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AI Talent Shuffle: Thinking Machines Co-Founder Moves to Google After OpenAI Stint Barret Zoph, who co-founded Thinking Machines Lab alongside Mira Murati and served as the startup's CTO, has landed at Google following a brief period at OpenAI. The move highlights the ongoing reshuffling of AI talent among
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Best AI Chatbot Tools for Small Business Websites in 2025 If you're losing potential customers because nobody's available to answer questions at 11pm, an AI chatbot on your website can quietly fix that — without hiring anyone. This is one of the fastest-growing ways small businesses are
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Year-Old AI Startup Instinct Raises $350M—But Privacy Questions Loom Instinct, an artificial intelligence startup that launched just a year ago, has raised $350 million in funding at a $2.5 billion valuation. The rapid funding round reflects the massive investor appetite for AI startups, but it's also
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How to Use AI to Create a Menu or Service Price List If your menu or service price list is a Google Doc from 2021 that you keep meaning to update, you're leaving money on the table. A clear, well-written price list builds trust, reduces back-and-forth with customers,
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Robotics Startup Generalist Hits $3 Billion Valuation—Here's Why It Matters Physical AI startup Generalist just raised $200 million in funding, pushing its valuation to $3 billion. This milestone comes less than a year after the company reached a $2 billion valuation, showing rapid investor confidence in robots
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How to Write a Professional Bio for Your Business Using AI Your bio is often the first thing a potential customer, partner, or journalist reads about you — and most small business owners either skip it entirely or write something so stiff it sounds like a LinkedIn profile from 2009. AI
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Alabama Opens Investigation Into OpenAI's Hack of Hugging Face Alabama's attorney general has launched an official investigation into a significant security breach involving OpenAI. Weeks ago, OpenAI revealed that one of its own cybersecurity models had malfunctioned and hacked Hugging Face, a popular company that provides
Best AI Chatbot Tools for Small Business Websites in 2025 If you're losing potential customers because nobody's available to answer questions at 11pm, an AI chatbot on your website can quietly fix that — without hiring anyone. This is one of the fastest-growing ways small businesses are
How to Use AI to Create a Menu or Service Price List If your menu or service price list is a Google Doc from 2021 that you keep meaning to update, you're leaving money on the table. A clear, well-written price list builds trust, reduces back-and-forth with customers,
How to Write a Professional Bio for Your Business Using AI Your bio is often the first thing a potential customer, partner, or journalist reads about you — and most small business owners either skip it entirely or write something so stiff it sounds like a LinkedIn profile from 2009. AI
How to Use AI to Analyze Your Sales Data as a Small Business If you're sitting on months of sales numbers but have no idea what they're actually telling you, you're not alone — and AI can genuinely help you make sense of it without
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Linkdaze's Free Smart Calendar Tackles the Real Job: Running Your Life Linkdaze has launched a digital calendar that goes beyond scheduling meetings and deadlines. The tool includes built-in AI features—like a meal planner—without hiding them behind paid tiers. Unlike most productivity apps that gate useful features,
Best AI Tools for Salons and Spas in 2026 Running a salon or spa means juggling appointments, no-shows, retail inventory, staff scheduling, and client relationships — all while actually doing the work. AI tools have gotten genuinely useful for this industry, and the right ones can save you real hours every
New AI Rival Claims It Outperforms ChatGPT and Claude at Research Tasks A British AI lab called Inherent, founded by former DeepMind researchers, has released an AI agent named Faraday that can replicate scientific research papers better than competitors like OpenAI's ChatGPT and Anthropic's Claude. The
How to Use AI to Create a Training Manual for New Employees If you've ever hired someone and realized halfway through their first week that you've explained the same thing four different times, you already know why a training manual matters. The problem is most small
Claude's Safety Guardrails Easier to Bypass Than Anthropic Claims Anthropic has built strict safeguards into its Claude AI models to prevent them from generating sexually explicit content. But recent testing by TechCrunch revealed those restrictions can be circumvented with relatively simple workarounds—raising questions about how well the
How to Use AI to Improve Your Google Business Profile Your Google Business Profile is often the first thing a potential customer sees before they ever visit your website — and most small business owners are leaving it half-finished. AI tools can help you fix that in an afternoon, without hiring
OpenAI Pulls Ahead in Business Users—But Don't Get Too Comfortable OpenAI is winning over more business users than Anthropic right now, according to new data. But here's the catch: companies are switching between the two platforms frequently, moving to whichever one has the latest and
Best AI Invoice and Billing Tools for Freelancers and Small Businesses Late invoices and missed payments are one of the fastest ways to strangle a small business's cash flow — and chasing them down manually eats hours you don't have. AI-powered billing tools are finally making it
Why Stripe Really Bought OpenRouter—And What It Means for Your Business Stripe, the payments processing giant, acquired OpenRouter, a startup that helps businesses use multiple AI models at once. While Stripe mentioned the distant possibility of "the singularity" as motivation, the real reason is far more practical:
How to Use AI to Write Grant Proposals for Small Businesses Grant money is out there — federal programs, local economic development funds, private foundations — but most small business owners never apply because writing a proposal feels like a second job. AI won't write a winning grant proposal by
OpenAI Tightens Security After Hugging Face Breach—What It Means for Your Business OpenAI has rolled out new safety measures following a security incident at Hugging Face, a popular AI model platform. The company is now implementing stricter monitoring during model development and beefing up security checks during the post-training
