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Perspectives from the field
Guest posts from operators, agencies, and thought leaders across B2B tech.
Bending Spoons Bought Airtable and Miro in Five Weeks
Bending Spoons bought Airtable and Miro within five weeks of its own IPO, and its record with Evernote and StreamYard shows what that kind of ownership has meant for price and staffing so far.
Bhavika J
Google Keeps Cookies, Meta Redefines Clicks, States Tighten Pixel Rules
Google's cookie reversal, Meta's attribution overhaul and new state privacy laws are changing how marketing teams measure and collect customer data in 2026.
Bhavika J
How B2B Intent Data Works, and What Sales Teams Should Check
An explainer on where B2B intent data comes from, how the main signal types differ, and what SDR and AE teams should check before building workflows on it.
Bhavika J
AWS Offers Flat-Rate Direct Connect as Azure and GitLab Change Usage Terms
A look at AWS's new flat-rate Direct Connect pricing, Microsoft's regional premiums for Foundry and its Azure Maps tier migration, and GitLab's tiered rate limits, and what each changes for cloud buyers.
Bhavika J
UK, India and Card Networks Draw Different Lines on AI Agent Payments
How GoCardless's first UK agentic bank payment, NPCI's stance on AI agents in UPI, and a Visa, Mastercard and Ant International identity effort each set limits on what AI agents can do with a customer's money.
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What Data Warehouse Benchmarks Measure, and What They Leave Out
How TPC-H, TPC-DS and ClickBench work, the difference between audited, derived and vendor-run results, and what to check before trusting a warehouse benchmark in a sales deck.
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How LTI 1.3 Works, and Why Blackboard Is Switching Off LTI 1.1
An explainer on how the LTI 1.3 standard connects learning platforms to third-party tools, and what institutions should check before Blackboard ends LTI 1.1 support on September 30, 2027.
Bhavika J
Amazon Blocks Meta's Muse as Retailers Fight for the AI Checkout
Amazon's block on Meta's Muse agent, the Perplexity ruling behind it, Amazon's ChatGPT ad pilot, and new grocery assistants show retailers moving to control how AI agents reach their checkout.
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Retail Built Checkout for AI Agents Before Fixing Its Own Margins
A look at why retail spent the last year building checkout infrastructure for AI shopping agents while its existing delivery model, quick commerce, still hasn't solved its unit economics.
TechShorts Staff
6sense, Sprinklr and SAS Wire AI Agents Into Core Platforms
6sense, Sprinklr and SAS shipped agent-facing product releases within a two-week span in July 2026, each solving a different piece of the same problem: getting platform data in front of AI agents instead of dashboards.
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Microsoft Patches Actively Exploited AD FS Zero-Day
Microsoft's July 2026 Patch Tuesday fixed an Active Directory Federation Services flaw that was already being exploited when the patch shipped, and CISA added it to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog the same day.
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Moonshot, xAI and Alibaba Race to Ship Frontier-Scale Models
Three AI labs released or previewed frontier-scale models within eleven days in July, each betting on a different lever: cost, open licensing, or raw scale.
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