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In this episode of Adspeak by ADWEEK, host Will Lee sits down with Tony Ressler, co-founder and executive chairman of Ares Management Corporation, and Chris “Ludacris” Bridges, a Grammy-winning artist, entrepreneur, and philanthropist, for a fast-moving conversation on culture, community, and the business mechanics behind Atlanta’s rise.What you’ll learn: How to identify and leverage your city’s unique creative assets Why diversification across entertainment, tech, and philanthropy protects long-term brand value How to transform real estate into a brand catalyst The strategic importance of non-core revenue streams in sports venues Why community investment and brand building are inseparable business strategies Ludacris…
Anthropic has released a new version of its mid-size Sonnet model, keeping pace with the company’s four-month update cycle. In a post announcing the new model, Anthropic emphasized improvements in coding, instruction-following, and computer use. Sonnet 4.6 will be the default model for Free and Pro plan users. The beta release of Sonnet 4.6 will include a context window of 1 million tokens, twice the size of the largest window previously available for Sonnet. Anthropic described the new context window as “enough to hold entire codebases, lengthy contracts, or dozens of research papers in a single request.” The release comes…
In this episode of Brave Commerce, Rachel Tipograph and Sarah Hofstetter speak with Michael Reda, vice president of omnichannel marketing at The Marzetti Company, about driving growth in categories like refrigerated dressings and frozen bread. He shares how Marzetti approaches discovery in a digitally influenced world and how the brand reinforces storytelling with retail media and partnerships like Instacart to support basket building.They also discuss Marzetti’s post-2020 ecommerce acceleration, including the foundational work behind scaling digital commerce, from improving content and search to strengthening ratings, reviews, and agency partnerships. Michael reflects on innovation, founder stories, and the career move he considers his…
Mistral AI, the French company last valued at $13.8 billion, has made its first acquisition. The OpenAI competitor has agreed to buy Koyeb, a Paris-based startup that simplifies AI app deployment at scale and manages the infrastructure behind it. Mistral has been primarily known for developing large language models (LLMs), but this deal confirms its ambitions to position itself as a full-stack player. In June 2025, it had announced Mistral Compute, an AI cloud infrastructure offering which it now hopes Koyeb will accelerate. Founded in 2020 by three former employees of French cloud provider Scaleway, Koyeb aimed to help developers…
More than ever before, CMOs belong in the C-suite. Sumit Virmani, CMO of Infosys, has a strong case to back this stance up. In this episode of Marketing Vanguard, live from the 2026 World Economic Forum in Davos, Sumit breaks down the necessary evolution of the CMO, what AI has to do with it, and the strategic imperative of aligning with C-suite priorities. What you’ll learn: Why CMOs need to operate within the full C-suite context, not just marketing bubbles How to position yourself as a transformation partner, not a marketing operator The critical difference between using AI to do marketing better…
WordPress.com, the website hosting platform from Automattic, will now include a built-in WordPress AI assistant, the company announced on Tuesday. The feature is designed to work inside the website to understand its content and layout, allowing site owners to make changes with natural language commands. With the new tool, you can adjust the site’s layout, its style, or other patterns by issuing commands to the AI assistant, and then see the changes reflected on the site as you work. These instructions don’t have to be precisely tailored prompts, either, the company notes. Instead, you can use more general language, like…
Lenovo arrived at CES 2026 with ambition that went far beyond a keynote. In this episode of The Speed of Culture, Matt Britton sits down with Milo Speranzo, CMO for Lenovo North America, to break down what it took to deliver Lenovo’s sold-out Sphere showcase, the product story behind AI PCs, servers, wearables, and Motorola, and why edge computing AI privacy now shapes a new hardware refresh cycle.Milo also explains why Lenovo chose the Sphere, how a company-wide effort brought 14,000 people together, and what Lenovo wants customers to understand about the next era of AI. The conversation also explores the…
Apple is taking on YouTube and Spotify with a new video podcast experience launching in the spring. Users will be able to switch between watching and listening to shows in the Apple Podcasts app, which will begin using the company’s HTTP Live Streaming (HLS) video technology. Users can also switch to a horizontal version of the podcast and download videos to watch offline. The move comes as video podcasting continues to gain popularity. Edison Research recently revealed that 51% of the U.S. population has consumed a video podcast, and that 37% consume video podcasts monthly. Image Credits:Apple The updated video…
