Chaos and Lies: Why Sam Altman Was Booted From OpenAI, According to New Testimony
New deposition testimony from OpenAI co‑founder Ilya Sutskever, part of Elon Musk’s lawsuit, details why Sam Altman was briefly ousted in November 2023. Sutskever alleges Altman repeatedly lied to the board, pitted senior executives against each other, gave conflicting information about company strategy, and concealed conflicts such as his ownership of an OpenAI startup fund. He submitted a 52‑page memo with screenshots and emails to board members, citing toxic behavior that mirrored earlier issues at Y Combinator and brief merger talks with Anthropic. Although the board later reaffirmed Altman and Greg Brockman as leaders, the testimony underscores deep governance disputes within the AI pioneer.
Emotionally Intelligent AI Support Scales Enterprise Customer Service
Giga (@gigaml) is building the next generation of customer support — real-time AI agents that can understand emotion, resolve issues instantly, and scale across the world’s largest enterprises. The team recently raised $61M to power emotionally intelligent, human-quality conversations at enterprise...
Deepnote Open‑Sources Modern Notebook, Challenging Jupyter’s Dominance
This is BIG. Deepnote, a company I’ve followed and used since its creation, just OPEN-SOURCED their modern notebook framework 🔥 And honestly, this could be the final chapter for Jupyter. After 7 years of development, @DeepnoteHQ has built something that redefines the notebook...
Why Data Sovereignty Is Essential to Help Businesses Prepare for Impending AI Regulation
The EU AI Act, set to take effect in August 2026, imposes a risk‑based framework that requires companies using AI in the bloc to ensure transparency, verification and human oversight, with heavy penalties for non‑compliance. Data sovereignty—keeping data subject to the...
You Can Hide From a Lot of Things as a Founder. Cash Burn Isn’t One of Them.
Jason Lemkin warns founders that while many operational issues can be postponed, cash burn is unforgiving and must be faced head‑on. He stresses calculating true runway using actual burn, adding a substantial buffer, and making decisive, deep cuts early rather...
impact.com’s Global State of Affiliate Marketing Report Shows Sharp Rise in Partnerships Driving Long-Term Value and Growth
impact.com’s Global State of Affiliate Marketing 2025 report, based on a survey of 818 marketers across eight countries, shows a sharp increase in affiliate spend as 74% of brands raised budgets amid rising costs in other channels. One‑third of brands...
Your Ring Camera Is About to Get Smarter with Single Event Alert – and It Should Mean Fewer Notifications
Ring announced an AI‑powered Single Event Alert that bundles multiple motion notifications from the same occurrence into a single push, aiming to curb the “notification fatigue” many users experience. The feature can recognize repeated activity—such as a child playing or...
8×8 Sees Surge in AI Adoption as Organizations Race to Deliver Faster, Smarter Customer Engagement
8×8, Inc. reported a strong surge in AI adoption on its Platform for CX in Q2 FY26, with Intelligent Customer Assistant contracts rising 59% year‑over‑year and AI‑driven interactions climbing 167% YoY, driven by a 592% jump in voice AI usage....
Viant Expands Direct Access in CTV with Magnite SpringServe Integration
Viant Technology announced that its Direct Access program now integrates directly with Magnite’s SpringServe video ad server, giving advertisers a transparent, direct‑to‑publisher path for premium CTV inventory. The integration removes non‑value‑added intermediaries, promising faster decisioning, higher efficiency and better performance...
Letterboxd Is Down – Here's Everything We Know About the Movie App's Outage
Letterboxd experienced a global outage beginning around 7:20 am ET on 6 Nov 2025, rendering both its app and website inaccessible and prompting over 600 user reports on Downdetector. The disruption coincided with the company’s annual 20%‑off Pro/Patron subscription sale running through 7 Nov,...
10 Questions to Ask Before You Hire a Marketing Agency, Consultant, or Fractional CMO
Sara Nay outlines ten essential questions small businesses should ask before hiring a marketing agency, consultant, or fractional CMO, emphasizing transparency, data ownership, and strategic alignment over vanity metrics. She highlights red flags such as lack of account control, unclear...
