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Through the Sh#t with Jen McDowell Bryan White | Breaking the Stigma of AddictionIn this episode of "Through the Sh#t," Jen McDowell and Bryan White explore the complexities of addiction, recovery, and the stigma surrounding mental health. Bryan shares his personal journey through addiction, the challenges he faced as an HR professional, and the importance of spirituality and community in his recovery process.For Bryan, the phrase "going through the shit" represents a journey of introspection and truth. He emphasizes the importance of disrupting the narratives we've been told, and those we tell ourselves. Following one's truth serves as a pathway toward healing and clarity.As a...

2026-06-2338 min

The Single Greatest Choice: For Single Women Exploring Solo Motherhood by Choice (SMBC), Fertility, and Having a Baby on Their Own Through Donor Conception or Adoption S9E8. Embryo Donation as a Choice for Solo Moms with Jen and Maya of Empower with MoxiEmbryo donation can be a beautiful and deeply layered way to build a family, but it’s also a topic surrounded by questions, emotion, and a lot of unknowns. In this episode, I’m joined by Maya Grobel, a licensed clinical social worker, recipient parent, and documentary filmmaker, along with Jen Vesbit, a nationally certified counselor and donor parent. Together with their partner Gina Davis, they co-founded Empower with Moxi and the Moxi Matching platform, where they provide guidance, support, and education for embryo donors and recipients.We talk about what motivates donors and recipients, the emotional comp...

2026-06-1056 min

The Daily Marketing Brief - AI, Tech & News for Fast Moving Marketers OpenAI files confidential S-1 toward September IPO, Anthropic projects first profit of $559m at $10.9bn quarterly revenue, SpaceX prospectus reveals Anthropic's $15bn compute bill, Google ships Conversational Discovery ads at Marketing LiveSend us Fan MailOpenAI is preparing to file a confidential S-1 with the SEC as early as this week, working with Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley, targeting a September 2026 public listing at a valuation above $1 trillion. The Wall Street Journal first reported the timing, with WinBuzzer narrowing the filing window to Friday. OpenAI has not confirmed.Anthropic has told prospective investors it expects to post its first operating profit ever in the current quarter — $559 million on Q2 revenue of $10.9 billion, a 130% jump from the $4.8 billion reported in Q1. The numbers ca...

2026-05-2328 min

The Daily Marketing Brief - AI, Tech & News for Fast Moving Marketers Google ships Gemini 3.5 Flash and Gemini Spark at I/O, AI Max for Search graduates and retires Dynamic Search Ads, Google launches Universal Commerce Protocol with Shopify and Walmart, AI Ultra subscription drops to $100Send us Fan MailGoogle used last night's I/O keynote at the Shoreline Amphitheatre to ship Gemini 3.5 Flash as the new default across the Gemini app, AI Mode in Search, and the developer stack. Google's own benchmarks claim 3.5 Flash beats Gemini 3.1 Pro on Terminal-Bench 2.1, GDPval-AA, MCP Atlas and CharXiv Reasoning, while running at roughly four times the output-token speed of frontier rivals. Gemini 3.5 Pro is scheduled for June.Gemini Spark, a 24/7 personal AI agent that runs on cloud virtual machines and works while devices are off, also landed. Spark is...

2026-05-2125 min

The Daily Marketing Brief - AI, Tech & News for Fast Moving Marketers OpenAI partners Dell to ship Codex on-premises, Anthropic overtakes OpenAI in US business spend on Ramp, xAI launches Grok Build at $300 a monthSend us Fan MailOpenAI and Dell Technologies announced a partnership yesterday to bring Codex and ChatGPT Enterprise into hybrid and on-premises environments through the Dell AI Data Platform and Dell AI Factory. The deal lands at the moment Codex weekly developer usage crossed four million and gives OpenAI a serious enterprise distribution answer to Claude Code.Ramp's May 2026 AI Index, published yesterday, shows Anthropic overtaking OpenAI in US business spend for the first time. Anthropic's adoption climbed to 34.4% of tracked businesses in April; OpenAI fell to 32.3%. The engine is Claude...

