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Quick Hits

iOS 26 beta 3 dials back Liquid Glass
(Apple: "Let's make it futuristic."
Also Apple: "Nvm, that was too futuristic.")
Passengers at some U.S. airports no longer have to remove footwear. (TSA finally said: "Keep your shoes on, king 👑")
Tesla's real struggles have only just begun
(It's giving main character energy with a plot twist.)

The Growth joke of the day

Who opens emails at 2 a.m.?
The same people who read terms and conditions for fun. 🥲

What's New in Growth Hacking/Growth Marketing?

Strategies

AI is now screening job candidates before humans ever see them
Lumier Rodriguez flipped on the "open to work" setting on the professional social network LinkedIn to show that she was actively looking for contract work in April. She thought she'd instantly get responses from recruiters.
ChatGPT is testing a mysterious new feature called 'study together'
The mode is apparently the chatbot's way of becoming a better educational tool. Rather than providing answers to prompts, some say it asks more questions and requires the human to answer, like OpenAI's answer to Google's LearnLM.
Microsoft's Edge browser now loads sites even faster
In a new post shared to its Windows blog, Microsoft says that it has "reached a major milestone" when it comes to improving the speed of Edge's user interface. It now takes Microsoft's browser less than 300 milliseconds to start rendering the first parts of a website for users, whether it's text, images, or parts of the user interface.

People

Meta reportedly recruits Apple's head of AI models
Apple's head of AI models, Ruoming Pang, is leaving the company to work at Meta, Bloomberg reported on Monday. This marks the latest high-ranking AI executive Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg has scooped up to lead his new AI superintelligence unit.

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What's New in Artificial Intelligence (AI)

AI is forcing the data industry to consolidate
The data industry is undergoing massive consolidation as companies like Databricks and Salesforce acquire smaller tools to improve their AI capabilities. The effort to unify fragmented data stacks is driven by the need to support robust AI strategies in the enterprise market.
Google AI Overviews Target Of Legal Complaints In The UK And EU
UK and EU publishers file legal complaints against Google's AI Overviews, claiming it's using their content without appropriate opt-out controls. They argue this causes traffic and revenue loss and demand the right to appear in Google Search without being used in summaries.