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Your network is your first go-to-market strategy

Alltroo co-founders Kyle Rudolph and Jon Walburg share how they transformed their pro-athlete star power into a fundraising platform that allows their community the ability to donate to a variety of organization and win high-value prizes. In this episode of Build Mode, they reveal how they leveraged their networks to disrupt the charitable giving industry,… Continua a leggere Your network is your first go-to-market strategy

Meta centralizes Facebook and Instagram support, tests AI support assistant

The new support hub will connect users to security tools, account recovery options, and an AI assistant.

Meta reportedly plans to slash Metaverse budget by up to 30%

The proposal reflects the overall lack of interest in products like Meta’s social virtual reality platform, Horizon Worlds.

Anthropic signs $200M deal to bring its LLMs to Snowflake’s customers

AI research lab Anthropic inked a $200 million deal with Snowflake to bring its AI models to Snowflake’s 12,600 customers.

EU investigating Meta over policy change that bans rival AI chatbots from WhatsApp

The European Commission is launching an antitrust investigation into Meta’s move to ban other AI companies from using WhatsApp’s business tools to offer their own AI chatbots to users.

AI finds its way into Apple’s top apps of the year

Although Apple has continued to avoid naming a dedicated AI app or AI chatbot as its app of the year, AI was showcased among this year’s winners.

‘End-to-end encrypted’ smart toilet camera is not actually end-to-end encrypted

Kohler, the makers of a smart toilet camera, can access customers’ data stored on its servers, and can use customers’ bowl pictures to train AI.

Company backed by Donald Trump Jr.’s firm nabs $620M government contract

Vulcan Elements, a rare-earth magnets startup, has secured a $620 million contract from the U.S. defense department.

WordPress’s vibe-coding experiment, Telex, has already been put to real-world use

Though WordPress’s Telex is still an experiment, the vibe-coding software has already been used to help build real-world websites.

VCs deploy ‘kingmaking’ strategy to crown AI winners in their infancy

While VCs have long used big investments to spur category winners, they are taking this strategy to new extremes.