📈 How are companies using AI?

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➜ AI Shopping Recs. Amazon is diving deeper into personalized commerce by using generative AI to automate product recommendations. This tech aims to boost product discovery and make browsing more intuitive, signaling a big leap in how shoppers interact with the platform.
Retail Dive

➜ AI Agents for Accounting. AvidXchange is introducing new AI agents to modernize invoice processing. These agents automate document handling, accelerate approvals, and help finance teams cut through tedious back-office work with streamlined workflows.
Finextra

➜ Agentic AI vs. Financial Crime. NICE Actimize has upgraded its X-Sight platform with agentic AI to help financial institutions investigate fraud more efficiently. The AI digs through complex data to identify patterns, generate insights, and guide human investigators faster than ever.
BusinessWire

➜ B2B Payments, Streamlined. Transcard is applying agentic AI to simplify B2B payment processes. The AI supports tasks like invoice matching, reconciliation, and real-time payment routing—making old-school back-office ops a thing of the past.
PYMNTS

➜ The AI Matchmaker. Tinder is testing an AI chatbot that acts as your dating wingman. The bot helps users improve their bios, draft conversation starters, and even prep for dates—blurring the lines between dating app and digital life coach.
Morning Brew

💡 What are the nerds up to?

➜ AI Goes to College. Anthropic launched a university-focused tier for its Claude chatbot. The goal? Support students and educators with AI tools designed for research, tutoring, and academic productivity.
TechCrunch

➜ Creating Something Out of Nothing. Adobe’s new “Generative Extend” lets video editors stretch scenes using AI—literally. Need more footage to fill a gap? The tool fills in the blanks with consistent, high-quality video generated from existing frames.
Adobe

➜ The AI Movie Director. Runway unveiled Gen-4, the latest version of its AI video generator. The new model offers hyper-realistic visuals and dynamic camera motion, making it a game-changer for indie filmmakers and digital creators.
The Verge

➜ AI Source Hunter. Google’s NotebookLM now features a “Discover Sources” function—letting users trace where AI-generated info comes from. It’s a major step toward transparency in AI research assistants.
9to5Google

➜ The LLM Reality Check. GPT, Gemini, Grok, and Mistral still hallucinate links, invent quotes, and botch basic facts. Even the best gets sources right only half the time. Knowledge graphs won’t save them—and when a better model emerges, LLM-heavy companies could crash hard.
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