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PromptQL's $900/hour AI engineers are disrupting the $371 billion consulting market with technical expertise that delivers results—not just PowerPoint decks.

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PromptQL's $900/HEour AI Engineers Shake Up the $371 Billion Consulting Market

The consulting industry's dirty secret is finally out: 95% of enterprise AI projects fail to deliver measurable ROI. While McKinsey, Deloitte, and...

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AlterEgo's

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AlterEgo's "Telepathic" Wearable

We've seen this movie before. A MIT spinout emerges with a slick demo video, promises to bridge the impossible gap between thought and technology,...

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ASML invests $1.5B in Mistral AI for 11% stake, making it Europe's most valuable AI company. But is this strategic brilliance or expensive continental wishful thinking?

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ASML Just Bet $1.5 Billion on Europe's AI Dreams. We're Not Convinced.

When the world's most important semiconductor equipment maker drops $1.5 billion on an AI startup that's worth less than OpenAI's quarterly coffee...

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Why Silicon Valley's predictions about AR glasses and wearables replacing smartphones miss the mark—plus what marketers should actually expect from AI-powered mobile devices in 2025.

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Could AI Make Smartphones Obsolete?

Here we go again. Every September, like clockwork, some breathless pundit declares the smartphone "passé" while Apple quietly prepares to sell...

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Anker's $99 Soundcore Work AI recorder shrinks to coin size for

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Anker's Coin-Sized Voice Recording Device

Nothing says "trust me, this isn't creepy" like designing a recording device specifically to be invisible. Anker's new Soundcore Work manages to cram...

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Intuit's AI transformation from chatbot disaster to agentic success reveals the enterprise playbook everyone's been waiting for. Here's how they burned the boats and built something useful.

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Intuit's $200B Lesson: How to Kill the Chatbot and Build AI That Actually Works

Sometimes the most valuable lessons come wrapped in spectacular failures. Intuit's initial AI launch—a chatbot bolted onto QuickBooks like a digital...

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Tencent's R-Zero framework enables AI models to train themselves without human-labeled data, using co-evolving

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The Self-Teaching Revolution: Tencent's R-Zero Framework

The most profound breakthrough in AI development just emerged from Tencent's labs, and it's not another giant model or fancy interface—it's the...

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Google's new AI avatars, Veo 3 pricing, and NotebookLM upgrades represent a shrewd multimedia strategy that marketers should embrace, not fear.

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Google's New AI Avatars, Veo 3 Pricing, and NotebookLM Upgrades

Sometimes the most profound shifts happen while everyone's looking elsewhere. While we've been obsessing over ChatGPT's latest parlor tricks and...

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Microsoft Copilot on Samsung TVs represents a concerning escalation in living room surveillance, combining existing smart TV data collection with comprehensive AI-powered behavioral profiling.

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Samsung TVs Now Come With Copilot

So Microsoft has decided to plant their AI assistant in your Samsung TV, complete with a cute little animated avatar that "lip-syncs as it speaks"...

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Microsoft's open-source VibeVoice-1.5B generates 90 minutes of multi-speaker dialogue for free, challenging ElevenLabs' premium TTS monopoly with MIT-licensed breakthrough technology.

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Microsoft Just Gave Away What ElevenLabs Charges $22/Month For

While ElevenLabs charges $22 monthly for multi-speaker voice generation, Microsoft just dropped VibeVoice-1.5B as a completely free, MIT-licensed...

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OpenAI retires Assistants API by August 2026 as Responses API achieves feature parity, streamlining agent development while preserving reasoning tokens across GPT-5 turns.

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OpenAI Just Killed Its First API—And It's About Time

OpenAI just did something they've never done before: officially killed one of their APIs. The Assistants API, their ambitious but perpetually beta...

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Stephen Curry joins Google as

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Google Signs Stephen Curry as 'Performance Advisor' for Pixel, Health, and AI Products

Stephen Curry isn't just pitching Google's Pixel phones—he's becoming Google's guinea pig. The tech giant announced at its Made by Google event that...

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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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