📈 How are companies using AI?

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➜ Ditching Old Data for AI Predictions. Crunchbase has declared historical data obsolete and relaunched as an AI-powered predictions engine. Instead of relying on past funding trends, its new AI model forecasts which startups will succeed based on real-time signals.
Finextra

➜ AI Assistant Manages Your Money. For the first time in Spain, BBVA is rolling out an AI-powered virtual assistant that helps customers manage accounts and credit cards. Forget manual transfers—AI is now automating financial decisions in real time.
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➜ AI Predicts the Perfect Price. Walmart is deploying an AI-powered price forecasting tool to optimize pricing and promotions. The goal? Maximize sales while keeping customers happy—because no one likes realizing they overpaid for paper towels.
Retail Dive

➜ AI Wants to Be Your Dungeon Master. Microsoft is developing "Gaming Muse," a generative AI model designed to create dialogue, quests, and game narratives on the fly. This will bring AI-generated storylines that evolve with player choices—no more waiting for DLCs.
The Verge

➜ Turning Text Into Audiobooks. Spotify is partnering with ElevenLabs to generate audiobooks using AI voices. Whether this will revolutionize publishing or just flood the market with robotic narrators remains to be seen.
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💡 What are the nerds up to?

➜ Elon Musk’s AI Thinks It’s a Genius. xAI just launched Grok-3, a large model focused on "big brain reasoning" (whatever that means). Musk claims it’s getting closer to artificial general intelligence—critics aren’t so sure.
The Verge

➜ AI Employees Are Coming. OpenAI’s latest move? Rolling out its autonomous AI agent tool—Agent Operator—to more countries. Expect more businesses delegating tasks to AI employees.
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➜ AI Observability Gets a Head Start. Arize AI is betting big on being the first-mover in AI observability, helping companies detect and fix AI hallucinations before they go viral. It’s AI watching AI, what could go wrong?
TechCrunch

➜ Solving a Decade-Old Superbug Mystery in 2 Days. Google’s ‘co-scientist’ AI stunned researchers by cracking an unpublished hypothesis in record time. This could mean a future where AI accelerates medical breakthroughs faster than ever.
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➜ Let's Translate the Internet. A new tool, Lingo Dev, is making it easier for developers to translate and localize apps—because nothing kills an app faster than bad translations.
TechCrunch

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