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Zero‑click search is accelerating as AI‑generated answers and featured snippets replace outbound clicks, with Google’s AI Overviews rising from 6.49% to 13.14% of U.S. desktop searches between January and March 2025. Marketers are urged to shift focus from traditional rankings and traffic to metrics that capture presence in AI‑driven answers, such as answer inclusion rate, entity presence index, source authority score and AI citation frequency. New analytics frameworks must integrate search console data with visibility‑tracking tools to monitor brand citations across generative search results. The article argues that credibility and trust, reflected in these visibility metrics, now define performance in the zero‑click era.
MIT Technology Review’s daily newsletter highlighted two major analyses: a feature by Will Douglas Heaven arguing that artificial general intelligence has become a consequential conspiracy theory, and a joint FT‑MIT piece examining whether China is poised to overtake the United...
A Salesforce State of Data and Analytics report finds that 84% of data and analytics leaders say their data strategies need a complete overhaul before AI ambitions can succeed, as poor‑quality, outdated or siloed data hampers insight generation. While 63%...
In 2010 a community of hackers reverse‑engineered Microsoft’s Kinect, creating the OpenKinect open‑source drivers that liberated the depth‑camera from the Xbox 360. After Adafruit funded a USB sniffer and released its logs, individual contributors like AlexP, Hector "marcan" Martin and...
Braze argues that the rise of modern AI marks a platform shift for marketers, moving them from rote tasks to strategic, creative work by deploying autonomous AI agents that can personalize 1:1 communications at scale. The article outlines how AI...
Thomson Reuters has joined NetDocuments’ ndConnect interoperability program, linking its CoCounsel Legal AI platform directly with the NetDocuments cloud. The integration lets legal teams securely share content with CoCounsel, conduct research, drafting and document analysis, and automatically save AI‑generated output...
Jellyfish has been selected as the new paid‑media partner for cosnova, the $1 billion‑revenue cosmetics group behind Essence and CATRICE. The agency will run cosnova’s paid social and broader media strategy across 14 key markets, leveraging its proprietary AI‑driven tools such...
Microsoft AI co‑founder Mustafa Suleyman told AfroTech that the quest for sentient or conscious AI is a misguided question, arguing that current models lack any mechanism for subjective experience. He emphasized that AI should be built as practical tools, not...
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The episode highlights OpenAI’s new Automated AI Researcher, recent organizational changes at OpenAI, the Federal Reserve’s warning that AI could reshape hiring, Nvidia’s market cap reaching $5 trillion, and Wharton’s data on AI’s return on investment. It underscores how these developments...
Youscan unveiled its Insights Copilot, an AI‑driven social‑listening platform that foregrounds transparency by surfacing source data, confidence scores and audit trails for every insight. The solution monitors major social channels in real time, provides explainable AI explanations, and claims to...
According to a QuestDIY survey of 219 U.S. market research professionals, 98% now use AI tools and 72% do so daily, with 56% reporting at least five hours saved per week. However, 39% say AI introduces errors, 37% cite new...
Amperity, the AI‑powered customer data cloud provider, announced a new Real‑Time Profiles capability that merges live streaming signals with each customer's full historical data, enabling brands to identify and act on individual shoppers the instant they engage. The feature eliminates...
Advantech announced a collaboration with Qualcomm Technologies and Edge Impulse to launch new edge‑AI solutions built around Qualcomm’s Dragonwing IQ‑9075 processor, delivering up to 100 TOPS of AI performance via dual Hexagon NPUs and an 8‑core Kryo Gen 6 CPU. The partnership introduces the AIR‑055...
In this podcast episode, Emily Nguyen, Head of Industrials and Warp Speed at Palantir, explains how large manufacturers can overcome legacy systems, siloed data, and manual processes to apply AI to systemic production challenges. She shares practical strategies for integrating...
SafeGuard Privacy launched Privacy Assist™ AI, a legal‑grade, audit‑ready artificial‑intelligence layer that automatically reviews policies, contracts and privacy documents to generate compliant answers for internal assessments and external RFIs, complete with cited evidence. The solution runs inside SafeGuard’s secure cloud,...
Cognizant announced a partnership with Anthropic to embed the Claude family of large‑language models, including Claude Code, the Model Context Protocol and the Agent SDK, into its engineering platforms and industry blueprints. The firm will roll out Claude to up...
