Bending Spoons to acquire early internet pioneer AOL
John Reynolds / tech - Bending Spoons, the acquisitive Italian software conglomerate, is acquiring AOL, one of the internet’s most well known early companies.Bending Spoons is buying AOL from Yahoo, which is backed by priva...
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Grammarly Rebrands to Superhuman and Launches New AI Suite
Laurent Giret / thurrott - Grammarly is rebranding to Superhuman and launching the Superhuman suite, which includes its popular proof-reading tool, Coda, Superhuman Mail, and a new Superhuman Go AI assistant.The post Grammarly Rebrands to Superhuman and Launches New AI Suite appear…
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Berlin’s AnyTax Raises €1M Pre-seed To Launch Embedded Tax Solutions For Financial Platforms
Kailee Rainse / startuprise - Berlin-based AnyTax has raised €1 million in pre-seed funding to develop its embedded tax infrastructure for financial platforms, emerging from stealth this week. The funding round attracted investors from the financial, tax, and accounting sectors, inclu…
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Zurich-based Qala Raises €1.7M To Boost Enterprise Data Governance
Kailee Rainse / startuprise - Switzerland-based Qala AG, a startup transforming enterprise data visibility and governance, has raised €1.7 million in pre-seed funding to advance its source-level data observability and compliance platform. The round was led by QBIT Capital and Haatch, …
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Elon Musk launches Grokipedia, an AI-written rival to Wikipedia
techspot - Elon Musk has introduced Grokipedia, a digital encyclopedia that relies on artificial intelligence rather than human editors to compile and update entries. The new platform, developed through his artificial intelligence company xAI, marks his most direct …
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Chegg replaces CEO and cuts 45% of staff as AI decimates its one-time $12 billion business
techspot - Having started as a digital and physical textbook rental service, Chegg later expanded to offer homework help, tutoring, and study tools. It offers subscription services that cost between $15 and $20 per month.Read Entire Article
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AI Shopping: PayPal and OpenAI Partner to Bring Instant Checkout to ChatGPT
Markus Kasanmascheff / winbuzzer - PayPal is partnering with OpenAI to embed its digital wallet and an 'Instant Checkout' feature into ChatGPT, escalating the AI commerce race against Walmart and Microsoft.The post AI Shopping: PayPal and OpenAI Partner to Bring Instant Checkout to ChatGPT…
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X to Retire Twitter.com Domain for Good
Laurent Giret / thurrott - X/Twitter is urging users who set up two-factor authentication with a security key to make some changes, as it’s preparing to fully retire the twitter.com domain.The post X to Retire Twitter.com Domain for Good appeared first on Thurrott.com.
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Amazon Explains How Its AWS Outage Took Down the Web
Matt Burgess, Lily Hay Newman / wired - Plus: The Jaguar Land Rover hack sets an expensive new record, OpenAI’s new Atlas browser raises security fears, Starlink cuts off scam compounds, and more.
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'Fantastic Four: First Steps': Release Date and Time on Disney Plus
Meara Isenberg / cnet - The final Marvel superhero flick of 2025 is hitting the Disney streaming service soon.
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Amazon calls on AI once again with its new ‘Help Me Decide’ shopping tool
Matt Tate / engadget - People are evidently never buying quite enough stuff from Amazon to keep the company entirely happy, and it's calling on AI once again to push indecisive shoppers into locking down the purchase they’ve been eyeing up. The new tool, which Amazon calls Help…
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Irish co-founded fintech Paygentic raises $2m in seed round
Suhasini Srinivasaragavan / siliconrepublic - Paygentic co-founder Susan O'Neill is a member of the Fintech Ireland advisory council.Read more: Irish co-founded fintech Paygentic raises $2m in seed round
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Volta Raises €5M To Transform B2B Commerce With AI
Kailee Rainse / startuprise - Volta, a French–Italian startup, has raised €5 million in a round led by RTP Global. Pascal Houillon, former CEO of Cegid and Sage, joined the round alongside existing investors Emblem, Robin Capital and Founders Future. Coming less than a year after an i…
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Yelp is getting more AI, including an upgraded chatbot
Anna Washenko / engadget - AI is the star of Yelp's fall product update. The review site has updated Yelp Assistant, its chatbot to answer users' questions, rolling the tool out for all business categories. Its responses will draw on information from the business' website as well a…
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Wikipedia Says It's Losing Traffic Due to AI Summaries, Social Media Videos
Julian Dossett / cnet - The popular online encyclopedia saw an 8% drop in pageviews over the last few months.
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Verizon appoints a new CEO for the ‘next phase’ after its 5G rollout
Emma Roth / theverge - Verizon has picked former PayPal head Dan Schulman to serve as its new CEO as the company enters its “next phase” of growth, Verizon board chair Mark Bertolini says in the Monday announcement. Starting today, Schulman will replace outgoing CEO Hans Vestbe…
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Amazon announces new Kindle Scribes including one with a color screen
Andrew Liszewski / theverge - Amazon announced new versions of the Kindle Scribe today including the Kindle Scribe Colorsoft featuring a larger version of the customized E Ink screen technology that Amazon uses in its color e-reader. The new Scribes feature a major redesign that does …
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OpenAI introduces Instant Checkout feature in ChatGPT
OpenAI has integrated an Instant Checkout feature directly into ChatGPT, enabling users to complete purchases without leaving the chatbot. The streamlined shopping experience kicks off with partners like Etsy and Shopify, signaling yet another bold stride in ChatGPT’s evolution beyond conversation into commerce.
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AI ‘Workslop’ Is Killing Productivity and Making Workers Miserable
Jason Koebler / 404media - AI slop is taking over workplaces. Workers said that they thought of their colleagues who filed low-quality AI work as "less creative, capable, and reliable than they did before receiving the output."
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Oracle names Clay Magouyrk and Mike Sicilia as co-CEOs
cnbc - Oracle is promoting its presidents of cloud infrastructure, Clay Magouyrk, and industries, Mike Sicilia, to co-CEOs, the company announced Monday.
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