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Tinder's New Verification Tool: What Small Business Owners Should Know About the Orb Trend Tinder is partnering with Worldcoin's identity-verification technology—a facial recognition "orb" co-founded by OpenAI CEO Sam Altman—to let users prove they're real people. Those who visit an
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Dairy Queen Just Put AI in Its Drive-Thru. Here's What That Actually Means for Your Small Business. You've been hearing "AI will change everything" for two years now. Most of it has felt pretty far away from your day-to-day. But when Dairy Queen — a
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Gucci and Google Team Up on Stylish Smart Glasses Coming in 2027 Google is partnering with luxury fashion brand Gucci to create AI-powered smart glasses that actually look good. The collaboration, announced through Gucci's parent company Kering, will launch sometime in 2027. This marks a shift for Google&
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AI Infrastructure Is Getting a Flood of Venture Cash — Here's How to Make Sure You're Not Paying for the Hype Another week, another AI company raising money at a valuation that makes your eyes water. Upscale AI — an infrastructure company that's been around for
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AI Shoppers Are Flooding Retail Sites—And Spending More Money Traffic from AI tools to U.S. retail websites skyrocketed 393% in the first quarter of 2024, according to new data from Adobe. In March alone, AI-driven traffic jumped another 269%. But here's the really interesting part: these
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AI Shoppers Are Converting Better Than Human Ones — Here's What Small Retailers Need to Do Right Now AI traffic to U.S. retail websites jumped 393% in the first quarter of this year. That's not a typo. And according to Adobe's data, those AI-referred
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AI Data Center Startup Fluidstack Eyes $1 Billion Funding Round at $18 Billion Valuation Fluidstack, a startup that rents out computing power for artificial intelligence companies, is in talks to raise $1 billion at an $18 billion valuation, according to reports. The jump represents a significant increase from the company&
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The AI arms race is loud. But one quiet Chrome update might actually matter to you. This week, the AI news cycle was dominated by billion-dollar valuations, trillion-dollar IPO projections, and a tech company that's somehow simultaneously suing the federal government while also briefing them on its technology.
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How to Build AI Agents That Actually Deliver Results for Your Business AI agents—software that can make decisions and take actions with minimal human oversight—are moving from experimental projects into real business operations. But success requires more than just launching a pilot program. Companies need clear goals, structured
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Google's New Gemini Feature Knows Your Business Better Than Your Last Employee Did Google just quietly rolled out something that could actually change how you run your day — and most small business owners haven't heard about it yet. Here's why it matters and whether
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OpenAI Bought a Personal Finance App — Here's What That Means for Your Business OpenAI just acquired Hiro, a personal finance startup that used AI to help people track spending, plan budgets, and think through financial decisions. The deal is small news in Silicon Valley. For the 33 million
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Vercel Signals IPO Readiness as AI Boom Powers Growth Vercel, the web development platform used by thousands of small businesses and startups, is preparing for a public debut. CEO Guillermo Rauch told attendees at the HumanX conference that the company is "ready and getting more ready for every day&
