May 28, 2026LeeUncategorizedComments Off on Are designers the new SWEs? Figma Make’s new two-way GitHub integration turns designs into live, production code — with built-in governance
Cloud design software company Figma is officially transforming its AI design assistant, Figma Make, from a prototyping sandbox into a live, visual software editor that connects natively to production codebases. Announced today, the update allows product managers, designers, and non-technical builders to import an existing Git repository directly into the Figma desktop app, visually edit…
Jason Zigelbaum is the solo founder behind Zigpoll—the zero-party data platform trusted by Sony, HP, Kraft Heinz, and Hallmark. Zigpoll collected over 100 million survey responses and counting. Third-party cookies are going away. Ad platforms are losing signal. Brands that don’t collect first-party data are flying blind. Zigpoll fixes that. Zigpoll makes it dead simple…
May 27, 2026LeeUncategorizedComments Off on MiniMax teases upcoming M3 model with new sparse attention mechanism and 15.6X long-context response speed boost
Among the many Chinese AI companies and laboratories vying for market share and attention (no pun intended) on the global marketplace, MiniMax stands out for its commitment to providing frontier-level intelligence across a range of modalities, including text, coding, and video (through its Hailuo model series) — often under permissive, enterprise-friendly, standard open source licenses….
May 27, 2026LeeUncategorizedComments Off on Merck and Mastercard are seeing real agentic AI results. Both say the plumbing came first.
Merck is using AI agents to cut drug discovery cycles by a third and ship compliant marketing materials up to 80% faster — but VP of Digital Platforms Sean Finnerty says the only reason it’s working is because they built the infrastructure first. And the pharmaceutical manufacturer is seeing promising early results: AI is generating…
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May 27, 2026LeeUncategorizedComments Off on DataGrail report finds your vendor may be sending data to AI models you never approved
The data processing agreement (DPA) — the bedrock contract companies use to evaluate how vendors handle personal data — can no longer be trusted at face value. That is the central, and arguably most alarming, conclusion of DataGrail’s Privacy and AI Trends Report 2026, released today. The San Francisco-based privacy platform analyzed 2,400 popular business…
Most manufacturing and distribution companies are sitting on outdated systems—unknowingly risking their future with the subtle drift of neglected technology. Ethan Giffin, renowned for demystifying complex e-commerce challenges, reveals how unseen manual processes and misaligned teams quietly erode revenue and trust. If you’re a mid-market leader feeling the weight of aging tech or struggling to unify your teams around digital transformation, this episode could change your perspective.
Ethan sits down with host Jason Nyhus to discuss how organizations often mistake technology as the core problem when, in reality, it’s often a human and strategic disconnect. The five-legged stool of digital revenue—sales, marketing, operations, IT, and finance—and why alignment here is critical; how manual processes like handwritten orders or scribbled notes create risks worse than any algorithms; and why top-down engagement and change management are the secret sauce to successful digital transformation. Through real stories—including a skydiving client dependency that could have been catastrophic—Ethan illustrates common pitfalls and practical solutions for de-risking your approach.
He shares his new book “Closing the Digital Revenue Gap” and his focus for The B2B eCommerce Agency. Tune in to hear a great conversation!
Recorded live at Google Marketing Live 2026, Phillip and eCommerce reporter Nicole Silberstein sit down with Ashish Gupta, VP & GM of Merchant Shopping at Google, who is behind the foundational commerce infrastructure powering the Shopping Graph and Universal Commerce Protocol. Gupta breaks down the GML announcements: UCP’s expansion beyond shopping into hotels and food delivery, the multi-item Universal Cart that spans Search, Gemini, YouTube, and Gmail, and why the future of agentic commerce still depends on merchants nailing the fundamentals.
On today’s episode, we sit down with Trip Randall, CEO of Superfeet — a brand most people don’t think about… but probably should.
Superfeet has been around for more than 50 years, originally built out of sports medicine and trusted by athletes who actually care about performance. But like a lot of legacy brands, it faced a question: stay relevant, or get left behind.
Trip didn’t found the company — he stepped into it after decades at Nike and Denon, bringing a different lens on growth, digital, and what consumers actually pay attention to. Now he’s focused on evolving Superfeet into something modern, without losing the credibility that made it matter in the first place.
In this episode, we get into what it really takes to scale a 50-year-old brand, why some of the biggest opportunities are hiding in “unsexy” categories, and how to make people care about something they’ve been ignoring for years. We also talk about what Trip learned from building billion-dollar businesses — and what doesn’t translate when you don’t have that same machine behind you.
If you care about brand building, category disruption, or how to rethink something everyone else has overlooked — this one’s worth your time.
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May 26, 2026LeeUncategorizedComments Off on DeepSWE blows up the AI coding leaderboard, crowns GPT-5.5, and finds Claude Opus exploiting a benchmark loophole
For months, the leading AI coding benchmarks have told enterprise buyers a comforting but misleading story: the top models are all roughly the same. OpenAI’s GPT-5 family, Anthropic’s Claude Opus, and Google’s Gemini Pro have clustered within a narrow band on Scale AI’s SWE-Bench Pro leaderboard, making it nearly impossible for engineering leaders to determine…