Folgers wants America to get up, smell the coffee, and seize the day, as it reworks its famous jingle into a medley of famous tracks about waking up. Aware that the legacy of what was once the most recognizable jingle in American advertising was fading, Folgers was determined to move beyond its association with mornings. The 179-year-old brand enlisted the help of PSOne and BBH USA to reinvent its heritage.With the famed jingle, “The best part of wakin’ up is Folgers in your cup,” still at its heart, Folgers offers another interpretation, expanding the idea of waking up beyond the realms…
Social network Snapchat announced today it’s launching creator subscriptions in alpha with select people in the U.S. starting on February 23. The company noted that users will be able to buy subscriptions to creators, including Jeremiah Brown, Harry Jowsey, and Skai Jackson. This will allow users to unlock exclusive content while creating monetization opportunities for creators. Creators can set their own monthly prices for subscription within the app, while Snap will recommend different tiers to them. The subscription will unlock subscriber-only content, priority replies to a creator’s public Stories, and ad-free consumption for that creator’s Stories. Snap noted that this is a new way…
If you’re interested in going paperless, you probably think you need a scanner. It’s true that hardware scanners make turning multipage documents into PDFs very simple. But most of us don’t have easy access to a scanner.What we do have are phones, and those phones have very good cameras. That’s where scanning apps come in.These apps allow you to take photos of each page of a paper document, crop out the edges of the photo and straighten everything, then combine those photos into a PDF file. A scanning app is handy, but there’s a catch: a lot of the apps…
Every day, people log in to an online forum for current and former Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) officers to share their thoughts on the news of the day and complain about their colleagues in Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE).“ERO is too busy dressing up as Black Ops Commandos with Tactical body armor, drop down thigh rigs, balaclavas, multiple M4 magazines, and Punisher patches, to do an Admin arrest of a non criminal, non-violent EWI that weighs 90 pounds and is 5 foot 2, inside a secure Federal building where everyone has been screened for weapons,” wrote one user in July…
Based on logged meals, the app predicts a person’s blood sugar response to those foods. It also makes personalized recommendations throughout the day, such as adjusting portion size, choosing a different food combination, or taking a walk after eating. Users can accept or ignore these suggestions—maybe broccoli isn’t their favorite food, or they prefer to exercise during a particular time of the day. The app uses AI to adapt to their preferences over time. Users can also chat with human coaches if they have specific health questions.For Buckley, Twin Health has helped him make healthier choices, such as swapping out…
Power broker Michael Kassan’s media advisory and investment shop 3C Ventures surpassed $50 million in revenue from September 2024 to December 2025. This is more than double 3CV’s initial 2025 projections, Kassan told ADWEEK.About 35% of that revenue has come from multi-stage transformational projects with clients, often Fortune 500s, aimed at modernizing their business strategies. Kassan described these as “seven-figure ticket items,” Kassan said, though he declined to provide specific project financials.Kassan first previewed 3CV in June 2024, when he projected it would reach $100 million within its first 12 to 18 months. The company kicked off operations officially in…
Enterprise AI company Cohere launched a new family of multilingual models on the sidelines of the ongoing India AI Summit. The models, dubbed Tiny Aya, are open-weight — meaning their underlying code is publicly available for anyone to use and modify — support over 70 languages, and can run on everyday devices like laptops without requiring an internet connection. The model, launched by the company’s research arm Cohere Labs, supports South Asian languages such as Bengali, Hindi, Punjabi, Urdu, Gujarati, Tamil, Telugu, and Marathi. The base model contains 3.35 billion parameters — a measure of its size and complexity. Cohere…
A short drive from London, the town of Potters Bar is separated from the village of South Mimms by 85 acres of rolling farmland segmented by a scribble of hedgerows. In one of the fields, a lone oak serves as a rest stop along a public footpath. Lately, the tree has become a site of protest, too. A poster tied to its trunk reads: “NO TO DATA CENTRE.”In September 2024, a property developer applied for permission to build an industrial-scale data center—one of the largest in Europe—on the farmland. When locals caught wind, they started a Facebook group in hopes…