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Alphabet Buys Intersect for $4.75B, GPT-4o Beats Human Writers, Instacart Kills AI Pricing
<p>(0:22) Alphabet Buys Data Center Developer Intersect for $4.75 Billion to Secure AI Power Supply (1:20) Instacart Kills AI Pricing Tests After Shoppers See 23% Price Gaps on Identical Items (2:12) Junior Lawyer Salaries Rise Despite AI Automation Because Firms Need More Billable Hours (3:01) NSO Group Founder Launches New Startup After Spyware Scandal (3:49) Fine Tuned Language Models Now Produce Fiction That Readers Prefer to Human Imitations Get Pivot 5 in your inbox, 5 days a week. Subscribe at pivotnews.com</p>
Xmas AI Shopping, OpenAI Eyes $100 Billion Raise, Microsoft Overhauls for AI Future
(0:17) Nvidia Remains the Safest Bet in the AI Infrastructure Boom (0:54) Mobile Shopping Drives a Surge in Regret-Prone Holiday Impulse Buys (1:33) OpenAI Targets $100 Billion Raise for $830 Billion Valuation (2:12) SoftBank Scrambles to Close $22.5 Billion OpenAI Bet by Year End (2:51) Schools Spend Hundreds of Thousands on AI Detectors That Don't Work Get Pivot 5 in your inbox, 5 days a week. Subscribe at pivotnews.com
ChatGPT’s Mobile App Hits $3 Billion, Anthropic Expands AI Commerce Experiment
(0:21) ChatGPT Mobile App Rockets to $3 Billion in Consumer Spend in Just 31 Months (1:09) Anthropic’s AI Shopkeeper Turns Vending Experiment Into Profitable Multi-City Business (2:06) Bank of England Chief Warns AI Adoption Will Push Workers Out Like The Industrial Revolution (2:57) Arizona State University Unveils Standalone AI PhD Program for Fall 2026 (3:42) Philosopher Warns We May Never Prove AI Consciousness Get Pivot 5 in your inbox, 5 days a week. Subscribe at pivotnews.com
OpenAI Opens App Store, Google Expands Gemini, Lovable Hits $6.6 Billion Valuation
(0:18) OpenAI Opens ChatGPT App Store to Developers (1:08) Google Embeds NotebookLM in Gemini Web App and Boosts Daily Prompt Allowances (1:59) Lovable Triples Valuation to $6.6 Billion in Accel and Khosla-Backed Raise (2:48) Generative AI Falls Short in 2025 as Essential Voice, Coding and Memory Tools Remain Missing (3:32) Fort Lewis College Draws 600 Attendees to Rural AI Adoption Conference Get Pivot 5 in your inbox, 5 days a week. Subscribe at pivotnews.com
OpenAI Opens App Store, Google Expands Gemini, Lovable Hits $6.6 Billion Valuation
(0:18) OpenAI Opens ChatGPT App Store to Developers (1:18) Google Embeds NotebookLM in Gemini Web App and Boosts Daily Prompt Allowances (2:16) Lovable Triples Valuation to $6.6 Billion in Accel and Khosla-Backed Raise (3:09) Generative AI Falls Short in 2025 as Essential Voice, Coding and Memory Tools Remain Missing (4:03) Fort Lewis College Draws 600 Attendees to Rural AI Adoption Conference Get Pivot 5 in your inbox, 5 days a week. Subscribe at pivotnews.com
ChatGPT Image 1.5 Is Here, Meta Expands Smart Glasses, Google Tests Email-Based Assistant
(0:20) OpenAI Debuts GPT Image 1.5 to Turn ChatGPT Into a Speedy Creative Studio (1:07) Meta Adds Conversation Amplification and Spotify Visual Song Match to Its AI Glasses (1:53) Google Tests Email-Based AI Assistant CC for Daily Briefs (2:40) Instacart Unifies AI Image Creation With Company-Wide Pixel Platform (3:27) AI Griefbots Offer Digital Communion With The Dead But Raise Profit And Privacy Fears Get Pivot 5 in your inbox, 5 days a week. Subscribe at pivotnews.com
50% of Workers Use AI At Work, Google Turns Tabs Into Custom Tools
(0:19) Gallup Finds Nearly Half of U.S. Workers Now Use AI on the Job (1:07) Merriam-Webster Flags AI Junk Content As Its 2025 Word Of The Year (1:55) Federal Government Deploys 1,000-Person Tech Force to Accelerate AI (2:39) Indie Dev Ships Codex Mortis as First Fully AI-Built Game (3:23) Google Labs Launches GenTabs to Turn Browser Tabs Into Instant Apps Get Pivot 5 in your inbox, 5 days a week. Subscribe at pivotnews.com
50% of Workers Use AI At Work, Google Turns Tabs Into Custom Tools
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AI Stocks Wobble, Google Upgrades Translate, Sora Fakes Flood Social Media
(0:17) Wall Street Questions AI Spending Spree as Flagship Stocks Slip (1:12) Google Turns Any Headphones Into Real-Time Translators With New Translate Beta (1:57) Sora Deepfakes Expose Social Media’s Fragile Defenses (2:43) Midea Rolls Out Six-Armed Factory Robot to Lift Chinese Manufacturing Efficiency (3:28) Brains’ “Cognitive Lego” Trick Outclasses AI at Task Switching Get Pivot 5 in your inbox, 5 days a week. Subscribe at pivotnews.com
AI Stocks Wobble, Google Upgrades Translate, Sora Fakes Flood Social Media
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