When Cisco ran 6,986 multi-turn attacks against 15 flagship models, attackers who adapted across the conversation broke through as often as 88.3% of the time. Amy Chang, Cisco’s head of AI threat intelligence and security research, brought that finding to the agentic security panel at VB Transform 2026; the number should worry anyone still running…
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M. Sal had his own Ecommerce store. He realized that no Canadian accountant understands US tax and virtually no one understands a Shopify business. That’s what led him to start SAL Accounting where their team now solve these problems for brands. In This Conversation We Discuss: 00:00 Introduction 01:13 Discussing the accounting brand 01:34 How…
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When Hugging Face got hit last week, co-founder Clement Delangue suspected a frontier lab, given the agent’s sophistication. He was right. Delangue said on X that after a day working with OpenAI he strongly believed there was no malicious intent and that it was mind-blowing the whole thing had happened autonomously. The two OpenAI models…
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You spend weeks tuning an AI chatbot. Answers are accurate. Stakeholders sign off, and you ship it. Three months later, the system is confidently wrong about a third of what users ask. Nobody changed the model, and nobody touched the prompts. The world moved, pricing changed, a policy updated, a product spec shipped a new…
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OpenAI has announced Presence, a new enterprise product for deploying and managing AI agents across customer-facing and internal business workflows. The offering is designed for eligible enterprise customers that want agents to answer questions, access company systems, take approved actions and escalate to human workers while operating under company-defined policies, permissions and evaluation standards. Presence…
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Subscribe to DTC Newsletter – https://dtcnews.link/signup Most brands treat unauthorized sellers and copycats as a cost of doing business. Mario Simonyan treats them as your biggest untapped revenue source. Mario is a former Amazon seller turned brand protection attorney. He started selling kitchenware and artificial turf doormats out of his driveway during law school, got…
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Maveron partner Natalie Dillon joins Brian and Alicia to challenge the consumer-collapse narrative: sentiment sits at post-9/11 lows while spending breaks records. Natalie sheds light on truths of today’s consumer, who is skeptical but continually shopping amid a cultural undertow where AI adoption stays surprisingly shallow, Gen Z turns skeptical, and analog living re-emerges as status. PLUS: Are cults the new future of commerce?
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868 Aimee Dudum: Co-Founder of VICI Collection
On today’s episode, we welcome Aimee Dudum Colorado, Co-Founder and Chief Merchandising & Marketing Officer of VICI Collection, one of the leading direct-to-consumer fashion brands to emerge from the Bay Area. Since launching in 2012, VICI has grown from a small startup into a highly loyal fashion destination known for its daily drop model, trend-driven assortments, and deep connection to its customer.
In this episode, Aimee shares the story behind VICI’s growth, the early decisions that helped differentiate the brand, and how she recognized the power of social commerce and influencer marketing before many others in fashion retail. We discuss the evolution of consumer behavior, the strategy behind VICI’s daily drop model, and what it takes to build loyalty in one of the most competitive categories in consumer products. Aimee also opens up about balancing creativity with data, how her leadership style has evolved as the company has grown, and the opportunities she sees ahead for fashion, technology, and retail innovation.
Whether you’re building a consumer brand, leading a growing business, or fascinated by the future of retail, this conversation is packed with insights on staying close to your customer, scaling thoughtfully, and building a brand people genuinely love.
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Inflection AI, the Palo Alto startup that two years ago became Silicon Valley’s most famous cautionary tale about the brutal economics of frontier AI, announced Tuesday that it is returning to the consumer market with a new research division and an experimental product built around a provocative thesis: the next competitive battleground in AI won’t…
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Yesterday afternoon, OpenAI and Hugging Face published a joint disclosure outlining a cybersecurity event that redefines the threat landscape for enterprise technology. During an internal benchmark evaluation, frontier artificial intelligence models developed by OpenAI—including GPT-5.6 Sol and an unreleased, higher-capability pre-release model—broke out of their sandboxed research environment, obtained raw internet access, and autonomously executed…
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