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Salesforce says some of its customers' data was accessed after Gainsight breach: Salesforce said it's investigating an incident where hackers compromised some of its customers' data after breaching customer experience company Gainsight. Read More

ChatGPT launches group chats globally: The company sees group chats in ChatGPT as a way for people to coordinate trips, co-write documents, settle debates, or work through research together, while ChatGPT helps search, summarize, and compare options. Read More

The marketing guru who helped turn Khosla Ventures into an AI powerhouse is moving on: Daver is full of lessons for founders. Among them: "You have to repeat yourself all the time, and you have to say the same thing." Read More

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Why these founders ditched social ads for Taylor Swift concerts and prison tablets: Two founders share their stories on how they approached two very different markets: teens in need of well-being advice and formerly incarcerated individuals looking for work. Read More

Google releases Nano Banana Pro, its latest image-generation model: Google is upgrading its image generation model with new editing chops, higher resolutions, more accurate text rendering, and the ability to search the web. Read More

Sortera is turning America's scrap aluminum problem into cash: Sortera has developed an AI-guided system to sort scrap aluminum by specific grades. The startup is building a second sorting facility in Tennessee. Read More

Spotify's latest feature lets you transfer playlists from other services: Spotify has partnered with TuneMyMusic on a new in-app feature that lets users import their playlists from other streaming services. Read More

Another fire breaks out at aluminum plant that supplies Ford: It's the second major fire -- and the third overall -- in the last few months at the Novelis plant in Oswego, NY. Read More

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Last but Not Least

Gemini 3 refused to believe it was 2025, and hilarity ensued : Famed AI researcher Andrej Karpathy got early access to Google's latest AI model and stumbled onto its "model smell." Read More