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Listen to the article 5 minutes This audio is generated automatically. Please let us know if you have any feedback. X’s slogan for 2026 could be “one battle after another” with the platform launch a new lawsuitthis time against the National Music Publishers Association (NMPA), along with a group of publishers, over music licensing and […]
AI is like electricity when it was first introduced over a century ago: people understood its promise but didn’t know what to do with it. That’s where companies find themselves today with AI technology: IT leaders know it will transform businesses, but don’t yet know how to implement it safely – or how to get […]
Opinion by Melek Zahine (Bordeaux, France) Monday January 12, 2026 Inter-Press Office BORDEAUX, France, Jan 12 (IPS) – Before providing military aid, deploying troops or dropping bombs, the United States lays the foundation for its political violence by first stripping its opponents of their humanity. Diplomacy is sidelined, legal restrictions are treated as inconveniences and […]
Writer: Helena Bergström If you travel almost all the time, do you have time to dream about new destinations? Well, we have a whole host of travel destinations that we fantasize about. There are places that we have been thinking about for a long time, or that we have recently found inspiration for… Our dream […]
About five years ago, I was asked to evaluate whether my company should build a customer data platform (CDP). Market pressure was intense and customers kept asking us to integrate with the platforms they purchased. It was tempting to follow the trend. But after digging into the use cases, economics, and liabilities associated with storing […]
Shopify yesterday announced Universal Commerce Protocol (UCP), an open standard co-developed with Google that allows AI agents to connect directly to merchants and complete transactions. In addition to the protocol, Shopify is rolling out native commerce experiences on major AI platforms, including Google’s AI mode in Search, the Gemini app, Microsoft Copilot, and ChatGPT – […]
In MarTech’s “MarTechBot Explains It All” column, we ask a question about marketing to our very own MarTechBot, who is trained in the MarTech website archives and has access to the wider Internet. Q: What is the difference between visible and invisible AI in the customer experience, and how can marketers ensure a seamless transition […]
It’s January. The budget has been set, campaigns have been set in motion, and teams are executing the plan you’ve spent months working on and defending. You think you have a solid approach, and then management asks difficult questions: how do you ensure impact? How do we know we are delivering incrementality? Are we sure […]
As a self-driving car services from Alphabet’s Waymo, Amazon’s Zoox and Tesla have slowly and quietly expanded across the US, but one big, important state has remained largely silent: New York. The union’s fourth-most populous state has some of the strictest autonomous vehicle laws, with companies approved to test in the state only allowed to […]
