An EEG signal of sleep is associated with better performance on a mental task. The guy in the back may be doing a more useful activity. Credit: XAVIER GALIANA Dmitri Mendeleev famously saw the complete arrangement of the periodic table after falling asleep on his desk. He claimed in hisContinue Reading
July 5, 2025 12:15 PM VentureBeat/Ideogram Want smarter insights in your inbox? Sign up for our weekly newsletters to get only what matters to enterprise AI, data, and security leaders. Subscribe Now In the past decade, companies have spent billions on data infrastructure. Petabyte-scale warehouses. Real-time pipelines. Machine learning (ML)Continue Reading
In 2025, influencer marketing is nothing new. Nevertheless, some major big-box retailers just launched creator programs in response to the evolution of how people interact with social content and creators. Best Buy in April launched the Best Buy Creator program, which gives creators the ability to create a storefront to highlight theirContinue Reading
Georgina Bankier, vp, global platform partnerships, Eyeota, a Dun & Bradstreet company In today’s fractured media environment, connected TV and retail media are dominating advertiser attention — and their budgets. CTV ad spending is projected to reach $33.35 billion this year, while retail media’s 19.7% growth will be more thanContinue Reading
By Alexander Lee • July 2, 2025 • Ivy Liu As Substack invests in video content, the platform’s smaller creators stand to gain the most subscribers and advertisers by embracing the medium. Over the past year, Substack has considerably expanded its video tools for both creators and audience members. InContinue Reading
By Seb Joseph • July 1, 2025 • Advertisers aren’t feeling the direct blow of generative AI on traffic the way publishers are. But they see what’s coming. Tripadvisor, for one, is already adjusting its strategy as the foundation of search starts to shift. It’s not going full Dotdash MeredithContinue Reading
U.S. cyber agencies, the FBI, and NSA issued an urgent warning today about potential cyberattacks from Iranian-affiliated hackers targeting U.S. critical infrastructure. CISA says there are no indications of an ongoing campaign but urges critical infrastructure organizations and other potential targets to monitor their defense due to the current unrest inContinue Reading
Excessive Fines The Douglas, Michigan, city government is hitting a homeowner with crushing fines after reversing its own approval. She’s fighting back in federal court. C. Jarrett Dieterle | 6.28.2025 6:30 AM (Pacific Legal Foundation) The city of Douglas, Michigan, is determined to take the “free” out of “free range.”Continue Reading
The AI startup Runway, which recently partnered with AMC Networks, is now trying to break into the gaming industry. The company has plans to launch its latest platform, called Game Worlds, next week, according to The Verge. The new tool lets Runway users create something akin to an interactive text-basedContinue Reading
The latest round of U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics is expected next week (July 3), with more recent statistics indicating the upcoming numbers are unlikely to cause much positivity in the space, as the wider marketing industry goes through a period of unparalleled disruption. BLS numbers for May 2025 indicateContinue Reading
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