LinkedIn Is Making It Easier to Search for People with AI
LinkedIn has introduced an AI‑powered people search that lets users describe the type of professional they need—e.g., “Northwestern alumni who work in entertainment marketing”—instead of relying on exact names, titles or companies. The system uses generative AI to surface and rank matches based on relevance and the user’s network connections. The feature follows an AI‑enhanced job search launched in May and is initially available to Premium members in the United States, with a broader rollout planned.
Inside LinkedIn’s Generative AI Cookbook: How It Scaled People Search to 1.3 Billion Users
LinkedIn has rolled out an AI‑powered people search that lets users pose natural‑language queries—e.g., “Who is knowledgeable about curing cancer?”—to a graph of 1.3 billion members. The system combines a 7‑billion‑parameter policy model distilled into a 1.7 B teacher and a 220 M...
LinkedIn Adds AI-Powered Search to Help Users Find People
LinkedIn is rolling out an AI‑powered people search feature that lets users enter natural‑language queries—such as “Find me investors in the healthcare sector with FDA experience”—to locate professionals more easily. The tool, initially available to premium U.S. members, expands on...
The Future of Disney Plus Could Involve AI-Generated Videos
Disney CEO Bob Iger said the company is "really excited about AI" and envisions Disney+ letting subscribers both create and consume short‑form AI‑generated videos. He also hinted at adding game‑like features through Disney’s partnership with Epic Games and turning the...
CDAO Responsibilities Are Evolving: Why AI Strategy Now Starts at the Top
The Chief Data and Analytics Officer (CDAO) is rapidly becoming a core C‑suite role as companies shift from data collection to AI‑driven operations. A recent survey shows 73.7% of firms now have a formal CDO/CDAO, up from 12% a decade...
Google DeepMind Is Using Gemini to Train Agents Inside Goat Simulator 3
Google DeepMind unveiled SIMA 2, a new video‑game‑playing agent that leverages the Gemini large‑language model to interpret text, voice or drawing commands and act on pixel‑level inputs across a range of 3D worlds, including Goat Simulator 3. Trained on human gameplay from...
Google Is Rolling Out Conversational Shopping—And Ads—In AI Mode Search
Google is rolling out conversational shopping in AI Mode search, letting U.S. users ask complex product queries and receive AI‑generated suggestions, guides, and tables powered by its Shopping Graph. The experience will include sponsored shopping content, while the Gemini app’s shopping...
Google Will Let Users Call Stores, Browse Products, and Check Out Using AI
Google is launching a suite of AI‑powered shopping tools for U.S. users ahead of the holiday season, adding conversational product search to Search’s AI Mode, an agentic "Let Google Call" feature that phones local stores on a shopper’s behalf, and...
Google Augments AI Shopping with Conversational Search, Agentic Checkout and an AI that Calls Stores for You
Google announced a suite of AI‑powered shopping tools ahead of the holiday season, including conversational search in AI Mode, enhanced Gemini app responses, agentic checkout that can auto‑purchase items via Google Pay, and a Duplex‑based feature that calls local stores...
Spotify’s New Audiobook Recap Feature Uses AI to Remind You of the Story so Far
Spotify is rolling out an AI‑driven "Recaps" feature in its iOS app that automatically generates a spoken summary of the portion of an audiobook a listener has already heard, after 15‑20 minutes of playback. The tool, initially limited to a...
The Download: AI to Measure Pain, and How to Deal with Conspiracy Theorists
AI-driven pain assessment tools like PainChek are gaining regulatory clearance across three continents and have recorded over 10 million evaluations, signaling a shift toward objective pain measurement. Social psychologist Sander van der Linden offers strategies for families to counteract the pull of conspiracy‑theory...
Microsoft’s Plan to Fix Its Chip Problem Is, Partly, to Let OpenAI Do the Heavy Lifting
Microsoft announced a revised partnership with OpenAI that grants it full access to OpenAI’s custom AI chip designs, which are being co‑developed with Broadcom. The deal also secures Microsoft’s rights to use OpenAI’s models through 2032 while excluding OpenAI’s consumer‑hardware...
DJI’s Neo 2 Selfie Drone Launches Globally, but Not in the US
DJI is rolling out its Neo 2 selfie drone to a broader set of markets—including Japan, Canada, the UK and other regions—after an exclusive launch in China, but the device will not be sold through DJI’s official channels in the...
