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Short, pulpy, and endlessly addictive, microdramas are turning mobile storytelling into a multi-billion-dollar industry. While they might look like overacted TikTok videos, these one-minute dramas are pulling in serious cash—and marketers should be paying attention. In China alone, revenue from microdramas hit US$6.9 billion in 2024, according to Shenzhen-based research firm DataEye. For the first…

OpenAI is betting big on enterprise sales in 2026, and it’s bringing back an insider to lead the charge. The company has appointed Barret Zoph to head its enterprise push, a strategic move as it faces declining market share in business AI usage. Zoph’s return to OpenAI comes after a stint at Thinking Machine Labs,…

Spotify is turning up the volume on its AI strategy with the North American launch of Prompted Playlists, a conversational music discovery tool now rolling out to Premium users in the U.S. and Canada. After debuting the feature in New Zealand in late 2025, Spotify is using these larger markets to pressure-test how well AI…

Google is taking personalized search to a new level, and it’s doing so by reaching deep into your inbox and photo gallery. Last week, the company rolled out “Personal Intelligence” to its conversational AI Mode in Search. The feature, now available to U.S.-based subscribers of Google AI Pro and AI Ultra, allows Gemini (Google’s AI…

Yottaa, a US-based cloud platform for e-commerce performance optimization, has launched its Model Context Protocol (MCP) server—making it the first ecommerce-focused vendor to offer AI-native access to web performance data for developers and digital teams. The new MCP server is designed to deliver real-time, structured performance insights directly into developer workflows, enabling AI agents and…

RevSure, a Palo Alto-based enterprise AI platform for B2B go-to-market teams, has launched its Full Funnel Context Data Platform as a standalone product. The new platform is designed to unify fragmented go-to-market (GTM) data from marketing, sales, and revenue operations, providing a clean, connected, and AI-ready context layer across the entire customer journey. RevSure’s goal:…

OPERA TECH, a Tokyo-based startup specializing in AI-driven contact center solutions, has secured ¥90 million in angel funding. The round was led by Nobuhiro Ariyasu, a prolific investor in Japanese and US startups, with participation from several former executives of major tech and HR firms. The company plans to use the funds to strengthen product…

Meta is officially unleashing ads on Threads to users across all markets worldwide, marking a significant milestone for the two-year-old app that now claims over 400 million monthly active users. The rollout starts next week and will be gradual, with ad delivery kept low at the beginning. This move builds on Threads’ global availability for…

YouTube is doubling down on AI with a new feature that could reshape content creation on Shorts. Recently, YouTube CEO Neal Mohan announced that creators will soon be able to generate Shorts using their own AI likeness. This move signals another shift toward deeper personalization and synthetic identity across one of the internet’s most-watched platforms.…

Adobe has rolled out a set of AI-powered features that bring generative podcasting, presentation building, and natural-language PDF editing into Acrobat Studio. From creating pitch decks in minutes to summarizing lengthy documents as audio episodes, Acrobat is positioning itself as a creative and strategic tool, not just a document viewer. Adobe’s moves also underscore its…