43% of CEOs plan to cut junior roles in the next two years, up from 17% last year. However, at the same time, only 27% say their AI investments have met expectations – down from 38%. Yet. The small group of companies that ARE seeing real AI ROI are actually more likely to hire
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Google Gemini 3.2 Flash-lite-live cheaper real-time model
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GOOGLE : Traces of Gemini 3.2 Flash-lite-live have been spotted on Google Cloud Console. Even cheaper real-time model?
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Anthropic Targets 44% of US GDP with AI
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Anthropic has just set its sights on the 44% of U.S. GDP that enterprise AI has largely overlooked. Claude for Small Business launched this week, featuring 15 prebuilt agentic workflows and 15 skills integrated directly with QuickBooks, PayPal, HubSpot, Canva, DocuSign, and Google Workspace.
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The AI Orchestrator: Tomorrow’s Profession
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The job of the future: AI orchestrator. For every task, deciding between 15 models based on 4 variables: intelligence, cost per token, hallucination rate, and latency. Between Claude Opus at $15 per million tokens and the Chinese Qwen at $0.50, there’s a 30x difference. Multiplied by…
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AI Agents-as-a-Service: The Next Big Shift
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The Next Big AI Shift Is Selling Digital Workers-As-A-Service #Agentic AI-as-a-Service could make autonomous #AI #agents far easier for businesses to adopt, helping them skip major technical hurdles and move faster from experimentation to real value. This article explains why
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Local AI surges with GGUF models
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Local AI is experiencing a major boom! Here’s the number of new GGUF models created each month over the past 8 months, along with insights from our internal HF agent (May data is partial): – 176,000 total public GGUF models on HF – Two distinct phases: Oct–Feb averaged ~5.1K new GGUF models per month
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Future Relevance to Sales, Profits, and Stock Growth
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It will eventually turn relevance to the future into sales and profits. Then the stock will go up. 🙂
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AI UGC’s rapid commodification and startup lifecycle
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OpenAI debuted several big updates for @ChatGPTapp ads, including a beta self-serve Ads Manager, new CPC bidding, conversion tracking, etc. For @Inc
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Crypto Regulation Act Could Boost Market, Institutional Capital, Bitcoin
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C’mon BBC. Zilis was sharp as a tack on the stand, on her role in the OpenAI *nonprofit* board, and how she managed conflicts as they began to develop, and this (which is not really even news since it was reported a couple years ago) is the headline. Annoying, sexist, and
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Steve Jobs taunted Nokia CEO about iPhone’s camera and radios
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I don't think they'll be taking Q&A so I'll ask here: @jarredsumner do you end up actually reading all of that chatter between the review bots on a PR?