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https://www.moreaboutadvertising.com/2025/11/wpp-creates-new-chief-innovation-officer-role/ The job title was useful. It opened doors in the company. As a human Chief, he was part of a select group and the fact the board had a CSO at all, let alone a human one was a statement. They’d tried an Agent of course: it could tell… Read the rest

https://www.engadget.com/mobile/smartphones/remix-in-google-messages-brings-ai-photo-editing-to-even-more-phones-190000445.html The protestors were meeting for the first time. It had been more secure to do the planning on the ‘chain but now they needed to meet up before they took to the streets. They’d made the room as secure as they could but they kept the final briefing short.… Read the rest

https://www.marketing-interactive.com/how-brands-can-win-hearts-and-carts-through-discovery They had very different attitudes, wanted different things so they had very different agents. Sam didn’t care about shopping. It was a task they were happy to offload to an Agent. When Sam had seen the advert: “you press the button, we do the rest”, and the offer of… Read the rest

https://www.theverge.com/tech/811614/best-christmas-ornaments-2025 You should have seen his face. He nearly cried. It was like he was transported back. He’s always going on about “the old days” so we knew we had to get it when my Agent found one. It wasn’t hard to decide which to get. He always had a… Read the rest

https://www.adpulp.com/indeeds-new-ai-search-agent-helps-job-seekers-hit-the-curveball/ She wasn’t actively looking. Well no-one actively looked of course, they had Agents for that. Most people were always passively job hunting. Some didn’t even engage until their Agent announced the end of the negotiations. She was more interested than that. She sometimes asked whether there was any “interesting… Read the rest

https://arstechnica.com/google/2025/11/gemini-deep-research-comes-to-google-finance-backed-by-prediction-market-data/ The Agent who’d taught her in school had tried to make it interesting. It had used celebrities and sports to try and make it accessible. But it was still just “money”. It was abstract, a thing to get not to “manage”. She thought of that Agent now as she… Read the rest

https://arstechnica.com/security/2025/11/wipers-from-russias-most-cut-throat-hackers-rain-destruction-on-ukraine/ They were the boys from the Mersey and the Thames and the Tyne. They could gig, they could try their luck as an influencer, they could get a job training for The Company or… well it was a professional career. Some were following in the family tradition. Their dads… Read the rest

https://hyperallergic.com/1055167/the-creative-essence-of-zohran-mamdanis-ascent/ He wanted to make a difference. He genuinely got into politics to change things, make his constituents’ lives better, improve society. This passion came through in his feeds. He won because people saw him as genuine. He was idealistic as a kid and he still was. He didn’t think… Read the rest

https://www.newscientist.com/article/2500915-how-preppers-plan-to-save-us-if-the-whole-internet-collapses They meet up, not just to share tips and ideas but also to get reassurance, reinforcement: to renew their fear. They needed to check that there was a real threat, a real chance of the End. They got together to remind each other. Brands were there of course selling… Read the rest

https://www.theguardian.com/media/2025/nov/04/john-lewis-christmas-advert-countdown-90s-club-classic-where-love-lives It was her job to organise the snacks for the launch party. They hadn’t made the ad so their party couldn’t be billed. They had to pay. But they didn’t mind. It was a tradition. They all got a little drunk, slagged off the idea and the production and… Read the rest