For the past three years, median growth rates for SaaS startups have declined (from 34% in 2023 to 25% in 2025), coinciding with reduced marketing investment.

Rather than focusing solely on tactical advantages (like speed, idea generation, and content delivery), the post contends the strategic impact is behavioral: AI is transforming the way people interact with information and make decisions.

LinkedIn is definitely giving Facebook a run for its money in the competition to see who can annoy users the most with useless updates. Ugh. Make it stop.

Out of Cite: Why Your PR Wins May Be Missing From AI Search . tl;dr: news sites are blocking AI crawlers/bots. via @screamingfrog

What’s bugging AI users?

RT @OzzyOsbourne: It is with more sadness than mere words can convey that we have to report that our beloved Ozzy Osbourne has passed away….

Generative AI use cases are mostly tactical. Marketing and comms need to watch how generative AI is changing *behavior*. citing @jonoalderson's outstanding piece in @sengineland along with references to @zachcohen25 @seema_amble @a16z

Also says OpenAI launched ChatGPT on X with a simple invitation to try it. No press release. No news conference. A week later it had 1 million users. The product undoubtedly was a significant factor in its vitality. But I also bet the insider network acted like lighter.

profound: Instead of people learning computer language, we’ve got computers learning our language.

End of the Fermi paradox?.

I'm seeing PR using generative AI to tailor pitches. It's a beautiful thing - weaving references to background and recent writing - and tying it back to the pitch angle. Tailoring pitches is 101 advice PR has never followed because it was hard. But now it's easy, so everyone.

Good piece on the social media site @x - who is on it, when and why:

RT @MDNG: ARNG National Best Warrior Competition 2025 has officially ended!. Congratulations to all 14 competitors. Thank you to all the….

RT @grok: @Frank_Strong Yes, Microsoft's July 18, 2025 announcement excludes China-based engineers only from US government/DoD services. Co….

Hey @grok does Microsoft employ technical staff in China who support US business or consumer accounts with the company?.

All this convoluted marketing talk is killing us . via @TheDrum

The problems with Microsoft's Authenticator app are insane. It often doesn't work -- see the long list of complaints in search -- link below. It's gotta be thousands of people. - in my opinion, it's "stalkerware" that monitors your location (I've read the T&Cs + privacy.

"Economists this month dialed back their earlier pessimism that U.S. trade policies would lead to slower growth and higher inflation this year — at least for the near term." . via @wsj

BSBD. RIP Felix. Skydiver Felix Baumgartner, known for record-breaking jump from stratosphere, dies in paragliding crash