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Why 99% of AI startups will be dead by 2026 (according to Srinivas Rao)
Bold prediction: 99% of AI startups will be dead by 2026. That’s according to Srinivas Rao, host of the Unmistakable Creative podcast, in his recent Medium article. His reasoning? Most AI startups are building on shaky foundations that won’t survive because their product and underlying technology aren’t defensible enough. Let me share how Rao has…
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Google AI Mode lets agents do your shopping
Google has just unveiled AI Mode, a powerful new chatbot to power the search giant’s core products with generative AI capabilities. This new tool promises to deliver more personalised and complex searches, elevating the user (search and shopping) experience. I was particularly intrigued by the new shopping features that Google announced as part of AI…
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My Product Management Toolkit (66): what any PM needs to know about Product Marketing
For some time now, Apple has merged product marketing and product management into a single role. Take a look at the job description for an Apple Vision Pro Product Manager that I came across recently: As a member of our Product Management group, you’ll represent the customer throughout a product’s journey. You’ll develop and apply…
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What is A2A (Agent to Agent Protocol)?
I recently wrote about MCP, a standardised protocol for LLMs to communicate with AI tools and resources. A couple of days ago Google introduced another exciting standard: A2A (Agent to Agent). Google’s A2A protocol allows AI agents to communicate with each other, securely exchange information, and coordinate actions on top of various enterprise platforms and…
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Synthesia (Product Review)
My summary of Synthesia before using it – Using generative AI to convert text or voice into video, similar to tools like Captions and Veed. How does Synthesia explain itself in the first minute? “Turn text to video, in minutes.” So Synthesia isn’t converting voice (yet), but will use text to “create studio-quality videos with…
