Italian hospitality AI company Smartness closed a €47M Series B, now serves 5,000 customers in 41 countries, and is targeting €100M in revenue.

Italian hospitality AI company Smartness closed a €47M Series B, now serves 5,000 customers in 41 countries, and is targeting €100M in revenue.

Goldman Sachs Alternatives and Bain Capital Ventures co-led a $150M round in Hightouch, an AI marketing platform now valued at $2.75 billion. The Trade Desk also joined.

As of March 2026, 35% of U.S. businesses pay for OpenAI and 30% pay for Anthropic. A year ago that gap was 13 points. Here is what the Ramp spend data shows.

Perion Network is expanding into Africa through an exclusive deal with McSorely Media and Mediamark to run its Outmax AI advertising agent across the region.

OpenAI moved ChatGPT ads from CPM to CPC pricing ($3-$5 per click) after its $60 launch rate fell to $25 in ten weeks. Here is what the shift means for the ad market.

Tree service operators spending hours on quotes can use Zapier and AI templates to turn field notes into persuasive proposals automatically. Here is the setup.

A CRO who tested both breaks down when n8n flowcharts beat AI agents and when agents win. The cost trade-off is real, and the security risks are still being worked out.

Tesco and Adobe are building a joint AI lab to turn Clubcard purchase data into real-time personalised marketing across web, app, and email channels.

OpenAI is testing a self-serve ads manager for ChatGPT, but CPC and audience targeting are still missing. The company needs ads to hit $102B by 2030.

One operator replaced a paid outreach platform by building their own n8n system with OpenAI, Google Sheets, and SMTP inbox rotation. Here is how the stack works.