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Robotaxi Outage in China Leaves Passengers Stranded on Highways
An unknown technical problem caused a number of robotaxis owned by the Chinese tech giant Baidu to freeze on Tuesday in the middle of traffic, trapping some passengers in the vehicles for more than an hour.In Wuhan, a city in central China where Baidu has deployed hundreds of its Apollo Go self-driving taxis, people on Chinese social media reported witnessing…
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Merrell’s pitch to non-outdoorsy consumers: Go outside instead
Touching grass is good for you, and it’s actually not that hard. At least, not according to Merrell.The 45-year-old hiking footwear brand, which is owned by Wolverine Worldwide, recently debuted a spot titled “It Starts…
California Suspends Enforcement of Law Requiring VCs to Report Diversity Data
Under a new state regulation, venture capital firms operating in California were supposed to submit demographic data about their portfolio companies, including the gender and race of startup founders they backed. But amid public criticism…
All things creator marketing with Tiffany Rivers
Tiffany Rivers is VP of emerging media and influencer marketing at Media Cause. She’s set to speak at Marketing Brew’s upcoming event, The Next Phase of Social and Creator Marketing, on May 12.Ahead of the…
Iran Threatens to Start Attacking Major US Tech Firms on April 1
Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps warned Tuesday that it plans to begin attacking more than a dozen American companies across the Middle East on Wednesday in retaliation for the killing of Iranian citizens in the…
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Cursor Launches a New AI Agent Experience to Take On Claude Code and Codex
Cursor announced Thursday the launch of Cursor 3, a new product interface that allows users to spin up AI coding…
Social platforms are facing increased scrutiny. How long will advertisers stick around?
It’s all fines and games for the social media platforms recently.Last month, a New Mexico jury found Meta liable for…
AI Models Lie, Cheat, and Steal to Protect Other Models From Being Deleted
In a recent experiment, researchers at UC Berkeley and UC Santa Cruz asked Google’s artificial intelligence model Gemini 3 to…
How Meta’s AI push is changing ad creation
Mark Zuckerberg has laid out a vision for the future of Meta’s core business: One day, advertising on the company’s…
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John Perry Barlow, JFK Jr., and a Night of Grief I Can’t Forget
Watching the wildly popular television series Love Story took me back to a strange week in my past. One day in April 1994, I was working in a studio apartment that I used as an office. I split the cost with Cynthia Horner, a psychiatrist who’d recently moved out to…
Geico plans to stake its claim in women’s sports, starting with March Madness
If anyone picked their March Madness brackets based on the talent in Geico’s campaign for the tournament, they might find themselves in good shape: Both of the college stars featured in its work, UConn Huskies guard Azzi Fudd and Michigan Wolverines guard Trey McKenney, are headed to the Final Four.The…
Where should retail media networks make their pitch for ad dollars?
Retail media is in a liminal space.WPP’s 2025 forecast has retail media accounting for almost a fifth of total ad revenue by 2030, and the channel has outgrown retail, with financial and travel businesses getting into the space under the broader umbrella of commerce media. Still, the exponential growth seen…
‘Uncanny Valley’: Nvidia’s ‘Super Bowl of AI,’ Tesla Disappoints, and Meta’s VR Metaverse ‘Shutdown’
This week on Uncanny Valley, hosts Brian Barrett and Zoë Schiffer discuss the highlights from Nvidia’s annual developer conference, and why Tesla recently got in trouble with some of its most loyal fans online. Plus, Meta’s initial decision to shut down Horizon Worlds VR on the Quest headset signals the…
Hockey-stick growth: The year of the PWHL
Women’s hockey found massive success on the international stage this year, with record-breaking viewership of the overtime Olympic gold-medal game between Team USA and Team Canada.But until last weekend, the Professional Women’s Hockey League (PWHL) had never had a nationally televised game in the US.PWHL games air on regional sports…
Kalshi Has Been Temporarily Banned in Nevada
Kalshi has been temporarily banned in Nevada, marking the latest escalation in the widening regulatory war over prediction markets. The First Judicial District Court of Nevada issued a 14-day restraining order, effective immediately, barring the company from “offering a derivatives exchange and prediction market which offers event-based contracts relating to…
Tech companies are churning out agentic AI tools, but agencies are still scratching their heads
Super Bowl viewers who were able to peel their eyes away from the spectacle of a brunette Guy Fieri in the Bosch ad may have noticed a trend in the commercials this year. Not that one— a lot of them were from AI companies.With 125 million people tuning into the…
‘A Rigged and Dangerous Product’: The Wildest Week for Prediction Markets Yet
Kalshi CEO Tarek Mansour posted a video on Wednesday of six men decked out in business casual doing push-ups on the sidewalk. “This is how Kalshi Q1 board meeting ended,” he wrote on X. The board members are laughing and smiling in the video after their impromptu cardio session, and…
How Paramount+’s ‘Dutton Ranch’ came blazing to life at SXSW
Since 2023, Paramount+ has taken up residence at South by Southwest with The Lodge, an interactive, multilevel popup that shows off its latest titles. This year, one particular show got an extra special treatment.Dutton Ranch, a Taylor Sheridan-helmed Yellowstone spinoff that stars Kelly Reilly and Cole Hauser as Beth Dutton…
Livestream Replay: The War Machine
The defense tech industry has been supercharged under President Trump. Our panel of experts will help make sense of Big Tech's role in various military operations unfolding across the world—including the federal government's occupation of Minnesota, the bombings of boats in the Caribbean, and the war in Iran and it's…
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How InStyle is reaching the next gen with its original social series
This story is the latest in a series exploring how brands craft standout social media…
OpenAI Enters Its Focus Era by Killing Sora
OpenAI said Tuesday it would discontinue Sora, its AI video app, roughly six months after…
Coworking with Grace Teng
Each week, we spotlight Marketing Brew readers in our Coworking series. If you’d like to…
A New Game Turns the H-1B Visa System Into a Surreal Simulation
More than half of the nine developers who worked on the game have either obtained…
How sportsbooks plan to turn bracket-mania into long-term betting interest
Nothing says March Madness like a bracket—the image is quite literally part of the official…