT responses in the coming weeks. The ads will show on the free product and low-cost subscription tier, ChatGPT Go. The ads will show under the main response and not influence the answers Ch…
Editor: Let's be real here: this was as inevitable as it was risky. The big risk is what it does to consumer's perception of trustworthiness - how will OpenAI structure their ads product so that users don't feel like their ChatGPT responses are compromised or suspect? How do you accept a product recommendation when you're not sure whether the AI is incentivized to recommend a particular product?
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YouTube relaxes monetization policy on videos with controversial content
techxplore - YouTube is updating its guidelines for videos containing content that advertisers define as controversial, allowing more creators to earn full ad revenue when they tackle sensitive issues in a nongraphic way.
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AI Attack Ad in Texas Senate Race Shows John Cornyn Dancing With Jasmine Crockett
Reid J. Epstein / nytimes - A video from Ken Paxton, a Republican primary challenger to Senator John Cornyn of Texas, depicted A.I.-generated imagery of the senator twirling with Jasmine Crockett, a Democratic Senate candidate.
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Jonathan Haidt Strikes Again + What You Vibecoded + An Update on the Forkiverse
nytimes / nytimes - “If we can’t win on social media, then we definitely can’t win on A.I.,” says Haidt.
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