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Gray Swan relaunches Arena with USD $300,000 challenge
AI Security

Gray Swan relaunches Arena with USD $300,000 challenge

A new contest worth USD $300,000 is meant to draw more people into finding hidden flaws in AI systems as prompt injection worries grow.

By Joseph Gabriel Lagonsin • 4 min read • 3 days ago
Teens drive culture more than young adults, study says
Amazon

Teens drive culture more than young adults, study says

Teen-led content reaches young adults four times as often, upending marketers' assumptions about where online trends begin.

By Regine Laguilles • 4 min read • Last week
Banning Open-Weight AI Is a $10 Trillion Gift to Anthropic and a Death Sentence for Enterprise AI Sovereignty
Data sovereignty

Banning Open-Weight AI Is a $10 Trillion Gift to Anthropic and a Death Sentence for Enterprise AI Sovereignty

Fortune 500 firms could lose the only AI setup that keeps sensitive data in-house, as enterprise adoption of open-weight models surges.

By Anurag Gurtu • 5 min read • Last month

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Adobe puts CX Enterprise Coworker inside AI assistants
Software-as-a-Service

Adobe puts CX Enterprise Coworker inside AI assistants

Marketers can now manage campaigns and customer journeys inside ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini and Copilot as Adobe widens its AI reach.

By Joseph Gabriel Lagonsin • 4 min read • 3 days ago
AWS reveals Prime Day 2026's vast infrastructure load
Generative AI

AWS reveals Prime Day 2026's vast infrastructure load

The four-day sale pushed AWS to peak at 192 million DynamoDB requests a second and more than 2.3 trillion Lambda invocations daily.

By Sean Mitchell • 4 min read • Last week
Navigator names Janet Hotz as Chief Operating Officer
Airlines

Navigator names Janet Hotz as Chief Operating Officer

The London-based travel media firm is formalising its leadership as it expands abroad, with Janet Hotz to oversee operations across multiple markets.

By Mara Sugue • 3 min read • Last week
Australian retailers fear Amazon, Temu & Shein dominance
eCommerce

Australian retailers fear Amazon, Temu & Shein dominance

Higher delivery costs and tougher expectations are squeezing Australian retailers as Amazon, Temu and Shein expand their grip on eCommerce.

By Mara Sugue • 4 min read • Last month
Big brands spend less sales revenue on advertising
eCommerce

Big brands spend less sales revenue on advertising

That points to a shift in how much large groups reinvest in promotion, with the 25 US-listed advertisers studied seeing their ad-to-sales ratio fall from 6.1% to 5.5%.

By Karen Joy Bacudo • 4 min read • Last month

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AliExpress extends UK shopping festival to 3 December
Smart Home

AliExpress extends UK shopping festival to 3 December

The longer campaign is designed to win cautious British shoppers as retailers battle for year-end spending amid pressure on household budgets.

By Karen Joy Bacudo • 4 min read • Yesterday
Tiger Brokers launches after-hours US options trading
Risk & Compliance

Tiger Brokers launches after-hours US options trading

New Zealand investors can now react to overnight market news in US stock options, with Tiger Trade offering direct exchange access outside regular hours.

By Sean Mitchell • 3 min read • 4 days ago
GravaStar launches Mercury K98 Pro keyboard in Australia
Amazon

GravaStar launches Mercury K98 Pro keyboard in Australia

Australian gamers and office users can now buy GravaStar's first full-size keyboard locally, priced at AUD $499.99 through Silk Gear.

By Sofiah Nichole Salivio • 3 min read • Last week
AliExpress launches free Elite loyalty scheme in UK
eCommerce

AliExpress launches free Elite loyalty scheme in UK

More than 120,000 UK shoppers qualify for free member pricing and simpler returns, as AliExpress targets repeat buyers without a subscription fee.

By Karen Joy Bacudo • 4 min read • Last week
ChatGPT & Perplexity enter most-scraped sites ranking
Generative AI

ChatGPT & Perplexity enter most-scraped sites ranking

Businesses are now tracking how AI answers mention them, as ChatGPT and Perplexity accounted for 24% of scraping requests in Decodo's top 10.

By Joseph Gabriel Lagonsin • 5 min read • Last week
made by Fressko sales jump 71% on Amazon Australia
eCommerce

made by Fressko sales jump 71% on Amazon Australia

Better stock availability and Buy Box wins helped the Melbourne drinkware brand lift Amazon Australia sales by more than 71% last quarter.

By Karen Joy Bacudo • 3 min read • Last week
Reolink launches OMVI 2i Ultra at JB Hi-Fi Australia
Smart Home

Reolink launches OMVI 2i Ultra at JB Hi-Fi Australia

Households and small businesses gain wider coverage from a single device as the security camera reaches 160 JB Hi-Fi stores nationwide for AUD $429.99.

By Joseph Gabriel Lagonsin • 4 min read • Last month
Amazon Prime Big Deals Day cuts fitness & home kit
Gaming

Amazon Prime Big Deals Day cuts fitness & home kit

Consumer demand for compact home wellness gear is driving discounts of up to 37% on Amazon's Prime Big Deals Day in the US.

By Sofiah Nichole Salivio • 4 min read • Last month
Passkey use lags at major platforms, Dashlane says
Data Protection

Passkey use lags at major platforms, Dashlane says

Even at Google, only 28% of measured logins used passkeys, underscoring the gap between offering passwordless sign-in and getting users to adopt it.

By Sean Mitchell • 4 min read • Last month