IBS Software has signed a multi‑year Strategic Collaboration Agreement with Amazon Web Services to co‑engineer iRetail, an AI‑first, cloud‑native airline retail platform that covers the full Offer‑Order‑Settle‑Deliver value chain. The platform replaces fragmented legacy systems with a unified, data‑driven foundation...
SAP unveiled RPT-1, its first Relational Foundation Model, a pre‑trained AI that ingests tabular business data such as spreadsheets and relational databases to deliver predictive‑analytics and other enterprise tasks without fine‑tuning. Built on the ConTextTab architecture, the model claims semantic...
The author laments that flagship phone cameras—iPhone 17 Pro, Google Pixel 10 Pro, Samsung Galaxy S25 Ultra—have reached a point of diminishing returns, offering only incremental improvements in sensor size and computational photography. While recent models from Oppo and Xiaomi show occasional flashes of creativity, such as detachable...
A Japanese trade organization, CODA, representing publishers including Studio Ghibli, sent a letter to OpenAI demanding that the company cease training its AI models on members' copyrighted works without permission. The appeal follows the popularity of OpenAI’s image generator and...
OpenAI refuted viral claims that a recent policy update bans ChatGPT from giving legal or medical advice, stating the chatbot’s behavior remains unchanged. Karan Singhal, head of health AI, said the new October 29 usage policy merely reiterates existing prohibitions on...
General Motors announced it will launch a Level 3 “eyes‑off” driving system on the Cadillac Escalade IQ by 2028, letting drivers remove both hands and eyes from the road on certain U.S. highways. The move follows similar Level 3 efforts by Ford,...
Lambda, the Nvidia‑backed cloud‑computing firm, announced a multi‑billion‑dollar agreement with Microsoft to deploy tens of thousands of Nvidia GPUs, including the new GB300 NVL72 systems, deepening an eight‑year partnership. While the exact dollar amount was not disclosed, the deal adds...
This week’s SaaS roundup highlights a wave of large AI‑focused funding rounds, with companies like Sublime Security, Harvey, and ConductorOne each raising $150M‑$79M to deepen product AI capabilities and expand globally. Major M&A activity includes NEC’s $2.9B purchase of CSG...
Microsoft announced an opt‑in "Ask Copilot" box for the Windows 11 taskbar in the latest preview build (26220.7051) for Beta and Dev channels. The feature replaces the traditional search box with an AI‑powered input that can surface files, apps, and suggest queries,...
Anthropic’s new study on “Emergent Introspective Awareness in Large Language Models” finds that current LLMs are largely unreliable at describing their own internal processes, with the best‑performing models (Opus 4 and Opus 4.1) correctly identifying injected concepts only 20‑42% of the time....
Younger workers, particularly Gen Z, are turning to AI note‑taking tools instead of attending meetings, with 19% of all workers and 26% of hybrid employees using them frequently, compared with 13% of in‑person staff. The Software Finder study links frequent...
AI web browsers such as OpenAI’s ChatGPT Atlas and Perplexity’s Comet can circumvent publisher paywalls, successfully retrieving a 9,000‑word subscriber‑only feature from MIT Technology Review that standard ChatGPT could not access. By masquerading as ordinary users, these agents evade robots‑exclusion...
Fitbit’s entry‑level Inspire 3 has been slashed to $69.95 on Amazon, a $30 drop from its regular $99.95 price, and now bundles six months of Fitbit Premium at no extra cost. The tracker offers continuous heart‑rate monitoring, sleep analysis, Active Zone Minutes...
OpenAI has launched Aardvark, an autonomous AI agent built on ChatGPT that scans code, runs tests and proposes patches to fix software vulnerabilities at scale. In private‑beta testing the tool achieved a 92% success rate on benchmark “golden” repositories, and...
The Content Overseas Distribution Association (CODA), representing Japanese IP owners such as Studio Ghibli, Bandai Namco and Square Enix, sent a formal letter to OpenAI demanding that the company stop using their copyrighted works to train its text‑to‑video model Sora 2....
Coca‑Cola rolled out a new AI‑generated holiday commercial titled “Holidays Are Coming,” featuring a mishmash of animated critters that critics say look sloppy and inconsistent, though the iconic Coke truck wheels finally turn. The ad was produced with AI studios...
