Roelof Botha joins SpaceX’s board of directors

Roelof Botha joins SpaceX’s board of directors

Former Sequoia Captial managing partner Roelof Botha is joining SpaceX’s board of directors, less than a week after the company went public in the largest IPO ever. SpaceX announced the appointment in a filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission on Wednesday. It said Botha was appointed “to fill the existing vacancy on the Board”…

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80% of ChatGPT product recommendations change when search is enabled: Study

80% of ChatGPT product recommendations change when search is enabled: Study

Turning on search cut recommendation overlap to 19.8%, reshuffling product picks across 20,000 ChatGPT responses. ChatGPT’s product recommendations changed 80.2% when search was enabled, according to a study of 20,000 responses by Jeff Oxford, founder and CEO of Visibility Labs. Oxford tested 1,000 product-recommendation prompts 10 times each with ChatGPT search enabled and 10 times…

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World model maker Odyssey nabs .45B valuation backed by Amazon and other big names

World model maker Odyssey nabs $1.45B valuation backed by Amazon and other big names

Odyssey, a world model AI startup founded by self-driving vehicle pioneers CEO Oliver Cameron and CTO Jeff Hawke, has raised a $310 million Series B round at a $1.45B valuation led by Natural Capital, with Amazon, AMD Ventures, GV, and others participating. World models are the next big thing in AI beyond text- and chat-based large language models. They gather…

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How AI helped build hreflang XML sitemaps at scale

How AI helped build hreflang XML sitemaps at scale

Learn how iterative prompting, Python, and Google Colab helped turn a multilingual hreflang mapping project into a scalable workflow. As AI tool usage has become more common, I’ve seen impressive examples of people building tools to automate complex processes that once required significant manual effort. I’ve also seen teams adopt AI simply because it’s available,…

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