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May 7, 2026

Etsy Launches Inside ChatGPT After Its First Commerce Integration Failed

Etsy has launched a native app inside ChatGPT, allowing users to search its catalogue of over 100 million listings through natural language prompts by tagging @Etsy in a conversation. The integration lets shoppers describe what they are loo

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May 7, 2026

PayPal Is Using AI to Cut 4,500 Jobs and Call It a Turnaround

PayPal used its first-quarter earnings call this week to announce what amounts to a long-overdue admission: it has not yet fully embraced AI in its development processes, and it needs to. CEO Enrique Lores told analysts the company would “a

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May 7, 2026

Altara Raises $7M to Fix the Data Fragmentation Killing Physical Sciences R and D

Altara has raised $7 million in seed funding to build an AI intelligence layer for physical sciences companies, targeting the data fragmentation problem that forces engineers at battery, semiconductor, and medical device firms to spend week

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May 7, 2026

SAP Locks Down Its Agent Ecosystem. Salesforce Opens Its Up

SAP and Salesforce are both making major enterprise AI moves this week, and they are pointed in opposite directions. The divergence matters more than either announcement individually. SAP announced it has entered into a definitive agreement

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May 7, 2026

Meeting Notetakers Are Becoming Company Operating Systems – Y Combinator Is Betting on It

Otter launched enterprise search on April 28, 2026, connecting Gmail, Google Drive, Notion, Jira, and Salesforce to meeting data through a common AI integration standard called Model Context Protocol.² The same week, Y Combinator published

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Apr 21, 2026

AI search now drives 18% of all referral traffic to SaaS sites

ChatGPT, Perplexity, and Claude citations have quietly become a top-three traffic source for B2B software — and most teams aren't tracking it.

89°Marketing 10/10

Apr 13, 2026

Marketing teams that win with AI build content moats, not content factories

The shift from volume-of-output to defensibility-of-output is here. We break down the playbook the top 10% are quietly running.

70°Marketing 10/10

Human Resources

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Apr 17, 2026

EU AI Act blocks unaudited AI hiring tools — what HR needs to do

The hammer drops on opaque resume-screening systems. Here's the compliance playbook for HR teams using AI in recruiting workflows.

72°HR 10/10

Apr 09, 2026

How AI is rewriting the first 30 days of every new hire

From contract negotiation to onboarding playlists, AI is now the connective tissue between offer-accepted and fully-ramped.

64°HR 9/10

Operations

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Apr 15, 2026

The ROI math on AI agents in operations is finally turning positive

After two years of pilots, mid-market ops teams are reporting 20–35% reductions in manual ticket time. Here's what's actually working.

75°Ops 10/10

Apr 23, 2026

Anthropic launches Enterprise tier with private deployments

Claude for Enterprise brings VPC-only inference, audit logs, and SSO — squarely targeting Microsoft Copilot's Fortune 500 base.

86°Ops 9/10

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