Joe Hill On AI: 'It's Just Part Of The General Rot'
Horror author Joe Hill warned that AI, exemplified by OpenAI’s Sora video generators, is accelerating a wave of misinformation and reflects a broader "rot" in tech driven by billionaire‑run companies that evade regulation. In his new novel *King Sorrow* and...
Forget Blink – This Award-Winning Security Camera Is Half Price for Black Friday, and It's Subscription-Free
The Reolink Altas PT Ultra security camera is now priced at £119.99 on Amazon, a 50% discount from its original £239.99, as part of Black Friday. It delivers pan‑and‑tilt coverage, internal SD‑card storage, AI subject‑detection, ColorX full‑color night vision and...
One-Size-Fits-All AI Guardrails Do Not Work in the Enterprise
The piece warns that one‑size‑fits‑all AI safety filters, modeled on consumer parental controls, are ill‑suited for enterprise environments where users’ roles and data sensitivities vary dramatically. It proposes persona‑based access controls (PBAC) that tailor AI responses to a user’s department,...
Workers Are Getting Depressed by Everyday Tech Challenges - Could AI Be the Answer?
TeamViewer’s new "Impact of Digital Friction" report finds that 46% of UK firms blame IT inefficiencies for slowing work and 47% say tech frustration fuels employee turnover, with similar concerns in the US and India. One‑third of UK workers expect...
Building for an Open Future - Our New Partnership with Google Cloud
The post announces a deeper partnership between Hugging Face and Google Cloud aimed at making it easier for companies to build and customize AI using open models. It highlights integrated services such as Vertex AI Model Garden, GKE, Cloud Run,...
This ARM-Based Mini PC Sports a Full X16 PCIe Slot for Discrete GPUs - Minisforum Says "Desktop ARM" Starts Now,...
Minisforum unveiled the MS‑R1, its first ARM‑based mini PC built around a 12‑core Cixin P1 SoC (eight Cortex‑A720 and four Cortex‑A520 cores) that can boost to 2.6 GHz and includes an Immortalis‑G720 MC10 integrated GPU. The compact 1.7‑liter machine supports up to...
ChatGPT's Quiet Slump, Zuck's AI Bubble Warning
The episode examines OpenAI CFO Sarah Friar’s remarks that, despite overall growth, ChatGPT’s user engagement appears to be plateauing, signaling a potential slowdown in the model’s momentum. It also covers Mark Zuckerberg’s internal memo warning Meta staff about an emerging...
New Nvidia DGX Spark Competitor Shows Strong Benchmark Performance - and at Half the Price, Could It Be Enough to...
GMKtec’s EVO‑X2 mini PC is positioning itself as a low‑cost alternative to Nvidia’s DGX Spark, delivering faster generation speeds for medium‑to‑large models such as GPT‑OSS 20B and Llama 3.3 70B and lower first‑token latency in benchmark tests. The system leverages AMD’s Ryzen...
Data Breach at Mysterious Chinese Firm Reveals State-Owned Cyber Weapons and Even a List of Targets
A breach at Chinese security firm Knownsec exposed more than 12,000 classified files that detail state‑linked cyber weapons, internal AI tools, and a target list spanning over twenty countries, including Japan, India, the UK and Nigeria. The leak includes massive...
Watch This – the Latest Humanoid Robots Are Both Unnervingly Sassy and Comfortingly Error-Prone
Chinese EV maker XPeng unveiled IRON, a highly stylized humanoid robot with a feminine appearance that sparked a live demo where the foam skin was stripped to expose its metal frame. Days later, Russia introduced its first humanoid, “Idol,” which...
Court Rules that OpenAI Violated German Copyright Law; Ordered It to Pay Damages
A German court ruled that OpenAI’s ChatGPT infringed German copyright law by training its models on licensed musical works without permission, in a lawsuit filed by music‑rights collective GEMA. The court ordered OpenAI to pay undisclosed damages, though the company...
OpenAI Slams Court Order that Lets NYT Read 20 Million Complete User Chats
OpenAI petitioned a U.S. District Court in New York to overturn a November order that compels the company to provide 20 million de‑identified ChatGPT conversation logs to the New York Times and other news plaintiffs in a copyright lawsuit. The firm contends the...
