News•Nov 20, 2025
How to Turn Off AI in the Apps You Use Every Day
TechRadar contributor Becca Caddy outlines how users can limit or disable AI-driven features across a range of popular platforms, from Pinterest and Google Search to Gmail, Android, iOS, Samsung Galaxy, Microsoft Copilot, and Facebook. The guide provides step‑by‑step instructions for turning off specific AI functions such as GenAI interests, Google Gemini, Apple Intelligence, and Copilot, while noting that many services only reduce rather than fully eliminate AI content. It also advises checking privacy or personalization settings when dedicated AI toggles are absent. The article highlights the growing demand for user choice as AI becomes embedded in everyday digital experiences.
By TechRadar
Social•Nov 20, 2025
Nano Banana Pro Delivers Studio-Quality Images with Text and Knowledge
Rolling out today we are launching Nano Banana Pro, the world’s best image model built to move beyond casual creation and into a new era of studio-quality, functional design. Nano Banana Pro enables a new level of precision and creative...
By Google AI
Social•Nov 20, 2025
Small Design Details Make Product Websites Instantly Clear
Cursor Head of Design Ryo Lu (@ryolu_) has spent his career at the intersection of design and engineering—from building fan sites as a kid to designing products at Stripe, Asana, and Notion. Now he's rethinking how software itself gets made. On...
By YCombinator
News•Nov 20, 2025
Google’s Nano Banana AI Image Model Goes Pro and Is Free to Try
Google has launched Nano Banana Pro, an upgraded image generation and editing model built on Gemini 3 Pro, now available for free trial worldwide through the Gemini app’s “Create image” feature. The model can blend up to 14 images, render...
By The Verge AI
Social•Nov 20, 2025
Ultra‑short Subject Lines Boost Open Rates by 25%
NEW test for you! Try a super short subject line with NO preheader. Jay Schwedelson says new GURU Media Hub research shows increased open rates of 25%+ with this approach. Why does it work? It triggers The Von Restorff Effect: things that stand...
By Nancy Harhut
News•Nov 20, 2025
As Its Voice Dictation App Takes Off, Wispr Secures $25M From Notable Capital
Voice‑AI startup Wispr raised an additional $25 million in a round led by Notable Capital, bringing its total funding to $81 million after a $30 million round in June. Its dictation app Wispr Flow, now used by 125 enterprise customers including 270 Fortune 500...
By TechCrunch Apps
News•Nov 20, 2025
Google Gemini Is Getting Better at Identifying AI Fakes
Google announced that Gemini can now identify whether an image was created or edited by a Google AI tool, letting users ask “Is this AI-generated?” within the app. The feature initially supports only images using Google’s SynthID watermark, but Google...
By The Verge AI
News•Nov 20, 2025
How Cloud-Based Technology Is Helping Contact Centers Cut Carbon Emissions
Cloud‑based contact‑center‑as‑a‑service (CCaaS) enables firms to replace on‑premises PBXs, servers and office space with virtualized infrastructure hosted in optimized data centres, cutting energy use and e‑waste. The biggest emissions reduction comes from allowing agents to work remotely, eliminating most commuting...
By TechRadar
News•Nov 20, 2025
Align Your Files Forever, Not Just for Black Friday - This Sync.com Lifetime Deal Gets You 50% Off for Life
Sync.com is offering a Black Friday promotion that slashes subscription prices by 50% for life across its four cloud‑storage plans—1 TB, 5 TB, Pro Solo Unlimited, and Teams Unlimited. The discounted rates run from $72 for 1 TB (down from $144) to $270...
By TechRadar
Social•Nov 20, 2025
VLLM Cuts Memory Waste, Boosts LLM Inference Speed
📢 vLLM: Deploying LLMs at Scale Like OpenAI 🚀Want to Deploy LLMs or vision language models at scale? Discover vLLM, the open-source powerhouse that's transforming inference with PagedAttention, continuous batching, and more! In this short article, we unpack how vLLM slashes memory...
By Satya Mallick
Social•Nov 20, 2025
Partner Ecosystems Overperform yet Remain an Underappreciated Opportunity
Reading through Norwest's 2025 B2B Sales & Marketing Benchmark Report, I found these stats on partners' impact in sales outreach and marketing-sourced opportunities encouraging. Aligns with Kyle Poyar's findings earlier this month about ecosystem GTM as a "next big...
By Scott Brinker
News•Nov 20, 2025
Designing Digital Resilience in the Agentic AI Era
Enterprises are confronting a heightened need for digital resilience as agentic AI—autonomous systems that plan, reason, and act with minimal human input—moves from pilot projects to core operations. The technology’s speed, scale, and reliance on real‑time machine data (logs, metrics,...
