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Texas’s app-store age-verification law remains in effect after the Supreme Court declined to block it, making it the first of four state app-store age-verification laws to actually take effect while the other three remain stalled into 2027

Google’s AI Overviews now answer forty eight percent of all search queries, and more than half of all searches end without a single click, yet marketing teams are still building quarterly reports around a number that stopped meaning what it used to

Brands have spent two years handing vendors more customer data to power AI personalization, and only now is anyone asking who actually keeps the value once that data leaves the building

Indiana outbid every other state for data centers with what is now the largest single subsidy package in the country, and lawmakers have not said yet what happens when the bill for it comes due

Virginia is still the largest data center market on the planet, with roughly two hundred facilities packed into a single county, and its legislature is now fighting over whether to keep a sales tax exemption worth an estimated one point nine billion dollars a year

Meta is replacing up to ninety percent of its content review staff with AI, and the marketers most exposed are the ones who have never had to argue with a machine about why their account got flagged

Arizona lawmakers passed a three year moratorium on data center tax breaks to slow the industry down, and in the two weeks before it took effect developers filed nearly as many applications as they had in the previous thirteen years combined

Texas passed a law banning targeted ads to minors, and a federal judge has now struck it down in a second ruling that went further than his first, ruling it violated advertisers’ free speech rights

Marketing automation platforms spent the first half of 2026 compressing the time from insight to campaign launch from days to minutes, and the fight nobody is naming yet is over who owns that layer of intelligence, not who owns the software

Zeta Global tracked what AI shoppers do before they buy — seven in ten still complete the purchase on the brand’s own site, but the data suggests AI has already shaped which brand that would be

Illinois directed its economic development agency to stop processing new data center tax deals starting this July, after lawmakers left Springfield without passing the reforms the governor asked for

Indiana disclosed this year that more than 93 percent of its data center tax exemption went to a single company, with that one recipient’s share increasing by 1,011 percent in a single year

Virginia projected its data center tax exemption would cost $1.5 million a year when it was created in 2008. In fiscal 2025, the state’s own report put the actual cost at $1.9 billion — a gap that has become a reference point in data center tax debates in more than a dozen other states.

AI has not solved marketing’s measurement problem, it has raised the stakes, because boards now expect proof of ROI at the same time as the tools that were supposed to provide it have made attribution harder to defend

Ohio suspended its data center tax break after the cost to the state hit $1.6 billion — eleven times what legislators had approved — making it the first major US state to pull back on AI infrastructure incentives over actual fiscal cost

In 2016 roughly 45 out of every 100 Google searches sent someone to a website, and by the first four months of 2026 that number had fallen to 32, a loss of 13 clicks per hundred that happened quietly enough that most marketing dashboards are still measuring the channel as though it hadn’t

One day my children will describe me to their own kids in three sentences, and I have started wondering, a little anxiously, which three they’ll choose

At twenty I thought independence meant needing no one, at thirty it means choosing carefully who I let need me, and I suspect at sixty it changes again

Starbucks is now selling almost as much protein cold foam as flat whites, which means customers are paying two extra dollars to make their coffee taste a little more like a protein shake

Thought by Carl Jung: “The persona is a complicated system of relations between individual consciousness and society, fittingly enough a kind of mask, designed on the one hand to make a definite impression upon others, and, on the other, to conceal the true nature of the individual.”

Thought of the day from Carl Jung: the things that irritate us about other people can lead us to a better understanding of ourselves

The reason some people apologize before they even speak isn’t low confidence — it’s that they were raised to make themselves small so the room would stay calm

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The reason long marriages go quiet isn’t that love faded — it’s that two people have finally said enough to each other that silence became a place they both live comfortably

Nearly 150,000 tech workers have been laid off so far in 2026 with AI cited as the reason, at companies that are simultaneously posting record revenues, and the gap between those two facts is starting to show up in public opinion data about every brand associated with the industry

Research on influence shows that expert opinion is most likely to be ignored precisely when the stakes of ignoring it are highest

The reason we feel guilty resting isn’t laziness — it’s that somewhere along the way we were taught our worth was a thing we had to keep re-earning

The reason retired men often go quiet isn’t contentment — it’s that no one ever taught them how to be needed in a way that doesn’t involve a paycheck

A nurse told me my scheduled surgery would be routine, and I realized routine is a word doctors use to calm the person who is doing the math on her own life

NASA’s acting administrator called it ‘the closest we have ever come to discovering life on Mars’ — here’s what the science actually says

Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi spent decades studying peak human experience — and his research on flow suggests creativity isn’t a gift so much as a condition you can learn to enter

People who make coffee at home every single morning aren’t always trying to save money — sometimes it’s just the one ritual that makes the start of the day feel like it belongs to them

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