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The best mobile scanning and OCR software in 2026

For the longest time, I relied on a photo to take my documents from paper to the digital world. But now that I've discovered the power of OCR scanning software, I have no intention of going back to the Paper Ages. I most often use scanning

Framer vs. Webflow: Which website builder should you use? [2026]

As a web designer in the mid-2010s, I used what everyone recommended at the time: WordPress. While it's a great tool, I found myself spending hours trying to fix spacing issues, reconcile bugs created by incompatible plugins, and troublesho

How to make a Google Meet meeting

I live in a bubble of sorts where most of my coworkers and other professionals in my network default to Zoom meetings. It's glorious—and, honestly, the right way to do meetings. But every now and then, that precious bubble is burst when som

Southeast Asia’s digital economy to hit $368 billion

Widespread AI adoption is propelling Southeast Asia's digital economy to a projected $368 billion in 2026 and $1 trillion by 2035.

Taobao’s Double 11 reset: Simpler prices, AI assistant and a push beyond China

This is the first Double 11 in which a shopper can complete the whole purchase through an assistant. The post Taobao’s Double 11 reset: Simpler prices, AI assistant and a push beyond China appeared first on Inside Retail Asia.

Otter Secures $320 Million to Turn AI Notetaker Into Enterprise Knowledge Engine

Otter.ai secured $320 million in growth financing from General Catalyst’s Customer Value Fund (CVF) to accelerate the growth of its artificial intelligence notetaker and conversational knowledge platform, the company said in a Tuesday (Oct.

Cloudflare links vulnerability discovery to defense with OpenAI

Cloudflare uses OpenAI Daybreak to investigate vulnerabilities and propose fixes for review. Its developers use Codex to build faster and improve code quality.

Democratic governance of frontier AI, part II: Empowering cyber defenders

OpenAI outlines a blueprint for empowering cyber defenders with frontier AI, stronger safeguards, modernized cybersecurity, and more resilient public institutions.

Capital One Pushes Deeper Into AI as Card Spending Grows

Capital One’s cardholders continued spending in the third quarter while credit losses declined, giving the bank room to pursue two expensive strategic priorities: building more volume on the Discover network and investing further in generat

Nestlé Hands Its Overdue Invoices to SAP’s AI Agents

A company the size of Nestlé cannot chase every late invoice at once. Collections teams have limited time, so the order of the calls matters. Nestlé is turning to artificial intelligence agents inside its new SAP finance system to prioritiz

Meta’s Muse Reaches 10 Million Downloads Faster Than ChatGPT

Meta’s personal artificial intelligence assistant Muse was downloaded more than 10 million times in the United States and Canada during the first 35 days it was available, digital market insights platform Sensor Tower said in a Monday (Oct.

SpaceX Reports $4.4 Billion Profit as AI and Starlink Businesses Expand

SpaceX reported strong third-quarter financial results on Tuesday, October 20, with revenue increasing 161% year-over-year to $14.6 billion and net income reaching $4.4 billion. The results were driven by rapid growth in the company’s artif

Beyond the KV cache: Training and serving i14’s Laplace 3B linear attention model on AWS Trainium2 with native PyTorch

Learn how i14 trained and served Laplace 3B, a linear attention model, on AWS Trainium2 using native PyTorch. Its recurrent state stays fixed at 29.5 MB per sequence regardless of context length, avoiding the growing key-value cache of tran

Nearly half of employers say AI will make college degrees more important

Employers expressed more confidence in the higher education sector than the general public, according to a new Gallup and the Lumina Foundation poll.

AI Labs Pay Lawyers $400 an Hour to Train Models

A civil rights attorney can now earn $400 an hour with no client involved. Recruiters are advertising that rate for attorneys, $170 an hour for condensed matter physics experts and up to $120 for software engineers, all to “help train next-

Mercury Integrates AI-Powered Payroll Capabilities Into Entrepreneur Accounts

FinTech company Mercury added an artificial intelligence-native payroll solution to its offerings so that founders can pay employees and contractors from the account they already use to manage their money, the company said in a Tuesday (Oct

Regional Banks Put AI Into Core Operations as Business Lending Grows

Third-quarter results from PNC, U.S. Bancorp, Truist, Fifth Third, Regions and KeyCorp show that regional banks are putting artificial intelligence into everyday banking operations, while several report more commercial lending and greater u

Your Audience Uses AI But Doesn’t Trust It – Build Content For The Gap via @sejournal, @gregjarboe

Build an SEO and content strategy for audiences who use AI but distrust it, with clearer sourcing, audience segmentation, and honest product limits. The post Your Audience Uses AI But Doesn’t Trust It – Build Content For The Gap appeared fi

DeepSeek Open Sources Inference Tech to Lower AI Costs

DeepSeek has made its in-house inference framework, DeepInfer, fully open source, saying this will help make artificial intelligence more affordable. DeepInfer powers the company’s DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash model at scale with high throughput and

NVIDIA Cosmos3-H-Dreams: Bringing Clinical Surgery to Life Through Generative Simulation

Workflow context for AI agents with Smartsheet MCP on AWS

The Smartsheet Model Context Protocol (MCP) Server lets AI agents read, update, and act on live data. This post shows two ways to connect it on AWS: Amazon Quick for business teams and Kiro for developers, so your agents can work with Smart

Work management context for AI agents with Smartsheet MCP on AWS

The Smartsheet Model Context Protocol (MCP) Server lets AI agents read, update, and act on live work management data. This post shows two ways to connect it on AWS: Amazon Quick for business teams and Kiro for developers, so your agents can

Fine-tuning GPT-OSS-20B for multilingual reasoning on Amazon SageMaker HyperPod

Learn how we fine-tuned GPT-OSS-20B for multilingual reasoning on Amazon SageMaker HyperPod, and how to decide between supervised fine-tuning (SFT) and reinforcement learning with GRPO. SFT took reasoning-language accuracy from 22% to 100%,

How Octave built a secure multi-tenant AI foundation on Amazon Bedrock

Octave built a secure, multi-tenant AI foundation on Amazon Bedrock, using Cohere Embed v4 for embeddings and Amazon Bedrock AgentCore for isolated agent execution, to power a Complaint Triage Assistant that searches 2 billion regulated doc