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No more window switching: Mastercard’s Agent Pay transforms how enterprises use AI search

April 30, 2025
One criticism of computer use platforms and other search agents is that you cannot complete any transactions within the same window if you use them to find a product or a hotel.  Mastercard aims to change that by integrating AI companies and platforms into its payments network, enabling users and enterprises to transact seamlessly within their respective ecosystems. Today the company announced…
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Alibaba launches open source Qwen3 model that surpasses OpenAI o1 and DeepSeek R1

April 29, 2025
Chinese e-commerce and web giant Alibaba’s Qwen team has officially launched a new series of open source AI large language multimodal models known as Qwen3 that appear to be among the state-of-the-art for open models, and approach performance of proprietary models from the likes of OpenAI and Google. The Qwen3 series features two “mixture-of-experts” models and six dense models for a total…
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Is your AI product actually working? How to develop the right metric system

April 28, 2025
In my first stint as a machine learning (ML) product manager, a simple question inspired passionate debates across functions and leaders: How do we know if this product is actually working? The product in question that I managed catered to both internal and external customers. The model enabled internal teams to identify the top issues faced by our customers so that they could prioritize the right…
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Google adds more AI tools to its Workspace productivity apps

April 24, 2025
Google continues to bring its flagship AI models to its productivity apps, expanding its Gemini features. The company today announced several updates to its Workspace products, including the addition of Audio Overviews and new streamlined methods for tracking meetings. Audio Overviews, which was first introduced in Google’s popular NotebookLM, allows people to create podcasts on their chosen…
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