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Allbirds' Former CEO Launches AI Startup With Big Money—But Missing the Team The CEO who stepped down from Allbirds, the sustainable shoe company, has started a new AI business with a substantial seed funding round. The catch: it's just him so far, with no employees and
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How to Use AI to Plan Your Business Marketing Calendar If you're running a small business and still planning your marketing by gut feeling — or not planning it at all — you're leaving money on the table every single month. The good news: AI can help you
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Snap Spins Off AI Video Team Into New Company to Control Costs Snapchat's parent company, Snap, is creating a new standalone company called Dotmo focused entirely on AI video development. The team members involved are leaving Snap to join this independent venture, signaling that the social media giant
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Best AI Chatbot Tools for Small Business Websites in 2025 If you have a website and you're not using a chatbot, you're probably losing leads at 11pm when no one's at the desk. A good AI chatbot answers questions, captures contact info, and keeps
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Apple May Raise iPhone Prices as AI Development Costs Squeeze Margins Apple CEO Tim Cook recently acknowledged that the company faces an "unsustainable" situation with its AI investments, potentially forcing the company to raise iPhone prices. The tech giant is investing heavily in artificial intelligence capabilities to compete
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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 Word doc from 2019 or a handwritten sign behind the counter, you're leaving money on the table. A well-written price list doesn't just tell people
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Google's Android 17 Brings AI Tools and Multitasking Features to Your Pocket Google just released Android 17 and Wear OS 7, loading both operating systems with new multitasking tools, parental controls, and security upgrades. The rollout also includes a Pixel Drop that puts Google's latest AI
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How to Write a Professional Bio for Your Business Using AI Your business 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 generic it says nothing. AI can fix that in
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Google CEO Faces Backlash Over AI Defense Contracts at Stanford Graduation Google CEO Sundar Pichai was booed and faced a student walkout during Stanford University's graduation ceremony this week. The protest centered on Google's use of artificial intelligence in defense contracts, including work with U.S.
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How to Use AI to Analyze Your Sales Data as a Small Business Most small business owners are sitting on a goldmine of sales data they never actually use. AI has made it genuinely practical — not just for big companies with data teams — to turn that spreadsheet of transactions into
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AI Startups Are Banking on a Public Market Boom—Here's What You Need to Know As major AI companies prepare for initial public offerings (IPOs), a wave of smaller AI startups is positioning itself to go public too. These companies are hoping to ride the momentum created by
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Best AI Tools for Salons and Spas in 2026 Running a salon or spa means juggling appointments, no-shows, product inventory, social media, and client relationships — all while actually doing the work. AI tools have gotten specific enough now that they can genuinely take some of that off your plate, without
