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“Vibe Marketing”? AI transforms promotion as taste becomes the new competitive edge
AI-powered marketing has evolved beyond traditional data-driven approaches with the emergence of "Vibe Marketing," a new paradigm where emotional connection and intuitive execution take precedence over demographics and keywords. This shift represents a fundamental transformation in how creative campaigns are conceived and delivered, enabled by AI tools that eliminate the traditional barriers between imagination and execution. What you should know: Vibe Marketing starts with feelings and cultural references rather than traditional metrics, using AI to translate emotions directly into visual and written assets. Instead of beginning with keywords or demographics, marketers now start with a mood, emotion, or cultural reference...
read Sep 4, 2025Apple partners with Google to power AI search for Siri in 2026
Apple is developing an AI-powered search engine tool called "World Knowledge Answers" that will integrate into Siri and launch as early as spring 2026, according to Bloomberg's Mark Gurman. The search engine will be powered by Google's AI technology through a new partnership agreement, potentially giving Apple's struggling AI efforts the boost they need to compete with ChatGPT and other AI search tools. What you should know: The new search engine aims to transform Siri into a more capable AI assistant that can answer complex internet queries using multiple content types. The tool will handle text, photos, videos, and "local...
read Sep 4, 2025MagicDoor raises $4.5M to automate property management for small landlords, petty bourgeois
MagicDoor, an AI-driven property management platform, has raised $4.5 million in seed funding led by Okapi Venture Capital and Shadow Ventures. The platform addresses a critical gap for small landlords and independent property managers who have been underserved by traditional software designed for large institutional portfolios, offering automated solutions for everything from listing vacancies to maintenance dispatching and tenant communication. What you should know: MagicDoor transforms property management into a unified, AI-powered experience that handles routine tasks automatically. The platform allows landlords to communicate their needs, then takes over by prioritizing requests, dispatching vendors, and keeping tenants informed in their...
read Sep 4, 2025Sam Altman blows more air into notion that AI stocks are in a dangerous bubble
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman is once again cautioning investors about excessive artificial intelligence hype, warning that sky-high expectations for AI stocks could lead to significant disappointment. Despite being bullish on AI's transformative potential, Altman believes the market is currently overexcited about the technology's near-term impact, echoing concerns he first raised during GPT-4's development when he said "people are begging to be disappointed." The big picture: Altman acknowledges the market appears to be in an AI bubble, with many stocks trading at unsustainable valuations that don't align with current business fundamentals. "Are we in a phase where investors as a whole...
read Sep 4, 2025OpenAI acquires Statsig for $1.1B to boost ChatGPT development
OpenAI has acquired product development startup Statsig for $1.1 billion, marking one of the company's largest acquisitions to date as it continues expanding ChatGPT's capabilities. The deal brings Statsig's A/B testing and real-time data analysis platform directly into OpenAI's operations, while Statsig CEO Vijaye Raji will join OpenAI as technology chief for the applications unit. What you should know: Statsig specializes in experimentation platforms that power A/B testing, feature flagging, and real-time decision-making for major companies. The Seattle-based startup was already working alongside OpenAI to test features and integrate real-time data into daily operations before the acquisition. "As part of...
read Sep 4, 2025An AI assistant for the nursing assistant: Nursa unveils time-saving scheduling tool with voice commands
Nursa has launched an AI-powered scheduling assistant that enables healthcare facilities to post nursing shifts within seconds using voice commands, photo uploads, or file imports. The tool, called Nursa Intelligence Assistant (NIA), addresses a critical bottleneck in healthcare staffing by automating the repetitive data entry that traditionally slows down shift posting for facilities managing hundreds of shifts monthly. How it works: NIA offers three methods for creating shift listings within Nursa's nationwide nursing platform. Healthcare coordinators can speak directly to the AI assistant, describing their shift requirements in natural language. They can photograph handwritten shift information or scheduling notes, which...
