Features, pricing, and use cases

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Features, pricing, and use cases


If your buyers are asking ChatGPT for vendor recommendations instead of scrolling through Google results, your brand’s visibility in AI search engines matters as much as your organic rankings … maybe more. That shift is what’s driving the rapid adoption of answer engine optimization as a discipline, and it’s why marketers are now evaluating dedicated tools to track, measure, and improve how AI platforms characterize their brand. The challenge isn’t awareness that AI is reshaping search; it’s choosing the right tool to address it.

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SpaceX has bought $329M worth of Tesla Megapacks so far this year

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SpaceX has bought 9M worth of Tesla Megapacks so far this year

SpaceX has ramped up purchases of Tesla Megapack, spending $295 million on the battery storage devices in the second quarter and $329 million so far this year, according to the company’s earnings report released on Tuesday. The purchase illustrates just how interconnected Elon Musk’s universe of companies are. Musk, who is the CEO and largest … Read more

Do Less – Finish More

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Do Less – Finish More

Do Less – Finish More You feel behind because you’re optimistic. You plan to finish 20 to-dos. By 5:00, you finish 8. Instead of satisfaction, you feel behind. Endless lists build anxiety. Do Less. Finish More. The secret to more satisfaction is choosing to do less and finishing what matters. #1. Separate Commitments from Curiosities … Read more

Qwen3.8-Max arrives with a bold claim: it outperforms GPT-5.6 Sol Max and Fable 5 on agentic computer use

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Qwen3.8-Max arrives with a bold claim: it outperforms GPT-5.6 Sol Max and Fable 5 on agentic computer use

Chinese e-commerce and cloud giant Alibaba's famed Qwen team of AI researchers last night unveiled Qwen3.8-Max, a new flagship 2.4-trillion-parameter mixture-of-experts (MoE) multimodal large language model (LLM) that targets one of the most competitive corners of the frontier AI market: autonomous software engineering and long-horizon enterprise work. If the company's published benchmarks hold up under … Read more

AWS is helping vibe-coding startup Superblocks, and the implications are big

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AWS is helping vibe-coding startup Superblocks, and the implications are big

Vibe coding startup Superblocks announced a multi-year joint marketing agreement with Amazon Web Services (AWS) that enables its tool to be embedded within the private clouds of AWS customers. That means an enterprise on AWS that subscribes to Superblocks will be able to offer vibe coding to the company’s business users, and those apps will … Read more

Sam Altman and AI’s decel debate

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Sam Altman and AI’s decel debate

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman recently said that it may be time to “pace the rate of AI development” so that society can “harden around some of these new capability levels.” On the latest episode of TechCrunch’s Equity podcast, Kirsten Korosec, Sean O’Kane, and I discussed how Altman’s comments were probably prompted by a recent hack … Read more

Courage to be Disliked – Leadership Freak

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Courage to be Disliked – Leadership Freak

Courage to be Disliked If everyone likes you, you’ve lost yourself. Meaningful decisions disappoint someone. Agendas collide. Values conflict. When Being Liked is Your Goal Decisions get postponed. Truth becomes optional. Popularity replaces purpose. Approval is your compass. Don’t be difficult just to prove your independence. You Might be Disliked When You Ask Is it … Read more