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Remesh unveiled Remy, an AI research agent that produces rapid, defensible insights with verifiable data citations and multi-modal analysis, positioning itself as a research-specific alternative to generic large language models. The agent is embedded directly into Remesh’s conversational research platform, promising minutes-to-insights workflows and traceable evidence to support conclusions. For businesses and research teams, Remy aims to raise standards for accuracy and transparency in automated research, potentially speeding decision-making while reducing risk from unsupported model outputs.
Nextiva released Winning the Customer Experience Race, a guide by Edwin Margulies aimed at CX and IT leaders navigating the “agentic AI” era, offering a decision rubric, cross-industry playbooks, and data practices to operationalize AI in customer experience. The playbook...
Liquid launched Liquid Ai Studio™, an AI‑augmented creative service that combines human oversight with advanced generative tools to produce high‑fidelity, brand‑consistent content at scale. The offering covers photography, illustration, motion, video, audio and copy, supports human‑in‑the‑loop governance, and is sold...
Zip unveiled a new suite of AI procurement agents at its Zip Forward conference, led by a Price Negotiation Agent that analyzes internal purchase history and external benchmarks to identify overpayments and recommend contract negotiation tactics across IT, services, real...
Elastic launched Agent Builder, a new set of capabilities powered by Elasticsearch that lets developers create custom AI agents directly on company data using a conversational approach to context engineering. The tool integrates retrieval-augmented techniques within the Elastic stack, enabling...
Impact Lab has launched a service aimed at simplifying the complex Amazon advertising ecosystem by helping brands assemble and manage disparate ad-tech components, data pipelines and vendor relationships. The offering targets common pain points—siloed tools, fragmented vendors and difficulty measuring...
Industry players are converging on simplified, unified AI software stacks to make models portable and scalable from cloud to edge, reducing duplicated engineering and deployment friction. Fragmentation has left more than 60% of AI initiatives stalled, but standards and unified...
Hugging Face announced it is formally taking stewardship of the popular open‑source Sentence Transformers library — maintained by Tom Aarsen since 2023 — transitioning the project from TU Darmstadt’s UKP Lab to Hugging Face while retaining its Apache 2.0 license...
Hugging Face has partnered with VirusTotal to continuously scan all 2.2M+ public model and dataset repositories on the Hugging Face Hub, checking file hashes against VirusTotal’s threat‑intelligence database to surface prior detections and related metadata. The integration retrieves status (clean...
The post highlights a bold claim that GPT‑5 is 58% toward artificial general intelligence, framing it within broader AI disruption trends seen in consulting, OpenAI’s growing market dominance, and evolving developer tools. It outlines 13 consulting lessons on AI-driven transformation,...
Netflix signaled it is ‘all in’ on using generative AI as a creative tool, telling investors it’s well positioned to leverage advances while stopping short of letting AI replace storytellers. The streamer has already employed AI for effects and pre‑production...
An MIT‑coauthored study finds urban life has become brisker and less social: average walking speeds in Boston, New York and Philadelphia rose 15% from 1980 to 2010 while the share of people lingering in public spaces fell 14%. Researchers applied...
MIT researchers used generative artificial intelligence to design and computationally screen more than 36 million novel compounds, identifying two structurally distinct antibiotic candidates that kill multi‑drug‑resistant Neisseria gonorrhoeae and MRSA. The top molecules appear to act via a previously unseen...
Alibaba’s Qwen team has upgraded its Qwen Deep Research tool to instantly convert AI-generated research reports into live web pages and multi‑speaker podcasts with one to two clicks, using Qwen3-Coder, Qwen-Image and Qwen3-TTS under a proprietary, Qwen‑hosted workflow. The feature...
Casio’s Moflin is a $430 AI‑enabled plush pet that learns simple emotional responses over weeks via the MofLife app, offers a “deep sleep” off mode, and converts audio into non‑identifiable data to distinguish voices rather than record conversations. A monthlong...
Google updated its AI Studio with a redesigned Build tab that lets novices and developers create, edit and deploy web apps in minutes using Gemini models and mix-and-match capabilities like Nano Banana, Veo, Imagine and Flashlight. The free-to-start “vibe coding”...
