Need to Know News - October 8th, 2026
TikTok ads reach 400,000 other apps | X turns your URL into a full campaign | Shopify's Sidekick redesigns your whole store
Monday Memo (On A Tuesday)
Describing VS Teaching AI Systems | how AI changes enterprise sales | streaming sales alpha
Need to Know News - September 30th, 2026
Gemini 4 Argon arrives (for a few) | OpenAI's DevDay: agents with their own computers | ElevenLabs' voices take direction
Monday Memo
Study the beats, not just the prose | AI shopping hype| What is 'compute?'
Why The Lion King's Studio Chief Is Bullish on AI for Creativity
Jeffrey Katzenberg, the studio chief behind The Lion King, explains why AI will widen what creatives can make while taste stays human.
Need to Know News - September 23rd, 2026
Opus 5.5 might be a game changer | Meta Muse is having a moment | A rulebook for AI shopping agents
Monday Memo
Find your existing edge | AI can't take responsibility | How memes have changes commerce
Need to Know News - September 17th, 2026
12 creators, 5M to 100M views for Poke. | Pinterest sells ads on photo searches. | A ChatGPT co-inventor's AI can't make things up.
Monday Memo
Let the machine cover the boring distance. | AI FUD | Conventional business wisdom made obsolete by AI
The Top 10 Anti-AI Slop Skills
At this point, your customers can smell AI writing in one sentence, AI dev Juampi Hernandez ranked his top ten skills that kill those tells.