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Two longtime Omnicom executives will leave the holding company this week and launch an AI-native creative and strategy shop, they told ADWEEK. The firm, JK—named for founders James Sparano and Kevin O’Sullivan, with a subtle “just kidding” wink—begins Feb. 19. It is built to compress months-long planning cycles into days.JK launches with Hitachi as a global founding client, supporting creative across more than a dozen markets including North America, Germany, India and the U.K., though O’Sullivan stopped short of saying it is a traditional agency-of-record relationship.Lean and self-fundedO’Sullivan and Sparano, who each spent roughly a decade within the Omnicom network,…
A student admissions website used by families to enroll children into schools has fixed a security lapse that was exposing their personal information. The website, Ravenna Hub, which lets parents apply and track the status of their kids’ applications across thousands of schools, was allowing any logged-in user to access the personally identifiable data associated with any other user, including their children. The exposed data includes children’s names, dates of birth, addresses, pictures, and details about their school. Email addresses and phone numbers of parents, as well as information about children’s siblings, were also exposed. Florida-based VentureEd Solutions, which develops…
Once you’ve decided on a size, there are a number of other important aspects of your next monitor to consider. Some of these factors may matter more for certain uses—for example, gamers generally care more about higher frame rates than office workers do—but they’re all handy to know going in.Resolution: The bigger the monitor, the more it will benefit from higher resolutions. That will allow you to have app windows that take up less space but are still legible. Most monitors today are typically 1080p (1920 x 1080), 1440p (2560 x 1440), 4K (3840 x 2160), or 5K (5120 x…
The numbers$713.2 billion: Walmart’s total revenue during 2025, up 5.1% when adjusted for inflation. Q4 revenue was $190.7 billion, up 4.9% when adjusted for inflation.$6.4 billion: How much Walmart made on its global ad business during 2025, including Vizio, an increase of 46% year-over-year. Walmart Connect in the U.S. grew by 41% in the fourth quarter alone.24%: Ecommerce net sales growth during Q4. That represents 23% of total net sales.10.5%: Growth in operating income during Q4, adjusted for inflation.60%: Year-over-year growth for “fast delivery,” meaning anything under three hours.The watercooler talkWalmart’s advertising growth slowed in Q4 to 37%, down from…
A world that runs on increasingly powerful AI coding tools is one where software creation is cheap — or so the thinking goes — leaving little room for traditional software companies. As one analyst report put it, “vibe coding will allow startups to replicate the features of complex SaaS platforms.” Cue the hand-wringing and declarations that software companies are doomed. Open-source software projects that use agents to paper over long-standing resource constraints should logically be among the first to benefit from the era of cheap code. But that equation just doesn’t quite stick. In practice, the impact of AI coding…
“Unlimited” is a funny term. Unlimited cell phone plans often come with a long list of footnotes, terms, conditions, and exceptions. Mercifully, all of the Big Three cell companies have, by now, ditched throttling on their most expensive plans and include 5G data access in all their unlimited plans. Yet there are still many differences in the services they offer, and there are many differences between each carrier’s various tiers.Cheaper “unlimited” tiers do offer unlimited talk and text. But they still have rules on how much data you get before they start throttling your speed, and some “unlimited” plans may…
Google wants to make it easier for marketers to tap into the insights of its Marketing Mix Model (MMM), Meridian. The company today launched a new code-free interface that helps non-technical users explore Meridian data to understand ad campaign performance better. They can also use the tool to stress test various scenarios for campaign planning and optimization.MMM is a framework for tracking marketing efforts across channels over time—against the backdrop of other factors like seasonal events and economic shifts—to attribute sales to specific factors.Due to its technical nature, MMM has historically been the remit of data scientists. But the new…
Tech investors haven’t given up on the dream of making physical products with the same speed and ease as coding software. Executives at Freeform, a startup developing a novel 3D printing system for metal components, told TechCrunch that the company raised a $67 million Series B to expand its manufacturing platform. Investors include Apandion, AE Ventures, Founders Fund, Linse Capital, NVidia’s NVentures , Threshold Ventures, and Two Sigma Ventures. FreeForm declined to disclose the company’s post-financing valuation, which Pitchbook cites as $179 million. CEO and cofounder Erik Palitsch said the funding would allow the company to upgrade its current GoldenEye…