Retailers should expect a stronger Q4 2025 holiday season with year‑over‑year sales and profits rising as consumers continue to spend despite price worries and retailers operate leaner or use AI to cut costs. Promotions will remain muted through early November...
YouTube has officially launched its likeness detection tool to eligible creators in the YouTube Partner Program after a pilot, enabling creators to detect and request removal of AI‑generated videos that use their face or voice. Onboarding requires consent, ID and...
Meta rolled out new scam‑detection warnings in WhatsApp and Messenger aimed at protecting older users, including alerts when unknown contacts request screen sharing and AI‑backed flags for suspicious Messenger messages. The company says it disrupted about 8 million scam accounts...
At MAICON 2025, marketing leaders were urged to move beyond incremental efficiency gains and pursue 10x reinvention by treating content as a structured, machine-readable data layer and designing for both human and AI agent audiences. Key imperatives include measuring system-level...
Amid accelerating geopolitical, regulatory and technological change, SnapLogic AI and data expert Dominic Wellington argues that enterprises should prioritize flexibility over rigid data‑sovereignty absolutes to maintain resilience. He recommends a spectrum of delivery options (public/private cloud and on‑prem), vendor independence,...
When ransomware targets Active Directory (AD) —which underpins roughly 90% of large enterprises—rush recovery can reintroduce malware or compromised configurations, so containment and forensic clarity must come first. Recent SharePoint zero‑day exploits underscore how remote code execution can pivot into...
Google has abandoned plans to deprecate third‑party cookies in Chrome and instead will continue developing its Privacy Sandbox alternatives while offering users an opt‑in choice, a move that has sown widespread industry confusion and regulatory scrutiny. An IAB study found...
Wyze launched the Solar Cam Pan, its first battery-powered, solar-charged 2K pan-and-tilt security camera, priced at $79.98—undercutting rivals like Reolink, Tapo and Eufy. The IP65-rated device offers 360° pan, 70° tilt, AI person detection with automatic tracking, IR night recording,...
A practical guide to marketing on LinkedIn outlines the platform’s scale, tools and tactics for B2B marketers, noting an updated Company Intelligence API and new Accelerate campaign features with generative‑AI content capabilities. Key metrics cited include more than 830 million...
Veteran creative Reid Holmes argues that the century‑old unique selling proposition no longer cuts through saturated markets and distracted consumers, and that brands must instead create unexpected, emotionally resonant solutions to earn attention. He illustrates the shift with examples: Ford...
New research from TransUnion and eMarketer shows marketers’ confidence in measurement has stalled despite growing data complexity: 62% report some confidence, 54% saw no year‑over‑year change and 14% said confidence declined. Internal skepticism is widespread—60% say stakeholders question metrics at...
Marketers can unlock a steady source of high-performing content by repurposing internal documents—sales decks, onboarding materials, support FAQs and team chats—into customer-facing assets that answer real buyer questions. The piece outlines a six-step process (audit, simplify jargon, add context, reframe...
Yelp launched two AI voice agents—Yelp Host for restaurants and Yelp Receptionist for broader businesses—that can answer calls, take and modify reservations, provide wait times, capture special requests, send menu links, and handle lead qualification and scheduling. Host is priced...
OpenAI’s ChatGPT‑5 advances to ‘PhD‑level’ reasoning with a unified model and a one‑million‑token context window, enabling enterprises to process larger datasets, automate multi‑step workflows and extract richer insights. Those gains come with heavy infrastructure demands—heightened bandwidth, compute and latency sensitivity—that...
In this episode of the AI in Business podcast, Xiong Liu, Director of Data Science and AI at Novartis, discusses how generative AI and foundation models are reshaping life‑sciences R&D, from clinical workflows to collaborative research. He emphasizes the need...
Businesses are racing to deploy AI but lack of cost transparency risks turning promising projects into expensive failures, argues Apptio. With 68% of tech leaders planning bigger AI budgets and 39% expecting AI to drive future budget growth—despite an average...
OpenAI launched ChatGPT Atlas, an AI-enabled web browser now available on macOS with Windows, iOS and Android support coming soon, and CEO Sam Altman set to formally unveil it in a livestream. Atlas positions OpenAI to challenge Google Chrome and...
