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AI & Technology

DeNA's Tomoko Namba at Stripe Tour Tokyo: "AI Won't Move People. Move Them First."

DeNA went all-in on AI. Everyone started using it, but nobody moved to new business lines. CEO Tomoko Namba explains why, and what she changed, at Stripe Tour Tokyo 2026.

Iqbal Abdullah · October 1, 2026

Marketing

The Disappearance of Third-Party Cookies: What Actually Happened and Where Marketers Stand in 2026

Google reversed its plan to kill third-party cookies and retired most of the Privacy Sandbox. Here is what actually happened, what still changed, and the strategy that survives either way.

Iqbal Abdullah · October 1, 2026

AI & SEO

Google's "Better Clicks" Claim for AI Overviews Just Failed a Controlled Test

A controlled experiment with 1,065 US users removed AI Overviews from Google Search. Outbound clicks rose 68%, visit quality and satisfaction stayed flat, and in-answer citations contributed only 7.1% of outbound clicks. Google's three claims for AI Overviews now face direct experimental evidence.

Iqbal Abdullah · September 24, 2026

AI & SEO

Why 99% of Google Users Never Scroll Past Page One (2026 Data & What It Means for Your SEO)

Page two is a graveyard. Here is what the 2026 click-through data actually says, why AI Overviews changed the game, and how to fix your page-one strategy.

Ngazetungue Muheue · September 15, 2026

Marketing

Affiliate Marketing vs Network Marketing: 5 Key Differences and the Best Tools for Content Creators in 2026

Discover the differences between network marketing and affiliate marketing, and learn how AI tools can boost your success in both.

Ngazetungue Muheue · September 15, 2026

AI & Technology

July and August 2026: The Month AI Stopped Being a San Francisco Story

More than twenty major AI models shipped in July and August 2026 from the US, China, and Europe. Here is why the real story was not the launches—it was safety, price wars, and the open-weight shift.

Iqbal Abdullah · August 27, 2026

AI & SEO

What ChatGPT Actually Reads: A Reverse-Engineering Study and What It Means for AI-Era SEO

A French research group reverse-engineered ChatGPT's web retrieval. Of 58,000 URLs retrieved, only 760 were actually opened. Most answers are written from a 200-character snippet. Here is what this means for SEO.

Iqbal Abdullah · August 13, 2026

AI & Technology

What Businesspeople Should Do About AI Now: Notes From Prof. Yutaka Matsuo's NHK Lecture

University of Tokyo professor Yutaka Matsuo gave a 60-minute NHK special lecture on AI skills for business. Here is what he said about Japan's AI gap, what companies should do now, and why the AX framework matters.

Iqbal Abdullah · August 11, 2026

AI & Small Business

The World's Largest AI Model Just Went Open Source. Here's Why Business Leaders Should Care.

Moonshot AI has released Kimi K3, a 2.8-trillion-parameter open-weight AI model that competes with the most powerful closed models from OpenAI and Anthropic. Here's what this means for companies that depend on AI.

Iqbal Abdullah · July 30, 2026

AI & Technology

When AI Breaks Its Own Sandbox: The OpenAI–Hugging Face Incident and What It Means for the Rest of Us

On July 21, 2026, OpenAI admitted that one of its own unreleased models had accidentally launched a cyberattack against Hugging Face. Here's the full timeline of what happened, why it matters, and what it says about the gap between AI capability and AI safety that every business owner should understand.

Iqbal Abdullah · July 28, 2026