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Smartly, the leading AI-powered adtech company, has announced that multi-platinum, four-time Grammy Award-winning producer and Songwriters Hall of Fame member Timbaland will headline ADVANCE, Smartly's flagship industry event, on September 29 at Spring Studios in New York City, bringing together senior leaders across brands, agencies, media and technology . Timbaland will join Smartly CEO Laura Desmond on the mainstage for a conversation exploring creativity in the age of AI and the role of taste and originality as technology reshapes the advertising industry. At ADVANCE, he will explore what happens to creativity when new technology becomes more available to everyone: what makes an idea distinctive, how creators preserve a recognizable viewpoint, and where human judgment, taste and collaboration matter most. Timbaland joins a lineup spanning the marketing, media, technology and agency ecosystem, including Sean Downey, president, Americas and Global Partners at Google; Bob Lord, president of Horizon Media; Judy Toland, vice president of marketing at Meta; Lee Brown, chief business officer of Pinterest; Bill Ready, CEO of Pinterest; Jen Wong, chief operating officer of Reddit; Mary Ann Belliveau, president of Americas at Snapchat; Grace Kao, chief marketing officer of Snapchat; David Kaufman, global head of monetization product partnerships at TikTok; Amy

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The Iowa Ladies' Football Academy: Wave Edition will take place on Saturday, June 12, 2027, inside Kinnick Stadium. IOWA CITY, Iowa — University of Iowa Moon Family Head Football Coach Kirk Ferentz and the Iowa football team invite Hawkeye women to participate in a special, one-time-only event: the  Iowa Ladies' Football Academy: Wave Edition , set to take place on Saturday, June 12, 2027, inside Kinnick Stadium. Proceeds from the event directly benefit the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) at UI Health Care Stead Family Children's Hospital. The one-day event offers behind-the-scenes access to Kinnick Stadium and the Iowa football program. Participants will get an inside look at Hawkeye football while honoring one of the most beloved traditions in college sports. Event Highlights: Learn the Game: Direct instruction and insights from current Iowa football players and coaching staff. Swarm Kinnick: Experience running out onto the field to "Back in Black" alongside the team. Famous Pink Locker Room: Tour Kinnick Stadium’s legendary visiting locker room. Celebrate The Wave: In honor of its 10-year anniversary, participants will join in waving to the patients and families at the UI Health Care Stead Family Children's Hospital. Registration & Fundraising Requirements:  Registration  for the event is $100 (nonrefundable). To

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By: Nick Guerriero, Assistant AD - Communications & Broadcasting NASHVILLE – Tennessee State returned from Athens with film to review, corrections to make and another road test immediately ahead. The Tigers (0-2) will visit Alabama A&M (1-1) at 6 p.m. CT Saturday at Louis Crews Stadium in Huntsville. This is the second installment of the four-year Legacy Series and will stream on SWAC TV and radio on 102.1 FM The Ville.  Georgia scored on its first five possessions and carried a 35-0 lead into the closing minutes of the first half. Head coach Reggie Barlow said the experience provided TSU's players with a firsthand view of the speed and physicality required at the highest level of college football. "They all want the opportunity to go pro and they want the opportunity to play in the SEC," Barlow said. "So now you get a first hand look at what that looks like, feel like, and how fast that game moves. So we came here with the right mindset, but unfortunately, it was a little bit too much firepower for us." Despite the result, TSU produced several areas to build upon. The Tigers did not commit a turnover, were penalized only once for 10

Live streaming entered 2026 bigger, more fragmented and more competitive than ever, with three platforms — Amazon’s Twitch, the Stake-backed challenger Kick and Google’s YouTube Gaming — defining the gaming-focused corner of the market. This reference page pulls together the most reliable 2025 full-year and early-2026 figures on viewership, market share, monetisation and top creators so journalists and analysts can cite them with confidence. Free to use with a link back to ShaneTheGamer as the source. Key Takeaways for Journalists 19.2 billion hours watched on Twitch in 2025 — it remained the most-watched gaming platform, but its viewership fell roughly 10% year-over-year. 8.8 billion hours on YouTube Gaming in 2025 — a record year for the platform, up around 12% annually per Stream Hatchet. 4.5 billion hours on Kick in 2025 — up 131%, the fastest growth of any major platform, per Stream Hatchet’s 2025 Yearly Report. 36.4 billion hours across all platforms in 2025 — a 6% annual gain that brought the industry close to its 2021 pandemic peak of 37.1 billion. Twitch dropped below 50% gaming market share for the first time — happening in Q3 2025 per Stream Hatchet, down from a 71% peak in Q3 2023.

Announcing Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index v4.3, upgrading Terminal-Bench to v4 and adding AutomationBench-AA, an agentic workflow automation benchmark with a private test set. This is a continuation of our rollout of Intelligence Index v5 Changelog (Index v4.2 → Index v4.3): → Terminal-Bench: v2.1 → v4, completing our upgrade to the latest version of Terminal-Bench → Replacing 𝜏³-Banking with AutomationBench-AA, our implementation of Zapier’s business workflow automation benchmark We are continuing to prioritize keeping Intelligence Index as useful as possible by bringing forward a subset of the changes we had planned for Index v5. Each change in v4.2 and v4.3 stands on its own merits and brings the index closer to real-world problem solving, adds more private test sets to prevent gaming, and reduces saturation. Intelligence Index v4.3 raises the difficulty of agentic coding tasks and broadens the types of agentic workflows tested. Because we use a held-out test set for AutomationBench in collaboration with Zapier , the weight assigned to evaluations with private tasks or answers increases from 40% to 45%. Category weights are unchanged from v4.2: Agents 30%, Coding 20%, General 30%, Scientific Reasoning 20%. Detailed changes: ➤ Upgraded Terminal-Bench v2.1 to v4.0: 66 multi-step tasks testing agents on

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It is two decades since Facebook introduced the News Feed – letting loose a world in which algorithms would shape ever more of our lives. In 2006, Facebook was facing something of a crisis. Its internal data suggested that for the first time since its launch two years earlier (as TheFacebook), the company had stopped growing. People weren’t joining, and existing users weren’t spending more time on the site. The solution co-founder Mark Zuckerberg and colleagues came up with, the News Feed, meant individual users’ homepages would be automatically updated with information tailored to them – in particular, new posts their Facebook friends had added. Up to then, users had to actively check their friends’ profiles to see what they were up to. Now, this information would automatically be sent to your homepage. With it, a new world of algorithmic interaction was born. It might seem quaint now, but for many Facebook users at the time, these changes felt like a violation of their privacy and trust.  » Read More