Follower count was supposed to be the holy grail that made Influencer Marketing digestible and enticing to brand marketers. Braden Blacker, the 19-year-old CEO of Los Angeles-based social media and influencer marketing agency The Content Code, believes that this premise is now the primary reason many campaigns underperform. Braden started managing creators at 14, joined…
Highlight AI Inc., a startup with an artificial intelligence app designed to make knowledge workers more productive, has raised $40 million in funding. Khosla Ventures led the Series A round. Highlight stated in its funding announcement today that more than a half-dozen other investors contributed as well. Additionally, the company disclosed that it has appointed…
Last week, Nvidia’s public reveal of DLSS 5—and its “generative AI” enhanced glow-ups of gaming scenes—drew widespread condemnation from the gaming community. In a podcast published Monday, though, Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang tried to differentiate the technology’s optional, artist-guided graphical enhancements from the “AI slop” that Huang says he’s not a fan of. As part…
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang has a message for the company’s engineers. According to the 63-year-old chief executive of the US-based chipmaker Nvidia, engineers who do not make extensive use of AI tools are not productive. This highlights how central token-based computing has become to the company’s workflow. Speaking on the All-In Podcast during Nvidia GTC…
What’s the story Steve Huffman, the co-founder and CEO of Reddit, has said that artificial intelligence (AI) will not have a negative impact on entry-level jobs for new graduates. He made the statement during a podcast interview with Molly O’Shea. Huffman also expressed his belief that AI can boost engineer productivity by as much as…
Cloudflare CEO Matthew Prince believes bots are on track to dominate internet traffic. Speaking in an interview at the SXSW conference in Austin this week, he said that, given the rapid growth of artificial intelligence, AI bot traffic could exceed human-generated traffic online by 2027. Prince explained that bot activity has surged alongside advances in…
We’re all trying to get to the bottom of this. Jensen Huang has shared a new explanation of DLSS 5, but we’re not sure what he’s trying to say. In a Q&A following his GTC 2026 keynote, Huang said this:. …It’s not post-processing, it’s not post-processing at the frame level, it’s generative control at the…
Shanea Leven, Founder and CEO at Empromptu AI, is a veteran product leader with extensive experience building developer platforms and AI-driven products at major technology companies. Prior to launching Empromptu in 2025, she founded CodeSee, an AI developer platform that helps teams visualize and understand complex codebases, which was acquired by GitKraken in 2024. Earlier…
Sundry Photography / iStock Editorial via Getty Images (Sundry Photography / iStock Editorial via Getty Images) Quick Read ServiceNow (NOW) orchestrates 80 billion+ enterprise workflows annually and controls the execution layer that AI cannot replicate, positioning it as resilient to disruption despite a 25% year-to-date stock decline. JPMorgan flagged ServiceNow as an “AI-resilient” software name,…
Bo Li, CEO of Virtue AI, is a prominent researcher and entrepreneur specializing in the safety and security of artificial intelligence systems. She leads Virtue AI while also serving as a Professor at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, where her research focuses on machine learning security, trustworthy AI, and adversarial robustness. Her career spans both…
