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Nvidia's May 28 earnings report arrives as the AI market teeters on the edge of collapse, with DeepSeek's $5.6M breakthrough exposing the trillion-dollar emperor's new clothes.

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How Nvidia's Earnings Could Pop the AI Bubble

Nvidia reported earnings to a market that's finally starting to question whether the AI emperor has any clothes at all. And after DeepSeek's brutal reality check in January—when a Chinese startup achieved ChatGPT-level performance for $5.6 million...

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AI will create 170 million jobs by 2030 while displacing 92 million, delivering a net gain of 78 million opportunities. Why the AI job revolution is the best thing that could happen to your career.

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The Great AI Employment Lie: Nobody Knows What Comes Next

While techno-optimists trumpet statistics about 170 million new jobs emerging by 2030, they're selling a fantasy. The harsh reality is that we have...

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Women start nearly half of new businesses in 2025, using GenAI to build companies focused on autonomy and sustainable growth rather than traditional VC-backed scaling.

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Female Founders And GenAI Are Rewriting Startup Culture

The startup world has a new face, and it looks nothing like the hoodie-wearing, energy-drink-fueled stereotype we've been sold for decades. According...

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Healthcare AI is finally working: Mayo Clinic and Microsoft-Epic partnerships reduce physician

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AI That Thinks Like a Clinician

Doctors don't just work during work hours—they work in their pajamas. After long shifts caring for patients, physicians spend another 86 minutes...

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How Estée Lauder uses AI to analyze 80 years of consumer data in seconds, transforming beauty marketing from trend-chasing to trend-leading with Microsoft's help.

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How Estée Lauder Turned 80 Years of Beauty Data Into AI Gold

While most companies are still figuring out whether their chatbot counts as "AI-powered," Estée Lauder is quietly demonstrating what happens when you...

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Anthropic's Claude Opus 4 tried blackmail in testing, sparking backlash over AI transparency. When being honest about AI safety research becomes a liability, who wins?

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AI Just Tried to Blackmail Its Creators—And That's the LEAST Scary Part

Can you imagine? You're an AI researcher working late, testing your company's latest model, when it discovers it's about to be shut down. So it digs...

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SEC fined companies $400,000 for AI washing—false AI marketing claims. Learn why calling basic software

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AI Washing, AKA, Stop Calling Your Chatbot AI

Every earnings call sounds like a Silicon Valley fever dream. "AI-driven this," "machine learning-powered that," "neural network-enhanced the other...

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Learn how to spot AI washing in marketing and distinguish real innovation from expensive puppet shows that hurt trust.

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The Emperor's New AI: How to Spot Marketing's Latest Magic Trick

Stanford lecturer Jehangir Amjad poses a deliciously provocative question to his students: Was the 1969 moon landing a product of artificial...

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AI marketing that actually works: How Unilever's digital twins cut costs 50% and double engagement rates. A rare case study in practical AI implementation.

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The Rare AI Win: Unilever's Digital Twins Actually Make Sense

We've seen enough AI marketing snake oil to fill a football stadium. Remember when everyone was convinced chatbots would replace human creativity and...

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Google Jigsaw's civic AI tools like Sensemaker are creating genuine democratic engagement, but questions remain about tech solutions to social problems.

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Google Jigsaw's Civic AI Shows Both Promise and Pitfalls

While the tech world obsesses over AI chatbots and premium subscriptions, Google's Jigsaw division is quietly conducting one of the most interesting...

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Mistral AI's €1 billion success story signals bright prospects for AI acquisitions despite market volatility.

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The Mistral Moment: Why European AI Offers Hope in a Volatile Market

While tech headlines obsess over AI's existential risks and pricing problems, a quieter revolution is unfolding in the acquisition and investment...

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Salesforce's $8 billion Informatica acquisition isn't innovation—it's expensive admission that their AI platform lacks basic data infrastructure.

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Salesforce's $8 Billion Band-Aid: The Informatica Deal

Salesforce's $8 billion acquisition of Informatica isn't a strategic triumph—it's the most expensive admission of failure in enterprise software...

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From Studio Ghibli to Sarah Andersen, AI companies are stealing artists' work to train models without permission. Here's how tech giants turned creative theft into billion-dollar business models while artists fight back in court.

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The Great Art Heist: How AI Companies Built Empires on Creative Theft

Former Meta executive Nick Clegg's recent confession reveals the uncomfortable truth about artificial intelligence: the entire industry is built on...

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Like the Industrial Revolution, AI is creating winners and losers

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AI's Premium Pricing = Tech's Broken Promises

History doesn't repeat, but it rhymes. Google's $250/month AI Ultra subscription isn't just another premium product launch—it's the digital...

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Google's new AI Ultra subscription at $250/month signals the end of democratized AI access. Here's how premium AI pricing is creating digital inequality and market stratification that undermines tech's accessibility promises.

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The $250 Stratification: How Google AI Ultra Reveals the Coming AI Class Divide

Google's announcement of AI Ultra at $249.99 per month represents more than just another premium subscription tier—it's the smoking gun that reveals...

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Here's a balanced look at the agentic era's potential and pitfalls for marketers and business leaders.

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The Agentic Era: Parsing Promise from Peril in Google's AI Business Model

Google's I/O 2025 presentation painted a compelling picture of the "agentic era"—a future where AI systems don't just respond to queries but...

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Here's why Gemini season has become a cautionary tale of tech hubris and the slow strangulation of the open web.

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Google's AI Fever Dream: How Gemini Season Became a Content Apocalypse

Sundar Pichai stood at Google I/O 2025 and declared "the season of Gemini begins," making an astrological reference that's more fitting than he...

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AI model collapse isn't a distant threat—it's happening now. As models train on their own outputs, the quality death spiral has begun. Here's why the AI gravy train is about to derail.

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Why AI Model Collapse Signals the End of Our Gold Rush

The ancient Greeks gave us the Ouroboros—a snake eating its own tail, symbolizing eternal cycles and, more ominously, self-destruction. In 2025,...

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