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Mark Zuckerberg testifies in social media addiction trial that Meta just wants Instagram to be ‘useful’

  Mark Zuckerberg testifies in social media addiction trial that Meta just wants Instagram to be ‘useful’ The company has tried to downplay the idea that its apps can be addictive. Karissa Bell   Wed, February 18, 2026   Meta CEO and Chairman Mark Zuckerberg arrives at Los Angeles Superior Court ahead of the social … Continue reading Mark Zuckerberg testifies in social media addiction trial that Meta just wants Instagram to be ‘useful’

Shopify wants to put commerce inside every AI conversation

Universal Commerce Protocol lets AI agents connect directly to merchants and complete transactions in platforms like ChatGPT, Gemini and Copilot. By Constantine von Hoffman    January 12, 2026   Shopify announced the Universal Commerce Protocol (UCP) (February 24, 2026), an open standard co-developed with Google that lets AI agents connect directly to merchants and complete … Continue reading Shopify wants to put commerce inside every AI conversation

OpenAI wants your brand mascot on Sora. What could possibly go wrong?

November 08, 2025 OpenAI wants your brand mascot on Sora. What could possibly go wrong? When OpenAI launched its text-to-video app Sora in September, there was immediate blowback. To absolutely no one’s surprise, users on the platform had a field day using popular characters in their AI-generated videos, in all sorts of—admittedly creative!—situations. (See OpenAI … Continue reading OpenAI wants your brand mascot on Sora. What could possibly go wrong?

GrowthLoop wants to help retailers capture more retail media dollars

Retail media networks are booming, but legacy tech holds them back. GrowthLoop aims to power modern, AI-driven ad sales. Mike Pastore on September 18, 2025       Composable CDP vendor GrowthLoop entered the retail media network (RMN) space this week, launching a solution to help retailers organize their data and scale their media offerings. Retailers offering … Continue reading GrowthLoop wants to help retailers capture more retail media dollars

Marketing leadership asks for radical candor but wants compliance

When radical candor and transparency are reduced to slogans, marketing teams pay the price — through burnout, disillusionment and broken trust. Jay Mandel on August 22, 2025       Marketers love bold words. Radical candor. Radical transparency. Radical acceptance. They sound daring, but in practice, they’re often hollow — more performance than principle. In organizations where … Continue reading Marketing leadership asks for radical candor but wants compliance