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Intel Arc Pro B70 is shaping up as a straightforward answer to a common workstation headache, running out of VRAM at the worst time. A new leak points to a launch soon, with the card described as the first shipping product built on Intel’s larger Battlemage BMG-G31 chip. Arc Pro B70 is tipped to ship with 32GB of VRAM on a 256-bit bus, a notable jump from the Arc Pro B60’s 24GB GDDR6. That extra capacity matters when your scene, timeline, or dataset won’t stay put. Intel still hasn’t confirmed pricing, timing, or where the card will actually be sold.…

The narrative surrounding software engineering has shifted dramatically in 2026. For decades, the industry valued the Code Monkey the developer who could churn out thousands of lines of syntax based on a Jira ticket. However, the rise of Agentic AI has rendered pure syntax generation a commodity. We are now witnessing a brutal but necessary evolution where the ability to write code is secondary to the ability to architect intent. Generative AI hasn’t replaced engineers, but it has certainly replaced the junior mindset. With tools now capable of handling nearly half of code documentation and refactoring automatically, the entry barrier…

Pinterest is going all-in on programmatic, and its newest hire is the tell.Chip Jessopp, Amazon’s former director of global accounts and North America ad tech sales, joined the visual search platform on May 27 as its first head of programmatic. Reporting to chief revenue officer Bill Watkins, he’s been tasked with building new demand channels and scaling Pinterest’s still nascent programmatic business. With a seven year stint at the e-commerce giant under his belt, Jessopp isn’t new to this. He’s built sales teams, brokered commercial deals and helped grow an ad tech business from the ground up.  “As we pursued…

In an email to employees in May, after pulling back on some diversity, equity and inclusion goals, Target’s CEO tried to reassure employees that its values are not up for debate and that it is still a retailer for everyone. Some retail and communications consultants told Modern Retail that the message was vague or failed to directly address the issues the company faces regarding culture and sales. A similar sentiment is being shared on the store level. In the latest entry in our Confessions series, in which we offer anonymity in exchange for candor, Modern Retail spoke with a transgender Target employee…

AI robot prompt injection is no longer just a screen-level problem. Researchers demonstrate that a robot can be steered off-task by text placed in the physical world, the kind of message a human might walk past without a second thought. The attack doesn’t rely on breaking into the robot’s software or spoofing sensors. It instead treats the environment like an input box, placing a misleading sign, poster, or label where a camera will read it. In simulation tests, the researchers report attack success rates of 81.8% in an autonomous driving setup and 68.1% in a drone emergency landing task. In…

It’s no secret that retail media networks are seeing a boon in business and viewed as a bright spot in advertising. Financial institutions are chasing those dollars now, too, from the likes of Chase and Revolut. PayPal, which has offered advertising since October 2024, is going live with a new tool for onsite and offsite advertisers, dubbed Transaction Graph, that segments audiences based on their purchases across its properties Honey, PayPal and Venmo. PayPal argues that the tool stands out by harnessing data from 30 million merchants, 400 million global consumers and accounting for about 25% of global commerce. “We…

Generative AI just cleared a new bar in creativity, at least for the average person. This AI creativity study compared results from more than 100,000 people with several large language models, including ChatGPT, Claude, and Gemini, and it found some models can outscore a typical human on a standardized creativity task. But the ceiling still looks human. The study reports the most creative half of participants outperformed every AI model tested, and the top 10% widened the lead even more. AI is getting better at clearing baseline creative tasks, while exceptional human output keeps a gap that’s hard to erase.…

Digiday covers the latest from marketing and media at the annual Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity. More from the series → To receive this daily Cannes briefing over email, please subscribe here. If this is your first time (or if you want a refresher on what you might expect), here’s what we can tell you about Cannes Lions 2025 so far: Who’s going: Shrinking marketing budgets, slower client decision-making and economic headwinds are forcing agencies to rethink how they afford to show up at Cannes without bowing out of what’s easily the industry’s biggest event. — Kimeko McCoy What we’re…

Researchers from the American Institute of Physics’ publishing arm have developed a technique that could change how smartphones are inspected for tampering and hidden modifications. Instead of physically examining a device, the team demonstrated a way to detect whether a smartphone has been altered using radio-frequency signals from a distance. The work introduces what researchers describe as a robust over-the-air testing platform that analyzes how a smartphone’s radio hardware behaves when it communicates wirelessly. The idea is surprisingly simple. Every phone’s radio components produce a unique “fingerprint” when transmitting signals. If a device has been modified, damaged, or compromised, that…

The iPhone 18 Pro is rumored to feature an upgraded 24MP front-facing camera, offering enhanced low-light capture capabilities and improved video call quality. According to a new rumor, the upgraded camera may be housed in a smaller Dynamic Island cutout. According to Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman, the Dynamic Island pill shape is shrinking on the iPhone 18 Pro and future iPhones. These rumors were based on a patent Apple filed, which described removing sub-pixels to allow infrared rays to pass through the gap. However, the latest rumors suggest that this is not happening, at least for a couple of years. What…