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Alaan Secures $48M Series A Funding
While working at McKinsey’s Dubai office, Parthi Duraisamy noticed a recurring issue. The company’s American Express cards were not widely accepted in the region. As a result, he often paid work expenses out of pocket. Each weekend, he spent hours uploading receipts and reconciling accounts. This manual process became a persistent burden. Rather than accept…
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ChatGPT Keeps Climbing: 700 Million Weekly Users and Counting
OpenAI’s ChatGPT isn’t slowing down. Rather, it’s picking up steam like never before. The popular AI chatbot is expected to hit 700 million weekly active users this week, a huge leap from where it was just a few months ago. Let’s break down what’s happening and how this tool is becoming a go-to app for…
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Perplexity AI Caught Scraping? Cloudflare Sounds the Alarm
Perplexity, a rising star in the AI world, is under fire for ignoring clear rules set by websites that don’t want to be scraped. According to Cloudflare, a major player in internet infrastructure, Perplexity has been sidestepping standard web protocols and sneaking around digital “do not enter” signs. Cloudflare says it spotted Perplexity gathering data…
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OpenMind Wants to Power Humanoids
OpenMind, a Silicon Valley-based startup, is not building the next physical robot. Instead, it is developing the software foundation that will power many of them. The company is positioning itself as the “Android” of robotics. Its goal is to provide a flexible, hardware-agnostic operating system called OM1. This system allows different robots, regardless of their…
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ChatGPT May Have a New Rival, From Apple
According to Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman, Apple has formed a new team focused on building a powerful “answer engine.” Similar to chatbots like Gemini and ChatGPT, the tool will respond to user questions using information gathered from across the internet. A New Team The internal team is reportedly called Answers, Knowledge, and Information. It was formed…
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Top AI Tutor Tools of 2025
Remember the days when studying entailed flipping through bulky textbooks and spending hours searching for the correct answers? Those days are quickly fading away, and it’s all thanks to technology like AI tutor tools. Still, with so many AI platforms blossoming everywhere, how do you know which ones are worth your time? Here are the…
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Google Just Launched Its Most Thoughtful AI Ever
Google just launched Gemini 2.5 Deep Think, its most advanced AI model to date. And this one doesn’t just spit out answers, it thinks through them. Think of it like a brainstorming team inside your phone or laptop, each “agent” tossing out ideas until the best one wins. What’s New About Gemini 2.5 Deep Think?…
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Top 10 Janitor AI Alternatives
Janitor AI has carved a niche as one of the personalized AI chatbots. It is known for its excellence in allowing users to create and interact with virtual characters. However, there are deficiencies such as limited customization, inadequate responses, the probability of being biased, content policies, and limited knowledge. This prompts users to seek other…
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Amazon Plans to Insert Ads into Alexa+ Conversations
Amazon is exploring a new way to deliver ads through conversations with its AI assistant, Alexa+. CEO Andy Jassy shared this during the company’s second-quarter earnings call. He explained that conversational advertising could drive product discovery while opening new revenue streams. In practice, the digital assistant could soon recommend products as part of natural, multi-step…
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Apple Plans Significant Investment in AI
Apple CEO Tim Cook announced on the Q3 2025 earnings call that the company will “significantly” increase its investments in AI. Cook described AI as “one of the most profound technologies of our lifetime.” He explained that Apple is integrating AI across its devices, platforms, and operations. “We are reallocating a fair number of people,”…
