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Amazon’s AI assistant comes to the web with Alexa.com

January 6, 2026
Amazon’s AI-powered overhaul of its digital assistant, now known as Alexa+, is coming to the web. On Monday, at the start of CES 2026 in Las Vegas, the company announced the official launch of a new website, Alexa.com, which is now rolling out to all Alexa+ Early Access customers. The site will allow customers to use Alexa+ online, much as you can do today with other AI chatbots such as…
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Google previews new Gemini features for TV at CES 2026

January 6, 2026
Google believes AI can improve the TV-watching experience, which is why it brought its Gemini AI to Google TV devices in November. At CES 2026 in Las Vegas, the company is now showing off a series of new Gemini features that will soon arrive on the TV, making it possible for…
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Nvidia’s AI empire: A look at its top startup investments

January 5, 2026
No company has capitalized on the AI revolution more dramatically than Nvidia. Its revenue, profitability, and cash reserves have skyrocketed since the introduction of ChatGPT over three years ago – and the many competitive generative AI services that have launched since. Its stock price has soared, making it a $4.6 trillion market cap company. The world’s leading high-performance GPU…
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In 2026, AI will move from hype to pragmatism

January 5, 2026
If 2025 was the year AI got a vibe check, 2026 will be the year the tech gets practical. The focus is already shifting away from building ever-larger language models and toward the harder work of making AI usable. In practice, that involves deploying smaller models where…
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‘College dropout’ has become the most coveted startup founder credential

January 1, 2026
Although iconic founders like Steve Jobs, Bill Gates, and Mark Zuckerberg famously didn’t finish college, multiple studies show that the vast majority of successful startups had founders with bachelor’s or graduate degrees. Despite this data, the appeal of a dropout founder persists, though VC enthusiasm for the ‘un-degreed’ is far from constant. It is a phenomenon that…
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Investors predict AI is coming for labor in 2026 

January 1, 2026
Concerns about how AI will affect workers continue to rise in lockstep with the pace of advancements and new products promising automation and efficiency. Evidence suggests that fear is warranted. A November MIT study found an estimated 11.7% of jobs could already be…
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The phone is dead. Long live . . . what exactly?

January 1, 2026
True Ventures co-founder Jon Callaghan doesn’t think we’ll be using smartphones the way we do now in five years – and maybe not at all in 10. For a venture capitalist whose firm has had some big winners over its two decades – from consumer brands like…
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The best AI-powered dictation apps of 2025

December 31, 2025
In some ways, 2025 was when AI dictation apps really took off. Dictation apps have been around for years, but in the past they’ve proved slow and inaccurate – unless you speak with particular accents and enunciate clearly. But advances in large language models (LLMs) and speech-to-text models have helped improve the systems that can decipher speech better while retaining the context…
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