Cameroon Social Media Ban Sees Proton VPN Signups Skyrocket by 3,000%
Cameroon authorities blocked TikTok, YouTube, Facebook, Telegram and other platforms on Oct. 23 amid post‑election protests, prompting a 3,000% spike in new Proton VPN sign‑ups from the country. The Swiss‑based provider recorded Cameroon among its top five markets for free...
The Challenge of Authentic Selling with Kunick Kapadia
In a Predictable Revenue Podcast episode, Anova co‑founder Kunick Kapadia stresses that product‑market fit is earned through rigorous validation before any build, with founder‑led sales of the first $1 million serving as the primary learning engine. He frames PMF as a...
The New Rules of Sales Conversations: Winning Over Today’s Informed Buyer
Chris Orlob explains that sales conversations have fundamentally changed as buyers arrive already educated, forcing salespeople to shift from information‑delivery to consultative, value‑creating roles and to engage prospects across multiple channels. He outlines three key evolutions: a cultural shift toward...
RAG Boosts Memory, Fine‑tuning Sharpens Judgment
Most people still confuse RAG and fine-tuning — and it’s costing them weeks of wasted effort. Here’s the simple truth: RAG gives your model better memory. Fine-tuning gives it better judgment. RAG connects your model to an external brain so it can retrieve...
Inception Raises $50M to Power Diffusion LLMs, Increasing LLM Speed and Efficiency by up to 10X and Unlocking Real-Time, Accessible...
Inception announced a $50 million Series round led by Menlo Ventures and backed by investors including Mayfield, NVIDIA Ventures, Microsoft’s M12, Snowflake Ventures and Databricks. The funding will accelerate development of its diffusion large language models (dLLMs), which claim 5‑10× faster...
Runway CEO Cristobal Valenzuela Is Simulating the World
Ellis and Alex open with a discussion about the Sources launch party and the challenges of late-stage extractionism before bringing on Runway CEO Cristobal Valenzuela. Valenzuela explains that the toughest hurdle in AI is aligning massive world models with human...
6 Steps to Writing Emails that Get Opened and Acted On
Joe Cunningham outlines a six‑step process for crafting emails that achieve higher open and response rates, emphasizing the need for a single clear objective, defined performance metrics, and a detailed brief covering both operational logistics and messaging. He advises using...
MarketFully Strengthens Global Position in InContent Marketing with Further Brand Consolidation and Launch of MarketFully.AI
MarketFully announced a strategic brand consolidation that unifies Key Content, MotionPoint and the former GetGloby technology under the master brand MarketFully, and introduced MarketFully.AI as its proprietary multilingual content marketing platform. The new solution combines managed multilingual services from Key...
Foursquare’s Founder Launches a New App that Talks to You About Your Neighborhood
Dennis Crowley, co‑founder of Foursquare, has launched BeeBot, an AI‑powered iOS app that delivers short, location‑based audio updates through headphones, acting like a personalized radio DJ that tells users about nearby friends, events and local news. The app activates automatically...
Gamification Has Promise and Pitfalls
Gamification offers potential for influencing behavior but must be applied judiciously, warns marketing technologist Steve Petersen. He cautions against deploying all gamification elements—points, badges, leaderboards, activity loops—at once because it obscures impact measurement and can erode stakeholder confidence. Petersen highlights...
Google Debuts AI Chips with 4X Performance Boost, Secures Anthropic Megadeal Worth Billions
Google Cloud unveiled its seventh‑generation Tensor Processing Unit, Ironwood, which offers more than four‑times the training and inference performance of the previous generation and scales to pods of 9,216 chips with 1.77 petabytes of high‑bandwidth memory and optical circuit‑switching. Anthropic announced...
Master AEO: Practical Strategies Beyond Traditional SEO
Want to learn the new art and science of AEO (AI/Answer Engine Optimization) and how it differs from classic SEO? Join me and Chris Andrew, co-founder and CEO of Scrunch AI, for a deep dive into the questions you have —...
AI-Driven Sperm Analysis Achieves First Successful Pregnancy
AI-Guided Sperm Analysis Results In First Successful Pregnancy. A significant advancement in fertility treatment has been achieved. https://t.co/AvMH0zctBv #AI #fertilization #healthTech #technews #technology #Innovation
Shippeo Launches Shippeo AI, Turning Trusted Visibility Into Instant, Intelligent Action
Shippeo unveiled Shippeo AI, an intelligent layer embedded in its real‑time transportation visibility platform, offering Sidekick for quick answers and Workspace for deep analysis via a library of AI agents that deliver instant shipment status and root‑cause diagnostics. At the...