By MIT Technology Review
Social•Nov 20, 2025
Brief Summary: Key Points at a Glance
TL; DR ------ Run 10→5→2: list 10 buyer questions, choose 5, focus on two priorities. Ship two lite pages now—plain-English answers your sales team can send to buyers today. Keep it simple: one link, one...
By Gini Dietrich
News•Nov 20, 2025
Salesforce Adds Observability to Agentforce, Aiming to Boost AI Performance and Trust
Salesforce announced an observability suite for its Agentforce 360 Platform, giving enterprises real‑time insight into AI agent performance through Agent Analytics, Agent Optimization, and Health Monitoring tools. Built on the Session Tracing Data Model and delivered via Agentforce Studio, the...
By MarTech
Social•Nov 20, 2025
Choosing the Right AI Pricing Model Drives Profitability
I thought there'd be consensus on how to monetize AI by now. I was (mostly) wrong. There's outcome-based pricing (see: Intercom, Crescendo, Chargeflow), credit pricing (see: Salesforce, Lovable), work-based pricing (see: Imagen, EvenUp), hybrid pricing (see: Monday, Clay), and lots more. The...
By Kyle Poyar
Podcast•Nov 20, 2025•0 min
Slack Founder: Mental Models for Building Products People Love Ft. Stewart Butterfield
In this episode, Stewart Butterfield shares the mental models that guided Slack’s rise, including utility curves for prioritizing impact, the “owner’s delusion” for fostering deep product empathy, and hyper‑realistic work‑like activities to keep teams focused. He emphasizes simplicity (“don’t make me...
By Lenny Rachitsky
Social•Nov 20, 2025
VLMs Hallucinate when Text Dominates over Visual Grounding
What if your vision language model isn’t actually seeing… but mostly guessing from text? 👀 @AICoffeeBreak explains it perfectly: when VLMs rely too heavily on text, they start hallucinating answers based on the most common phrasing in their training data instead...
By Louis Bouchard
Podcast•Nov 20, 2025•32 min
AI and the Law: How AI Will Change Legal Careers (Special Episode)
In this special episode, host Dan Turchin explores how AI is transforming the legal profession, covering ownership of AI‑generated work, accountability for automated decisions, and the need for robust governance in law firms. Insights from five experts—including IP specialist Robert...
By AI and the Future of Work
News•Nov 20, 2025
Dyad Launches New AI Capabilities to Streamline Email and Document Processing for MGAs, Wholesalers, and Program Admins
Dyad announced two AI-driven enhancements to its ALIS DX platform: an Email Triage Agent that automatically categorizes and routes incoming emails to the appropriate policy or workflow, and an Extractor that uses intelligent character recognition to capture structured data from PDFs,...
By MarTech Series
Social•Nov 20, 2025
Google's Gemini 3 Puts Google Ahead of AI Frontier
Gemini 3 is here and for the first time in years, Google is not chasing the frontier... it *is* the frontier. In the last 48h, Google has leapfrogged all the other frontier models. And that's not all: Nearly half of...
By Cassie Kozyrkov
Blog•Nov 20, 2025
Crunchbase: We’re At The Highest Level of Unicorn Production in 3+ Years
Jason Lemkin reports that October 2025 saw the highest influx of unicorns in over three years, with 20 new companies adding $44.5 billion in valuation, signaling a resurgence driven by AI‑native startups. He explains that while overall funding is normalizing to...
By SaaStr
News•Nov 20, 2025
Unitel Voice: Unlock a Business-Ready Virtual Phone System in Minutes
Douglas Karr highlights Unitel Voice as a plug‑and‑play virtual phone system that lets small‑business owners set up a professional, mobile‑ready phone presence without any IT expertise. The platform bundles essential features—auto attendant, call routing, voicemail transcription, team messaging, and more—through...
By Martech Zone Interviews
Social•Nov 20, 2025
Close the Context Gap: Pitch Premise, Not Idea
If you pitch events to speak, beware the Context Gap. It kills your chances. The Context Gap is what happens when you pitch something YOU know is worthy, obvious, unique (your ideas, your talk, yourself) but THEY don't see it that...
By Jay Acunzo
News•Nov 20, 2025
Trump Administration Wants to Use Federal Power to Challenge State AI Laws
The Trump administration is drafting an executive order to create an AI Litigation Task Force that would challenge state AI regulations, targeting laws such as California’s new AI safety bill as “complex and burdensome.” The task force aims to remove...
By TechRadar
News•Nov 20, 2025
What B2B Marketers Can Learn From Asia’s Fast-Evolving Strategies
Asian B2B marketers are reshaping outreach by moving away from email toward chat‑based platforms and data‑rich tools. In China, WeChat’s business version WeCom enables integrated CRM functions, driving conversion rates at Qì Pèi Yún from 2% to 6% through unified...