read Sep 3, 2025MIT’s FlowER AI predicts chemical reactions while conserving physics
MIT researchers have developed FlowER (Flow matching for Electron Redistribution), a new generative AI system that predicts chemical reactions while maintaining fundamental physical constraints like conservation of mass and electrons. The breakthrough addresses a critical limitation in existing AI models that often violate basic scientific principles by creating or destroying atoms during reaction predictions, potentially revolutionizing drug discovery and materials science. The big picture: Previous AI attempts at reaction prediction have struggled because they ignore fundamental physics, leading to scientifically impossible outcomes where atoms appear or disappear during reactions. Large language models like ChatGPT use computational "tokens" to represent atoms,...
read Sep 3, 2025Cornell dropout at helm of Orchard Robotics raises $22M for AI-powered fruit farm monitoring
Orchard Robotics, founded by Cornell dropout and Thiel Fellow Charlie Wu, has raised $22 million in Series A funding led by Quiet Capital and Shine Capital to expand its AI-powered farm vision technology. The startup uses tractor-mounted cameras and artificial intelligence to help fruit growers precisely monitor crop health, addressing a critical gap where even the largest U.S. farms rely on manual sampling to make crucial operational decisions. The founder's story: Wu was inspired by his apple farmer grandparents in China and discovered the agricultural technology gap while studying computer science at Cornell University, a leading agriculture school.• "I got...
read Sep 3, 2025Where the sidewalk ends…and AI begins: Serve Robotics acquires Vayu to boost last-mile delivery
Serve Robotics has acquired Vayu Robotics to enhance its autonomous sidewalk delivery capabilities through advanced AI foundation models and simulation technology. The acquisition combines Serve's real-world operational experience and sidewalk dataset with Vayu's expertise in AI modeling and scalable simulation-powered data engines, positioning the company to accelerate deployment of delivery robots nationwide while working toward its goal of reducing delivery costs to $1. What you should know: The acquisition strengthens Serve's position in autonomous delivery by merging complementary technologies and expertise. Serve brings proven operational depth with an established autonomy stack and extensive real-world sidewalk navigation data collected from current...
read Sep 3, 2025Huawei unveils 245TB AI SSDs to bypass costly HBM restrictions
Huawei has unveiled three new AI SSDs designed to reduce reliance on expensive high-bandwidth memory (HBM), addressing supply restrictions that Chinese firms face in accessing advanced memory chips. The OceanDisk series includes the industry's largest SSD at 245TB capacity, positioning solid-state storage as a partial alternative to costly HBM in AI workloads. What you should know: Huawei's new OceanDisk series targets the "memory wall" and "capacity wall" problems that currently bottleneck AI training and inference performance. The OceanDisk EX 560 delivers extreme performance with 1,500K IOPS write speeds, sub-7µs latency, and can increase fine-tunable model parameters on a single machine...
read Sep 3, 2025OpenAI launches “OpenAI for Science” platform powered by GPT-5
OpenAI is launching "OpenAI for Science," an AI-powered platform designed to accelerate scientific discovery, according to Chief Product Officer Kevin Weil. The initiative will leverage GPT-5 and hire "AI-pilled" academics to build what the company calls "the next great scientific instrument," though the project timeline remains unclear. What you should know: The platform aims to automate key aspects of the scientific research process using OpenAI's latest model capabilities. GPT-5 will play a central role in the effort, with Weil citing its ability to suggest ideas for theoretical physics proofs as evidence of its scientific potential. OpenAI plans to hire a...
read Sep 3, 2025Google Gemini replaces Assistant on Home devices starting in October
Google has announced that Gemini will replace Google Assistant on Google Home devices starting October 1, 2025, marking the end of an era for the company's original voice assistant. The integration promises more natural conversations through Gemini Live and enhanced automation capabilities, though questions remain about which features will require paid subscriptions. What you should know: Google first announced Gemini integration for smart home devices at its I/O event in May, but has now set a firm launch date. Users can sign up for updates through a link Google posted on X to know when Gemini becomes available on their...