2026-05-2012 min

The Daily Marketing Brief - AI, Tech & News for Fast Moving Marketers Google I/O 2026 opens with Gemini Intelligence and Googlebook, ChatGPT shifts ads to cost-per-click bidding, Snap kills Perplexity's $400m AI search deal, Coty hands Consumer Beauty content to PencilSend us Fan MailGoogle I/O 2026 opens tomorrow morning, Tuesday 19 May, at the Shoreline Amphitheatre. The Android Show on 12 May already locked in Gemini Intelligence, Googlebook on Aluminium OS, Android 17 with generative UI, and Android XR glasses with Samsung, Warby Parker and Gentle Monster. The keynote tomorrow is expected to land a new Gemini model and the developer tooling that flows into Google Marketing Live on Wednesday.OpenAI quietly turned ChatGPT advertising into a measurable performance channel on 5 May. CPM pricing has been replaced with cost-per-click bidding at $3-$5 per...

2026-05-1922 min

The Daily Marketing Brief - AI, Tech & News for Fast Moving Marketers YouTube ships AI Custom Sponsorships at Brandcast, Salesforce commits $300m to Anthropic tokens, Anthropic moves to buy Stainless, Apple readies Gemini-powered Siri for WWDCSend us Fan MailYouTube used its 2026 Brandcast on 13 May to ship the most credible AI ad stack in television this year: Custom Sponsorships matched dynamically by AI, Multimodal Video Creation powered by Gemini, Veo and Nano Banana, and Buy with Google Pay on connected TVs. It is the cleanest preview of what Google Marketing Live will land on Wednesday and the most useful direct-response brief any advertiser will read this weekend.Marc Benioff said on the All-In podcast, published Friday, that Salesforce expects to spend roughly $300 million on Anthropic tokens...

2026-05-1817 min

The Daily Marketing Brief - AI, Tech & News for Fast Moving Marketers OpenAI ships ChatGPT Personal Finance with Plaid, Anthropic eyes $950bn raise on $30bn ARR, HubSpot launches AEO Sensor for ChatGPT and Gemini visibility, Meta opens Incognito Chat with WhatsApp Private ProcessingSend us Fan MailOpenAI moved ChatGPT into regulated retail finance on Friday with a Plaid-powered Personal Finance experience for Pro users in the US, reading from more than 12,000 financial institutions. It is the most consequential consumer surface OpenAI has shipped since ads, because it pulls account-level data into the model and reframes ChatGPT as a financial dashboard, not just a chatbot.Anthropic is in talks to raise between thirty and fifty billion dollars at a valuation of up to $950bn, against a stated $30bn annualised revenue run rate as of...

2026-05-1721 min

The Daily Marketing Brief - AI, Tech & News for Fast Moving Marketers Anthropic launches Claude for Small Business, SAP picks Claude as Joule's reasoning brain at Sapphire 2026, Google rewires Android around Gemini Intelligence, Anduril raises $5bn at $61bn valuation led by Thrive and a16zSend us Fan MailAnthropic moved down-market on 13 May with Claude for Small Business, a Cowork-based bundle with built-in workflows across finance, ops, sales, marketing, HR and customer service and out-of-the-box connectors to QuickBooks, PayPal, HubSpot, Canva, Docusign, Google Workspace and Microsoft 365. There is no extra licence fee on top of existing Claude plans. A ten-city US training tour starts today.At SAP Sapphire 2026 in Orlando, Christian Klein used the 13 May keynote to brand SAP as "a business AI company" and named Claude as a primary reasoning and agentic model embedded...

2026-05-1524 min

The Daily Marketing Brief - AI, Tech & News for Fast Moving Marketers OpenAI launches Daybreak with Cisco, Cloudflare and CrowdStrike, Vapi wins Amazon Ring as it raises $50M Series B, JPMorgan picks Mistral as $430bn sovereign-AI rival, Isomorphic Labs banks $2.1bn led by Thrive CapitalSend us Fan MailOpenAI has turned its GPT-5.5-Cyber model into a named platform. Daybreak launched on 12 May with a defender-first pitch — find vulnerabilities, generate patches, validate fixes — and a launch roster that includes Akamai, Cisco, Cloudflare, CrowdStrike, Fortinet, Oracle, Palo Alto Networks and Zscaler. Two days after we covered the model, OpenAI now has the brand, the workflow and the partner stack to sit inside the enterprise security tooling layer.Vapi raised $50M Series B at a $500M valuation led by Peak XV, with M12, Kleiner Perkins and Bessemer part...

