Amazon Turned Product Pages Into a Call-In Shopping Show
Amazon's new Join the chat makes shopping feel like talk radio with purchase intent. Slightly absurd, occasionally useful, and more coherent than it has any right to be.
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Netomi Raised $110 Million to Fix Customer Service at United Airlines.
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Mark Zuckerberg Is Spending $145 Billion on AI This Year. When Asked About the ROI, He Called It a “Very Technical Question.”
Meta smashed every earnings estimate, hiked its AI spending to $145 billion, and watched the stock drop 8% anyway. Zuckerberg’s explanation for the return on all that investment? “That’s a very technical question.”
Big Tech Beat Earnings. Then AI Handed Wall Street the Receipt.
Planful Wants to Forecast Your Quarter in a Chat Window
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Microsoft and OpenAI Are Now 'Official but Non-Exclusive.' The AGI Clause Got a Quiet Funeral.
Sam Altman Has Started Posting Like He Bought a Tech Talk Show Because He Did
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Amazon Turned Product Pages Into a Call-In Shopping Show
Amazon's new Join the chat makes shopping feel like talk radio with purchase intent. Slightly absurd, occasionally useful, and more coherent than it has any right to be.
Valve Wants to Turn Your Couch Into a CRPG Command Center
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Netomi Raised $110 Million to Fix Customer Service at United Airlines.
Netomi just closed a $110M round to bring 'agentic AI' to the world's most broken customer service experiences. Their clients include United Airlines. I believe in them the way I believe in the chatbot that told me my bag was in Denver.
Dex Raised $5.3M to Hire Your AI Engineers Without the LinkedIn Parade
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brainjo Raised €2 Million for ADHD VR Therapy — Finally, a Headset With Homework