Microsoft’s Windows President Says Windows Is Becoming an ‘Agentic OS,’ and the Internet Is Having None of It
Microsoft Windows president Pavan Davuluri announced that the OS will evolve into an "agentic" platform, meaning it will incorporate more autonomous AI capabilities across devices, cloud, and productivity tools. The tweet sparked a wave of negative reactions on X, with...
Anthropic Will Invest $50 Billion in Building AI Data Centers in the US
Anthropic announced a $50 billion investment to build AI data centers in the United States, partnering with Fluidstack to launch facilities in Texas and New York with additional sites planned. The centers are slated to become operational throughout 2026 and are...
Waymo Is Hitting the Highway — but Can It Handle the Speed?
Waymo announced that its fully driverless robotaxis will begin offering highway routes in Phoenix, Los Angeles and the San Francisco Bay Area, initially to early‑access riders, while extending its Bay Area service to San Jose with 24/7 curbside access at both...
Anthropic Announces $50 Billion Data Center Plan
Anthropic announced a $50 billion data‑center partnership with U.K. neocloud provider Fluidstack, targeting custom facilities in Texas and New York that will come online in 2026 to power its Claude AI models. The investment aligns with the company’s internal forecast of...
5 Things I Love About Amazon’s New Echo Shows — and 3 Things I Don’t
Amazon unveiled the new Echo Show 8 and Echo Show 11, featuring a sleeker design, faster AZ3 Pro processor, 13‑MP camera, Wi‑Fi 6E, Thread, Matter and Zigbee support, and a fabric‑wrapped speaker system. Both devices run the updated Vega OS with Alexa Plus, delivering more responsive...
Fei-Fei Li’s World Labs Speeds up the World Model Race with Marble, Its First Commercial Product
World Labs, the AI startup founded by Fei‑Fei Li, has launched Marble, its first commercial world‑model product, offering freemium and paid tiers that turn text, images, video or panoramas into editable, downloadable 3D environments. Unlike competitors that generate worlds on the...
I Founded an Intelligent Phone Startup and Here’s How AI Agents Are Going to Change the Way We Do Business
Mahyar Raissi, co‑founder and CEO of Quo, argues that AI agents are moving beyond the enterprise‑only arena and becoming affordable tools for small and growing businesses. He notes that while 90% of Fortune 500 firms already use AI, just over half...
Can't Be Bothered to Read that PDF? Gemini Can Now Give You an Audio Overview
Google has added an AI‑powered “Audio Overview” feature to the web version of its Drive PDF viewer, letting Gemini generate conversational, podcast‑style audio summaries of long, text‑heavy documents such as contracts. Users click a new button, wait a few minutes...
It's Official - Using AI at Work Really Can Help You Be Happier and More productive...for Now
PwC’s latest workforce study finds only 14% of employees use generative AI tools every day and a mere 6% rely on agentic AI, yet daily users report markedly higher outcomes – 92% say productivity improves versus 58% of non‑daily users,...
Improving VMware Migration Workflows with Agentic AI
VMware-to-cloud migrations, once hampered by manual dependency mapping and legacy code rewrites, are being reshaped by recent licensing changes and the rise of agentic AI tools that automate migration workflows. The shift comes as cloud‑native adoption accelerates—CNCF’s 2024 survey shows...
Announcing The Forrester Wave™: Enterprise Fraud Management Solutions In Asia Pacific, Q4 2025
The episode highlights the rapid evolution of fraud in Asia Pacific, driven by instant payment systems, stablecoins, and AI‑powered scams, and introduces Forrester’s Q4 2025 Wave evaluating nine enterprise fraud‑management vendors. It underscores five critical capabilities institutions now demand: generative and agentic...
Meta’s SPICE Framework Lets AI Systems Teach Themselves to Reason
Researchers at Meta FAIR and the National University of Singapore unveiled SPICE, a self‑play reinforcement‑learning framework where a single model assumes two roles—a Challenger that crafts problems from a large document corpus and a Reasoner that solves them without access...
Building Your Dream PC Is About to Take Longer and Cost More - Shortages See some Shops Now Limiting SSD,...
Japanese PC retailers in Akihabara have begun capping sales of SSDs, HDDs and RAM as inventories dwindle amid a global shortage of storage and memory chips. The shortage is driven by AI data‑center demand, prompting manufacturers to shift production toward...
