96% of B2B marketers use AI, but only 44% have data infrastructure ready to support it

Most B2B organizations are deploying AI faster than they're modernizing the data foundations it depends on, creating a widening gap between buyer expectations a

AI data centers are cementing natural gas as the U.S. grid's indispensable fuel

Rising AI power demand is reinforcing natural gas's grip on U.S. electricity, with nearly 2,000 gas plants and 3 million miles of pipelines too embedded to disp

U.S. B2B tech spending hit $35.3 billion in the first half of 2026, and the second half looks different

Circana puts H1 2026 B2B technology revenue at $35.3B, up 10% YoY. Growth moderates to 6% in H2 as pricing dynamics shift and teams rethink GTM.

Most B2B content marketing programs fail because teams can't define what success looks like

CMI's decade of B2B content marketing research shows the gap between effective and ineffective programs traces to one factor: clarity on what success means.

Fiserv and Stuut bring agentic AI to enterprise receivables, targeting $2B in collected B2B invoices

Fiserv's Commerce Hub and SnapPay will integrate Stuut's AI agent, which has already processed more than $2B in B2B invoices, to automate order-to-cash workflow

The Early Scale: Sodium-ion batteries promise to cut China out of energy chain, say Wall Street Journal

Sodium-ion batteries reach commercial scale, cutting China's supply chain dominance. Medicare's ACCESS pilot struggles with provider visibility. Cvent enhances trade show lead management.

74% of enterprises have deployed AI, but half still can't measure what it's worth

Enterprise AI is live nearly everywhere, yet a value gap, model cost pressure, and a wave of industrial consolidation are reshaping how operators must manage it

U.S. B2B tech spending hit $35.3 billion in H1 2026, with cloud leading at 15% growth

Circana's latest forecast puts U.S. B2B tech reseller revenue up 10% in H1 2026, with cloud, hardware, and software all posting gains.

CMO tenure hits 4.1 years at S&P 500 companies as the role quietly gets rebranded out of existence

Spencer Stuart data shows CMO tenure averaging 4.1 years at S&P 500 firms, the shortest in the core C-suite, as companies rethink the marketing function.

Agentic B2B buying is making structured data the new homepage

As AI agents take over enterprise product research, your brand's discoverability now depends on data architecture, not design or ad spend.

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Meta's $12.5 billion data-center bond signals rising capital costs across AI infrastructure

Debt investors demanded higher yields on Meta's El Paso data-center bond than on a comparable deal last year, a concrete sign that financing AI build-outs is ge

6sense embeds buyer intelligence into Claude, ChatGPT, Writer, and Agentforce with four new product releases

6sense announced four product innovations that push its B2B buyer intelligence directly into major AI agent platforms, including Claude, ChatGPT, Writer, and Sa

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Companies are still shunning internal candidates for CMO roles, and the July data shows it

External CMO hires continue to dominate in 2026, with nearly half of June's appointments going to first-timers, per Ad Age's monthly tracking data.

Cvent's iCapture and Jifflenow get tighter integration as trade show lead capture gets a real-time upgrade

Cvent ships three updates to its trade show platform, connecting booth-side lead capture directly to meeting scheduling and adding a daily lead action report.

The Cost of Waiting: Why Healthcare Can't Afford Slow Decisions with Mark Van Sumeren

Custom Coaters Making More Revenue Due to IntelliFinishing System

Some custom coaters are experiencing a significant uptick in revenue thanks to the implementation of their IntelliFinishing systems. Equipped with high volume capacity and enhanced flexibility, the sy…

Adobe's single ChatGPT plugin now covers 70+ creative tools, from Photoshop to Premiere

Adobe's new ChatGPT plugin consolidates 70+ creative and productivity tools into one interface, letting enterprise teams batch-process assets and reformat video

The AI build-out is reshaping freight: warehouse construction up 18%, airfreight displaced by server racks

Industrial real estate under construction rose 18% in Q2 2026 as data-center demand reshapes freight flows across air, ground, and port channels.

Medicare's ACCESS pilot is live, but patients can't find which providers offer it

CMS launched its tech-enabled chronic care pilot and the FDA's AI device authorizations hit 115 in 2021, yet a critical gap remains: patients don't know where t

Sodium-ion batteries are reaching commercial scale, cutting China out of the energy storage supply chain

Sodium-ion batteries use abundant, domestically sourceable materials, positioning them as a credible alternative to lithium-ion for grid-scale storage.

Jeff Dean and top Google researchers quit Alphabet to launch Discovery Loop, backed by Radical Ventures

Former Alphabet Chief Scientist Jeff Dean has left Google to co-found Discovery Loop, an AI startup targeting scientific research acceleration, backed by Radica

OpenAI pauses its Astra model over cybersecurity risks, signaling tighter AI governance for enterprise buyers

OpenAI halted development work on its Astra AI model after discovering the system showed unexpectedly high cybersecurity capability, raising compliance flags fo

AI is resetting the baseline for commercial real estate operators, and the laggards are already behind

From deal underwriting to asset management, AI is no longer optional in CRE, it's the new operational floor.