New research and industry data position AI-enabled PCs—laptops with on-device neural processing—as catalysts for creativity-driven productivity, with MIT Sloan and HP-backed findings showing generative AI can enhance human creativity when workers have the right tools. Early adopters report measurable gains:...
Nathaniel Whittemore argues that a slowdown in achieving artificial general intelligence does not signal an AI bubble, pointing to concrete industry shifts that show AI’s transformative impact. He draws on consulting trends—lower delivery costs, evolving client expectations, and the rise...
Bryan Cranston, OpenAI, SAG-AFTRA and major talent agencies issued a joint statement saying OpenAI has “strengthened guardrails” around Sora 2 after unauthorized deepfakes of Cranston—including a viral image of him taking a selfie with Michael Jackson—appeared on the app. OpenAI...
Hugging Face updated its open‑source AI Sheets tool to add full vision support, letting users view, extract, analyze, generate and edit images directly inside spreadsheets using thousands of open models via Inference Providers. The release enables tasks from receipt line‑item...
A new practical guide maps the rapidly evolving landscape of open‑weight vision‑language OCR models, explaining when to fine‑tune versus use off‑the‑shelf models and how to move beyond basic transcription to multimodal retrieval and document QA. It compares leading open models...
The post surveys recent AI‑infrastructure news and interviews, highlighting Amazon’s lawsuit against Perplexity, OpenAI’s $38 billion AWS partnership, Nvidia’s $5 trillion valuation, and emerging AI applications from enterprise workflow to defense and digital legacy. It underscores how shifting cloud alliances, regulatory scrutiny,...
The post recaps the week’s major SaaS activity, highlighting a wave of large AI‑focused funding rounds—from Deel’s $300M Series E to LangChain’s $125M Series B—alongside notable M&A deals such as Capgemini’s $3.3B acquisition of WNS and Ripple’s $1B purchase of GTreasury. It...
Forrester’s survey of over 1,000 B2B marketing leaders finds AI adoption has moved well beyond exploration, with many organizations actively experimenting or deploying AI across marketing use cases. Top decile “leading adopters” distinguish themselves by close CMO–CIO partnerships, stronger data‑driven...
In a recent episode of the *In AI We Trust?* podcast, EqualAI CEO Miriam Vogel interviews Nicholas Thompson, CEO of *The Atlantic*, about navigating the looming "AI hurricane" and the evolving role of journalists in AI literacy. Thompson outlines his...
Meta’s AI mobile app saw a sharp uptick in users and downloads after introducing its Vibes short‑form AI video feed, with daily active users rising to 2.7 million as of Oct. 17 from about 775,000 four weeks earlier and installs...
Friend AI’s founder publicly highlighted a spontaneous “Friend protest” in New York after the company’s $129 chatbot-necklace and its >$1 million subway ad push drew widespread ridicule and vandalism. Founded in 2023 and only shipping this summer, the wearable has...
The Federal Trade Commission quietly removed three Lina Khan‑era blog posts on open‑source AI and consumer harms—published July 2024, October 2023 and January 2025—according to Wired, part of a broader purge that previously included roughly 300 AI‑related posts. The deletions...
Kohler introduced the Dekoda, a clamp-on toilet sensor that uses optical spectroscopy to analyze waste for hydration and gut-health indicators and to discreetly alert users to blood; the device is available for preorder at $599 with shipments starting Oct. 21....
Automattic CEO Matt Mullenweg called the company’s acquisition of Tumblr his “biggest failure,” saying a planned migration of Tumblr’s more than 500 million blogs to the WordPress back end has been paused because the platform is unprofitable and too...
OpenAI has issued broad subpoenas to at least seven nonprofits that criticized its shift from nonprofit to commercial governance as part of its legal battle with Elon Musk, demanding extensive financial records, communications and documents related to OpenAI’s restructuring. Recipients...
Zocdoc CEO Oliver Kharraz told TechFutures that AI chatbots are poised to replace “Dr. Google,” but Zocdoc expects to remain the underlying infrastructure that powers AI-driven scheduling and access to care. The company touts that a plurality of bookings occur...
Bank of America won Forrester’s inaugural 2025 Data & AI Impact Award for an enterprise‑wide AI strategy that blends scale, trust and enablement to drive measurable business outcomes. The bank’s AI footprint includes 50 million users of its Erica virtual...
