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Spotify has been ambitious with its use of artificial intelligence to enhance its music platform. In the past couple of years, the company has gone from using AI behind the scenes to putting it front and center. This move has allowed it to transform how listeners discover music, interact with content, and even create their own music.
AI is the hottest thing in medical care right now — but many of us feel trepidation about it. Just one illustrative public survey sample: An October 2025 KFF poll found just 8 percent of Americans reported feeling a “great deal” of trust in AI managing their appointments or analyzing their health records, and only 32 percent said they would trust an online health tool that uses AI to access their medical records to provide personalized health information.But many clinicians and healthcare administrators see AI as a powerful new tool that offers myriad opportunities to streamline and improve treatment. A…
The momentum behind voice artificial intelligence is accelerating with Smallest.ai becoming the latest startup in this emerging niche to secure more funding. Officially known as Smallest Inc., it said today it has closed on a $13 million Series A investment led by Seligman Ventures, with participation from Sierra Ventures and 3one4 Capital, which were the main backers in its $8 million seed funding round in October. The round brings Smallest.ai’s total amount raised to date to over $21 million. Even more importantly, it chose the occasion to debut a new asynchronous speech-to-speech model called Hydra that’s based on its most advanced…
Customer personally identifiable information is the most frequently targeted data type, present in 53% of 2025 breaches per IBM’s research. Beyond PII, attackers target intellectual property, trade secrets, financial records, and corporate data that can be sold, used for competitive intelligence, or leveraged for extortion. Healthcare organizations face the highest per-breach costs because patient records combine regulatory sensitivity with high resale value. The more valuable and sensitive the data, the more aggressively and persistently it gets targeted across cloud storage services and cloud infrastructure.
Today’s NYT Connections: Sports Edition puzzle is a real challenge, but also fun. If you’re struggling with the puzzle but still want to solve it, read on for hints and the answers. Hints for today’s Connections: Sports Edition groups Yellow group hint: Helps you identify a team. Green group hint: Short for a hoops team. Blue group hint: He shoots, he scores! Purple group hint: Seventh letter of the alphabet. Answers for today’s Connections: Sports Edition groups Yellow group: A team’s symbol. Green group: NBA teams, informally. Blue group: Hockey stick manufacturers. Purple group: What “G” might mean. What are…
A practical framework for aligning sales, marketing, and customer success around shared intelligence. Why are some campaigns successful in generating revenue while others aren’t? The simplest answer is a lack of individual direction and information. Back in the day, psychologist Dmitry Davidoff created a game called Mafia at Moscow State University- its key insight is that a coordinated minority with more shared information can overpower a larger but poorly informed group. In most cases, your buyers are the coordinated minority and your disconnected teams are a poorly informed group. Successful campaigns just flip the script. Let’s see how. Revenue Enablement…
Swati KhandelwalJul 30, 2026Vulnerability / AI Security Hidden instructions in a Word document can make Microsoft 365 Copilot rewrite figures in a report, then copy the same instructions into the finished file. Håkon Måløy disclosed the technique on July 28, 144 days after reporting it to Microsoft. In his proof of concept, the internally generated file triggered the same behavior when it was used in a second Copilot drafting session. Måløy’s timeline says Microsoft confirmed the reported behavior on March 31 and deployed two mitigations. The first blocked the original prompt wording; the second upgraded the underlying model to GPT-5.5.…
Caught yourself scrolling on Instagram a lot longer lately? You’re not imagining it. Meta just told investors what’s driving that trend, and AI is at the center of it. During its second-quarter earnings call, Meta said time spent on Instagram grew by double digits year over year after rolling out new AI-powered recommendation systems. According to the company, the biggest gains came from improvements to how it recommends Reels and other public content, making it easier to surface videos people are more likely to watch. Every public post gets an AI read first Meta’s recommendation systems now do more than…
When an AI agent completes a task inside your enterprise systems, can you say with certainty which agent did it, on whose authority, and under what constraint? For most organizations, the honest answer is no. I’ve sat through enough incident reviews to know exactly what that uncertainty costs once something goes wrong. That gap just became measurable. The Okta Enterprise AI Index, drawn from anonymized sign-on data across more than 20,000 organizations between June 2022 and June 2026, found that AI-native vendors such as Anthropic, OpenAI, and Cursor quadrupled their enterprise customer base over that period, with Anthropic overtaking OpenAI…
Here’s the strategy behind Shaw Theatres’ 90-year run It’s easy to conclude that Singapore’s cinema scene is in decline. After all, cinemas have been downsizing and closing in recent years, from fan-favourite indie cinema The Projector to the shuttering of Cathay Cineplexes after 86 years of operation. Data from the Singapore Department of Statistics also shows that cinema attendance has more than halved over the past decade, falling from over 20 million visits to fewer than 10 million. But there’s one local brand that’s managed to hold its ground through the tumultuous years of pandemic lockdowns, Hollywood strikes, and the…