By MarTech
Social•Nov 20, 2025
Turn Links Into Sales Insights with Bitly
How do you actually know which of your posts are driving sales? Well, most of us are too busy to dive into our posts to understand their potential revenue impact. When I launched my Modern AI Marketer books, I didn't...
By Pam Didner
Social•Nov 20, 2025
$500 Off FounderStack Lifetime Access to 5 Essential Tools
It's Black Friday! And yes! We're bringing the most banger offer of the year 🎉 FounderStack. $500 off the original price. Pay once. Own it for life. FounderStack gives you instant lifetime access to 5 founder essentials: ⭐ FeedHive (AI SMM tool) ⭐ Aidbase (AI support tool) ⭐...
By Simon Høiberg
News•Nov 20, 2025
Waalaxy: Transform LinkedIn Into a Predictable Revenue Engine for Outreach
Douglas Karr explains that manual LinkedIn outreach is a major time drain and proposes Waalaxy as a unified platform that automates LinkedIn and email prospecting, enriches leads with verified emails, and centralizes conversations in a CRM‑style inbox. Key features include...
By Martech Zone Interviews
News•Nov 20, 2025
HomeSage.ai Launches Next-Generation Property Intelligence APIs Powered by Upgraded AI Models
HomeSage.ai unveiled a next‑generation suite of property‑intelligence APIs that leverage upgraded neural‑network and computer‑vision models to analyze more than 145 million U.S. properties in real time. The platform adds 20+ specialized endpoints—including Investment Potential, Property Condition, Renovation Cost and ROI, and...
By MarTech Series
Podcast•Nov 20, 2025•50 min
#181: AI Answers - Measuring AI Skills, Aligning Leaders, AI Literacy Frameworks, Overcoming Resistance & Preparing for AI Agents
The episode explores emerging AI literacy frameworks and why basic AI knowledge is vital for every employee, offering leaders strategies to demonstrate business value and articulate risks of lacking AI guidelines. It discusses the balance between formal policies and flexible...
By The Artificial Intelligence Show
Social•Nov 20, 2025
Turn AI Buzz Into Your Unfair Competitive Edge
10 Reasons You Need to Be at SaaStr AI London December 1-2 This is it. The moment where AI stops being a buzzword and becomes your unfair competitive advantage. SaaStr AI London is bringing together 2,500 of the sharpest B2B operators...
By Jason Lemkin
News•Nov 20, 2025
ChatGPT Atlas Just Got Its First Major Update - 3 New Features You'll Want to Use
OpenAI rolled out the first major update to its ChatGPT Atlas browser on macOS, adding three practical features: iCloud Passkeys support for secure logins, the option to set Google as the default search engine, and a vertical tab layout with...
By TechRadar
News•Nov 20, 2025
SAP Transformation Applied Intelligently with BeMind by BearingPoint
BearingPoint launched BeMind, an AI‑powered end‑to‑end platform designed to accelerate SAP transformation projects. After an 18‑month development and testing in more than 20 real‑world implementations, the tool claims to cut effort and project timelines by 20‑30 percent while boosting deliverable...
By MarTech Series
News•Nov 20, 2025
Creative Workers Love AI - but It Is Causing More Issues than Expected
A Dropbox study finds that creative professionals juggle an average of 14 digital tools, leading to workflow fragmentation and lost productivity. Better digital organization could boost performance by 54%, equating to roughly 1.5 extra days of creative work per employee...
By TechRadar
News•Nov 20, 2025
Microsoft and SAP Sign Deal to Keep EU Cloud Running, Even in "Times of Crisis"
Microsoft, SAP‑owned Delos Cloud and French sovereign‑cloud provider Bleu have signed a memorandum of understanding and a mutual‑assistance pact to ensure continuity of European cloud services in crisis scenarios. The agreement gives Delos legal rights to access Microsoft’s cloud code...
By TechRadar
Social•Nov 20, 2025
Adding Gemini 3 Triggers Endless Meetings and Paperwork
It's a complicated process! Don't make fun of him! > Propose POST /models/gemini3/chat in a Slack thread. 186 replies later, no consensus on the URL. > Start a "Gemini 3 API Integration Task Force" with its own weekly standup and logo. > Write...
By Abhishek Thakur
News•Nov 20, 2025
Nokia Is Splitting Off Its AI Business, Weeks After $1bn Nvidia Investment
Nokia announced that, effective Jan. 1, 2026, it will split into two primary segments—Network Infrastructure and Mobile Infrastructure—while spinning off its AI‑focused mobile business to drive AI‑first networks such as 6G. The company targets a 6‑8% net‑sales CAGR through 2028...