read Sep 3, 2025Oneshotted: 70% of customers consider switching brands after one bad AI experience
Companies are facing a "Trust Recession" where customers increasingly lose confidence in AI-powered customer service, despite technological advances promising better experiences. This erosion of trust is becoming a significant business risk, as frustrated customers abandon purchases and switch brands after poor AI interactions, with 70% considering brand switching after just one negative AI service experience. The big picture: Traditional customer service automation has prioritized efficiency over relationship-building, creating digital barriers that make customers feel companies are actively avoiding them rather than helping. Amazon's satisfaction scores have plunged despite its reputation for service excellence, largely due to over-reliance on automation and...
read Sep 3, 2025AI even comes for pizza as Ooni’s new Volt 2 oven perfects indoor cooking
Ooni, a UK-based pizza oven manufacturer, has unveiled the Volt 2, an indoor pizza oven featuring "Pizza Intelligence," an AI-powered adaptive heating system that uses sensors to automatically adjust temperature and minimize cooking inconsistencies. The countertop appliance represents the company's push to bring smart automation to home pizza making, targeting enthusiasts seeking restaurant-quality results without the guesswork. What you should know: The Volt 2 combines traditional pizza oven capabilities with automated temperature control for more consistent cooking results. The oven accommodates pizzas up to 13 inches in diameter while remaining compact enough for countertop use. Pizza Intelligence uses sensor data...
read Sep 3, 2025Wix launches AI email assistant that creates marketing campaigns through chat
Wix has introduced Email Assistant, a generative AI tool that drafts and designs marketing emails through conversational interaction. The new feature allows users to chat with the AI to create complete email campaigns, including layout, visuals, messaging, and design elements, while pulling from previously stored business data to personalize content. What you should know: Email Assistant streamlines the entire email creation process by combining AI-generated content with flexible design capabilities.• Users can describe their campaign goals, tone of voice, and other requirements through natural conversation with the AI.• The tool generates complete email drafts with relevant sections, copy, and visuals...
read Sep 3, 2025PayPal offers 430M users free $200 Perplexity AI browser trial
PayPal and Venmo users in the U.S. and select global markets will receive early access to Perplexity's new AI-powered Comet browser through a free 12-month trial of the startup's Pro subscription, worth $200 annually. This partnership gives the Nvidia-backed AI search company access to PayPal's 430 million users while positioning PayPal's new subscriptions hub as a gateway for premium digital services. What you should know: The collaboration marks one of the first major offerings in PayPal's newly launched subscriptions management hub, which helps users track and manage recurring payments. Users can sign up for Perplexity Pro directly through the PayPal...
read Sep 3, 2025Google avoids Chrome breakup but must share search index data
US District Judge Amit Mehta has ruled that Google can keep Chrome and continue paying browser developers for default search placement, but must share search index data with competitors at marginal cost. The decision, stemming from Google's antitrust case, represents a significantly lighter penalty than the Department of Justice had sought, with the judge citing AI search engines as a growing competitive threat that could naturally erode Google's market dominance. The big picture: Mehta's 230-page ruling reflects his belief that generative AI companies are already better positioned to compete with Google than traditional search engines have been in decades. "The...
read Sep 2, 2025“The Morning Show’s” Reese Witherspoon urges women to embrace AI as filmmaking’s future
Reese Witherspoon is urging women to get involved in artificial intelligence, calling it "the future of filmmaking" and emphasizing that industry change is inevitable. Speaking to Glamour magazine while promoting "The Morning Show's" fourth season, the Oscar winner positioned AI adoption as both unstoppable and essential for women's participation in Hollywood's evolution. What she's saying: Witherspoon views AI integration as an unavoidable reality that requires proactive female involvement rather than resistance. "It's so, so important that women are involved in AI because it will be the future of filmmaking," Witherspoon said. "And you can be sad and lament it all...
