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LLM Invented a Detailed, Nonexistent Company Website

A measurement study of six Chinese LLM APIs found a model confidently describing a nonexistent localized corporate website (airtable.cn), including pricing in RMB and a China-specific privacy policy. The author logged 4,023 valid responses across the corpus, discovered the domain was registered to a private individual and returned HTTP 502, and observed that seven of eight tested brand .cn domains were not owned by the brands. To detect these operationally convincing hallucinations the author recommends lightweight predicate checks on extracted URLs, simple WHOIS/DNS/HTTP lookups, repeated phrasing checks (ask the same factual question multiple ways) and strict provenance metadata for every row. The harness and validation scripts are published under CC BY 4.0 on GitHub.

• The author ran a measurement harness against six Chinese LLM APIs and recorded 4,023 valid responses.
• GLM produced a confident, structured description claiming https://www.airtable.cn/ was Airtable's official China website.
• WHOIS and HTTP checks showed airtable.cn was registered to a private individual (since 2016) and the domain returned HTTP 502.

How to Be Funny in Marketing

This playbook-style newsletter explains why humor is a high-value marketing skill that remains difficult for AI to replicate. It outlines the psychological basis for humor (Benign Violation Theory), two golden rules for marketing humor (be specific to your audience; be surprising), and a practical step-by-step approach for testing and scaling funny content. The piece includes case studies and examples — Ahrefs’ Letaido (an AI tool) used to diagnose traffic drops, a viral LinkedIn 'Viral Post Generator' (2M+ users, acquired two weeks after launch), and Wiz’s April Fools’ 'CISOtopia' stunt (110k+ visitors and a 15–20% uplift to Wiz.io). It also lists high-impact marketing surfaces for humor (social, ads, email, 404s, careers pages, swag) and cautions about sensitive topics, punching down, and overuse.

• Ahrefs introduced Letaido, described as an AI tool that runs analyses using Ahrefs’ live data.
• Ahrefs’ CMO tested Letaido on a case where ClickUp’s blog lost 97.6% of its traffic.
• The author’s Viral Post Generator was used by more than 2 million people and was acquired two weeks after launching.

Wrike Announces Winners of Third Annual Elite 100 Awards

Wrike announces winners of its third annual Elite 100 Awards, recognizing top customers and partners.

Wrike launches Strategic Portfolio Management (SPM)

Wrike announced the launch of a Strategic Portfolio Management (SPM) solution, delivered in partnership with Shibumi, to connect high-level strategic planning with real-time operational execution. The offering—marketed as Wrike SPM—aims to give executives live visibility from boardroom decisions to ground-level delivery, reduce manual PMO reconciliation, and enable outcome-driven portfolio management. Key capabilities highlighted include connected planning, dynamic scenario modeling, and automated value realization. Wrike CPO Alexey Korotich and Shibumi CEO Bob Nahmias are quoted on the solution’s ability to close the gap between strategy and execution. The announcement (Business Wire via MarTech Series) notes strong early interest from enterprise customers and was published July 15, 2026.

• Wrike announced the launch of its Strategic Portfolio Management (SPM) solution.
• Wrike SPM is described as being powered by Shibumi.
• Alexey Korotich is named as Chief Product Officer at Wrike and is quoted about the product.

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