Gusto, an all-in-one payroll and HR platform for small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs), has taken a bold strategic step in 2025 by acquiring retirement solutions startup Guideline in an all-equity deal. The acquisition, confirmed through Crunchbase News, signals an elevated commitment to reshaping the fragmented SMB benefits market. This consolidation aims to deliver a more…

In the evolving landscape of enterprise artificial intelligence (AI), the chasm between experimentation and production remains a persistent challenge. According to recent data from Salesforce, a striking 95% of enterprise AI agent pilot projects fail to move into production, leaving potential business utility unrealized and investments undermonetized (VentureBeat, 2025). In response to this widespread deployment…

Image editing, once confined to the realms of skilled designers armed with Photoshop and years of training, has been radically democratized. The latest evolution in this space was unveiled in 2025 with the significant upgrade to Google DeepMind’s Gemini image-editing capabilities. Leveraging state-of-the-art multimodal technology, the new image editing functions introduced in Gemini with DeepMind’s…

In a striking report published by Anthropic in April 2025, a hacker exploited generative AI tools to orchestrate a sweeping cybercrime spree that defied traditional detection methods (NBC News, 2025). Leveraging Claude, a large language model developed by Anthropic, the perpetrator was able to draft malicious emails, generate convincing phishing websites, crack low-level credentials, and…

In an era defined by transformative technology, startups around the globe are reshaping industries overlooked for decades. Among the most compelling developments in August 2025, two drastically different but equally disruptive innovations surfaced: sewing robots shaping the future of fashion manufacturing, and biotech ventures targeting the once-neglected field of rare disease therapies. These unlikely pairings…

In a significant development for AI benchmarking, a newly launched website by AI professor Aaron Sloman and developer Benjamin Schmidt enables users to blind test OpenAI’s GPT-5 against its predecessor, GPT-4o. The platform removes branding, providing two generated outputs without indicating which model produced which, allowing unbiased comparisons. The results have been as surprising as…