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For years, marketing agencies have operated on a familiar playbook: hire specialists, assign them to client accounts, and scale by adding headcount. But a fundamental shift in how work gets done — driven by artificial intelligence, automation, and rapidly changing client expectations — is forcing agency owners and business leaders to rethink their most basic

A group of Democratic lawmakers has introduced legislation that would make the Internal Revenue Service’s Direct File program a permanent fixture of the American tax system, setting up a renewed confrontation with the powerful tax preparation industry and raising fresh questions about the future of how millions of Americans file their returns. The bill, known

For years, white-collar workers in the United States enjoyed a sense of relative invincibility. Armed with degrees, credentials, and the kind of knowledge-economy skills that were supposed to be future-proof, professionals in finance, tech, consulting, and government assumed they were insulated from the cyclical layoffs that battered blue-collar industries. That assumption is now being tested

The cybersecurity industry has long operated on the assumption that defenders have a narrow but meaningful window of time between the disclosure of a software vulnerability and the moment attackers figure out how to exploit it. That window is now slamming shut. A growing body of evidence suggests that threat actors are deploying artificial intelligence

Elon Musk’s X is making another aggressive push to win back advertisers who fled the platform in the years following his 2022 acquisition of the former Twitter. The social media company’s newest tactic: making it as easy as possible for brands to repurpose creative assets they’ve already built for competitors like Meta, Google, and TikTok,

The state of New York has filed a sweeping lawsuit against Valve Corporation, the privately held company behind the dominant PC gaming platform Steam, alleging that the company has operated an illegal gambling enterprise through its use of loot boxes and facilitated a massive, unregulated skin-gambling market. The legal action, brought by New York Attorney

Volvo Cars is making one of the most aggressive moves yet in the affordable electric vehicle segment, slashing the price of its smallest EV while simultaneously adding a feature that could make it significantly more practical for everyday buyers. The 2026 Volvo EX30, already the least expensive model in the Swedish automaker’s lineup, is getting

A Greek court has delivered a landmark sentence against the architect of one of Europe’s most brazen surveillance operations, sending the founder of a commercial spyware company to prison for orchestrating the wiretapping of politicians, journalists, and other prominent figures. The case marks the first time a spyware maker has been criminally convicted and imprisoned

Marc Benioff has never been one to shy away from bold proclamations, but his latest declaration may be his most audacious yet: traditional software-as-a-service is dying, and the companies that built their empires on it — including his own — must transform or face extinction. The Salesforce co-founder and CEO has coined a new term

A former Citadel Securities quantitative researcher turned independent Wall Street strategist is sounding an alarm that most corporate leaders are still reluctant to voice publicly: artificial intelligence is not coming for blue-collar jobs first — it is coming for the knowledge workers, the analysts, the middle managers, and the back-office professionals who have long considered