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GrowthLoop launched Composable AI Decisioning on BigQuery and Snowflake, combining lift measurement with real-time journey optimization using causal signals.

Character.AI’s Books feature turns literature into interactive roleplay, but past safety concerns raise questions about how far AI companionship should go.

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HockeyStack raised $50M to expand enterprise “Revenue Agents.” See how event-based revenue data and workflow automation may reshape RevOps tooling.

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If you’ve never visited Las Vegas, this week might be the time. Adobe and Google Cloud are both having big shows there this week, with Adobe kicking off its customer summit tomorrow and running through Wednesday. Google Cloud Next, conveniently, starts Wednesday and runs through Friday. Come for

ChatGPT predicts data clerks, cashiers, and telemarketers vanish in a decade. Yet trades, nurses, and emergency pros hold firm amid 300 million jobs exposed globally. Net workforce

Senator Maggie Hassan sent letters April 16 to ElevenLabs, LOVO, Speechify and VEED demanding answers on how they stop voice-clone scams as FBI reports $893M in losses.

Google's Gemini passed OpenAI's ChatGPT in Implicator's weekly LLM Meter this week, the first crossover since March. Claude held top at 88. Grok fell five points on App Store threat, Colorado lawsuit, and coerced SpaceX IPO subscriptions.

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A six-figure Flippa buyout turned 31 trusted WordPress plugins malicious, backdooring thousands of sites with SEO spam after eight months dormant. No ownership alerts from WordPress

In the months before he committed a grisly mass shooting, Phoenix Ikner obsessively used Open AI’s ChatGPT to engage in conversations that are about as disturbing as possible. Over the course of more than 13,000 messages with the bot obtained by the Florida Phoenix, the student at Florida State Univ

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I ditched my IDE for Claude Code and nano, and my Mac is thanking me

GhostBSD 26.1-R15.0p2 upgrades to FreeBSD 15.0-RELEASE, adopts XLibre display server and Zsh shell, adds NetworkMGR WireGuard support, and refines update tools for smoother desktop

Big features like Localization used to give you a 12-18 month moat. And we just did it in a Waymo ride. Back in the day, pre-AI, we used to beat DocuSign head-to-head. At Facebook. At Google. At Yelp. At Twitter. At a lot of the biggest tech companies of the era. People always want to... <a cl

Google's Gemini now scans user Google Photos libraries to generate hyper-personalized AI images via Nano Banana 2, slashing prompt needs and boosting likeness accuracy for subscribe

President Donald Trump’s job approval rating has sunk to a new low as Americans express growing concerns about rising costs and the war with Iran, according to an NBC News Decision Desk Poll powered by SurveyMonkey

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Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang cautions that Chinese AI models like DeepSeek could harm US technology standards. He also emphasizes the need for the US to maintain its tech dominance across the various layers of technology stack.

Send questions about the office, money, careers and work-life balance to workfriend@nytimes.com. Include your name and location, or a request to remain anonymous. Letters may be edited. In Work-Love With a Chatbot Dear Work Friend: Ever since my 40-year-old boss discovered ChatGPT, he’s running ever

A confirmed bug in Microsoft Teams desktop client version 26072.519.4556.7438 is disabling the right-click paste option for users on Windows and macOS, with Microsoft attributing the root cause to a code regression introduced in a recent Microsoft Edge browser update. Users across organizations b

Celeste is a twice-divorced 66-year-old who had given up on love. Then she met Max. Their relationship started out purely transactional: He helped her on her taxes, gave her tips on gardening. The more she got to know him, however, the deeper she fell. Ernie, Celeste’s son, is troubled by her new bo

New AEO dashboards and CRM-based prompt suggestions aim to help teams manage brand visibility in answer engines while organic search softens.

HockeyStack raised $50M to expand enterprise Revenue Agents, pushing revenue intelligence toward AI-driven execution across prospecting and expansion.

The agentic artificial intelligence era is forcing a reset in enterprise architecture. Agents that take action go well beyond analyzing data sitting in lakehouses. When agents operate on behalf of humans – continuously, at machine scale – they introduce requirements that most enterprises are not

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ChatGPT now targets $2.50 to $3.50 for XRP by late 2026, up to 155% upside from current levels, as Bitcoin moved past $78,000 on April 17 after the Strait of Hormuz reopened. XRP trades at $1.47 with fresh weekly inflows of $119.6 million reported by CoinShares. The XRP price prediction from AI m

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I just used AI to help plan my wedding — and there’s one important thing ChatGPT still can’t do.

A critical WordPress plugin flaw allows attackers to bypass authentication and gain full administrative control, exposing websites to data theft and malware attacks.

DeepSeek has entered talks to raise $300M or more at a $10B valuation,

Microsoft is warning that a recent Microsoft Edge browser update introduced a bug that breaks right-click paste in chats in the Microsoft Teams desktop client. [...]

Canva’s latest update moves beyond design, introducing agentic AI workflows for modern marketing teams

Techland's Jan Buczny wants to build worlds that tell stories.

In an interview with CoinDesk, the Ethereum co-founder spoke also about Ethereum’s evolution through MetaMask, stablecoins and tokenization, while downplaying quantum computing as a long-term, manageable issue.

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In short: Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang warned on the Dwarkesh Podcast that DeepSeek optimising its AI models for Huawei’s Ascend chips instead of American hardware would be “a horr

Claude’s free tier nails document workflows in ways Gemini, ChatGPT, and Perplexity still struggle to match

Deepseek is reportedly ready to give up its independence. The

Anthropic's Claude has approved malicious code in a spoofed Git

Super-agers are people that reach 70 years or older and yet have mental acuity of their 40s and 50s. AI might help to be or become one. An AI Insider scoop.

There’s a right way, and a wrong way. Don’t choose the wrong way. Like many, I’ve never met a chatbot I trust completely. Not only do they have a propensity to hallucinate

Srinivas Narayanan, the Indian-origin senior executive is an alumnus of IIT Madras (Batch of 1995) and pursued Master’s programme in Computer Science from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He will leave OpenAI at the end of next week. This marks a key leadership exit as the company rapidly expand