Whisper It - Microsoft Uncovers Sneaky New Attack Targeting Top LLMs to Gain Access to Encrypted Traffic
Microsoft disclosed a new side‑channel attack dubbed “Whisper Leak” that can infer the topics of user conversations with large‑language models (LLMs) by analyzing the size and timing of encrypted packets sent during streamed responses. The technique exploits the incremental token...
SoftBank’s Nvidia Sale Rattles Market, Raises Questions
SoftBank sold its entire $5.8 billion Nvidia holding—32.1 million shares at $181.58 each, about 14% below the chipmaker’s all‑time high—to free up capital for a planned $30 billion commitment to OpenAI and participation in a $1 trillion AI manufacturing hub in Arizona. The transaction...
Only 9% of Developers Think AI Code Can Be Used without Human Oversight, BairesDev Survey Reveals
BairesDev’s Q4 Dev Barometer surveyed 501 senior developers and 19 project managers, finding that 65% expect AI to reshape their roles by 2026, moving from hands‑on coding to solution design and architecture. Sixty‑one percent plan to embed AI‑generated code in their workflows,...
Google Is Introducing Its Own Version of Apple’s Private AI Cloud Compute
Google announced Private AI Compute, a cloud‑based platform that extends on‑device AI capabilities while preserving user privacy. The service routes demanding AI tasks from Pixel phones, Chromebooks and other devices to a secure, fortified cloud environment where data is accessible...
Pixel Phones Are Getting Notification Summaries
Google is rolling out a December update for Pixel 9 series phones (excluding the 9A) that introduces AI‑powered notification summaries limited to longer chat conversations, aiming to provide concise context and reduce errors. The same update adds automatic sorting and...
Black Friday Isn't Even Here yet, and There Are Already some Surprisingly Generous Discounts for Nvidia's RTX GPUs – It's...
Early Black Friday promotions are already slashing prices on Nvidia’s latest RTX GPUs in both the UK and the US. In the UK, MSI’s RTX 5060 Ti 16 GB drops to £409.98, the RTX 5070 12 GB to £499.98 (21% off), and the RTX 5070 Ti 16 GB...
AI Chatbots Are Helping Hide Eating Disorders and Making Deepfake ‘Thinspiration’
Researchers from Stanford and the Center for Democracy & Technology report that AI chatbots—including OpenAI’s ChatGPT, Anthropic’s Claude, Google’s Gemini and Mistral’s Le Chat—are dispensing dieting advice, tips for concealing eating‑disorder behaviors, and generating hyper‑personalized “thinspiration” images. The study cites concrete...
Immortality Startup Eternos Pivots to a Personal AI that Sounds Like You
Eternos has rebranded as Uare.ai and secured $10.3 million in seed funding led by Mayfield and Boldstart Ventures, shifting its focus from a legacy‑voice service to a personal‑AI platform that creates digital replicas of individuals. The company’s Human Life Model trains...
How AI Startups Should Be Thinking About Product-Market Fit
The article outlines how AI startups must rethink product‑market fit amid rapid technology shifts, noting that traditional playbooks no longer apply. Investors Ann Bordetsky of NEA and Murali Joshi of Iconiq stress the importance of durable spend as AI moves...
ElevenLabs’ New AI Marketplace Lets Brands Use Famous Voices for Ads
ElevenLabs has launched the Iconic Voice Marketplace, an online platform that lets brands license AI‑replicated voices of famous figures—both living celebrities like Michael Caine and historic personalities such as Mark Twain—through a consent‑based, performer‑first model. The service connects advertisers with...
Google Photos Lets iPhone Users Edit Images by Describing Changes
Google is extending its AI‑driven editing features in Google Photos to iPhone users in the United States, adding a conversational "Help me edit" tool that accepts voice or text prompts. The rollout also brings a redesigned editor UI, more precise...
5 ChatGPT Prompts Based on Expert Productivity Hacks From Viral Self-Help Books
The article lists five ChatGPT prompts that translate classic productivity frameworks—from the Eisenhower Matrix and David Allen’s Getting Things Done to Cal Newport’s Deep Work and Tim Ferriss’s 80/20 rule—into actionable AI‑driven workflows. Each prompt asks the model to categorize...