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The software giant Adobe has agreed to acquire Semrush for about $1.9 billion, or $12 a share, in an all-cash deal that represents nearly a 77.5 percent premium to its last closing price.The deal is expected to close in the first half of 2026, subject to regulatory and shareholder approvals.What’s interesting and a little bit thrilling about this is that it suggests brands will take a different approach to trying to getting seen online.Semrush is known for its search-engine optimisation (SEO) and visibility platform – but now it seems that the company hopes to become the place where brands consolidate, as companies looking at…

Now, social media platforms like YouTube and Facebook (and its subsidiary Instagram) are requesting users to label content that’s been created or modified using some form of artificial intelligence.The move follows the announcement in February by India’s Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology that it would introduce tougher regulations requiring platforms with more than 50 Lakh users to deploy systems for filtering out unlabeled AI-media.Under the modifications, users sharing photos, videos or audio that have been substantially edited using A.I. tools must label them as such.Platforms are also changing policies surrounding those with initially five million users in India.What impresses me most here is how…

Finance chiefs in many industries are beginning to talk unusually optimistically about AI’s potential role in auditing and, frankly, it got me wondering.An article in the Journal of Accountancy points to a new survey which indicates that most CFOs are ready to pay higher fees in order to work with audit firms who’re integrating cutting-edge tech, notably AI.“It’s rare in the context of paying additional money that someone actually is excited to incur extra expense, so I think that says quite a bit about where the audit world is going.”And as you read through the findings shared in the report on journalofaccountancy.org, you can…

Google’s latest image-generation model, Nano Banana Pro, is arriving with the kind of hype that coincides only when a tech giant unveils something that seems uncomfortably like the future.During the hands-on testing described in the Wired piece, reviewers were surprised at sharper detail, better control of lighting and a tendency to produce images that don’t collapse into blocky salesman artifacts as soon as you’d want to zoom much.That write-up on wired. com did a great job capturing that energy, particularly the bit where they kind of squished their model with tricky prompts and it just spat out surprisingly coherent visuals at them.Some people…

Google has just released its newest base model, and yep – it’s a doozy. The company claims Gemini 3 is its “smartest model” yet, which can do deep reasoning, multimodal interactions and even complex coding workflows.For the whole day, from the time you wake up as a developer until you go to sleep with your email (or side-project code) it should be there in Gemini 3.Google says it already counts more than 650 million monthly users for the Gemini app, and about 13 million software developers who are actively using its models.It’s the kind of head-turning that benchmark numbers already promise. Based on “Humanity’s Last…

Luma AI just completed one of the largest funding rounds this year – a gargantuan $900 million Series C round – and the company isn’t pretending it’s going to play it safe.The startup claims the money will bring it closer to achieving multimodal AGI, the type of AI that’s not only capable of reading or generating text but understanding the world through video, images, language and sound all at once, as reported by Times of India.There is something bold, a little wild, about the whole thing. The round is led by HUMAIN, a Saudi-backed AI company – and it folds into an even bigger…

A raw, captivating moment recently cut through the noise: when talk of Xania Monet – an AI-driven music artist – made it to the mainstream.As the Guardian article pointed out, Xania is not simply a tech demo. She has real-world streaming numbers, a burgeoning fanbase and already demonstrates how the music world could be changing.Xania is an “extension” of her own creative imagination, says creator Telisha ‘Nikki’ Jones. In the music halls, lizards are whispering: is this the new frontier or a threat to all human artists?Difficulties of Xania’s ascension are discussed in The Guardian, posing questions around authorship, authenticity and what it means to make.What’s…

Enterprises are accelerating AI adoption, yet many discover that implementing AI at scale is more complex than expected. Projects stall, use cases underperform, and teams encounter issues they never anticipated. These include fragmented data, unclear workflows, insufficient governance, limited adoption, and integration challenges. Together, these barriers create what many leaders now refer to as AI friction, which is the organizational and operational drag that slows the path from experimentation to measurable business outcomes. AI friction is not inevitable. When leaders understand its root causes, they can reduce it significantly and create the right conditions for scalable AI success. The following…

Marketing is changing fast. There’s seems to be a brand-new type of marketing tech in town – and they don’t just enable marketers, they do the job for them too, or so suggests a recent feature published by The Marketing Centre.They launch campaigns, move budgets, change CRMs, post content and keep the engine running with barely any human direction.That sounds efficient, right? But here’s the rub: if these agents and intermediaries assume all the doing, who’s left to do any thinking – to strategise, make voice, craft judgment calls?The article poses this question outright: “If everybody is automating different parts of their job away,…

Computer-Aided Design (CAD) is the go-to method for designing most of today’s physical products. Engineers use CAD to turn 2D sketches into 3D models that they can then test and refine before sending a final version to a production line. But the software is notoriously complicated to learn, with thousands of commands to choose from. To be truly proficient in the software takes a huge amount of time and practice.MIT engineers are looking to ease CAD’s learning curve with an AI model that uses CAD software much like a human would. Given a 2D sketch of an object, the model…