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Futuri Flags the Hidden Cost of Building AI In-House

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Futuri CEO Daniel Anstandig says building AI in-house means you’ve “volunteered to become a software company on the side,” and identifies four categories where those builds carry more risk than expected.

AUSTIN, Texas, Aug. 28, 2026 /PRNewswire/ —  Generative AI has collapsed the time required to build a convincing prototype, and with it the perceived cost of replacing purchased software with an internal build. Futuri’s caution to business leaders is that the prototype was never the expensive part: a demo assembled in days can quietly commit an organization to a product roadmap, a security and compliance program, an integration surface, a support and quality-assurance burden, and a usage-based cost curve it never priced. Futuri CEO and co-founder Daniel Anstandig examines the pattern in “The AI Build vs. Buy Trap: A Cautionary Tale for the AI Age.”

Anstandig reframes the decision around one question: Does this system deliver a capability essential to the company’s competitive advantage? Workflows built on proprietary data, unique customer relationships, specialized judgment, or a differentiated process can justify deep internal investment. Generic, regulated, or integration-heavy functions rarely do. “A master carpenter doesn’t show up to a job site and spend three days building a hammer,” he writes, warning that teams rebuilding a mature platform have not eliminated a subscription: “You haven’t replaced the software. You’ve volunteered to become a software company on the side.” The article names four categories that warrant additional scrutiny: project and operational coordination, financial operations and reporting, compliance-sensitive data infrastructure, and sales intelligence and data enablement.

He also highlights a budgeting problem specific to generative AI. A single user request can trigger multiple model calls to retrieve information, assemble context, validate results, and rank responses, making costs difficult to forecast as adoption grows and exposing the organization directly to future model-provider pricing changes. “When you buy a standard software subscription, your costs are predictable. AI doesn’t behave that way,” Anstandig writes. The larger risk in his telling is executive attention, which he calls one of the most expensive resources inside a company: “A Potemkin Village looks like innovation from the road. Your customers will eventually walk around back.”

The full analysis is available on Anstandig on the Future. For media companies, marketers, and AI leaders now fielding internal AI proposals from every department, it supplies a defensible basis for approving some and declining others without slowing the organization’s AI ambition. Futuri concentrates its own investment on software that makes experienced people faster, delivered through TopLine Enterprise.

About Daniel Anstandig: Daniel Anstandig is CEO and co-founder of Futuri, where he has spent more than 16 years building AI-powered technology that helps companies transform how they sell, create content, and make decisions. He is also the founder of SparkTrade.io and holds more than 25 patents spanning AI, automation, audio, public safety, and broadcast technology.

About Futuri: Futuri is a global leader in AI technology for sales enablement, data enablement, and content automation. Founded in 2009 and headquartered in Austin, Texas, Futuri is trusted by 7,000+ companies across 22 countries. Key solutions include TopLine sales intelligence, TopicPulse real-time content trends, Content Automation, AudioAI, SpotOn, and POST. Learn more at Futurimedia.com and Futuri.ai.

Full article: https://anstandig.substack.com/p/the-ai-build-vs-buy-trap-a-cautionary  |  Futuri TopLine: https://futuri.ai  |  Corporate: https://futurimedia.com

Media Contact: Fulani Clarke, Product Marketer, Futuri — marketing@futurimedia.com / 877-221-7979, ext. 155

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Parksy.com Free Driver Tools In One App: Fine Appeals, Sign Scanning, Car Finding and Crash Reports

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A fine under the wiper, a sign you cannot decode, a car you cannot find, a crash to document — Parksy built a free tool for each and skipped the invoice.

SYDNEY, Aug. 29, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — Parksy (parksy.com) has gathered its free driver tools into a single hub, and the collection reads like a list of the four worst moments of car ownership. A fine under the wiper. A sign you cannot decode. A car you cannot find. A crunch in a car park. The parking marketplace now offers a free tool for each, most of them usable without so much as an email address.

The AI-powered appeal calculator handles the fine. A driver describes what happened, and the tool identifies which grounds of appeal are worth arguing and helps draft the letter — while being candid when a ticket was fairly issued and not worth fighting. The sign scanner handles the pole of stacked restrictions: photograph it, and the tool answers whether you can park there and until when. The find-my-parked-car tool remembers what the multi-storey made you forget. And the car accident report walks a shaken driver through documenting a collision at the scene — photos, details, witnesses, a GPS-stamped location — then produces a PDF an insurer can use, working even without phone signal.

Founder Daniel Battaglia says the bundle is the strategy, not a loss leader that wandered off. “Every one of these tools exists because drivers kept hitting the same four walls. Other companies looked at those walls and saw four subscription products. We think the fastest way to be the platform drivers trust with parking is to be useful on the worst day they have with a car, and to not send an invoice afterwards.”

The tools sit alongside Parksy’s marketplace, where finding parking and listing a space are also free, with no commission taken from anyone. The company’s position is consistent to the point of stubbornness: across 57 countries, the platform does not charge for introductions, information or emergencies.

All four tools are available now at https://www.parksy.com/blog/free-driver-tools, with the wider platform website and apps (both IOS and Android).

