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Guest posts from operators, agencies, and thought leaders across B2B tech.
CISA Adds Actively Exploited Windows Kernel Flaw to KEV Catalog
Microsoft's August Patch Tuesday fix for a zero-day flaw in the Windows networking driver AFD.sys was added to CISA's Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog the same day it shipped.
Bhavika J
TikTok's New Attribution Math, Trade Desk's Slump, and the EU's AI Ad Labeling Rule
Three developments this month, TikTok's new attribution suite, The Trade Desk's earnings miss, and the EU's AI content labeling law, all shift how much marketing teams can verify about their own numbers and creative.
Bhavika J
AI Inference Funding Surges as Anthropic Cuts Default Human Review
Three inference-infrastructure funding rounds in three weeks and Anthropic's move to run Claude Code without step-by-step human approval point at the same shift in how AI gets used in production.
Bhavika J
The AI Acquisition Wave Is Creating a Second SaaS Bill
A house argument that recent AI acquisitions by Asana and Salesforce, read alongside new pricing data, show vendors using M&A to add consumption charges on top of existing per-seat contracts rather than folding new capability into current plans.
Bhavika J
Retail's Self-Checkout Retreat Is Really About Who Absorbs the Risk
A look at why Walmart, Dollar General, Costco and Five Below are all pulling back unsupervised self-checkout after a decade of expansion, and what their differing explanations reveal about who was really paying for it.
Bhavika J
Wellinks Closes $10M Series B to Scale Predictive COPD Monitoring
Cardiopulmonary care company Wellinks has closed the first $10 million of a Series B round led by hospital partner UMass Memorial Health to expand its remote monitoring platform for chronic respiratory disease.
Bhavika J
How Government E-Invoicing Mandates Are Reshaping Procurement
An explainer on what government e-invoicing mandates actually require, the two compliance models governments use to enforce them, and what procurement and finance teams should check before their next accounts payable upgrade.
Bhavika J
What Salesforce's $3.6 Billion Fin Deal Reveals About Support AI
Salesforce agreed to pay $3.6 billion for the company behind the Fin AI agent, and the revenue numbers behind that price say more about the state of support automation than the resolution-rate claim in the press release does.
Bhavika J
A Workday Ruling and a Stalled Illinois Rule Show AI Hiring's Compliance Gap
A federal judge let AI-discrimination claims against Workday proceed, and Illinois froze its own AI hiring rules days later, leaving employers with no single rulebook for algorithmic screening.
Bhavika J
Gartner's 2026 BI Rankings Put Semantic Layers Ahead of Dashboards
An explainer on what a semantic layer is, why Gartner's 2026 Magic Quadrant for Analytics and BI Platforms rewards vendors that have one, and what to check for before buying into a governed metrics layer.
Bhavika J
Regulators Draw a Harder Line Around Embedded Finance in July
A regulatory tightening across the US, UK and India shows how sponsor banks, buy now pay later lenders and large NBFCs are losing the light-touch treatment embedded finance grew up under.
Bhavika J
Hyperscalers Raise 2026 Capex Again as Memory Prices Squeeze Cloud
AWS, Microsoft and Google all raised 2026 capital spending after Q2 earnings and named rising memory chip prices, not just AI demand, as a reason cloud infrastructure keeps getting more expensive to build.
Bhavika J