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In 1996, Guinea-Bissau seemed like an ideal research post for budding pediatrician Lone Graff Stensballe. Her supervisor, a fellow Dane named Peter Aaby, had spent nearly two decades collecting data on 100,000 people living in the mud brick homes of the West African country’s capital.Aaby and his partner, Christine Stabell Benn, believed that the years of research in the impoverished country had yielded a major discovery about vaccines—and what they described as “non-specific effects”: The measles and tuberculosis vaccines, which were derived from live, weakened viruses and bacteria, they said, boosted child survival beyond protecting against those particular pathogens.But, the…
Since then, imbroglios have ranged from petty squabbles to far more serious incidences (real and alleged) of collusion, bribery, double dealing, intellectual property theft, and, most recently, fictions conjured by AI.Last year’s scandal-ridden festival prompted Cannes Lions to introduce new integrity standards. “The industry landscape is changing at lightning speed,” Lions CEO Simon Cook said in a statement. “And, in common with the rest of the industry, Cannes Lions is adapting.”Accusations of cheating have long beset big awards, but the ongoing constriction of the agency world has increased the temptation to break the rules at Cannes, one longtime attendee told…
The market for AI notetaking devices has exploded in the U.S., with the category generating over $600 million in revenue last year, according to a Menlo Ventures report. And as startups like Heidi Health and Freed, have shown, there’s decent demand for this tech in healthcare, where doctors and clinics see the potential for an AI assistant that can help them keep track of patient conversations, surface health records, and lower their administrative burdens. But those apps don’t do much for patients, which is why Kin Health is building a notetaker that can transcribe your visits to doctors, parse medical…
What my mom lacks in healthy legs, she makes up for in a Claude Pro subscription. Having needled her repeatedly over the past couple years about AI’s environmental, political, and economic implications, I brushed all that aside on a recent Sunday and drove to her house. After a little tibia talk, I opened her computer and began emitting vibes.I’d like to create a communally shared app that gathers and shares information related to how much time and energy we devote to fighting burdensome administrative tasks, bureaucratic sludge, Kafka-esque unsubscribe mazes, byzantine insurance portals, wrongful charges, denied claims, confusing membership plans,…
High-speed enthusiasts have descended on the Indianapolis Motor Speedway since 1911 to marvel at racing machines zooming around the famous circuit. But recently, 27-foot hot dogs have entered the race.That would be the annual Oscar Mayer Wienie 500, where six “hotdoggers” race Wienermobiles around the track, competing for the Borg-Wiener Trophy on the final day of practice before the Indy 500. Very on-brand for a food brand that strives not to take itself too seriously.Last year’s race drew 85,000 fans to the stands and 8 million viewers on Fox and social media, resulting in half a million more wieners sold…
We recently announced the winners of our inaugural Human Made Awards. Of all the categories we celebrated, there’s one we wanted to come back to and give a little more space: Technical Wizardry, won this year by Samantha Miller. Technical excellence sits right at the heart of what we do at Human Made. It’s why our clients trust us with business-critical projects, and it references the standard our team holds itself to every day.So when we asked everyone at the company to nominate the Human whose technical skill, problem-solving, and craft had set a new bar this year, it was…
Amazon announced the latest update to Alexa+ on Monday: the ability to generate podcast episodes on demand. The new feature, called “Alexa Podcasts,” is rolling out to customers in the U.S. today. Amazon describes the capability as a way to “turn any topic you’re curious about into a podcast episode, ready in minutes.” To use the feature, all users have to do is ask Alexa+ to create a podcast about a topic they’re interested in. Users don’t need to upload documents, write scripts, or plan anything ahead of time. Instead, Alexa+ researches the request, gathers information, and generates a quick…
A Miracle cancer therapy that involves engineering a patient’s own immune cells is being repurposed for HIV, and early results from two individuals hint at its promise for long-term control of the virus.As part of a clinical trial, scientists took people’s own immune cells and reprogrammed them in a lab to recognize and attack HIV in the body. After a single infusion of the modified cells, two individuals with HIV now have undetectable levels of the virus—one for nearly two years and the other for almost a year. Both have been able to go off HIV medications entirely.The two people…