By TechRadar
News•Nov 20, 2025
96% Businesses Are Already Leveraging LLM Models Like ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity for Content Creation: Goodfirms Survey
A Goodfirms survey released on November 20, 2025 found that 96% of businesses are already using large language models such as ChatGPT, Google Gemini and Perplexity for content creation, with 55% fully integrating LLMs into their marketing workflows. The study...
By MarTech Series
News•Nov 20, 2025
Grok 4.1 Is Trying Too Hard to Impress – and ChatGPT 5.1 Makes It Look Easy
xAI’s Grok 4.1 and OpenAI’s ChatGPT 5.1 were pitted against each other in a three‑part informal test covering emotional intelligence, factual reliability, and personality consistency. Grok 4.1 delivered a more flamboyant, slang‑laden response to an emotional scenario and to a prompt about rainy...
By TechRadar
News•Nov 20, 2025
How Data Centers Can Balance Growth with Environmental Responsibility
Data‑center investment in India is projected to exceed $100 billion by 2027, driving a surge in digital services but also raising sustainability concerns. Ashish Arora, CEO of Nxtra by Airtel, argues that sustainability must be embedded in every stage of data‑center...
By TechRadar
Social•Nov 20, 2025
Top‑tier VC Managers Make 5x Returns Three Times More Likely
Great data from VenCap analyzing 1,900+ VC funds (2000-2019): ☹️22% lose money (return <1x) 👇64% never hit 2x 🚀Only 6% return 5x+ 🔥Just 2% hit 10x Translation: A randomly selected VC fund is 3.7x more likely to LOSE money than return 5x. But here's what changes...
By Jason Lemkin
Social•Nov 20, 2025
Resilience Beats Security in AI-Driven Breach Recovery
How fast could your org recover from an AI-driven security incident when mistakes and breaches are inevitable? As @Commvault CEO @SanjayMirchandani said: “When data is inconsistent or compromised, AI gets things dangerously wrong. Recovery isn’t a process, resilience now runs the...
By Helen Yu
News•Nov 20, 2025
Three Things to Know About the Future of Electricity
The International Energy Agency’s latest World Energy Outlook projects global electricity demand to surge 40% over the next decade, driven largely by rising air‑conditioning use and temperature increases that will add roughly 500 GW of peak load by 2035. While data‑center...
By MIT Technology Review
Social•Nov 20, 2025
Scale Ads Only After Fixing Backend Weaknesses
You can’t scale on ad spend if you’re bleeding on the backend. Check: • Return rate • Fulfillment speed • Product consistency Good ads break bad systems. Scale will only expose what’s unready.
By Kody Nordquist
Social•Nov 20, 2025
No Model yet Outperforms Codex+O3 in Real Work
This is my sentiment. I still have yet to experience a model in actual useful professional work that beats codex+o3. You can play with strengths to get some bench perf to move, at cost of another capability. All we're doing is...
By Harrison Kinsley
Social•Nov 20, 2025
Accelerate Research with AI-Powered LeapSpace Workspace
Move from curiosity to discovery faster! LeapSpaceTM is a research-grade AI-assisted workspace that lets researchers work faster, think more deeply, and achieve more in a single secure environment. https://t.co/m8ViaqGBLw #LeapSpace #Research #Researchers #Elsevier https://t.co/nwp1cGDKN0
By Catherine Adenle
Social•Nov 20, 2025
Scale with Smarter Messaging, Not Just Bigger Budgets
Every ad account eventually hits a ceiling. The mistake most brands make is that they try to scale past it with budget instead of messaging. You need a better angle.
By Kody Nordquist
Social•Nov 20, 2025
London AI Meetup: 150 Experts Gather for State of AI
t-2 weeks til we're back in london for @airstreet state of ai meetup, ft: - @rosstaylor90 of @genreasoning - @youssef_a_mejj of @synthesiaio and yours truly on @stateofaireport! come hang with 150 ai friends across big tech, ai labs, startups and academia https://t.co/ELPmczmd31
By Nathan Benaich
Social•Nov 20, 2025
Revenue Automation Solves Billing Pain at $2M ARR
Just dropped a new SaaS CFO Podcast with Aleks Đekić, CEO/co-founder of Alguna! 🎙️ 3 takeaways: 1️⃣ Billing pain starts at ~$2–3M ARR 2️⃣ Hybrid & usage models need smarter tools 3️⃣ Future is revenue automation + retention #SaaS https://t.co/hNvSH1JFSr
By Ben Murray
Social•Nov 20, 2025
Benchmarks Mislead; Human Review Is the Real Bottleneck
These kinds of benchmarks are misleading without a joint metric showing much work was necessary by humans after the fact. How much time to clean up that 2h42m of code? Style and architecture need to make sense, not just passing tests. That's...
By Alex J. Champandard