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Amazon reports earnings April 29. Analysts expect strong AWS numbers driven by Anthropic's explosive growth, AI demand, and a $60.6 billion stake that may boost the balance sheet significantly.

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Amazon's Q1 Earnings Could Get a Major Lift From Anthropic

Amazon reports first quarter earnings on April 29, and analysts are watching one relationship closely: the deepening financial and operational ties between Amazon Web Services and Anthropic. Anthropic's annual recurring revenue grew from $9 billion...

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Google's A2UI v0.9 is a framework-agnostic standard that lets AI agents generate real-time UI using your existing components.

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Google Released A2UI v0.9 — A Standard for AI-Generated Interfaces

Google's A2UI team shipped version 0.9 of A2UI this week — a framework-agnostic standard that allows AI agents to generate user interface components...

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Starbucks launched a beta app inside ChatGPT to help customers discover new drinks. Here's what it does, why it matters, and what it signals about AI as a retail channel.

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Starbucks Launches a ChatGPT App for Drink Discovery

Starbucks is now inside ChatGPT. The company launched a beta app in OpenAI's interface on April 15 that lets customers describe a mood, craving, or...

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LinkedIn's economic graph of over a billion members shows hiring is down 20% since 2022 — but the data doesn't point to AI as the cause. Yet. Here's what the numbers actually show.

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Hiring Is Down 20% Since 2022 — But AI Isn't the Culprit

LinkedIn has a billion-member economic graph covering companies, jobs, and skills in real time. It is among the most comprehensive labor market...

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AI agents can connect, but they can't think together. Cisco's Outshift division is building the protocols to change that — here's what shared cognition actually means and how it works.

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AI Agents Can Connect But They Can't Think Together

AI agents can be stitched into workflows. They can plug into supervisor models. They can pass outputs to one another in sequence. What they cannot do...

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UBS upgraded Tesla to Neutral and raised its price target to $352, citing the company's physical AI potential. Here's what the numbers actually show and what the pivot means.

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Tesla's Physical AI Pivot: What the UBS Numbers Tell Us

UBS upgraded Tesla from Sell to Neutral on April 14, raising its price target to $352 and pushing shares roughly 3.3% higher in a single session. The...

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The U.S. Energy Information Administration is planning a mandatory survey of data center energy use — the first of its kind. Here's what it means and why it's overdue.

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US Government Will Ask Data Centers About Power Use

For years, one of the most energy-intensive industries in the American economy has operated without any mandatory public accounting of how much...

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Snap is laying off 1,000 employees — 16% of its workforce — and explicitly citing AI as the replacement. Here's what happened, what it costs, and what it signals.

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Snap Is Laying Off 16 Percent of Its Workforce and Blaming AI

Snap announced this week that it is cutting approximately 1,000 employees — 16 percent of its total workforce — and closing more than 300 open roles....

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Major news publishers are blocking the Wayback Machine over AI scraping concerns. Now journalists and digital rights groups are fighting back — and the stakes go beyond copyright.

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News Publishers Are Limiting the Wayback Machine

The New York Times, The Guardian, and USA Today have begun restricting the Internet Archive's Wayback Machine from preserving their articles. The...

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Adobe launched CX Enterprise, an AI agent platform for digital marketing, as the company faces a 30% stock decline and growing competitive pressure from AI-native rivals.

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Adobe Launches CX Enterprise AI Agent Platform

Adobe announced CX Enterprise on Monday — an AI agent platform designed to help corporate customers automate digital marketing, customer engagement,...

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A new Harvard Business Review study found that AI models consistently produce biased, generic business strategy advice — regardless of how well you prompt them.

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Harvard Research Says AI Business Strategy Is "Trendslop"

A study published in the Harvard Business Review tested the world's leading large language models — including GPT-5, Claude, Gemini, and Grok —...

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Adobe data shows AI-referred traffic to U.S. retail sites rose 393% in Q1 2026 — and those visitors convert better, spend more, and stay longer. Here's what marketers need to know.

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AI Traffic to U.S. Retailers Rose 393% in Q1 2026

AI-referred traffic to U.S. retail websites grew 393% in the first quarter of 2026 compared to the same period a year earlier. More striking: those...

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10 AI Prompts That'll Actually Save You Time (Not Just Impress Your Coworkers)

Forget the robots-taking-over headlines. These 10 prompts will show you how to use AI for the boring stuff you actually need to get done—like writing emails that don't suck, brainstorming ideas when your brain is fried, and automating the repetitive tasks eating your day.

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