March 18, 2025

When you might start speaking to robots

This story originally appeared in The Algorithm, our weekly newsletter on AI. To get stories like this in your inbox first, sign up here. Last Wednesday, Google made a somewhat surprising announcement. It launched a version of its AI model, Gemini, that can do things not just in the digital realm of chatbots and internet search…

Instagram is killing live shopping in March, will focus on ads instead

February 14, 2023

As Meta gears up for its “year of efficiency,” the company announced today it’s exiting the livestream shopping business on Instagram, following a similar shutdown on Facebook. Starting on March 16, 2023, Instagram users will no longer be able to tag products while livestreaming — a capability that has been broadly available to U.S. businesses […]

Instagram is killing live shopping in March, will focus on ads instead by Sarah Perez originally published on TechCrunch

How one Brazilian startup’s pivot to corporate cards has paid off

February 14, 2023

Portão 3 was founded as a corporate travel startup in 2020 and had released its product just as COVID hit Latin America and “all airports closed,” recalls co-founder Bianca Pereira. Although the timing was “terrible,” she said, the company didn’t give up. Pereira and fellow founder Fernando Nery concluded that the software that Portão had […]

How one Brazilian startup’s pivot to corporate cards has paid off by Mary Ann Azevedo originally published on TechCrunch