DoorDash has a new chief marketing officer in Tim Castree. Castree joins the delivery platform from Amazon, where he was vice president of EU Prime and marketing for the ecommerce giant. Prior to that, Castree oversaw paid media and then served as a senior advisor at Hawkfish, the ad agency founded by Mike Bloomberg to support the billionaire’s 2020 campaign for president.In 2019, Castree spent a year as GroupM’s North America CEO. The exec also brings experience from Leo Burnett Australia, MediaVest, and Wavemaker.“Tim is a deeply customer-obsessed, naturally curious leader who brings a rare intellectual rigor to every dimension…
Grafana Labs, the maker of its eponymous popular open source web visualization software, confirmed it had been hacked but that it refused to pay the hackers who had threatened to release the company’s codebase. In a series of posts on social media, the lab said its investigation found that the hackers had abused a stolen token credential that allowed access to the company’s GitLab environment, which it uses for code development. The token did not provide access to customer records or financial data, but allowed the hackers to obtain the company’s repositories of source code. The company has since invalidated…
The note from the communications team then, quite remarkably, lists some stats in an attempt to paint the launch in a positive light, as opposed the retail bin-fire it seemingly was: “We have received millions of clicks on our website. This new collaboration is literally making social media explode, with over 6 billion views within one week; by now, it is already 11 billion. All in all, the Royal Pop Collection is captivating the entire world, not least because the Royal Pop is, quite surprisingly, not a wristwatch.”Audemars Piguet seems unhappy with how Swatch has handled the launch of its collaboration on…
Javier Campopiano, global chief creative officer, global clients for Omnicom Advertising Group (OAG), is stepping down from his role, ADWEEK has learned.Campopiano, the former McCann Worldgroup and McCann Worldwide chief creative officer, will leave Omnicom at the end of May. An Omnicom spokesperson said the company has no plans to replace his role.He departs six months after taking on the OAG role as part of Omnicom’s acquisition of Interpublic Group (IPG) in December 2025.Prior to that, Campopiano had been McCann’s global creative leader since 2023. During his tenure, he helped the agency network win clients including Ferrero, Ikea, Peroni Nastro Azzurro,…
Google I/O is imminent. This is the annual developer event and product showcase where Google shows off all the shiny new updates to its Android operating system and other platforms, as well as new features and improvements to its artificial intelligence models.The big announcements at Google I/O usually come in the form of a livestreamed keynote event at the Shoreline Amphitheatre in Mountain View, California, hosted by Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai. That starts on Tuesday, May 19, at 10 am Pacific time (1 pm Eastern). You can watch the livestream on Google’s website or on YouTube. It will also be…
To stand out amid the World Cup ad rush, Visa is going beyond sponsorship and logo visibility, inviting fans to “tap in” to exclusive activations, promotions, and prizes that celebrate the sport.The payment giant, a World Cup sponsor since 2007, has launched a campaign called “Tap In” featuring Ted Lasso star Jason Sudeikis. The name has double meaning: it’s a colloquialism for contactless payments and a soccer term for a goal scored from close range.“We want to be a brand that is showing up and powering participation,” Andrea Fairchild, svp of global sponsorship strategy at Visa, told ADWEEK. “Everything is…
Imagine you’re riding a motorcycle at 160 kilometers per hour when an arrow appears, floating on the road ahead, telling you exactly where to turn. No phone, no dashboard. Just your helmet, and a lens the size of a thumbnail. This is not a concept video. It’s heading to European roads as early as this year. And it’s one early glimpse of where smart glasses are heading. Over the past few years, Big Tech has been quietly (and not so quietly) placing its bets. Meta has been selling AI-enabled Ray-Ban glasses since 2023, Google is building Android XR, and Apple…
Anyone who has had chickenpox shares one distinct memory: the relentless, all-consuming itch.Ciara DiVita was only 3 years old when she caught the virus, but she remembers it well—along with the oven mitts she was made to wear to stop herself scratching. She also recalls being taken to hang out with her cousin while covered in blisters, in the hopes of deliberately infecting them.DiVita, now 30, was actually the second in the chain, having been taken by her parents to catch chickenpox from an infectious friend. “I imagine the chain continued and my cousin gave it to someone else at…