Hi, Welcome Welcome back Bluesky has a new setting to help you avoid accidentally going viral The setting will prevent your posts from being recommended in the algorithmic “discover” feed. By Karissa Bell Aug. 27, 2026 Bluesky Bluesky is adding a new feature that could be especially useful for anyone worried about inadvertently … Continue reading Bluesky has a new setting to help you avoid accidentally going viral
AI Space Race, What’s The Impact For Advertising? by Laurie Sullivan , Staff Writer, August 27, 2026 Government and political backlash related to building data centers to support a growing need for energy and processing power to run AI has been accelerating rapidly into an intense, bipartisan populist movement. No one wants these gigantic buildings … Continue reading As AI Races To Space, What’s The Impact On Advertisers?
From a McDonald’s order to a night at Madison Square Garden, ordinary experiences create detailed profiles people rarely see or can correct. By Jay Mandel Published on August 27, 2026 Better data can make marketing more confident without making it smarter. We capture a click, score a lead, infer an intention, and place … Continue reading Better data starts with treating people like people
August 27, 2026 Why the departure of OpenAI’s data center chief is not a good look BY Mark Sullivan Welcome to AI Decoded, Fast Company‘s weekly newsletter that breaks down the most important news in the world of AI. I’m Mark Sullivan, a senior writer at Fast Company, covering emerging tech, AI, and tech policy. Sign … Continue reading Why the departure of OpenAI’s data center chief is not a good look
Is the problem connecting marketing, pipeline, and revenue? Or is it the crazy ways businesses buy, which no technology can fix? By Mike Pastore Published on August 27, 2026 B2B demand gen player Integrate announced Wednesday it was acquiring CaliberMind, a platform that pulls together marketing and sales data and provides multi-touch attribution, … Continue reading Integrate buys CaliberMind and hopes to close the B2B demand gen loop
Australia’s recording association bans AI-made music from charts Songs using gen-AI as a support tool will still be allowed. By Anna Washenko Aug. 26, 2026 Mark Metcalfe/Getty Images The Australian Recording Industry Association announced today that any tracks wholly generated with AI will not be eligible for inclusion on the nation’s music charts. … Continue reading Australia’s recording association bans AI-made music from charts
August 27, 2026 Why the dream of ‘having it all’ is finally dead BY Sarah Fielding Ange, 32, used to have a clear idea of what “having it all” meant: a stable corporate job, a decent-size wedding, a house, and the ability to buy nice material goods every so often. But, like many young people, Ange … Continue reading Why the dream of ‘having it all’ is finally dead
August 26, 2026 Amazon is shutting down Mechanical Turk after 21 years, quietly ending the human-powered platform BY Arshi Qureshi Amazon is shutting down Mechanical Turk, or MTurk, after 21 years, ending one of the internet’s earliest marketplaces for invisible digital labor—as well as a platform that helped establish the human-data pipeline behind modern AI. The … Continue reading Amazon is shutting down Mechanical Turk after 21 years, quietly ending the human-powered platform
Navigating ‘Mind-Blowing’ New Media Challenges by Laurie Sullivan , Staff Writer, August 26, 2026 As AI agents begin to request content directly, publishers and platforms will need systems that expose enough metadata for discovery while still protecting paid content. It’s a challenge that engineers at JWX are trying to work through, John Nardone, CEO of … Continue reading Navigating ‘Mind-Blowing’ New Media Challenges
When AI gets a marketing decision wrong, the fix could belong in the rule, the control, the implementation or the authority behind it. Here’s how to tell. By Allen Martinez Published on August 26, 2026 Congratulations. Your audit trail worked. You can see the input, the model version, the retrieved context, the policy … Continue reading The AI governance test most marketers are missing
