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Standard Chartered has signed a multi-year agreement to become the Official Wealth Management and Corporate and Investment Banking Partner of Formula 1 starting in 2026. The partnership gives the bank front-row access to F1’s 1.6 billion-strong viewership and race-day hospitality circuits across 19 of the 21 host markets where it already operates. This article explores…

Meta’s next big bet is starting to take shape, and it’s all about AI that knows you. During Meta’s latest earnings call, CEO Mark Zuckerberg revealed that new agentic models and personalized AI features will begin rolling out “in the coming months,” pointing to a much more active push into what he calls “personal superintelligence.”…

Veritus, a US-based fintech startup, has secured US$10.1 million in seed funding to accelerate the rollout of its voice-first AI agent platform for lenders. The round was led by Crosslink and Threshold, with participation from Emergence Capital, Surge Point, Cedar Capital, and Rebel Fund. The company, founded by Joshua March and former Divvy Homes engineers,…

Genius Sports has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Legend, aiming to create a larger digital sports and gaming media business. The move is positioned to strengthen Genius Sports’ capabilities in adtech, marketing technology, and audience monetization across the global sports media landscape. While full deal terms and integration details have not been disclosed,…

GOcxm, a provider of retail execution and consumer engagement solutions for global CPG brands, has acquired Emotive Technologies, the company behind the Apex AI-powered consumer insights and decision intelligence platform. The move brings predictive modeling, simulation, and behavioral-science-trained AI directly into GOcxm’s Shopper Engagement and Execution Platform, aiming to help brands turn data into actionable…

A new move by Meta is putting a price tag on AI chatbots in Italy and possibly signaling bigger changes ahead for marketers leaning on WhatsApp for automated customer interactions. Starting February 16, developers running AI chatbots on WhatsApp in Italy will have to pay a fee for each non-template response sent to users: US$0.0691…

TikTok’s ongoing saga with U.S. lawmakers just took another sharp turn. ByteDance, the app’s Chinese parent company, has officially set up a separate American entity, TikTok USDS Joint Venture LLC, to operate the platform in the United States. This move isn’t just a cosmetic shift. It’s the result of mounting political pressure and a 2024…

Google just dropped its most significant Chrome update in years, and it’s powered by AI. In response to rising competition from AI-first browsers like Arc, Perplexity, and Opera, Google is rolling out a revamped Gemini assistant that transforms Chrome into more than just a web viewer. With AI taking center stage, the world’s most popular…

Privy, a US-based email and SMS marketing platform focused on ecommerce, has acquired Sendlane, another player known for its hands-on, service-first approach to customer support. The move is part of Privy’s ongoing strategy to build a unified, human-centric platform for growing ecommerce brands, following its previous acquisition of Emotive. Financial terms were not disclosed. For…

Ibexa, a European digital experience and martech vendor, has unified five brands—Actito, Qualifio, Quable, Raptor, and the new Cohesivo CMS—into a single marketing orchestration platform. The move aims to address the growing complexity and fragmentation of marketing stacks, offering marketers a more integrated way to manage campaigns, data, and content across channels. The unified platform…