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Agaton, a Stockholm-based AI platform specializing in conversation intelligence for enterprise sales and service teams, has secured €8.4 million (about $9.9 million) in seed funding. The round was co-led by Inception Fund and Alstin Capital, with participation from seed+speed Ventures, Foundry Ventures, and several notable angel investors. The company, founded in 2024, is emerging from…

A newly surfaced internal study at Meta may reshape how marketers and regulators think about digital well-being tools. Presented during a landmark social media addiction trial in Los Angeles, the research — dubbed Project MYST — suggests that parental controls like screen time limits and content restrictions do little to reduce teens’ compulsive social media…

HubSpot has acquired Starter Story, a creator-led entrepreneurship content platform, as part of its ongoing push to build a media engine around its CRM and marketing automation business. The deal, announced by HubSpot Media, brings Starter Story’s founder Pat Walls, COO Sam Walls, and producer Gus Tiffer into HubSpot’s in-house media team. Financial terms were…

Anthropic is back with another Claude model refresh—this time upgrading its midsize Sonnet model to version 4.6. Now the default for Free and Pro users, Sonnet 4.6 brings major improvements in coding, long-context reasoning, and computer use, along with an extended 1 million token context window. https://youtu.be/2fHVTe7c–4  This article explores what’s new in Claude Sonnet…

The AI funding wave is showing no signs of slowing down in 2026. In just under two months, 17 U.S.-based AI companies have raised US$100 million or more—many at billion-dollar-plus valuations. This article explores who’s raising, what kinds of AI companies are getting funded, and why it matters for marketers, especially those navigating platform risk,…

Snapchat is entering the premium creator economy with its newest monetization layer: creator subscriptions. Starting February 23, select U.S.-based creators will be able to offer exclusive content for a monthly fee, adding a scalable revenue stream to Snap’s growing suite of monetization tools. Snapchat has long positioned itself as a platform for real connections. Now,…

Airbnb is finally going all-in on generative AI. After years of cautious experimentation, the company has announced plans to embed large language models (LLMs) across search, trip planning, host operations, and customer service — signaling a significant platform shift that could redefine how users interact with the app. This article explores Airbnb’s AI rollout, what’s…

ThriveCart, an all-in-one creator commerce and learning platform, has acquired VBOUT, a marketing automation provider, to bring native email, CRM, and AI-powered marketing automation directly into its ecosystem. This move aims to unify commerce, learning, and lifecycle growth tools for creators, coaches, and digital entrepreneurs. With this acquisition, ThriveCart users can now access integrated automation…

KNOREX, a provider of AI-driven programmatic advertising solutions, has launched its Agentic AI-Ready Ads API. This new API is designed to serve as a foundational infrastructure layer for AI-native, cross-channel advertising workflows, supporting marketers and agencies looking to automate and unify campaign management across multiple digital platforms. The initial rollout includes deployments with three strategic…

Treasure Data has launched Treasure Code, an AI-native command-line interface designed to streamline customer data operations for enterprise brands. The new tool introduces an agentic interface that allows technical teams and AI agents to operate the entire Treasure Data platform as code, aiming to reduce the complexity and resource demands of managing a customer data…