OpenAI has signed a seven‑year, $38 billion agreement with Amazon Web Services to supply cloud compute for ChatGPT, Sora and future models. The deal grants access to hundreds of thousands of Nvidia GPUs, with capacity slated to be online by the...
Big‑tech firms Amazon, Google, Microsoft and Meta are collectively spending more than $350 billion on AI this year and expect the figure to top $400 billion next year, while dedicated AI players such as OpenAI are generating $12 billion in revenue but face...
Dia, the AI‑native web browser acquired by Atlassian for $610 million, will incorporate several of Arc’s most popular features such as sidebar mode, vertical tabs, pinned‑grid view and Google Meet picture‑in‑picture, while leveraging a new architecture that promises better speed, security...
Security researchers at Expel have uncovered a new ransomware distribution campaign by the Rhysida gang that uses spoofed Microsoft Teams ads on Bing to lure victims to counterfeit download pages. The pages deploy two loader malware families, OysterLoader and Latrodectus,...
Napster View is a $99 hardware add‑on for M1‑based MacBooks that projects a circular holographic screen above the laptop, housing AI‑driven avatars that act as a “digital team” of specialists and can even create a personal digital twin. The system integrates...
Adobe’s latest research shows 19% of UK workers feel they lack the creative and digital skills needed for an AI‑driven future, while 65% of job seekers consider AI expertise essential for landing their ideal role. A third of hiring managers...
The Financial Times and MIT Technology Review debate the AI rivalry between the United States and China, noting that China now leads in AI citations (22.6% of global citations) and patents (69.7% of filings) and has overtaken the U.S. in...
Professor Himanshu Tyagi critiques Donald Trump’s AI Action Plan, arguing that deregulation and a nationalist competition mindset misinterpret how AI advances. He stresses that AI’s progress depends on global talent, open‑source collaboration and diverse data, citing that immigrants founded 55 % of...
OpenAI signed a seven‑year, $38 billion agreement with Amazon Web Services that grants the AI firm access to hundreds of thousands of Nvidia GPUs, with all capacity slated for deployment by the end of 2026 and the option to expand through...
The article outlines five essential strategies for creating a durable data foundation that powers AI, beginning with unifying customer identities across systems to eliminate fragmented profiles. It stresses the need for clean, up‑to‑date data to prevent AI failures, recommends a...
Agentic AI, autonomous systems that can reason, adapt and act without constant prompting, is poised to become a major disruptor in cybersecurity, with forecasts that one‑third of enterprise applications will embed such agents by 2028. The technology promises to alleviate...
Microsoft has rolled out a preview of a new "shared audio" feature in Windows 11 (build 26220.7051) that lets two Bluetooth LE Audio headsets receive the same sound stream from a single PC. The capability is accessed via a Quick Settings tile and...
Brand Networks announced that its AI‑driven advertising platform Aimy will now support TV campaigns through integration with Comcast’s Universal Ads API. The upgrade enables advertisers to generate, target and optimize TV spots automatically, using real‑time audience data from Comcast’s X1...
Cisco unveiled the Unified Edge platform, a converged system that bundles compute, networking, storage and built‑in zero‑trust security into a single, modular chassis designed for distributed, agentic AI workloads at the edge. The solution offers zero‑touch deployment, centralized management via...
Acxiom and ReachTV announced a partnership to create the industry’s first data‑powered travel media network, combining Acxiom’s granular consumer‑travel data with ReachTV’s linear TV inventory across more than 100 stations. The joint platform will enable advertisers to deliver real‑time, location‑based...
Cisco unveiled a suite of AI‑ready networking innovations aimed at modernizing campus, branch and industrial environments. The rollout introduces AgenticOps—a platform that blends a proprietary large‑language model with AI Assistant to automate tasks, provide unified Meraki‑Catalyst visibility, and enable AI‑driven...
DXC Technology was named a Leader in IDC’s 2025 MarketScape for Worldwide AI Services for National Civilian Government, topping a review of 20 vendors. The report cites DXC’s AI‑driven legacy‑modernization tools, deep sector expertise across tax, welfare, justice and home‑affairs...
Dahua Technology inaugurated a new regional showroom in Budapest on Oct. 23, creating a dedicated hub for its Central Eastern Europe, Nordic and Türkiye markets. The facility will showcase the company’s latest AIoT products—such as Full‑color, WizColor, AcuPick, DoLynk Cloud and...
