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MarTech & Automation
OpenAI just pulled 100,000 advertisers into ChatGPT in eight months
ChatGPT ads hit 100,000 advertisers in eight months, now in 89 countries. Our read: ads at the moment of consideration put control of buyer intent in play.
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Tools
The Trade Desk is the best DSP for most programmatic buyers right now
Best DSP for programmatic: The Trade Desk wins because it owns no media, so its AI has no supply to favor. How DV360, Amazon DSP and Yahoo DSP compare.
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Tools
Amplitude vs Mixpanel: Mixpanel wins for teams that need answers before they ask
Amplitude vs Mixpanel: Mixpanel wins for teams that want AI agents to flag what to fix before anyone asks. Amplitude still has the larger installed base.
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Company News
FuriosaAI just raised $620M to beat Nvidia on watts, not teraflops
FuriosaAI raised $620 million for inference chips that draw under half the power of Nvidia GPUs. The read: energy, not compute, is now AI's scarce input.
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Anthropic just reported $17 billion in Q3 revenue ahead of a historic IPO
Anthropic Q3 revenue hit $17 billion in its amended S-1, with $895.4 billion in compute commitments. Read it as frontier AI becoming an infrastructure story.
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Company News
Walmart is rebuilding its store so machines can shop it
Walmart agent shopping: Agent Profiles, spend limits and an Agent Gateway build a store for machines, though only 11% of U.S. adults have bought via AI.
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MarTech & Automation
SAP's Joule Work puts real business context behind every agent action
SAP Joule Work grounds AI agents in business context via its Knowledge Graph and a runtime policy gateway. FactuaOS runs the same wiring with a shared CDP.
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ServiceNow just lost 18% in a night despite raising its AI outlook
ServiceNow stock fell 18% after hours even as AI ACV hit a projected $1.7 billion. The lesson: AI usage has to show up as contracted, recurring revenue.
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Tools
The AI SDR that actually runs the full motion is 11x
Best AI SDR tools: 11x wins for enterprise with specialist agents for voice, email, chat and SMS. Artisan fits mid-market, Apollo small teams, Clay builders.
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Company News
DoorDash just agreed to buy Instacart in a $17 billion grocery push
DoorDash Instacart acquisition: $17 billion buys almost 100,000 stores and grocery tech to pair with DoorDash logistics. The real prize is the data flywheel.
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Tools
Hightouch is the CDP built for the agent era
Hightouch vs Segment: for teams wiring AI agents into customer data, Hightouch wins by activating warehouse data in real time without copying it.
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Tools
Braze wins the Braze vs Klaviyo debate for teams that need AI to decide, not just assist
Braze vs Klaviyo: Braze is the pick for teams that want AI to decide channel, timing and content. Klaviyo stays strongest for e-commerce email and SMS.
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MarTech & Automation
The Real Cost of Agentic AI: A TCO Framework Every Marketing Ops Team Needs Before Signing Off
Autonomous marketing agents promise massive labor savings, but ballooning API fees and middleware costs can easily break your technology budget. The post The terrifying math behind your new AI workforce appeared first on MarTech.
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Company News
Higher-Ed Marketers Are Flying Blind Into the Worst Enrollment Cycle in Decades
Adult learners reach near parity with traditional enrollment by 2028, supplying the offset for declining 18-22 year-old volume. Selective public yield has fallen 14 points since 2019, putting post-admit marketing ahead of acquisition for ROI. Fewer than half of higher-ed marketers track CPI or CPE, which is the measurement gap that decides which institutions optimize through the cost increases and which stay blind.
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MarTech & Automation
LLM-Referred Traffic Converts 61% Better Than Paid Search — But You're Probably Killing It at the Landing Page
Paid search captures demand at the query. AI shapes the decision before the visitor reaches your site. Here’s how to convert that traffic.
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