read Sep 2, 2025Amazon’s Lens Live turns your phone camera’s wandering eye into an AI shopping tool
Amazon has launched Lens Live, a new AI-powered shopping feature that lets users point their camera at objects in their environment to find matching products on Amazon's marketplace. The feature represents Amazon's latest push to integrate AI into the shopping experience, potentially transforming how consumers discover and purchase products by making any visible object a potential shopping trigger. What you should know: Lens Live uses real-time object detection to identify products captured by your camera and surfaces similar items from Amazon's billions of product listings. The feature is currently rolling out exclusively to the Amazon Shopping app on iOS, with...
read Sep 2, 2025Apple loses key AI researchers as 10 team members join rivals
Apple's AI talent exodus has accelerated with four new high-profile departures to rival companies, including the loss of its Lead AI Researcher for Robotics to Meta. The brain drain threatens Apple's efforts to catch up in artificial intelligence and could force the company to rely more heavily on external partnerships rather than homegrown AI development. What you should know: Meta has successfully recruited Jian Zhang, Apple's Lead AI Researcher for Robotics, to join its Robotics Studio despite the company's broader hiring freeze. Zhang led a small team of academics focused on automation technology and AI's role in robotics products at...
read Sep 2, 2025Will AI not destroy art but spark a creative renaissance dubbed “generativism”?
Psychology Today contributor Moses Ma argues that artificial intelligence will not destroy artistic expression but will instead catalyze a new creative renaissance, much like photography did in the 19th century. Drawing parallels to the modernist era's response to technological disruption, Ma proposes that AI will liberate humanity from the "tyranny of talent" and democratize artistic creation while pushing serious artists to redefine their craft. The big picture: History shows that technological threats to art typically expand rather than eliminate creative expression, with photography's invention in 1839 ultimately leading to an explosion of new art movements like Impressionism and Cubism. What...
read Sep 2, 2025Michigan political science professor Erik Trump to examine AI’s impact on reading, research skills
Erik Trump, a political science professor at Saginaw Valley State University, will deliver a lecture titled "AI Reading, Writing, and Research: What's Left Behind for Us?" on September 24 at Hoyt Public Library in Saginaw, Michigan. The presentation will examine whether artificial intelligence represents a pivotal moment for public knowledge, literacy, and libraries, addressing both contemporary concerns and long-standing cultural anxieties about AI's impact on fundamental learning processes. What you should know: The lecture will explore AI's influence on reading, writing, and research while demonstrating actual AI tools during the presentation. Trump serves as director of the Center for Excellence...
read Sep 2, 2025AI shopping traffic surged 4,700% in July 2025, Adobe reports
Adobe's latest data reveals that AI-powered shopping traffic to U.S. retail sites surged 4,700% year-over-year in July 2025, based on analysis of over one trillion visits to retail websites. This dramatic growth signals that generative AI discovery tools—systems that help consumers research products using conversational interfaces—are rapidly becoming central to how consumers find deals and make purchasing decisions, fundamentally reshaping the retail landscape. What you should know: AI-referred shoppers demonstrate significantly more engaged behavior than traditional traffic sources. These consumers spend 32% longer on retail sites, view 10% more pages, and bounce 27% less than visitors from other channels. The...
read Sep 2, 2025Anthropic raises $13B, valuation nearly triples to $183B
Anthropic has raised $13 billion in a new funding round that values the AI startup at $183 billion, nearly tripling its valuation from $61.5 billion just six months ago. The massive valuation surge reflects the unprecedented investor appetite for artificial intelligence companies, as tech giants and venture capital firms pour hundreds of billions into AI development amid questions about the sustainability of the current boom. The big picture: AI spending has reached record heights in 2024, with five major companies—Amazon, Google, Meta, Microsoft, and OpenAI—planning to spend over $300 billion combined on data centers for AI development before year-end.• That's...
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