The Spotify Taste Profile hands listeners a dial, and artist marketing must learn to answer it
The Spotify Taste Profile lets US Premium listeners steer their feed with typed notes. Here are five sharp moves for artist teams, with Spotify’s own limits.
The cheap coding agent that is almost frontier
Cognition’s SWE-2 puts a coding agent within a point of the frontier at 64% lower cost. Run these five honest checks on ai benchmarks before you switch.
Meta Muse Can Act. The Question Is What You Will Allow It to Touch
Meta Muse can book, buy and send on your behalf. Here are seven approval, payment and audit checks to run before it ever touches a customer or checkout.
One staffer, 1.5 million tokens, and a meter nobody was watching
AI agent governance became a budget problem this week: agencies now meter media-buying agents by the token. Five controls to fit before the next invoice lands.
Your social media advertising agency should read the incentive first
A sharp social media advertising agency now questions the platform’s own AI: Gartner predicts 80% of US ad spend will flow through self-serve AI by 2028.
The AI Shopping Assistant Gap Nobody Priced In
65% of shoppers plan to use an AI shopping assistant this holiday season, but only 8% of retailers feel ready. Here’s how to close the gap before Black Friday.
Apple Will Label AI Generated Songs, Not Verify Them
Apple will label ai generated songs as Made With AI, but the tag is self-reported and never checked. Here’s what artists, labels and marketers do next.
One ticketing partner, a billion users, and nothing for you to do
Event marketing changed when Ticketmaster shipped inside Gemini’s billion users. Five smart moves for promoters before the assistant owns the discovery layer.
Spotify licensed a product nobody outside the deal can price
Spotify licensed fan-made covers with no rate, no split and no launch date published. What an honest music marketing strategy does with a missing denominator.
The rulebook just learned to speak machine
The FCA Handbook became a machine-readable API on 6 August, built to feed AI compliance tools. Five real shifts in how financial brands must publish now.