Other Phones to ConsiderWe test a ton of Android phones. We like the ones below, but you’ll be better off with one of the options above. If you haven’t yet done so, check out our Best Cheap Phones and Best Folding Phones guides for more.Moto G Power 2026 Photograph: Julian ChokkattuMotorola Moto G Power 2026 for $300: Motorola’s latest Moto G Power 2026 is a solid buy if you’re looking to spend under $300, even more so when it will inevitably go on sale for $250. Performance is relatively decent—it’s not as stuttery as its predecessor—and the two-day battery life…
Mukesh Ambani, the billionaire chairperson of Indian conglomerate Reliance, on Thursday unveiled the group’s ₹10 trillion (about $110 billion) plan to build AI computing infrastructure in India over the next seven years. Speaking at the India AI Impact Summit in New Delhi on Thursday, Ambani said the investment would fund gigawatt-scale data centers, a nationwide edge computing network, and new AI services integrated with Reliance’s Jio telecom platform. Reliance has already begun construction of multi-gigawatt data centers in Jamnagar, Gujarat, Ambani said, and more than 120 megawatts of capacity is expected to come online in the second half of 2026.…
To join or not to join a gym: That is the question. If you opt out of building a home gym, you can join a club and have access to more weights and machines. Friends and classes motivate you to keep coming, and that monthly bill keeps you disciplined. On the other hand, gym memberships are steep, workouts can get hijacked by bullies, and going to the gym is an additional commute.My gym tardiness, however, will likely catch up to me. One of the most consistent messages from health and fitness experts today is that lifting weights has immeasurable benefits.…
Microsoft has confirmed that a bug allowed its Copilot AI to summarize customers’ confidential emails for weeks without permission. The bug, first reported by Bleeping Computer, allowed Copilot Chat to read and outline the contents of emails since January, even if customers had data loss prevention policies to prevent ingesting their sensitive information into Microsoft’s large language model. Copilot Chat allows paying Microsoft 365 customers to use the AI-powered chat feature in its Office software products, including Word, Excel, and PowerPoint. Microsoft said the bug, trackable by admins as CW1226324, means that draft and sent email messages “with a confidential…
I’ve tested a lot of software tools over the years designed to block distractions and keep you focused. None of them work perfectly, mostly because of context.Reddit, for example, is something I should generally avoid during the workday, so I tend to block it—this is a good decision for me overall. The problem is that sometimes the only place I can find a particular piece of information online is in a Reddit thread, meaning that to get that information I need to turn off my distraction-blocking tool. Then I inevitably end up down some kind of rabbit hole.This is the…
The internet today has a permissions problem. As non-humans — chatbots, AI agents, and automated systems — have proliferated on the web, so has the need to provide them with credentials, permissions, and identities. That’s one major reason identity and access management startups that help manage this new kind of digital workforce are raking in venture capital. Now, a 35-person Israeli-American startup called Venice is emerging from stealth with fresh cash and a plucky claim: that it’s already replacing industry stalwarts like CyberArk and Okta at Fortune 500 companies. Venice, founded just over two years ago, says it raised $20…
Snap’s direct revenue business has reached a $1 billion annualized revenue run rate, the company announced on Wednesday. Annualized revenue refers to a business’s current revenue rate projected over a full year. The social media giant says the milestone is driven by its Snapchat+ offering, which has now surpassed 25 million subscribers. Launched in 2022, Snapchat+ gives subscribers access to exclusive and pre-release features for $3.99 per month. Following a successful launch, Snap introduced additional paid tiers beyond the core Snapchat+ subscription over the past year to further diversify its revenue streams. “Snapchat+ has become one of the fastest-growing consumer…
Google announced on Wednesday that it’s adding a music-generation feature to the Gemini app. The company is using DeepMind’s Lyria 3 music-generation model to power the feature, which is still in beta. To use the feature, you’ll describe the song you want to create, and the app will generate a track along with lyrics. For instance, you could ask Gemini to create a “comical R&B slow jam about a sock finding its match,” and the app will generate a 30-second track along with cover art made by Nano Banana. Google said that you can even upload a photo or a…