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Weekly roundup

Planes, trains, and ChatGPT

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VML Intelligence

Here are ten headlines that caught our eye this week.

  • Virgin Atlantic will fly the first ever Transatlantic flight with net-zero emissions, via Condé Nast Traveler.
  • Tech companies are racing to make retail stores as measurable as websites, via Modern Retail.
  • Maybelline enlists its first-ever digital avatar for mascara launch, via Marketing Dive.
  • The Washington Post is offering a subscription bundle with Headspace, via Digiday.
  • Microsoft brings an AI-powered copilot to its business app suite, via TechCrunch.
  • Home Depot takes kids workshops to the metaverse on Roblox, via Marketing Dive.
  • Is ChatGPT coming for your kitchen? via Eater.
  • Tweet Tweet, pass: Twitter unlocks a budding growth opportunity for cannabis startups, via TechCrunch.
  • How hydrogen-powered passenger trains are transforming rail travel, via Condé Nast Traveler.
  • QVC boosts adaptive, accessible product offerings, via WWD.

Main image of Home Depot on Roblox, courtesy of Twitter.

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