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Despite heavy use of AI tools, fewer than 10% of firms have scaled them across marketing, leaving billions in potential gains unrealised.
Four of six major AI sales agents posted negative scores in a new benchmark, highlighting the cost of poor prospecting output for businesses.
The scam network's fake texts may have reached millions of Android users, with authorities linking it to major card theft and losses.
A new anti-bot standard could let websites verify traffic without CAPTCHAs or tracking cookies, easing checkout friction for shoppers.
Rising ad costs and changing algorithms are leaving many UK firms with little visibility over which digital channels win customers.
SMB customers stand to benefit as Pax8 spotlighted partners and vendors across its marketplace, from Microsoft to smaller channel specialists.
Reliability, not raw compute, may decide whether orbital AI data centres can work, as DE-CIX says links to Earth remain the bigger hurdle.
UK fashion brands facing thinner margins may gain faster design and production cycles as Fynd rolls out its AI system.
Regulated firms can now scan code for flaws without sending sensitive data to external AI services, as AISLE targets private deployments.
The funding underscores investor demand for AI-focused cybersecurity tools as enterprises face new endpoint risks from human users and agents.
Older shoppers delivered 44% of the strongest response, suggesting sustainability ads can drive purchases as well as brand awareness.
Advertisers can now get third-party brand safety reporting for YouTube Audio Ads as digital audio takes a growing share of budgets.
Advertisers in Australia can now use new planning and measurement tools as the platform rolls out across 18 countries and 40,000 campaigns.
Production users can now route generative AI requests through a stable open source gateway, with Bloomberg already running it and Nutanix adopting it.
More than 3,000 delegates came to Detroit as the four-day event showcased connected transport technology and city streets used for live demonstrations.
Customers can now buy native 400 Gbps links on the Adelaide-Perth corridor as Vocus quadruples capacity on a key backbone route.
Android users will get a warning when a supposedly familiar caller may be spoofed, as deepfake-enabled scams rise.
Phishing is becoming harder to spot as attackers use encryption and AI-generated sites to target organisations more effectively.
The lender expects AI to speed fraud checks and staff support, while helping prioritise projects that could each deliver more than USD $100 million.
Marketers gain new ways to track campaign performance as the UK rollout adds measurement and browsing analysis to MiQ's Sigma platform.