“People assume there is a catch, and the catch is that there is no catch,” Battaglia said. “The tools are free because they should not cost anything. It is parking, not wizardry.”

About Parksy

Parksy (parksy.com) is a free, commission-free parking marketplace operating across 57 countries. Drivers use Parksy to find and book parking, appeal unfair fines with a free AI-powered calculator, scan confusing signage, locate a parked car, and report accidents — all at no cost and with no signup required for most tools. Space owners list and rent out driveways, garages and unused spots for free, with no commission and no lease paperwork. Parksy was founded in 2011 by Daniel Battaglia and is headquartered in Sydney, Australia.

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Founder & CEO, Parksy
parksy.com | daniel@parksy.com
linkedin.com/in/danielmbattaglia/
Previously: Lehman Brothers, RBC Capital Markets, Macquarie Bank
Author: Parking Made Easy — Making Life Easier

Press Contact: Daniel Battaglia, +61413118049, https://www.parksy.com/

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Runjian Co., Ltd. Showcases Token-as-a-Service and AI Innovations at AIMX Singapore 2026

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SINGAPORE, Aug. 30, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — AIMX Singapore 2026 has successfully concluded at Sands Expo & Convention Centre. Mr Tan Kiat How, Senior Minister of State, Ministry of Digital Development and Information, visited Runjian Co., Ltd.’s booth. As an official Platinum Partner of the event, Runjian focused firmly on Token overseas expansion, showcasing its Token-as-a-Service ecosystem layout across the ASEAN region under the theme “Token as a Service: Powering a Smarter ASEAN”.

At the exhibition, Runjian displayed a full lineup of innovative technological solutions covering multiple industry scenarios, including Wuxiang Cloud Valley Token Factory, Apollo 11 CEL enterprise platform, Lawer — ASEAN Legal AI Agent, Hanmate — Online Chinese Learning Platform, and iRun Renewable Energy Platform. The diversified product matrix fully demonstrates Runjian’s robust technical strength and practical application capabilities in core fields such as computing power service, green energy management, intelligent education, enterprise intelligent transformation and government digital governance. The innovative Token-driven technology system attracted extensive attention from global industry clients, developers and ecological partners, who conducted in-depth exchanges on ASEAN localized digital cooperation.

During the summit, Runjian delivered two influential keynote speeches at the main forum to share its overseas development layout. Athena Zhao, Vice President of Runjian Co. Ltd, elaborated on the innovative value of the Token-as-a-Service (TaaS) model in realizing inclusive and on-demand computing power services, helping Southeast Asian enterprises achieve efficient and cost-effective large-scale AI deployment. Meanwhile, Jake Yin, Vice President of the AI Business Group at Runjian Co. Ltd, shared the ontology-native advantages of the Apollo 11 platform, explaining how to help enterprises eliminate fragmented AI application pain points and build independent, controllable and continuously evolving proprietary intelligent systems.

Leveraging the high-end international platform of AIMX Singapore, Runjian actively connects global industrial resources to accelerate cross-border computing power circulation and Token overseas layout. Adhering to its unique regional development strategy, the company has set up overseas branches in Jakarta (Indonesia), Kuala Lumpur (Malaysia) and Thailand, with business coverage spanning all major ASEAN countries. Empowered by its solid local operational foundation, Runjian continues to deepen localized technological innovation and ecological cooperation across the ASEAN market. Moving forward, Runjian will join hands with global partners to build an open and win-win regional AI ecosystem, continuously empowering the high-quality development of the China-ASEAN digital economy.

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Annie Wang
marketing@runjian.com
18535579700

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Jukebox Expands Free Background Remover With 25MB Uploads, Free Image Upscaling and New Creative Effects

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Latest update adds larger uploads, built-in image upscaling, new filters, layered outlines and paper cutout effects.

VANCOUVER, BC, Aug. 29, 2026 /CNW/ — Jukebox Print has released a major update to its free online remove background tool, increasing the maximum upload size from 20MB to 25MB per image and adding built-in image upscaling along with a new collection of creative effects. The tool supports JPG, PNG and WebP files, allows up to 50 images to be uploaded at once, and remains free to use with no registration required.

The biggest addition is image upscaling directly inside the download workflow. Once a background has been removed and the image is finished, users can upscale the final image before downloading it, without moving the file into another application. Jukebox has also expanded its creative tools with new filters, layered outlines, custom strokes, gradient outlines, wavy and jagged edges, fades and paper cutout effects. Multiple outline layers can be stacked, reordered and adjusted individually for colour, thickness and style, giving users much more control over the finished cutout.

The update continues Jukebox’s move beyond basic background removal into a more complete creative image tool. Users can add text, mask images into shapes, apply shadows, use stock photography, upload their own backgrounds or create new backgrounds with AI. Finished cutouts can also be sent directly into the Jukebox Sticker Maker to continue designing and prepare artwork for custom sticker printing. With larger 25MB uploads, image upscaling and the expanded Effects 3.0 controls, this is the most powerful version of Jukebox’s background remover released to date.

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Jukebox Print is an online printing company serving customers around the world with premium printed products and free creative tools for businesses, designers and creators.

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