2026-05-1422 min

The Daily Marketing Brief - AI, Tech & News for Fast Moving Marketers OpenAI launches $4B Deployment Company with Tomoro, Meta opens ad APIs to Claude and ChatGPT via MCP, Alibaba's Qwen takes Taobao agentic, xAI cuts headcount as Cursor talent moves inSend us Fan MailOpenAI has formally entered the enterprise services business. The new OpenAI Deployment Company launches with $4bn, 19 investor and integrator partners — including TPG, Bain Capital, Brookfield, Advent, Goldman Sachs and SoftBank — and the acquisition of Scottish consultancy Tomoro. The hard read for agencies and consultancies: OpenAI now sells the implementation layer, not just the model.Meta has opened its ad ecosystem to outside AI. The official Meta Ads MCP server and Meta CLI are now in open beta, with day-one write access from Claude, ChatGPT and Perplexity. Campaigns, ad s...

2026-05-1318 min

The Daily Marketing Brief - AI, Tech & News for Fast Moving Marketers Google Ads ships Journey-Aware Bidding and Demand-Led Pacing before Marketing Live, Cloudflare cuts 1,100 jobs on agentic AI, Qualcomm confirms OpenAI and Meta wearables, OpenAI opens GPT-5.5-Cyber to vetted defendersSend us Fan MailGoogle has dropped its pre-Marketing-Live bidding and budgeting update two weeks ahead of the 20 May livestream. Journey-Aware Bidding enters beta for Target CPA Search, Smart Bidding Exploration extends to Performance Max with product feeds and Shopping, and Demand-Led Pacing rolls out across Search and Shopping in the coming months. These are not features. They are removals of the manual levers performance teams still rely on for governance.Cloudflare announced the first mass layoff in its 16-year history alongside a record Q1: revenue $639.8M, up 34%, while cutting 1,100 staff...

2026-05-1219 min

The Daily Marketing Brief - AI, Tech & News for Fast Moving Marketers Meta opens its ad stack to ChatGPT and Claude, YouTube launches Creator Partnerships inside Google Ads, OpenAI ships Workspace Agents into Slack and Salesforce, and GPT-5.5 lands on AWS BedrockSend us Fan MailMeta has put its ad system in open beta behind an MCP server and a CLI, letting ChatGPT, Claude and any other MCP-aware agent read reports, build campaigns, manage catalogues and run signal diagnostics across Meta ad accounts in natural language. The unit of work for paid social is shifting from the UI to the prompt.YouTube has rebranded BrandConnect as YouTube Creator Partnerships and folded it into Google Ads and Display & Video 360, with Gemini doing the discovery across more than three million YouTube Partner Program creators...

2026-05-1118 min

The Daily Marketing Brief - AI, Tech & News for Fast Moving Marketers Anthropic ships Claude dreaming, AWS Bedrock AgentCore launches stablecoin payments with Coinbase and Stripe, CAISI tests Google, Microsoft and xAI models, TikTok Smart+ adds module controlsSend us Fan MailAnthropic used its Code with Claude conference in San Francisco to ship dreaming, multiagent orchestration and outcomes for Claude Managed Agents. Dreaming is a research preview; the other two are public beta. Harvey says completion rates rose roughly six-fold with dreaming on. The interesting part for operators is not the science but the architecture — agents that compound learning between sessions start to look more like staff than tools.AWS launched Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Payments in preview with Coinbase and Stripe. Agents now hold a wallet — Coinbase or Stri...

2026-05-1015 min

The Daily Marketing Brief - AI, Tech & News for Fast Moving Marketers OpenAI opens ChatGPT Ads Manager to US SMBs with CPC bidding, Google adds subscription labels and Further Exploration links to AI Overviews, Apple settles Siri AI marketing case for $250M, OpenAI ships GPT-Realtime-2 voice modelsSend us Fan MailOpenAI made ChatGPT advertising self-serve for any US business this week, dropped the $50,000 minimum, added CPC bidding alongside CPM, and shipped a Conversions API and pixel. The pilot is over. ChatGPT is now an ad platform that an SMB can buy on a credit card.Google announced five outbound-link updates to AI Overviews and AI Mode on 6 May, including a "Subscribed" label for publications a user pays for and a new "Further Exploration" section. The context is the 58% click-through decline cited in the antitrust filings. This is...

