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Last week the Internet crossed a dubious record: AI-generated content now outnumbers human-written content on the internet. Research analyzing material published between 2020 and mid-2025 indicates that machine learning tools overtook human-written work late last year. This overwhelming volume means…
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I met an interesting startup founder yesterday. When he introduced himself, he said “I own a beauty salon”. His investor immediately chimed in and said “he’s being very humble. He is launching a tech enabled beauty salon chain and already…
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“When people get very excited, as they are today about AI for example, **every experiment gets funded, every company gets funded — the good ideas and the bad ideas — and investors have a hard time, in the middle of…
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