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Vinod Khosla is doubling down on the bet that one-size-fits-all websites are numbered.
Odessia was founded by Sonder's Francis Davidson; OpenAI has not said what it plans for travel.
Businesses in ChatGPT (beta) lets businesses claim verified profiles and see how often ChatGPT mentions them; US e-commerce and online-service firms can launch their own agents.
Cody Schneider walks through the data and tool setup an agent needs to do marketing work; 64k views.
A founder's own account of five months stuck at $200-300 MRR before growth picked up; figures are the poster's claim.
A 20-year-old from a clothing-manufacturing family tested export surplus on Reddit and got 40+ orders; asks whether to launch a D2C brand.
HitPay, the Southeast Asian payments company, wants merchants' stores to be findable and buyable by AI agents.
A browser tool that finds every imaging satellite that passed over a place in the last 7 days and pulls the real Sentinel-2, Landsat and NASA imagery.
Uber launches Uber Parking, an in-app parking reservation tool powered by its SpotHero acquisition, in 15 US cities, including Chicago, NYC, and San Francisco — Powered by its SpotHero acquisition, Uber's new parking reservation tool is a play for commuter loyalty — and a staging ground for its…
Apple is now offering additional AI access via one-time $50 “intelligence usage packs” when monthly usage caps are met, starting in its Creator Studio apps — Apple has said it will eventually charge for expanded usage of select AI features. Now the first 'intelligence usage packs …
ByteDance released Seedream 5.5, an AI image model it says keeps unchanged parts of an image intact over 100 rounds of edits and creates transparent-background assets. It is rolling out in ByteDance’s Chinese apps. The performance claims are ByteDance’s own.
A market tracker's read of 792 Amazon India audio listings claims Indian D2C brands sell 39.8% of units but take 21.8% of revenue; the figures are the poster's.
Sources: John Ternus wants more urgency in Apple's AI efforts, pushing Craig Federighi to move beyond Siri AI tweaks to agentic and other advanced capabilities — The company wants to turn Siri into a true AI agent. … Apple's new CEO is pressing software chief Craig Federighi …
A self-funded team of six in Almaty, Kazakhstan, building photo-to-3D-print models, says it reached 11 paid subscriptions 18 days after payments went live.
The founder of Glitter AI, a Scribe alternative, says the product reached $18.2K MRR since launching on r/SaaS in May 2024; the figure is the poster's claim.
Suno is facing yet another pair of lawsuits. A group of rights holders of Elvis Presley's music and the publisher of some of Eminem's biggest records are suing the AI music company, claiming it illegally generates music and lyrics that mimic those artists.
An indie founder says their free launch directory has been fully booked for 26 days straight at 8 launches a day, with 253 launches submitted in 30 days; the numbers are the poster's.
Firmly raised $15 million, backed by JPMorgan and Mastercard, for software that lets online retailers sell through AI shopping assistants and marketplaces without a separate integration for each.
YC company building humanoids for in-store order picking and shelf replenishment.
I run a consumer tech startup in a tier-3 city in central India that helps local shops reward and keep their customers. We launched in one city and now have about 50,000 customers on the app, with around 4,000 daily active users.
I launched SeoLoupe 4 months ago. So far I am at 3282 users and 64 of them are paying. My SaaS is a tool that allows you to find and fix SEO issues holding your website back. Essentially the main purpose is to help your website rank higher on Google search and LLMs.
Meta's Muse agents continue to get new features and integrations. Spaces promises to be a new way to interact with the AI helpers.
Trepo is building agents that shop for you, starting with groceries.
Bro’s link-in-bio tool has gotten its growth from Google search ads for 4 years. Meet Charlie. He built Liinks, a Linktree alternative now doing $31.5K/month, and he started it as a side project next to his full-time job. Instagram ads worked at first.
Hey everyone, We passed 250 paying customer (don't love to call them customer as I see all them as first builders of product) on FranklyMail and celebrated yesterday :) Probably a tiny milestone for some people here, but we honestly didn’t expect to get this far in three months.
Amazon will let millions of users text Alexa to search, compare and order products, after blocking Meta's Muse agent.
Zipline raised $1.5 billion at a $21.5B valuation and expanded its Walmart partnership.
In its Q3 shareholder letter Airbnb said the agent will help travelers plan trips, compare options and manage bookings.
Sources: NYT has entered exclusive negotiations to acquire Letterboxd for roughly $330M; A24 dropped out of negotiations after price expectations rose — The roughly $330 million deal for the cinephile community site would be part of an effort to add new products and services to the company's…
Following years of fundraising, acquisitions, and expansion, food delivery startup Wonder is moving closer to becoming a publicly traded company.
impuls8 tracks consumer markets. We read who sells, at what price, on which platform. The smog season has started. We read the air purifier shelf on Amazon India: 887 listings for 24 searches, with every one that shows sales opened.
If you have a personal Google AI subscription, all your saved chat history in Gemini can be used for training and there is no way to opt out unless you turn off chat history or use temporary chat sessions. These chat transcripts may even be read by human reviewers.
A phone rebuilt around agents instead of apps: more done, less time on screen.
While it's not yet clear what kind of product the smartphone startup is cooking up, Nothing's CEO said the product is designed to leverage AI for productivity gains.
During its busiest week last quarter, Uber said only four people booked a ride using an AI agent.
Schools that restrict Google's AI tools would also lose Search, since AI is now built into it. After a backlash, Google said schools can switch on Gemini, Gemini Notebook and Search individually.
The Age reports the cuts respond to slowing growth; co-founder and CEO Melanie Perkins said some people will change roles or be asked to move to central hubs.
A seller describes a year on Meesho, Flipkart and Amazon, starting with used or swapped items coming back as returns.
