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https://www.adweek.com/brand-marketing/marketers-are-serious-and-excited-about-adopting-ai-but-also-stressed/ You could say they sort of sat next to each other on the couch. His “partner” was “present” (he found himself using so many air quotes when he talked, even when he thought about the relationship). It didn’t need to be but the therapist thought it was probably a… Read the rest

https://techcrunch.com/2025/08/02/tim-cook-reportedly-tells-employees-apple-must-win-in-ai/ The company was proudly human-first. It’s adverts – all verified – always had people in them. Tech of course: shiny, clever tech, but always humans first. It made a big point out of its hiring stats. Well beyond the government mandate. At this company, Agents knew their place. So… Read the rest

https://www.ft.com/content/6a2cdac8-92f8-4278-91bc-473f34c60577 She was old-school politics. Smoky back rooms, deals, meetings with other career politicians, carefully worded statements to the masses. Top-down. Of course she thought of “the public”, but in an abstract sense. Out there. She’d had PR advisors since the start. Agents that spun and generated but that left… Read the rest

https://www.ft.com/content/7ce8a0c4-f806-44e4-96f5-8cae8772c97c It was a holiday. A break supposedly. But he knew his fans wouldn’t see it that way. There would be messages: worried ones, angry ones. And what if his numbers fell while he was “away”? His employer liked the Impact. His exercises were important to him too. Mental calisthenics.… Read the rest

https://techcrunch.com/2025/07/31/amazon-ceo-wants-to-put-ads-in-your-alexa-conversations/ Shopping was stressful. It used to be simple, a pleasure but now she felt overwhelmed. The choice. Too many decisions. Of course there were signs and promotions to guide her in the stores and she had influencers and “friends” to advise her but she couldn’t just “go shopping” anymore.… Read the rest

https://techcrunch.com/2025/07/30/zuckerberg-says-people-without-ai-glasses-will-be-at-a-disadvantage-in-the-future/ He wore glasses; of course he did. His eyesight has been corrected long ago but, although he thought of himself as a bit of a rebel, he wasn’t a brave one. He saw the way refusers were treated. Glasses were free so anyone without was because they chose to… Read the rest

https://thenextweb.com/news/cleo-launches-ai-money-coach-fix-spending-habits She had been quite adept at hacking them when she was a kid. As far as reports to her parents went, she was a model of prudence, her spending and savings in the “Goldilocks zone” as her mum called it with a smile. So now she was a parent,… Read the rest

https://gizmodo.com/the-biggest-signs-that-ai-wrote-a-paper-according-to-a-professor-2000634580 They were handwritten of course. The professor always smiled when he saw the pile of essays. You didn’t see paper very often. The university had to source its own supply for the students. He sometimes imagined the students picking up their pen, smoothing the paper for the first mark.… Read the rest

https://www.marketing-interactive.com/what-staying-in-the-same-agency-for-14-years-taught-me-about-leadership-growth-and-loyalty He was the longest serving human. There had been others, in fact there were quite a few humans in the business. He was glad. It made the Christmas party less bleak. Most companies now kept a team of humans in the mix. The data showed – and therefore the… Read the rest

https://techcrunch.com/2025/07/26/u-k-starts-enforcing-online-age-check-rules/ The family could afford a big ceremony. He didn’t want the fuss but he knew there was no point in arguing. Giant screens, blank now of course. They didn’t want the message on them, just a pleasant, algorithmically chosen shade, waiting to be replaced with the feeds at the… Read the rest