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Adobe predicts AI-assisted online shopping to grow 520% during the 2025 US holiday season

October 7, 2025
The U.S. holiday shopping season is expected to bring in $253.4 billion in online sales this year, up 5.3% year-over-year, according to a new report from Adobe’s e-commerce connected division, Adobe Analytics. Adobe Analytics develops its predictions by analyzing over 1 trillion visits to U.S. retail sites, encompassing 100 million SKUs across 18 product categories. Its analytics software…
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OpenAI’s Sora soars to No. 1 on Apple’s US App Store

October 6, 2025
OpenAI’s Sora app for AI videos is a viral hit, despite being invite-only for now and limited to users in the U.S. and Canada at launch. On its first day, Sora saw 56,000 downloads, and is now ranked as the No. 3 Top Overall app on Apple’s U.S. App Store, according to new data from app intelligence provider Appfigures. On Friday, October 3, it became the No. 1 app on the U.S. App…
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A new a16z report looks at which AI companies startups are actually paying for

October 3, 2025
On Thursday, Andreessen Horowitz released its first AI Spending Report in partnership with the fintech firm Mercury. Using transaction data from Mercury, the report analyzes the top 50 AI-native application layer companies that startups are spending money on, similar to the previously published Top 100 Gen AI Consumer Apps. a16z partners Olivia Moore and Seema Amble say the data shows companies…
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New project makes Wikipedia data more accessible to AI

October 2, 2025
On Wednesday, Wikimedia Deutschland announced a new database that will make Wikipedia’s wealth of knowledge more accessible to AI models. Called the Wikidata Embedding Project, the system applies a vector-based semantic search – a technique that helps computers understand the meaning and relationships between words – to the existing data on Wikipedia and its sister platforms…
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