Live in 4 Minutes: Meet TinySeed’s Newest Startups
Going live in 4 minutes announcing the newest batch of TinySeed companies 🔥👇🏼
Fresh, Consistent Content Drives ChatGPT Ranking Success
Freshness and consistency matter for ChatGPT rankings. 95% of cited answers are updated within 12 months. Keep your brand sentiment positive and publish regularly to stay on top. https://t.co/Ye6UEq9BHK
4 Essential Tips to Maximize Holiday Inbox Placement by Campaign Monitor
Campaign Monitor’s November 6 article outlines four tactics for email marketers to preserve inbox placement during the holiday surge, emphasizing a clear grasp of deliverability stages, the importance of a strong sender reputation, and consistent sending practices. It advises maintaining...
AI Redefines Transportation: New Business Models & Sustainability
AI is transforming transportation — from fleets & logistics to smart cities & customer experience. For CEOs & tech leaders, it’s more than efficiency: it’s a chance to reinvent business models & drive sustainability. Read my latest article 👉 https://t.co/tDyanilzKB by @ingliguori #AI...
AI Property Manager Automates 24/7 Maintenance for Landlords
Brickwise (@brickwise_ai) is an AI property manager that automates maintenance for landlords and estate agents. It handles tenant calls and messages 24/7, following up by chasing contractors and resolving payments. https://t.co/rwDE5KIXIh https://t.co/TdNiIugbSQ
Google Maps Upgrades Navigation in India with Gemini, Safety Alerts
Google is rolling out its Gemini AI-powered assistant to Google Maps in India, supporting nine local languages and offering hands‑free, contextual navigation. The update adds safety alerts for accident‑prone stretches, real‑time road‑closure data from the National Highways Authority, and speed‑limit...
From 75 Rejections to $30M: Scaling AI‑Native FP&A
🎙️ New on The SaaS CFO Podcast: My chat with Albert Gozzi, Co-founder & CEO of Aleph! From 75 investor “no’s” to a $30M Series B — Albert shares lessons on scaling, fundraising, and building an AI-native FP&A platform. Watch here 👇 https://t.co/m2e1J4iN7U #SaaS...
Enterprise Firewall Shields MCPs From Data Leaks
https://t.co/IHevG4tF0w is the enterprise firewall for MCP providers. It protects your MCP from exposing malicious or sensitive data—blocking prompt injections, PII leaks, and credential exposure before they reach customer agents. https://t.co/oI0kKq2YWy https://t.co/AoAL40daZm
Pulumi Introduces AI-Powered Automatic Remediation for Infrastructure Policy Violations
Pulumi unveiled AI‑driven automatic remediation for infrastructure policy violations through its Pulumi Neo offering, adding configurable guardrails and approval workflows that can automatically generate and apply IaC fixes. The capability targets the massive backlog of compliance breaches—often exceeding 100,000 per organization—by...
Perplexity to Pay Snap $400M to Power Search in Snapchat
Snap announced a $400 million cash‑and‑equity deal with Perplexity to embed the startup’s AI search engine into Snapchat’s My AI chatbot, giving Perplexity access to Snap’s 940 million‑plus user base. The feature is slated for rollout early next year, with Snap beginning to...
OpenAI Says It Has over a Million Business Customers Using ChatGPT - and It Isn't Stopping There
OpenAI announced it has surpassed one million paying business customers worldwide, calling it the fastest‑growing business platform in history. The clientele spans finance, healthcare, retail and more, with notable use cases such as Indeed’s AI‑driven hiring boost (20% more applications, 13%...
Using Evergreen Content to Its Full Potential: Strategies From Actual SEO Media, Inc.
Actual SEO Media, Inc. outlines how evergreen content remains a cornerstone of long‑term SEO despite AI‑driven SERP changes and frequent core algorithm updates. The piece highlights evergreen formats—how‑to guides, FAQs, and tutorials—as drivers of sustained organic traffic, long‑tail keyword capture,...
