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Zoë Schiffer: Emil Michael, you should turn off your views on LinkedIn because people can see when they look at your phone.Brian Barrett: Yeah, that’s a tip for Emil Michael if you’re listening. And then, if you listen to Uncanny Valley, which you should.Leah Feiger: And this is really the Trump official that’s kind of leading the war against Anthropic here. He has these deep ties to the tech world and he’s the Pentagon’s public enemy number one of anyone who’s trying to cross the Pentagon. So the fact that, one, he has not maybe the best op sec in…
Key Takeaways: The Big Game is still as important as ever, but real results are measured after the game ends. Celebrity matters, but authenticity is stronger than star power. The emotion of live sports allows for a deeper connection with audiences. The Super Bowl is a cultural event that marketers have been using to reach consumers for decades. But as the advertising landscape continues to fragment, audibles must be called. During an ADWEEK House: The Big Game group chat, industry leaders gathered to discuss the continued relevance—and evolving strategies—of advertising during the sporting event.A powerful launchpadThe marketers on the panel agreed…
The $7 million in annual recurring revenue that Cluely co-founder and CEO Roy Lee shared with TechCrunch last summer was a lie, Lee admitted on Thursday on X. Wrote Lee, this “is the only blatantly dishonest thing i’ve said publicly online, so this is my formal retraction.” Yet his post on X also misrepresents the backstory of how and why he told TechCrunch his ARR in the first place. Lee says in that same post that he “got a random cold call from some woman asking about numbers and told her some bs, did not expect an article about it.”…
On February 28, United States and Israeli forces launched a series of strikes on Iran, kicking off turmoil in the Middle East.Pete Hegseth, the secretary of the Department of Defense, said in a recent press conference that the operation could last as long as eight weeks. President Donald Trump himself said in a press conference on March 2 that the administration projected the operation would last four or five weeks but had “the capability to go far longer than that.”This week Iran has responded in turn, attacking Israel, regional US embassies and military bases, and other sites across the Middle…
Beehiiv has hired Darren Chait as its first chief marketing officer, bringing on the former Calendly growth executive as the newsletter platform pushes deeper into the creator economy, according to its chief executive Tyler Denk.Chait, who officially began the role on Monday, will oversee positioning, demand generation, and marketing operations as Beehiiv expands beyond its origins as a newsletter publishing tool, according to Tyler Denk.“We’ve outgrown the newsletter platform,” Chait told ADWEEK in an interview. “We have tens of millions who know us that way, but we have ambitions to grow deeper and wider.”Darren Chait joined Beehiiv this week as…
Hackers have reportedly broken into the networks of the FBI. On Thursday, citing an anonymous source, CNN reported that the breach affected a system used to manage wiretaps and foreign intelligence surveillance warrants. “The FBI identified and addressed suspicious activities on FBI networks, and we have leveraged all technical capabilities to respond,” a bureau spokesperson told TechCrunch, declining to provide more details. This is the latest major breach of U.S. government agencies and American companies in recent times. Last year, Chinese hackers broke into the U.S. Treasury and the National Nuclear Security Administration, which oversees the security of the U.S.…
Move over Sora 2, there’s a hot new AI video model in town.In early February, ByteDance unveiled Seedance 2.0, a major upgrade to its flagship video model, which had previously remained fairly obscure. Its powerful capabilities immediately shocked the AI ecosystem in China, even among audiences who had once been skeptical of AI-generated video and viewed the technology mainly as a way to produce slop.Feng Ji, the founder of Game Science, the studio that developed China’s global hit video game Black Myth: Wukong, wrote online that he was “deeply shocked” by the model’s abilities and believed Seedance 2.0 would pose…
Fresh off a better-than-expected holiday season, retailers are again gearing up for another year full of challenges.There’s more uncertainty following the chaos after the U.S. Supreme Court struck down President Trump’s sweeping tariffs. Consumers still face high prices for essentials like food, housing, and potentially gasoline prices after the recent U.S. attack on Iran. And those are just the macroeconomic factors.AI is quickly becoming a differentiator, as retailers decide whether to integrate with third-party AI answer engines or develop their own AI-powered chatbots. And another narrative is emerging that impacts the ad community: Amazon and Walmart continue to get bigger.
