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Sarah Levinger consults with ecommerce brands on marketing psychology. She says shoppers’ emotions drive ad performance, and success comes from aligning messaging with those feelings.

Maryland Benefits is an innovative, cloud-based platform that allows multiple state agencies to share and manage data in one convenient place. As an ambitious, state-of-the-art IT program, Maryland Benefits enhances customer services, streamlines common data, and reduces IT operating costs for Maryland’s state agencies. At the core of our platform is a system of modular,…

AI coding tools deliver immense value: at Databricks, agentic coding has measurably improved every velocity metric we track and, in some teams, driven an order-of-magnitude gains in output. But nearly every company deploying AI tools at scale has hit the same wall: exponentially growing costs. That curve is unsustainable – left unchecked it will eventually…

The U.S. economy got more efficient last quarter. Nonfarm productivity, which measures hourly output per employee, rose at a 1.4% annualized pace in the second quarter.

Sapiom is a San Francisco startup that sits between AI agents and the models they run on. It has raised a $35 million Series A. Dragonfly led the round. It comes 11 months after the company launched, and six months after a $15 million seed led by Accel. That takes total funding to $50 million.

Childcare is becoming a critical workforce issue for Grundy County businesses, according to a new analysis that found affordability and availability problems affecting families and employers across the region.

Microsoft has introduced its first specialist cybersecurity AI model, promising to make automated software vulnerability detection both more powerful and less expensive. CalledMAI-Cyber-1-Flash, the compact model operates inside MDASH, Microsoft’s multi-agent system for identifying, validating and…

Since artificial intelligence expenses appear in most engineering budgets, taxpayers claiming a federal tax credit for increasing research activities often raise two questions: How should AI-related costs be treated in the calculation? And how does AI affect whether the work still qualifies for the …