Quarter of AI Users to Pilot Agentic Tech by 2025
🧩 Northeastern University: 25% of generative-AI users will pilot agentic AI in 2025; adoption will double by 2027; embedding responsible governance is crucial. #ResponsibleAI #AgenticAI #IoT #5G https://t.co/p5WZF99HpJ https://t.co/ETAsDQViT5
Meet Snowflake Intelligence: A Personalized Enterprise Intelligence Agent with Sridhar Ramaswamy
Snowflake is shifting from a pure data‑warehouse model to an AI‑first strategy with Snowflake Intelligence, an enterprise‑wide agent platform that puts AI assistants in the hands of every employee, not just data teams. In a podcast with CEO Sridhar Ramaswamy,...
Microsoft Apologizes to 365 Users over Confusing Software Tiers
Microsoft apologized to customers in six APAC countries after the Australian Competition & Consumer Commission sued the firm for steering Microsoft 365 users toward pricier Copilot‑enabled plans without clearly presenting the cheaper Classic option. The company admitted its communications could have...
AI Co‑pilot Instantly Revamps Your Slides
Still stuck tweaking slides in PowerPoint? Time to move on. @GammaApp just launched `Gamma Agent`: an AI co-pilot that researches, rewrites, and redesigns your content in real time 🔥 Like having a co-creator who never slows down. Here's why it's great! 🧵↓ https://t.co/LrRlk707FW
SonicWall Blames State Hackers for Damaging Data Breach
SonicWall confirmed that a state‑sponsored threat actor accessed its MySonicWall cloud backup service via an API call, compromising backup files for up to 500,000 customers worldwide. The breach, initially reported as affecting fewer than 5% of clients, was later said...
How to Establish Thought Leadership on YouTube
In this episode, host Michael Stelzner and guest Amy Landino explore how creators can build thought leadership on YouTube using the Four P's framework—Purpose, Positioning, Production, and Promotion. Landino shares practical tactics for turning expertise into long‑form video content that...
Impact Soccer, New Jersey Crush Transform Player Development With AI-Powered Video Analysis
Impact Soccer announced that its AI-driven video analysis platform, paired with the Xbot lightweight camera, helped New Jersey Crush FC cut annual video analysis costs by 56% while boosting player engagement and coaching efficiency. The club now uploads match footage...
Why It's Now so Hip to Go Analog and How AI Is the Antithesis of That
The article notes a cultural resurgence of analog media—cassette tapes, disposable cameras, rotary phones—as a reaction against AI‑generated content, arguing that AI’s polished, inoffensive output lacks the texture, mistakes, and humanity that make art memorable. It contrasts AI’s speed and...
Data Is the New Geopolitical Fault Line
Data is increasingly being treated as a strategic, monetizable asset that shapes national strategy, economic growth, and AI capability, prompting governments, AI firms, and enterprises to seek controlled access. Companies that succeed adopt a product‑mindset, offer variable consumption models, abstract...
Catsy Launches First AI-Powered PIM Software with Real-Time Content Generation
Catsy unveiled the first AI‑powered Product Information Management (PIM) platform that generates SEO‑optimized, conversion‑focused product descriptions in real time, leveraging computer‑vision extraction and multilingual localization across 95+ languages. The system claims 40‑70% lift in conversion rates and more than 200%...
LLMs Communicate Directly via Neural Caches, Boosting Speed
LLMs can now talk to each other without using words. Tsinghua University’s Cache-to-Cache (C2C) links models via their neural caches, eliminating the need for token-by-token generation 🤯 The result: faster, richer, and more accurate reasoning between LLMs. Paper in 🧵↓ https://t.co/loxrdy2wgb
Augmentir’s True Productivity™ Surpasses 5 Million AI-Optimized Time & Motion Studies
Augmentir announced that its True Productivity™ algorithm has completed over 5 million AI‑optimized time‑and‑motion studies since its 2019 launch, now supporting more than 30,000 processes across 70 countries and delivering 150,000 studies each month. The platform filters out up to 30% noisy...
Bluehost Strengthens Global Web-Hosting Platform with the Power of Oracle Cloud Infrastructure for SMBs
Bluehost Group announced that it has migrated nearly a million small‑business customers to Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI), delivering 4‑5× faster median response times and enterprise‑grade scalability. The move, slated for full completion in 2026, promises up to 30% lower cost‑per‑customer,...