The Department of Defense has officially notified Anthropic leadership that the company and its products have been designated a supply chain risk, Bloomberg reports, citing a senior department official. The designation comes after weeks of conflict between the AI lab and the DOD. Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei has refused to allow the military to use its AI systems for mass surveillance of Americans or to power fully autonomous weapons with no humans assisting in the targeting or firing decisions. The Department has argued that its use of AI should not be limited by a private contractor. Supply chain risk designations…
Spring is in the air—and so are at least two cocktails of radioactive elements. As we near the 40th anniversary of the Chernobyl disaster, CNN is diving deep to offer up never-before-seen footage from the costliest disaster in human history, and people who experienced the events are speaking out for the first time.Hulu, too, is taking the opportunity to go radioactive with a partly fictionalized version of the lesser known—and far less devastating—Goiânia incident, a contamination event that took place in Brazil just one year after the events of Chernobyl and killed four people.It’s not all doom and gloom on…
With the search for Nancy Guthrie extending over the one-month mark, authorities are still aggressively pursuing all angles to find the mother of NBC News’ Savannah Guthrie.As that investigation continues, the network reported that the Today co-anchor visited her colleagues in New York on Thursday morning. The off-air visit provided Guthrie the chance to be with her coworkers and thank them for their support, according to a Today spokesperson.NBC News also confirmed that Guthrie will be returning to the morning show at a time to be determined by Guthrie. The spokesperson added that “she remains focused right now supporting her…
Nominal on Thursday announced a fresh $80M Series B extension round at a $1 billion valuation, led by Founders Fund. This followed the company’s $75M Series B round led by Sequoia in September. Nominal offers software that helps hardware engineers test their designs and began as a picks-and-shovels type of startup for the defense industry. The three-and-a-half-year-old, L.A.-based company says that in the last 10 months, it has landed four of the five largest defense contractors as customers. CEO and co-founder Cameron McCord (pictured) is a former U.S. Navy submarine officer and Anduril alum, the defense tech company, which is…
In late November, Emily did something she hadn’t in a very long time: she got back on Tumblr and started discussing fandom. Specifically, Heated Rivalry, the surprise Crave smash hit series about a love story between two closeted hockey players, based on a queer hockey romance series that itself started out, in part, as gay Marvel fanfiction.In the early 2010s, Emily, who requested that only her first name be used due to fears over harassment, had been a huge Tumblr user. She went from Gossip Girl fandom to Glee fandom to Sherlock fandom to bandom (an umbrella term for fans…
This is TVNewser’s basic cable network ranker and cable news report for the week of Feb. 23, 2026.The early Saturday morning attacks by the U.S and Israeli military on Iran drove viewers to cable news networks as they all recorded double-digit growth in total viewers and the Adults 25-54 demo during primetime and total day. All three networks had over a million total viewers during primetime for the concluded week. Fox News grew by triple digits in the primetime demo and had the highest-rated Saturday since April 2003. NETWORKS:According to Nielsen big data + panel for the week of February 23,…
AI video generation startup Luma on Thursday launched Luma Agents, designed to handle end-to-end creative work across text, image, video, and audio. Luma Agents are powered by the startup’s Unified Intelligence family of models, with architecture trained on a single multimodal reasoning system. Luma Agents are being pitched as a new way of doing work for ad agencies, marketing teams, design studios, and enterprises. Luma says its agents are capable of planning and generating text, image, video and audio while coordinating with other AI models, including Luma’s Ray 3.14, Google’s Veo 3 and Nano Banana Pro, ByteDance’s Seedream, and ElevenLabs’s…
“Pursuant to the Protecting Americans from Foreign Adversary Controlled Applications Act, apps developed by ByteDance Ltd. and its subsidiaries—including TikTok, CapCut, Lemon8, and others—will no longer be available for download or updates on the App Store for users in the United States starting January 19, 2025,” the archived webpage reads.As of Thursday, ByteDance apps like TikTok, CapCut (a video editor app). and Lemon8 (an Instagram-like social media platform) remain available on the US App Store, as they are covered by the January 22 deal to transfer TikTok’s US business to a group of investors led by Silver Lake, Oracle, and…