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Turning off AI training doesn't stop feedback buttons from sharing your data—and that's actually smart design. Actions should override settings when users explicitly volunteer information for product improvement.

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You Turned Off Training—But Thumbs-Up Still Sends Your Data

Consumer AI privacy is a setting. Your feedback is an action. And here's the uncomfortable truth: actions should override settings when users...

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Global data center investment reaches record $61B in 2025 amid AI boom. We examine whether this construction frenzy is visionary infrastructure or spectacular overspending.

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Data Center Investment Hits $61B: Building Infrastructure for Profits That Don't Exist Yet

Data center investment worldwide hit $61 billion in 2025, according to S&P Global—a record atop last year's $60.8 billion. Analysts describe a...

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Wharton professor Ethan Mollick explains why AI's uneven capabilities create bottlenecks—and why sudden breakthroughs change everything when those bottlenecks break.

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Ethan Mollick on AI's Jagged Frontier: Why Bottlenecks Matter More Than Benchmarks

Ethan Mollick, Wharton professor and author of Co-Intelligence, just published essential analysis on what he calls AI's "Jagged Frontier"—the...

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Google's NotebookLM adds Data Tables to synthesize scattered information into structured formats. We examine whether this feature justifies the subscription cost.

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NotebookLM's Data Tables: Google Solves a Problem You Didn't Know You Had

Google just announced Data Tables for NotebookLM—a feature that "synthesizes your sources into clean, structured tables, ready for export to Google...

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Legacy data centers can't support AI chip racks that are too heavy for existing infrastructure, driving a massive buildout instead of retrofits. We examine why physical weight limits are reshaping the AI infrastructure race.

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AI Chip Racks Are Too Heavy for Data Center Floors

The AI boom has a gloriously mundane bottleneck: the floors can't hold the weight. According to The Verge's reporting, data centers built before the...

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FullStory provides session replay and behavioral analytics for digital product teams. Learn what it does well, where it falls short, and whether it's worth the investment.

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FullStory: Behavior Analytics That Help Product Teams Make Decisions

Your analytics dashboard shows users dropping off at checkout. You know the problem exists. You don't know why it's happening. This gap between...

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OpenAI disclosed a security incident at Mixpanel exposing API user data—no passwords or API keys compromised, but vendor risk just became everyone's problem.

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OpenAI's Mixpanel Breach: When Your Analytics Partner Becomes Your Liability

OpenAI published a security disclosure on November 26 about an incident that happened at Mixpanel, the analytics provider they used for web analytics...

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OpenAI warns White House that electricity is

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OpenAI Just Told the White House That Electricity Is the New Oil

OpenAI didn't send the White House a polite memo. They sent a formal pitch with a thesis so blunt it belongs on a protest sign: electricity is the...

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OpenAI commits $1.4 trillion to data centers, targeting a

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OpenAI Just Bet $1.4 Trillion That AI Researchers Will Replace Themselves

OpenAI isn't building data centers. They're building monuments. The company just committed $1.4 trillion—yes, with a T—to roughly 30 gigawatts of...

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OpenAI, Oracle, and SoftBank are investing $500B in Stargate, a 10-gigawatt AI data center project. Is this visionary infrastructure—or a massive bet on yesterday's bottleneck?

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The Stargate Project Is a $500 Billion Bet That Scale Still Matters

OpenAI, Oracle, and Vantage Data Centers announced this week they're building a new AI data center campus in Port Washington, Wisconsin—part of the...

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Microsoft's $50 billion Fairwater AI datacenter reveals the geopolitical chess match behind AI infrastructure, with major implications for marketing leaders planning AI-dependent strategies.

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Microsoft Unveils Fairwater, a 315-Acre AI Datacenter

Microsoft just unveiled Fairwater, a 315-acre AI datacenter in Wisconsin that processes 865,000 tokens per second and requires the second-largest...

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Ethan Mollick celebrates

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The Mass Intelligence Mirage: Why Billion-Person AI Access Is a Bug, Not a Feature

Ethan Mollick wants us to celebrate. More than a billion people now use AI chatbots regularly, with ChatGPT alone boasting "over 700 million weekly...

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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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