#SeoTips Amazon CEO Andy Jassy on Thursday hinted at an improved, “agentic” version of the company’s Alexa assistant — one that could take actions on a user’s behalf. “I think that the next generation of these assistants and generative AI applicati...
Friday, November 1, 2024
Thursday, October 31, 2024
Perplexity’s CEO punts on defining ‘plagiarism’ #Ecommerce
#SeoTips Perplexity’s CEO, Aravind Srinivas, wouldn’t say how Perplexity defines “plagiarism” in an on stage interview with Devin Coldewey at TechCrunch’s Disrupt 2024 conference. It’s a touchy subject. News Corp’s Dow Jones and the New York Post h...
Wednesday, October 30, 2024
Dropbox is laying off 20% of its staff #Ecommerce
#SeoTips Dropbox is letting go 20% of its workforce as the cloud company undergoes what CEO Drew Houston calls a “transitional period.” In a letter to staff, Houston said that the reduction in headcount would impact 528 people. The goal, he added, ...
Sunday, October 27, 2024
Meta releases an ‘open’ version of Google’s podcast generator #Ecommerce
#SeoTips Meta has released an “open” implementation of the viral generate-a-podcast feature in Google’s NotebookLM. Called NotebookLlama, the project uses Meta’s own Llama models for much of the processing, unsurprisingly. Like NotebookLM, it can g...
Friday, October 25, 2024
Perplexity says it’s now serving 100M search queries a week #Ecommerce
#SeoTips Aravind Srinivas, the CEO of Perplexity, says that the AI-powered search engine is now performing 100 million queries each week. Extrapolated out to a month, that’s roughly 400 million queries — up from 250 million queries in July. Perplex...
Thursday, October 24, 2024
Supply chain startup Interos lands new customers, cash #Ecommerce
#SeoTips Each year, supply chain disruptions cost the global economy trillions of dollars. In a recent McKinsey poll, nine in ten businesses said they had encountered logistics challenges over the past 12 months. Headwinds have only grown stronger ...