2026-05-0918 min

The Daily Marketing Brief - AI, Tech & News for Fast Moving Marketers OpenAI launches ChatGPT Ads Manager with CPC bidding, Anthropic commits $200B to Google Cloud, Anthropic ships Claude Opus 4.7 with ten finance agents, Apple opens iOS 27 to Claude and GeminiSend us Fan MailOpenAI has opened a self-serve ChatGPT Ads Manager to all US businesses, scrapped the $50,000 minimum, added CPC bidding alongside CPM, and pushed out a Conversions API and pixel. ChatGPT is now a buyable channel for SMBs and a measurable one for performance teams.The Information reports Anthropic has committed $200 billion to Google Cloud and TPUs over five years, with multi-gigawatt capacity coming online from 2027. If accurate, it concentrates the AI compute market further around Google and Amazon and reframes Anthropic as a capacity-constrained business, not a cash-constrained...

2026-05-0816 min

The Daily Marketing Brief - AI, Tech & News for Fast Moving Marketers Shopify revenue up 34% as AI orders jump 13x, Sierra raises $950M at $15.8B for enterprise CX agents, Amazon, Meta, Microsoft, Salesforce and Stripe join Universal Commerce Protocol Tech CouncilSend us Fan MailShopify reported Q1 2026 yesterday after market close: revenue $3.17B up 34%, GMV $100.74B up 35%. AI-driven traffic to Shopify stores grew 8x year on year and orders from AI searches grew nearly 13x. New buyer orders from AI searches arrived at nearly twice the rate of traditional organic search. Shares fell roughly 7% on Q2 outlook implying decelerating growth and rising opex. Q1 is the first revenue read on the Agentic Storefronts launch covered on 2 May.Sierra, Bret Taylor's enterprise customer-experience agent firm, closed a $950M Series E on 4 May...

2026-05-0711 min

The Daily Marketing Brief - AI, Tech & News for Fast Moving Marketers Pinterest Q1 revenue jumps 18% on Performance+ AI ads, Anthropic and OpenAI launch enterprise deployment ventures, Cerebras files $3.5B IPO, Snapchat ships AI Sponsored SnapsPinterest Q1 revenue jumps 18% on Performance+ AI ads, Anthropic and OpenAI launcSend us Fan MailPinterest reported Q1 2026 yesterday after market close: revenue $1.008B up 18%, EPS $0.27 versus $0.23 consensus, MAUs at a record 631M and the stock up roughly 15% on 5 May. Performance+ now drives around 30% of lower-funnel revenue and Performance+ adopters grew lower-funnel spend at almost twice the rate of non-adopters. Bill Ready is positioning Pinterest as an "AI-powered shopping assistant" with more than 80 billion monthly searches, about half commercial.Anthropic and Wall Street launched a $1.5B enterprise AI services firm yesterday with Blackstone, Hellman & Friedman and Goldman Sachs, with Apollo, General Atlantic...

2026-05-0617 min

The Daily Marketing Brief - AI, Tech & News for Fast Moving Marketers Amazon ad revenue jumps 24% as AWS reaccelerates, Reddit ad revenue rises 74% on Reddit Max, Hightouch raises $150 million for agentic marketing, and Klaviyo opens Customer Agent to brand-built skillsSend us Fan MailAmazon's Q1 2026 results landed on 1 May with advertising services revenue of $17.24B, up 24% year on year and ahead of consensus. Trailing twelve-month ad revenue is now over $70B — larger than the entire AWS business in 2018. AWS itself reaccelerated to 28% growth, its fastest pace in 15 quarters, with the AWS AI services run rate above $15B and the Trainium chip business above $20B. Capex hit $44.2B in the quarter. Retail media as a category just crossed a credibility line.Reddit posted Q1 2026 ad revenue up 74% to $625M. Reddit Max — the...

2026-05-0518 min

2026-05-0418 min

The Daily Marketing Brief - AI, Tech & News for Fast Moving Marketers Adobe absorbs Semrush, Google retires Dynamic Search Ads for AI Max, Shopify's Agentic Storefronts ship into ChatGPT, Perplexity and Copilot, and the Pentagon picks OpenAI, Microsoft, Google, AWS and Nvidia over AnthropicSend us Fan MailAdobe has closed its $1.9bn all-cash acquisition of Semrush. The pitch is no longer "SEO software" — it is a single platform for tracking and influencing brand visibility across Google, ChatGPT, Perplexity and Copilot. Marketers now have a mainstream, enterprise-grade vendor for what Adobe is calling generative engine optimisation and agentic search optimisation.Google has confirmed Dynamic Search Ads, automatically created assets and campaign-level broad match will be auto-upgraded to AI Max by the end of September. Voluntary upgrade tools have shipped this week. The keyword-only Google Ads ac...

