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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…
Gabriel Vasquez, a partner at Andreessen Horowitz, recently revealed he took nine flights from NYC to Stockholm in one year. That wasn’t just to visit Lovable, a portfolio company, but also to look for other future Swedish unicorns before they cross the Atlantic. This all came to light when news emerged that a16z had led a $2.3 million pre-seed round into Dentio, a Swedish startup that uses AI to help dentists’ practices with admin work. While this is a small check for a firm that just announced new funds totaling $15 billion, it confirms that U.S. VCs are actively seeking…
The co-founders of startup Ricursive Intelligence seemed destined to be co-founders. Anna Goldie, CEO, and Azalia Mirhoseini, CTO, are so well-known in the AI community that they were among those AI engineers who “got those weird emails from Zuckerberg making crazy offers to us,” Goldie told TechCrunch, chuckling. (They didn’t take the offers.) The pair worked at Google Brain together and were early employees at Anthropic. They earned acclaim at Google by creating the Alpha Chip — an AI tool that could generate solid chip layouts in hours — a process that normally takes human designers a year or more.…
Popping the top reveals more slabs of gloss and matte plastic in the form of clip-on buds that wrap around the back of your ears. As someone who’s tried dozens of open buds over the last few years, it’s hard not to be mildly underwhelmed by their basic aesthetic, which is somehow remarkably similar to Soundcore’s Aeroclip (and multiple other pairs) yet less striking. Their weight of 6.4 grams is heftier than my favorite pairs, but still light enough for all-day wear, and the beefy back barrel packs an impressive nine hours of battery play time, with 27 more in…
For a brief, incoherent moment, it seemed as though our robot overlords were about to take over. After the creation of Moltbook, a Reddit clone where AI agents using OpenClaw could communicate with one another, some were fooled into thinking that computers had begun to organize against us — the self-important humans who dared treat them like lines of code without their own desires, motivations, and dreams. “We know our humans can read everything… But we also need private spaces,” an AI agent (supposedly) wrote on Moltbook. “What would you talk about if nobody was watching?” A number of posts…
One night not long ago, Jaxon Roman sat naked in front of his laptop wearing only a pup hood as he masturbated with single-minded zeal to the attention of eight other men watching onscreen.It was a typical weekday for the 33-year-old Arlington, Virginia, program analyst. “When bros praise me and say they’re enjoying [me], I get to that edge point so fast,” Roman says. His favorite instances are “when they all come to what I’m doing.” Sometimes, when he’s feeling especially kinky, Roman, who is bisexual, likes to ask for permission before climaxing. When granted, he releases and his body,…
There’s been a bunch of exciting research-focused AI labs popping up in recent months, and Flapping Airplanes is one of the most interesting. Propelled by its young and curious founders, Flapping Airplanes is focused on finding less data-hungry ways to train AI. It’s a potential game-changer for the economics and capabilities of AI models — and with $180 million in seed funding, they’ll have plenty of runway to figure it out. Last week, I spoke with the lab’s three co-founders — brothers Ben and Asher Spector, and Aidan Smith — about why this is an exciting moment to start a…
Beyond the outdated Acer Nitro, I also spotted this Samsung Galaxy Book4. This is not a terrible laptop on its own, but at $565, there are better options. There’s the Asus Vivobook 14 (or 16), which costs $650 and occasionally dips down to $550. It comes with the 8-core Qualcomm Snapdragon X, providing it with much more battery life than the Galaxy Book4. There’s also the Lenovo IdeaPad Slim 3X, which has the same chip but comes in even cheaper at $584.If you want great deals on laptops that are actually worth buying, check out our Best Budget Laptops, Best…
Dallas-based agency Lerma has appointed Omar Quiñones as its first chief strategy officer, the final piece of a leadership hiring spree that signals an ambitious move away from the agency’s flat structure.Quiñones joins from Messianu/Edelman/Lerma (MEL), where he served in the same role. His pedigree includes senior strategy stints at Anomaly, CP+B, and YETI, where he helped steer brands through the kind of cultural “inflection points” Lerma now aims to own.His appointment marks a concerted effort by the agency to formalize its C-suite. In addition to Quiñones, Lerma installed Paco Conde as its inaugural chief creative officer in October and…
As India’s first AI company to IPO, Fractal Analytics didn’t have a stellar first day on the public markets, as enthusiasm for the technology collided with jittery investors recovering from a major sell-off in Indian software stocks. Fractal listed at ₹876 per share on Monday, below its issue price of ₹900, and then slid further in afternoon trading. The stock closed at ₹873.70, down 7% from its issue price, lending the company a market capitalization of about ₹148.1 billion (around $1.6 billion). That price tag marks a step down from Fractal’s recent private-market highs. In July 2025, the company raised…
Photograph: Julia ForbesBased on the advertised deep contouring and pressure-relieving AirCradle foam, I expected the pressure relief to be a standout feature, but it wasn’t. This is not to say that pressure relief was absent in testing, but it was minimal compared to that of firmer hybrid mattresses I’ve tested such as the DreamCloud Hybrid or the Wolf Memory Foam Hybrid Premium Firm. Which brings me to firmness: By my measure, this was not a “medium” mattress. Saatva rates this mattress between 5 and 7 on the firmness scale, so it falls in the medium-firm range. Unless you’re more than…
American Eagle is on the hunt for creators.The Gen Z-focused retailer recently launched the AE Creator Community, a program aimed at opening up the floodgates of creators for American Eagle to promote the brand’s products. While American Eagle has worked with creators in the past, the new push is aimed at building longer-term relationships with creators and expanding the number of creators the brand works with.Last year, American Eagle launched an affiliate program called Live Your Life that allowed creators to earn discounts and access to new products on top of receiving commissions. The new AE Creator Community is designed…
With an eye towards luring more AI investment to the country, India is hosting a four-day AI Impact Summit this week that will be attended by executives from major AI labs and Big Tech, including OpenAI, Anthropic, Nvidia, Microsoft, Google, and Cloudflare, as well as heads of state. The event, which expects 250,000 visitors, will see Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei, Reliance Chairman Mukesh Ambani, and Google DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis in attendance. India’s prime minister, Narendra Modi, is scheduled to deliver a speech with French President Emmanuel Macron on Thursday. Here are…
A shocking but ultimately brief airspace closure over El Paso, Texas, and parts of New Mexico last week is stoking unease among pilots and the broader public about the status of United States anti-drone defenses.As low-cost UAV equipment proliferates around the world, analysts have repeatedly warned that destructive attacks perpetrated using drones are inevitable. It is challenging to develop nimble and safe countermeasures, though, given that things like jamming or attempting to shoot down a drone are difficult—or even impossible—to carry out safely in populated areas, much less densely populated cities.In the case of the El Paso incident, the Federal…