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L24: Reputation Management in an AI-Driven World
AI is changing everything from the creation of visual art to making credit decisions. It’s also changing how small businesses manage ratings, reviews, and their
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E67 Explores TikTok’s Efforts to Stave Off a Ban
In E67 of Localogy’s This Week in Local podcast, co-hosts Mike Boland and Charles Laughlin talk about the looming U.S. TikTok ban and the short
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GenZ Influencer Dreams Fade Away in the AI Era
Anyone who knows me knows I am not a young man. For me, an avocado green rotary phone on the kitchen wall isn’t weird. Not
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Read AI Raises $21 Million Series A
Read AI, a company that uses artificial intelligence to mine online meeting content for greater organizational efficiency, has raised a $21 million Series A round.
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Microsoft Makes it Easier to Build Your Own Chatbot
Following the Copilot app (formerly known as Bing Chat) and other logical AI assistant functions across its products (e.g., Office), Microsoft’s latest move is to make it easier to build your own chatbot.
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Chatmeter Embracing AI-based Risk Monitoring
Chatmeter helps multi-location brands stay on top of things like responding consistently to reviews. Now it is showing how this industry is advancing in the
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E54 Examines the Latest FedEx eCommerce Move and Uber’s Drizly Drop
In E54 of Localogy’s This Week in Local podcast, senior analysts Mike Boland and Charles Laughlin have fun with a couple of tech topics recently
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E53 Examines Google’s EV Ambitions and the AI Adoption Path for SMBs
In E53 of Localogy’s This Week in Local podcast, senior analysts Mike Boland and Charles Laughlin kick around a couple of tech topics they’ve been
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E52 Explores MSFT’s New Co-Pilot and 2023’s Grim Toll on Startups
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Sam Altman-Backed Startup Slope Embodies ‘Fintech AI’
The conversation around AI is shifting from a sense of wonder over how quickly AI emerged over the past year or so to how AI
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ChatGPT, by the Numbers
All we seem to hear about in the tech press is ChatGPT… yet there’s still some confusion about how it makes money, and how much it makes. As ChatGPT passes its first birthday, we crunch the numbers.
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Read AI Makes Good on the ‘AI’ Part
Meeting analytics platform Read AI is doubling down on the technology that’s telegraphed in its title. The company has upleveled its capabilities to align with the latest flavors of AI – specifically, large language models.
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Web.com Doubles Down on AI
Web.com today announced a new AI website builder meant to streamline the traditional process of constructing websites. This is targeted to SMBs who are not
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Is Amazon the Big Winner in the AI Era?
Amazon continues to seed and accelerate demand for AI, which was on full display at this week’s re:Invent conference. Among other things, it launched an enterprise chatbot and dedicated chips for AI training.
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Trendspotting: Google and Amazon Launch GenAI Product Images
eCommerce is perhaps the most fitting venue for AI. The latest comes from Amazon and Google, which both launched features in the last week that automate the production of professional product images for eCommerce.
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Ep. 38 Ponders AI’s Al Dente Test and Tech’s Regulatory ‘Welcome’
“In its early stages, it’s just being thrown against several walls to see if it sticks.“ Episode 38 of Localogy’s This Week in Local podcast
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The High Cost of Hallucinations
No, this isn’t an article about the ins and outs of experimenting with Ayahuasca. You’ll need to go elsewhere for that. Or maybe you can
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Vcita to Roll Out New SMB AI Tool
The notion of “AI is my Co-pilot” has taken shape of late. And this is true even if that particular paraphrasing hasn’t been embraced (and probably
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Is Cortana the Latest Casualty of Conversational AI?
Microsoft has decided to kill off its legacy AI assistant, Cortana, effective this month. In terms of integration and investment, it will be replaced by Bing Chat, which is based on ChatGPT and lives in several Microsoft products.
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Is AI a Force Multiplier for Local Journalism?
One of the great things about doing a podcast called “This Week in Local” is the flexibility of the term “local”. Local is inclusive and