VAIC 2026 honours new generation of “AI builders”

VAIC 2026 honours new generation of “AI builders”

L-GPT 6.7 won first prize at VAIC 2026 The 48-hour hackathon wrapped up on July 19, with the L-GPT 6.7 team claiming the championship with Lawgic, an AI-powered legal analysis platform that integrates graph-based reasoning. The project received the top prize of $10,000 for its technological innovation, practical applicability, and commercial potential. The runner-up award,…

Where Is Your B2B Budget Actually Going: Take the Demand Gen Report Benchmark Survey Now

Where Is Your B2B Budget Actually Going: Take the Demand Gen Report Benchmark Survey Now

Key Takeaways Take 2026 Demand Generation Benchmark Survey to show how B2B marketing teams are spliting finite budget across ABM/ABX, content, personalization, intent data and AI-powered platforms, and which bets are paying off. Marketers who participate get a clearer picture of how peers rank priorities and defend spend to leadership, helping them decide what to…

How to check if ChatGPT and other AI tools cite your website – and improve your chances in 2026

How to check if ChatGPT and other AI tools cite your website – and improve your chances in 2026

MARTIN LELIEVRE / Contributor via Getty Images Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. ZDNET’s key takeaways AI traffic grew 66% in 2025 but remains under 0.15% of visits. AI citations can build exposure even without direct traffic. These tactics can improve your visibility in AI search.  You’ve been quietly losing traffic…

How AI-Generated Images Are Revolutionizing Marketing Strategies in 2026

How AI-Generated Images Are Revolutionizing Marketing Strategies in 2026

AI-generated images in marketing.) Additionally, marketing strategist Ann Handley cautions that while the technology is exciting, brands must remain authentic in their storytelling. She states, “It’s crucial that as we embrace these technologies, we don’t lose sight of the narrative. The tools are meant to enhance our storytelling, not replace it.” Developing an Agile Marketing…

Redwolf Ogilvy named year’s top social media agency at Cyprus Digital Marketing Awards

Redwolf Ogilvy named year’s top social media agency at Cyprus Digital Marketing Awards

Redwolf Ogilvy won a total of 14 awards at the 2024 Cyprus Digital Marketing Awards, highlighted by its win of the Grand Award for Social Media Agency of the Year. The awards ceremony took place on July 10, 2026, at Ayia Napa Marina. The Grand Award was accompanied by nine Gold and four Silver Awards…

10 best AI productivity tools to use in 2026

10 best AI productivity tools to use in 2026

Artificial intelligence has evolved beyond simple chatbots to become an everyday productivity partner, helping professionals write documents, summarise meetings, manage calendars, analyse spreadsheets, generate presentations, code software, conduct research, and automate repetitive tasks. According to the Stanford AI Index Report 2026, enterprise AI adoption continues to increase as organisations use AI to improve productivity and…

The Complete GEO Strategy for 2026 — Digital-ассоциация на vc.ru

The Complete GEO Strategy for 2026 — Digital-ассоциация на vc.ru

This is the reality of search in Russia in 2026. Classical SEO still matters, but it’s no longer sufficient. If your brand isn’t structured, written, and signalled for generative AI — whether you’re targeting Alice’s voice answers, feeding the meteoric rise of DeepSeek, or optimising for Yandex Neuro, ChatGPT, GigaChat, and Perplexity — you’re effectively…

Startup news and updates: daily roundup (July 20, 2026)

Startup news and updates: daily roundup (July 20, 2026)

YourStory brings you today’s headlines with the latest developments across sectors Featured stories OpenAI elevates Uday Ruddarraju as CTO for Compute OpenAI has promoted Uday Ruddarraju to Chief Technology Officer (CTO) for Compute, as access to large-scale computing infrastructure becomes increasingly critical in the race to build advanced AI models. The appointment comes amid growing…

How to Distinguish True Experts from SEO Rebrands — Digital-ассоциация на vc.ru

How to Distinguish True Experts from SEO Rebrands — Digital-ассоциация на vc.ru

There is also a decisive shift toward direct and concise copywriting. AI engines retrieve paragraphs and fragments, not entire pages. They extract bullet lists, short paragraphs, clean entity relationships, and contextual summaries. If your point is not clear within the first two to three paragraphs, it may never appear in the final AI citation. This…

BNB Chain Gaming NFT Ecosystem: 2026 Guide & Top Projects

BNB Chain Gaming NFT Ecosystem: 2026 Guide & Top Projects

BNB Chain’s dashboards show more than 13 million daily transactions across 2.70 million accounts moving through its games, marketplaces, and staking tools right now. This high volume of daily activity reflects how BNB Chain continues to attract users and developers through its Play-and-Earn model, low transaction fees, and scalable blockchain infrastructure. If you’re exploring games,…