2026-05-0316 min

The Daily Marketing Brief - AI, Tech & News for Fast Moving Marketers The week the agent reached the ad account, and Apple finally named its AI costSend us Fan MailApple closed its March quarter with $111.2bn in revenue, an all-time Services record of $31.0bn, and a 33% jump in R&D spend. The takeaway is not the headline number, it is that R&D growth now meaningfully outpaces revenue growth — and Tim Cook used the call to confirm the Gemini-for-Siri partnership is on track. The "AI cost" line is finally visible in the financials.Anthropic is reportedly weighing offers for a roughly $50bn raise at $850bn–$900bn — a valuation that would, if it lands, sit above the most r...

2026-05-0217 min

The Daily Marketing Brief - AI, Tech & News for Fast Moving Marketers The capex bill comes in — and the market starts marking AI to marketSend us Fan MailThree of the largest AI spenders in the world reported within hours of each other. Alphabet posted $109.9bn revenue (+22%), Cloud at $20bn (+63%), and raised 2026 capex guidance to $180–190bn. Microsoft posted $82.9bn (+18%), Azure +40%, an AI annualised revenue run-rate of $37bn (+123%), and 20 million paid Microsoft 365 Copilot seats. Meta posted $56.31bn (+33%) and lifted 2026 capex to $125–145bn.The market response was the story. Alphabet and Microsoft were rewarded for showing AI revenue catching up to AI capex. Meta fell more than 6% after-hours because its capex line moved faster than its monetisation stor...

2026-05-0117 min

The Daily Marketing Brief - AI, Tech & News for Fast Moving Marketers OpenAI ships on Bedrock, Google takes the Pentagon, and Amazon turns the product page into a conversationSend us Fan MailLess than 24 hours after the Microsoft contract reset, OpenAI's frontier models, Codex and Managed Agents went live in limited preview on Amazon Bedrock. GPT-5.4 is available now; GPT-5.5 is flagged for "the next couple of weeks". Spend counts toward existing AWS commitments. The interesting bit for operators is not the model — it is that OpenAI agents are now buildable inside enterprise AWS contracts without a separate procurement.Google signed a classified AI agreement with the US Department of Defense at 4pm Monday, opening Gemini to "any lawful go...

2026-04-3015 min

The Daily Marketing Brief - AI, Tech & News for Fast Moving Marketers The Microsoft–OpenAI divorce, DeepSeek's price war, and a CTV holdco move — what changes for operatorsSend us Fan MailMicrosoft and OpenAI rewrote their contract on 27 April. OpenAI can now serve its products on any cloud, Microsoft has stopped paying it a revenue share, and OpenAI's revenue share to Microsoft is now subject to a cap. AWS and Google Cloud will be selling OpenAI models. The marketing-relevant point: the "all roads lead to Azure" assumption for OpenAI procurement is over.DeepSeek cut V4-Pro list prices by 75% through 5 May and dropped input cache hits across its entire API to one-tenth of the previous rate. V4-Pro...

2026-04-2915 min

The Daily Marketing Brief - AI, Tech & News for Fast Moving Marketers AI tools for marketers: DOJO closes $6m seed, Yuma launches Ask Yuma, Reloop and In Parallel debutSend us Fan MailYuma AI launched Ask Yuma on 8 April — a conversational interface that lets ecommerce support teams build automations, diagnose tickets and pull reports by talking to the platform. 60% adoption among existing Yuma merchants in the first week of internal release. Most operationally useful launch on this list for any Shopify brand running CX in-house.DOJO AI announced a $6m seed round on 22 April at a $30m valuation, led by Armilar. The Lisbon-based team has 100+ paying brands including CoinDesk, Morningstar and PensionBee, with 20% month-on-month growth. Built around a multi-agent la...

2026-04-2812 min

The Daily Marketing Brief - AI, Tech & News for Fast Moving Marketers Tools Edition — Ten Launches From The Last Seven Days That Actually Belong In A Marketing StackSend us Fan MailToday is a tools edition. The headline AI news is in a quiet patch and we have already covered the consequential moves of the last week. What we have not done is walk through the actual product launches a marketer can plug in this week.I've pulled ten launches from Product Hunt and the wider ecosystem, grouped them by the part of the stack they touch — creative production, ecommerce, lifecycle, social and content, and team operations.Three would justify a Monday morning of your time on most teams:...

2026-04-2710 min