AI Agents Are Killing Brand Loyalty — And Reshaping How We Shop As AI agents start making purchase decisions, brands are losing direct influence. The power is shifting — determine how you’ll stay relevant in a world where bots buy for people. Read more
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AI Tools Reach Massive Scale: ChatGPT Leads with 4.7B Monthly Visits
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AI tool usage at scale is here. ChatGPT: 4.7B monthly visits (Jan 2025)
Canva: 887M
Google Translate: 595M
DeepSeek: 268M (massive surge) http://
Character.AI: 226M
Perplexity: 133M
Gemini: 118M
Claude: 105M AI isn’t a trend anymore — it’s infrastructure. What’s your #1 -
AI Slop Era Shifts Marketing Toward Authentic Human Connection
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I think it’s simpler than that. In a world of ai slop you need to sell in human connection. I expect traditional perfect photo shots to do down and what we right now call candid influencer and celebrity marketing to go up a lot. If everything is perfect nothing is. If faces
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Closing Digital Divide Through Satellite Fiber Public-Private Partnerships
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Speed up the digital divide closure with public-private satellite & fiber projects, tax incentives for rural rollout, and global funds focused on affordable access.
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LeCun: LLMs Not a Bubble but Limited Alone
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Yann LeCun affirme que les LLM ne sont pas une bulle, ni en termes de valeur ni d’investissement : ils vont faire tourner énormément d’applications utiles et justifier les infrastructures massives qu’on construit aujourd’hui.
— VISION IA (@vision_ia) 30 novembre 2025
Selon lui, la vraie bulle, c’est de croire que les… pic.twitter.com/zNTE3ONXisYann LeCun asserts that LLMs are not a bubble, neither in terms of value nor investment: they will power a vast array of useful applications and justify the massive infrastructures we're building today. According to him, the real bubble is the belief that LLMs, on their own,
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Agentic AI and Explainable Models Drive Business Automation in 2025
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The rise of agentic AI and explainable models means smarter, transparent automation for businesses. AI and machine learning trends in 2025 https://
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Human Ambition and AI-First Differentiation Empowering Microsoft Customers
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How human ambition and AI-first differentiation are helping @Microsoft customers go further with AI https://
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8/becoming-frontier-how-human-ambition-and-ai-first-differentiation-are-helping-microsoft-customers-go-further-with-ai/@ADNOCGroup
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China’s open-source AI models thriving
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China's open-source AI models thriving! Via @Forbes https://
search.app/aycMs #OpenSource #artificial_intelligence #AI #roboticstech #robotics #LLM @AlbertoEMachado @Eli_Krumova @postoff25 @Khulood_Almani @anand_narang @NutritiousMind @baski_LA @TanyaSinha_ @devaang @AlAmadi1 -

9 AI Skills That Will Matter in 2026 Beyond ChatGPT
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9 AI skills that will actually matter in 2026
(not just “use ChatGPT”) Prompt engineering RAG pipelines Agentic workflows Fine-tuning & distillation LLM evaluation & red-teaming Cost & latency optimization Tool calling + function calling Multimodal -
Google’s Unexpected Dominance at the Tech Party
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Satya invited Google to the party to "make it dance" But then it turned out Google was a level-99 kinesthetic savant that mastered breakdancing on the spot and stole the whole show