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Figma launches data residency in Japan

Figma strengthens data protection and security for enterprise customers with local data hosting.

Listrak Launches Studio to Turn Figma Designs into Emails

Listrak, a cross-channel personalization platform, has launched Listrak Studio, a new plugin for Figma that converts designs into ready-to-send emails within minutes. The tool eliminates the manual rebuild process between design and deployment by saving the emails directly into Listrak accounts, where they can be attached to campaigns. It features automatic content, image syncs, and design recommendations based on Listrak's email expertise, flagging issues like Gmail and iOS clipping before sending. This helps retailers accelerate their campaign launch times and reduce email build time by potentially over 250 hours per year.

• Listrak launched Listrak Studio, a plugin for Figma that converts designs into ready-to-send emails.
• The plugin eliminates manual rebuilding and the need for developers to translate designs into HTML.
• Emails are directly saved into Listrak accounts and can be attached to campaigns.

AI Needs Brand Context to Deliver Marketing Results

This article discusses how AI in marketing needs to be trained with brand-specific context, including past performance and strategy, to be effective. Sandeep Menon, CEO of Auxia, argues that AI tools must understand the unique approach of each company and the knowledge held by individual team members. Auxia offers an end-to-end agentic marketing platform with two products: Auxia Decisioning, which builds customer profiles for ad targeting, and Auxia Agent Studio, which uses AI agents for campaign optimization. The platform integrates with external tools like Figma and Salesforce, and is trained on a client's own data, ensuring data privacy. Menon sees AI adoption as an organizational change, not just a technology implementation, comparing it to the industrial revolution. He stresses that marketers need to restructure teams so humans focus on strategy and machines handle repetitive tasks.

• Auxia is a marketing orchestration platform that provides context and intelligence for AI.
• Auxia has two products: Auxia Decisioning and Auxia Agent Studio.
• Auxia Agent Studio was launched in August.

Replit Opens First International Office in London

Replit celebrated the opening of its first international office in London, joined by Mayor Sadiq Khan for a ribbon-cutting ceremony, marking the company's first outpost outside the United States.

Replit Opens First International Office in London

Replit celebrated the opening of its first international office in London, joined by Mayor Sadiq Khan for a ribbon-cutting ceremony, marking the company's first outpost outside the United States.

AI Failures Are Human, Not Technical: An Eight-Point Fix

This article argues that most AI project failures are not due to technology but to human and organizational issues. It outlines eight common problems: unclear user intent, mismatched tool selection (agent overuse), unmet user expectations, lack of oversight, insufficient context, imprecise language, missing evaluations, and undefined outcomes. Citing studies and incidents like the Replit database deletion, the author emphasizes the need for better human decisions in AI adoption. The piece provides an actionable checklist for each issue, focusing on intent-based design, appropriate tool usage, setting expectations, implementing least-privilege access, providing rich context, using structured prompts (CARE), establishing evaluation sets, and defining measurable outcomes.

• A 2025 MIT study found roughly 95% of generative AI pilots deliver no measurable impact.
• Gartner predicts over 40% of agentic AI projects will be canceled by end of 2027.
• Gartner estimates only about 130 of thousands of vendors claiming agentic capability are genuine.