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How to Build for GEO and Rank on ChatGPT

How to Build for GEO — and Rank on ChatGPT Everyone spent the last decade learning how to rank on Google. Now, it’s time to learn how to rank on ChatGPT. Welcome to GEO (Generative Engine Optimization)...the new discipline of making sure AI assistants choose you when they answer questions. 1. Th

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AI

5 Growth Hacks You Can Automate with AI Today

AI is changing growth hacking from a manual grind into a self-running system. Whether you’re running a startup or solo project, these five automations can help you grow faster, without adding headcount.

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AI

The Hidden Carbon Cost of AI: How Smart Machines Impact Our Planet

Every time you ask ChatGPT a question, generate an image, or use an AI-powered search, a vast network of servers springs into action. Training GPT-3 alone consumed about 1,287 megawatt-hours of electricity, roughly the yearly energy use of 120 U.S. homes.

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AI

5 Key AI Trends for 2026

By 2026, AI isn’t just smarter, it’s everywhere. From digital co-workers to biological chips, here’s what’s truly changing (and who’s already doing it). 🧠 1. Multimodal Intelligence — AI That Thinks Across Senses What’s happening: AI is learning to see, hear, read, and reason — all at once. Inst

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Startups

🇮🇳 Spotlight on India’s Startup Ecosystem

India’s startup landscape is entering a new chapter — one defined by scale, structure, and self-sustaining innovation. On 29 October 2025, the ET Soonicorns Summit 2025 Sundowner will take place in Mumbai, unveiling the Maharashtra Startup Report, a comprehensive look at how the state’s emerging ven

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Startups

UK Startup CoMind Raises Over $100 M to Monitor Brains

Founded in London in 2018 by James Dacombe (who left school at 16) and co-founded by Christina Franzeskides, CoMind is taking on one of healthcare’s toughest frontiers: monitoring the brain at the bedside without drilling into the skull. Financial Times 🧪 What They’re Building CoMind’s flagship

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Startups

London, buckle up: Waymo’s robotaxis are coming

Waymo, Alphabet’s autonomous-vehicle company, announced plans to launch driverless taxi services in London by 2026, marking its first major European deployment and a key step in the UK’s automated-mobility push. What’s going on Waymo’s expansion follows the UK government’s Automated Vehicles Act,

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AI

The Weirdest Things People Use AI For (That Actually Work)

Artificial intelligence is no longer hiding in labs or corporate dashboards. It’s now making dinner, giving dating advice, and yes, even talking to dogs. Here are some of the strangest, real, and surprisingly effective ways people are using AI today — with real companies behind them. 🐶 1. Talking

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Guide

5 AI Basics You Really Should Know (Before You Pretend to Know Them)

AI is the hottest thing since Wi-Fi — but let’s be real, most people nod through buzzwords like “transformers” and “vector embeddings” while secretly Googling them later. So here’s your cheat sheet: five AI fundamentals every tech-curious human should actually understand, no PhD required.

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AI

Agentic Ads: Startup Raises $12 M to Automate Advertising Across Platforms

Say goodbye (maybe) to manual ad-campaign set-ups — this week AdsGency, a San Francisco-based startup founded in 2023, secured $12 million in seed funding (bringing its total funding to ~$15 million) to build what it calls an agentic AI platform that automates advertising across platforms like Googl

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AI

From Code to Cabinets: Lila Sciences Raises the Bar on AI-Powered Science

The startup world lives for big rounds but every once in a while you get one that feels like a signal: Lila Sciences, founded just two years ago, has raised an additional $115 million in an extension of its Series A round, pushing its valuation past $1.3 billion. That’s no small feat. It means inves

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