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Author Ahmed Barakat Author Ahmed Barakat Part of the Team Since Aug 2025 About Author Ahmed Barakat is a journalist and copywriter based in Georgia with a growing focus on blockchain technology, DeFi, AI, privacy, digital assets, and fintech innovation. Share Fact Checked by CryptoNews Editorial Team Author CryptoNews Editorial Team Part of the Team Since Sep 2018 About Author The CryptoNews editorial team is composed of seasoned writers specializing in cryptocurrency and blockchain technology. Their expertise ensures comprehensive, accurate, and insightful content for… Last updated:  August 12, 2026 The SEC issued joint guidance with the CFTC last week, classifying…

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CMOs: Get ready to field more sales pitches from Nielsen.The TV ratings giant surprised the ad industry by announcing plans to buy DoubleVerify for $2.15 billion — and sent chins wagging with hot takes about the implications.At stake: trustworthy data.CMOs depend on data to craft their strategies, but it’s often patchy and unreliable. That’s why they need credible auditors to double-check — or double-verify, if you will — those numbers. For CMOs, this deal could simplify audience measurement and ad verification, but consolidation would mean greater concentration of power under Nielsen and one fewer independent player.Eric Salama, former CEO of…

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Author Ahmed Barakat Author Ahmed Barakat Part of the Team Since Aug 2025 About Author Ahmed Barakat is a journalist and copywriter based in Georgia with a growing focus on blockchain technology, DeFi, AI, privacy, digital assets, and fintech innovation. Share Fact Checked by CryptoNews Editorial Team Author CryptoNews Editorial Team Part of the Team Since Sep 2018 About Author The CryptoNews editorial team is composed of seasoned writers specializing in cryptocurrency and blockchain technology. Their expertise ensures comprehensive, accurate, and insightful content for… Last updated:  August 12, 2026 Riot Platforms just demonstrated that a Bitcoin mining company’s most valuable…

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Security-compliance software startup Vanta wants to become known as a “trust company” that can also have a bit of fun. It’s entrusting a new CMO to get it there.Vanta has promoted its VP of marketing, Sarah Scharf, to CMO, the company exclusively told CMO Insider.In an interview, Scharf said the two tasks at the top of her to-do list are to solidify the Vanta brand’s association with trust among its clients and potential customers, and to reinvent how the company gets marketing done internally in the age of AI.”How can we capture the moment and also reposition Vanta in a…

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Gadgets have gotten pretty boring over the past few years. We’ve gotten a few unsuccessful attempts at AI devices. And every 12 months, we get a new iPhone that’s basically indistinguishable from the last iPhone.Which makes the next few months pretty interesting. In September, Apple is expected to release its new operating system, featuring a fully revamped Siri that’s supposed to be genuinely useful.And sometime in early 2027, we’re expected to see the first gadget from OpenAI — a doughnut-shaped thing the size of a hockey puck that could cost $300 or more.I’m not sold at all on the OpenAI…

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Majestic Labs cofounder Sha Rabii knows what it’s like to build AI infrastructure in an industry dominated by Nvidia.Rabii spent years leading custom silicon inside Google and Meta before launching his own AI hardware startup.When Rabii considers Nvidia’s biggest competitive advantage, he doesn’t point to its brilliant engineers, leading technology, or well-established sales channels.”Where they’re kind of unmatched is in the giant bag of cash they’re sitting on top of,” Rabii said.Nvidia had more than $80 billion in cash and marketable investments as of April, when it last reported earnings, and generated another $50 billion in operating cash flow that…

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Elon Musk has predicted that AI will earn SpaceX more money than its other offerings.On Tuesday, SpaceX posted a 30-minute all-hands recording on X that CEO Elon Musk held with employees, during which he said AI has become an “extremely important part of SpaceX’s future.””Probably our AI revenue — not probably, definitely — our AI revenue will exceed all other SpaceX revenue probably in September, like next month,” Musk said in his speech.”And will significantly exceed all other SpaceX revenue in the fourth quarter,” he said.The executive then shared his ambitions for the training of Grok, SpaceX’s family of large…

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