Spotify used its Investor Day on Thursday to unveil the most comprehensive AI expansion in the company’s history, repositioning itself from a passive audio consumption platform into an active, AI-powered creation and discovery engine spanning podcasts, audiobooks, and licensed music generation. The centrepiece was Studio by Spotify Labs, a new standalone desktop app launching in…

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Insider Brief Roboxi raised €13 million in new equity financing to scale operations, support contracted projects and expand development of its AI-powered airport automation systems. Roboxi develops autonomous runway systems that can simultaneously detect debris, monitor runway conditions, identify faulty lights and deter birds while reducing the need for manual inspections. The technology has been…

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South Korean startup LetinAR has secured $18.5 million from Korea Development Bank and Lotte Ventures, bringing total funding to $41.7 million ahead of a planned 2027 IPO. The LG Electronics-backed company, founded in 2016 by childhood friends CEO Jaehyeok Kim and CTO Jeonghun Ha, makes the optical modules that sit inside AI smart glasses — the component…

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The 20 AI Sales, Marketing & GTM CEOs You Need to Know in 2026 Every enterprise revenue team, from a scrappy startup running cold outbound to a Fortune 500 deploying agentic AI across its entire GTM motion, depends on software. The CEOs building that software are, in many ways, defining how companies find customers, close deals,…

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Google used I/O 2026 to unveil an ambitious suite of AI agents — including Gemini Spark for personal task management, information agents replacing Google Alerts, a Daily Brief digest drawn from Gmail and Calendar, and an increasingly agentic Chrome browser. The announcements represented a genuine leap in agentic AI capability, but access to most features is restricted…

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Insider Brief A Clemson University study found AI-generated nonprofit fundraising appeals performed about as well as human-written appeals in emotional persuasion, donation intent and perceived message quality. AI-generated guilt appeals produced stronger feelings of guilt than human-written versions, while empathy-focused appeals from AI and humans performed similarly. Researchers said the findings suggest AI could become…

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Insider Brief Researchers from Cornell University and the University of California, Berkeley found widespread use of generative AI among college students and warned that universities may need to rethink how they assess learning as AI becomes more common in coursework. The study, published in Science, analyzed responses from more than 95,000 students across 20 U.S.…

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Read Online | Sign Up | Advertise Good morning, {{ first_name | AI enthusiasts }}. Google’s announcements at I/O gave us a clear picture of the company’s direction: a top-to-bottom approach to making lives easier with AI. We sat down with Sundar Pichai, CEO of Google, to understand what this shift means for creators, engineers,…

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OpenAI will open its first Applied AI Lab outside the US in Singapore. The lab is part of a new partnership with the Ministry of Digital Development and Information. The initiative, called OpenAI for Singapore, was announced at the ATx Summit and is backed by a commitment of more than S$300 million. The lab will…

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Every major economy is staring at the same problem right now. Artificial intelligence is consuming electricity at a pace that grids were never designed to handle. In the US, capacity market prices in PJM, the country’s largest grid operator, have risen more than tenfold in two years, with data-centre growth identified as a primary driver.…

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