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Anthropic IPO Is the Next Test for the AI Trade After the Nvidia Shock
Anthropic initial public offering will be the next big test for the AI trade, alongside Nvidia first results presentation without Jensen Huang at the helm.
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Trump Early Vote Was a Media Event First and a Ballot Second
President Donald Trump voted early in Florida on Saturday before a Georgia rally, a sequence designed for television that turns early voting itself into the campaign message.
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When AI Researchers Quit in Public, the Brand Damage Outlasts the Headline
Google DeepMind resignations over military AI contracts show why talent is a trust signal for AI brands: when builders quit in public, responsible AI claims start to read as marketing copy.
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Platforms Are Blocking AI Agents by Default, and Ad Sites Led the Way
The open web is quietly closing its doors to AI agents.
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AI Found the PHP Flaws in Hours. Your Website Might Still Be Exposed
The two most serious PHP vulnerabilities in over a decade were found with the help of artificial intelligence, and the same AI that found…
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Hasbro’s $600 Million Quarter Is a Masterclass in Franchise Marketing
Hasbro’s latest quarter reads like a marketing case study. The toymaker’s Magic: The Gathering franchise generated more than $600 million in a single quarter…
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AI Labs Set Q3 Lobbying Record at Nearly $6 Million as Regulation Fight Heats Up
America's leading AI laboratories spent a record of nearly 6 million dollars on federal lobbying in the third quarter, according to an analysis by The
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The Weekend Box Office Tells Marketers the Audience Has Moved
Godzilla Minus Zero and Ramayana owned the same weekend from opposite sides of the world, and the lesson for marketers is that the audience for a subtitled film is now the mainstream.
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Circana: Holiday Shoppers Turn Selective, Average Spend at $779
Circana's 2026 U.S. Holiday Purchase Intentions Study finds shoppers spending selectively — averaging $779, down from $796 last year.
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Anthropic IPO Is the AI Boom First Big Test of Wall Street Faith
Anthropic blockbuster IPO will value the Claude chatbot creator at up to 1.4 trillion dollars, setting up a key test of Wall Street faith in the AI boom it helped ignite.
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The Outstanding Ballot Problem: Why 27.9 Million Unreturned Ballots Are the Real Campaign
Tens of millions of mail ballots sent or requested have not yet been returned, making ballot chasing, not persuasion alone, the decisive task of the final weekend.
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Google’s Gemini 4 Argon Puts AI Cost Economics Centre-Stage
Google has made its latest frontier artificial-intelligence model, Gemini 4 Argon, generally available — and for buyers the headline is as much about price…
