Zendesk has appointed Tifenn Dano Kwan as its new chief marketing officer, bringing in a veteran enterprise SaaS marketer as the company accelerates its pivot toward AI-powered customer service. Dano Kwan replaces Kelly Waldher, who joined the company …
This 200% tax will make it more expensive to build in rural areas and is aimed at spurring data center development in disused industrial zones instead.
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A study of 75,000 brands by SEO platform Ahrefs has found that YouTube mentions are the strongest correlated signal for whether a brand appears in AI-generated search results, outperforming every other factor the researchers tested across ChatGPT, Goog…
Amazon Web Services has launched a product that lets retailers build their own AI-powered shopping assistants using the same technology that powers Amazon’s Alexa for Shopping. The AWS Agentic Shopping Assistant packages architecture guidance, starter …
The Tel Aviv-founded defence-AI firm has closed a $31M Series B led by PSG Equity, bringing total funding to $60M as it scales US operations from Washington DC. Airis Labs, the defence-AI startup that has spent the past two and a half years operating i…
YouTube has announced that it will begin automatically detecting and labelling videos that contain significant photorealistic AI-generated content, using internal signals rather than relying on creators to disclose it themselves. The change marks a shi…
Erin Brockovich, who made her name making a case against PG&E in the ’90s that resulted in a $333 million settlement, is now looking at the impact of data center developments on communities and is recording community repor…
For many participants across insurance and property ecosystems, current valuation challenges did not emerge from a single moment or event. Multiple economic cycles, demographic shifts, evolving construction practices, and changing consumer expectations…
This article is adapted by the author with permission from Tech Policy Press. Read the original article.South Africa is not just another developing country struggling to govern artificial intelligence (AI); it is the exception with leverage, and the w…
SpaceX warns that it may not secure enough AI hardware to achieve its orbital AI ambitions even with supply from TeraFab. Also, Intel and Tesla may leave the TeraFab project.
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