For most enterprises, a 90-second training video or a product explainer has never been an easy ask. It means a well planned brief, an internal film crew or an outside vendor, a shoot, an edit, and a round of revisions. Change one line of on-screen text due to a legal review and the whole chain…
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Google is upgrading its AI image generation capabilities today with the debut of Nano Banana 2 (NB2) Lite, an optimized model built for rapid execution and tight infrastructure budgets. Technically designated as Gemini 3.1 Flash-Lite Image on Google’s application programming interface (API), NB2 Lite is positioned as the fastest and most cost-effective option within Google’s…
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Most brands forecast from gut feel and ROAS. CTC runs on four interlocked proprietary models that produce a daily P&L forecast with 3.1% accuracy across more than $3 billion in GMV. In Part 2 of the Canon series, Luke Austin breaks down each model, how they connect, and what a Profit Engineer actually does with…
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The competitive edge in enterprise AI is shifting to context: which platform can give an agent the right memory, the right retrieval and the right data at the moment of decision. Couchbase on Tuesday announced its AI Data Plane, combining persistent agent memory, real-time context retrieval and an enterprise-managed MCP server in a single operational…
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Ross Beyeler is the VP of Business Intelligence at Zaelab, a B2B digital consultancy that helps manufacturers and enterprise organizations modernize the customer experience. In his role, Ross leads data, analytics, and business intelligence strategy, helping organizations translate complex operational and financial data into actionable insights that improve profitability and decision-making. With experience in e-commerce,…
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A few hours ago, Chinese delivery app company Meituan officially unveiled LongCat-2.0 on GitHub, Hugging Face, and its native platform, unmasking the model as the computational engine behind “Owl Alpha,” the anonymous stealth model that has spent the last two months commanding global developer charts on OpenRouter. Developed to fundamentally disrupt closed-source enterprise dominance in…
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Even as the geopolitical conversation around AI continues to grow more fraught following the U.S. government’s actions to limit the new models from Anthropic and OpenAI, Chinese open source darling DeepSeek is back with yet another open release that could once again change AI development around the globe. Over the weekend, the firm released DSpark,…
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A single fake error report hijacked Claude Code in controlled testing — the agent ran the attacker’s code with the developer’s full privileges, and not one alert fired. EDR, WAF, IAM, and the firewall all missed it completely. Tenet Security’s June agentjacking disclosure describes a single crafted Sentry error event — sent through a public…
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Katrina is a growth leader with over a decade of experience in DTC marketing, specializing in new customer acquisition, paid media, and creative strategy. She currently serves as Director of Growth Marketing at Timeline, where she’s helped scale the brand across both nutrition and skincare to nearly nine figures. She’s known for building high-performing acquisition…
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On this edition of After Dark: Spielberg’s flop(?), GLP-1s are melting nightlife, Midjourney’s health pivot, and why this is the Bad Place. this episode is exclusive to Future Commerce Plus members – sign up now at futurecommerce.com/plus.
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