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Deep-Dive: Coverage of Q2 Cybersecurity VC Funding

Perhaps you saw Joanna Glasner’s July 16th CrunchBase News story about the spike in cybersecurity funding.

Cybersecurity was a hot area for venture investment in the first half of 2025, with total funding to the space hitting its highest level in three years… overall, we counted at least 11 rounds of $100 million or more for security- and privacy-focused startups in Q2.

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Cornell Researchers: AI Writes Much of Tier 1’s Thought Leadership…

and rarely reveals it. Roughly 45K opinion recent pieces from Washington Post, New York Times, and Wall Street Journal, are 6.4 times more likely to contain AI-generated content than news articles from the same publications, with many AI-flagged op-eds authored by prominent public figures. Despite this prevalence, Cornell says, “we find that AI use is rarely disclosed: a manual audit of 100 AI-flagged articles found only five disclosures of AI use.”

Right-Wing Podcasts: Dare You Pitch Them?

The day is coming that you will not be able to avoid framing the targets in terms of red or blue. So far you’ve been able to do that. Those days are coming to a close: large swaths of “the audience” are headed in this direction. If you don’t believe it, read this from Bloomberg. You will never see better reporting than this.

Nieman Labs 2026 Predictions for B2B Media

Good vision here from Jay Lauf. Interestingly, Jay suggests that B2B publishing will become a service business to B2B pros, providing value directly to individuals and organizations. Static content is dying very quickly. This is the point of the analysis from this great media organization.

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