Topic: user adoption
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Unlock Windows' Built-In Package Manager for Safer Downloads
Windows Package Manager (Winget) is a built-in command-line tool for Windows 11 that streamlines finding and installing software from trusted repositories, enhancing security and efficiency over traditional web searches. It sources applications from the Microsoft Store and a curated GitHub reposi...
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20-Year-Old Dropouts Built AI Notetaker Turbo AI to 5M Users
Turbo AI, founded by 20-year-old college dropouts, has rapidly grown to five million users and eight-figure annual revenue, adding 20,000 new users daily while remaining profitable. The platform originated from the founders' personal struggles with note-taking in college and now uses AI to genera...
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Gemini 3: The New AI Challenger Outshining ChatGPT
Google's Gemini 3 is emerging as a strong competitor to ChatGPT, praised for its speed, advanced reasoning, and superior performance in tasks like coding, leading some industry leaders to switch allegiances. The model excels in handling multimodal content and achieves top scores on Ph.D.-level re...
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Gemini 3 Leads the AI Race - For Now
Google's Gemini 3 has achieved record-breaking performance and adoption, quickly topping AI leaderboards and attracting over one million users in its first day, setting a new industry benchmark. The model demonstrates a clear lead in key areas like coding, mathematics, and visual comprehension, w...
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Alibaba's Qwen AI Hits 10 Million Downloads in First Week
Alibaba's Qwen AI assistant achieved 10 million downloads in its first week, significantly outpacing initial adoption rates of competitors like ChatGPT, highlighting its rapid success in China's isolated AI market. The app offers comprehensive features including deep research, coding, and AI-driv...
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Google Gemini's AI Image Model Gets a 'Bananas' Upgrade
Google has launched Gemini 2.5 Flash Image, an upgraded AI model for precise photo editing via natural language, available to all users and developers. The update is a strategic move to compete with OpenAI and other tech giants in AI image generation, aiming to attract more users to Google's ecos...
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Scribe Reaches $1.3B Valuation Proving AI's Real-World ROI
Scribe, a workflow documentation startup, has raised $75 million in Series C funding, reaching a $1.3 billion valuation, to accelerate the launch of its new platform, Scribe Optimize, which identifies where automation and AI can deliver tangible business returns. The company addresses the challen...
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Monday.com Launches AI-Powered CRM for Marketers
Monday.com has launched Monday Campaigns, an AI-powered CRM tool for marketers that integrates marketing and sales functions to streamline campaign creation and drive revenue. The tool uses AI for copy generation, audience segmentation, and personalized campaign triggers, addressing common sales-...
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Sony's PS Portal Outperforms All Other Remote Play Methods
The PS Portal is the leading device for PS5 Remote Play, with nearly 5% of U.S. PS5 owners adopting it, highlighting its market success. A recent software update allows PS Plus Premium subscribers to stream over 2,800 games directly to the Portal via cloud, making it a more independent gaming pla...
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AI Mode's SEO Impact: 10 Studies Reveal the Truth
AI Mode significantly reduces external website clicks, with studies showing 77.6% to 94% of sessions resulting in no clicks, as users often find answers directly within the AI-generated responses. User adoption of AI Mode remains low, with only 2-5% of users choosing it in studies, and over half ...
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OpenAI's AI Commerce Race: Who Will Win?
OpenAI is integrating applications and services like Spotify and Figma directly into ChatGPT, positioning it as a central hub for digital interactions and complex tasks. The company introduced a commerce ecosystem with Instant Checkout and in-chat storefronts, enabling transactions and partnershi...
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Amazon Music Now Features Alexa+
Amazon Music has integrated the Alexa+ AI assistant into its mobile apps, accessible to all subscribers in the Early Access program, enabling voice-activated music discovery and interaction. Alexa+ supports conversational queries for detailed music insights, such as artist inspirations or song th...
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500 Million PCs Still Haven't Upgraded to Windows 11
Approximately 500 million computers capable of running Windows 11 remain on Windows 10, showing slower adoption than previous OS transitions despite Microsoft ending support for the older system. Another 500 million older PCs cannot upgrade due to stricter hardware requirements, creating a dual c...
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OpenAI's New Browser Challenges Google Chrome
OpenAI has launched Atlas, an AI-powered browser that replaces the traditional URL bar with a chatbot interface to streamline internet navigation and compete with Google Chrome. Atlas features an "agent mode" that browses the web autonomously using user history, but critics raise concerns about d...
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Finger Maus: The Wearable Mouse That Works Anywhere, Uses 80% Less Plastic
Finger Maus is a wearable, finger-based computer mouse developed by Mausware, offering portability and accessibility, especially for elderly or mobility-challenged users. It features two models, Ultra and Classico, with lightweight, ergonomic designs and functions like clicking and scrolling, and...
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Windows 10 Support Ends Today: The First of Many Phases
Microsoft has ended support for Windows 10, ceasing critical security updates and technical assistance, which increases vulnerability to threats over time. Due to Windows 11's strict hardware requirements, about 40% of global Windows devices remain on the unsupported OS, unable to upgrade. Home u...
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Perplexity's Comet Browser Is Now Free Worldwide
The Comet browser by Perplexity is now globally available for free on desktop, removing the waitlist and integrating an AI assistant directly into every new tab for tasks like questioning and summarizing. Its AI-first strategy challenges traditional browsers by embedding the Comet Assistant to ha...
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Nvidia and OpenAI's $100B Deal to Power an AI Revolution
Nvidia and OpenAI have committed to a landmark $100 billion partnership to build data centers powered by at least 10 gigawatts of Nvidia systems, marking the largest AI infrastructure project ever. The collaboration will use millions of Nvidia GPUs to advance OpenAI's AI research, with constructi...
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Perplexity's Comet AI Browser Goes Free; Max Users Gain Background Assistant
Perplexity has launched its free Comet browser globally, featuring a sidecar assistant that helps with answering questions, summarizing content, and navigating web pages to compete with browsers like Google Chrome and AI-driven alternatives. Free users gain access to the sidecar assistant and int...
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Google Veo 3.1 Launches in Flow Video Editor
Google has released Veo 3.1, an upgraded video generation model with enhanced audio quality, editing controls, and image-to-video conversion, available across multiple platforms. The model introduces advanced object manipulation, allowing users to add objects that blend into videos, with a featur...
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ByteDance vs. DeepSeek: Their AI Strategies Diverge
China's AI sector shows a strategic split, with DeepSeek focusing on raw model capability and ByteDance prioritizing deep integration and practical application. DeepSeek released a powerful open model to compete on technical benchmarks, while ByteDance embedded its chatbot into devices for seamle...
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Google's Gemini 3 Breaks Records With New Coding App
Google has launched Gemini 3, its most advanced foundation model, available via the Gemini app and AI search, positioning it as a strong competitor in the AI market following recent releases from OpenAI and Anthropic. Gemini 3 showcases significant improvements in reasoning, achieving record scor...
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AI Holiday Shopping: Expert Trust Tips
AI is becoming a mainstream personal shopping assistant, with 42% of shoppers using it for tasks like deal-finding and ordering, driven by its time-saving convenience. Significant risks accompany this shift, including security vulnerabilities from sharing sensitive data and a potential loss of co...
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Microsoft Teams now blocks screen captures to protect users
Microsoft has launched a "Prevent screen capture" feature for Teams Premium, blocking unauthorized screenshots and recordings in meetings to protect confidential content. The feature, which requires manual activation by meeting organizers, displays black screens on Windows and notifications on An...
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