Ben Franklin Technology Partners

AUGUST 5, 2025

Ben Franklin Technology Partners of Central and Northern Pennsylvania (Ben Franklin CNP) is proud to announce the seven startups selected to participate in the 2025 AgeTech TechCelerator. This virtual accelerator was designed to fast-track technologies that improve the lives of aging adults—and this year’s cohort brings bold ideas from across the region, all with one goal: helping people age better.

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StartupNation

AUGUST 3, 2025

The prediction that AI (artificial intelligence) could displace between 1 and 3 million jobs by 2050 is causing a lot of uncertainty for copywriters and content marketers. However, job loss is not the only concern. The table below shows that 42% of people in the UK, for example, worry that a dependence on AI will have a negative impact on the industry as a whole.

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American Entrepreneurship

AUGUST 4, 2025

The Illinois innovation ecosystem received a big boost with the announcement that Inflegtion will build its quantum computing facility in the state leading to significant growth of its workforce. Illinois is making a bold leap toward global quantum leadership as Infleqtion, a pioneering quantum technology company, announces plans to build the first utility-scale neutral atom quantum computer in the state.

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GCUC

AUGUST 5, 2025

GCUC Podcast Recap: Meagan Slavin Mastering Operations and Onboarding with Meagan from 25N Coworking On this episode of the GCUC Podcast, Liz Elam sits down with Meagan Schoenrock Slavin, Read More

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Speaker: Lee Andrews, Founder at LJA New Media & Tony Karrer, Founder and CTO at Aggregage

This session will walk you through how one CEO used generative AI, workflow automation, and sales personalization to transform an entire security company—then built the Zero to Strategy framework that other mid-market leaders are now using to unlock 3.5x ROI. As a business executive, you’ll learn how to assess AI opportunities in your business, drive adoption across teams, and overcome internal resource constraints—without hiring a single data scientist.

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The Zapier Blog

AUGUST 4, 2025

Taking notes used to be a mess of notebooks, Post-its, and scribbled napkins. Tired of flipping pages, you went digital and stored everything on your devices and cloud accounts. Now, as we move forward in the AI age, you can improve the note-taking process even more to get those thoughts out of your head, shape them into powerful ideas, and maybe even start doing something with them.

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Tomasz Tunguz

AUGUST 2, 2025

The AI industry just posted numbers that would make even the most aggressive growth hackers dizzy. How do you grow revenue 5x in six months when you’re already at billion-dollar scale? For most technology companies, sustaining triple-digit growth becomes mathematically impossible once you reach meaningful scale. The law of large numbers kicks in.

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Mark MacLeod

AUGUST 4, 2025

Nick Mehta co-founded Gainsight in 2013 when there were only about 1,000 customer success managers worldwide. Today, that number has grown to hundreds of thousands, making Gainsight one of the rare companies to successfully create an entirely new job category. […] The post Gainsight’s Nick Mehta on Creating the Customer Success Category, Building Culture at Scale, and Finding Balance as a CEO appeared first on Mark MacLeod.

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The Zapier Blog

AUGUST 4, 2025

Email is a digital hydra. For each one you bat out of your inbox, two others take its place. You finally pass the info on to your co-worker, only to drown in a jet of newsletters. Wouldn't it be great if AI could be your personal email Hercules? Let AI write your business emails Learn how The competition for the best AI email assistant software is in full swing.

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Founder Bounty

AUGUST 4, 2025

Creating a whole brand from scratch is insanely difficult but its exactly what the founder of Ethan Haidary has done. He created a brand purely from Instagram, focusing on stupid and silly memes and it has worked getting him to over 500K followers and being able to do affiliate and brand deals. He has essentially created tons of memes around the themes of gambling and it all started from scratch without funding at all.

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Advertiser: ZoomInfo

AI adoption is reshaping sales and marketing. But is it delivering real results? We surveyed 1,000+ GTM professionals to find out. The data is clear: AI users report 47% higher productivity and an average of 12 hours saved per week. But leaders say mainstream AI tools still fall short on accuracy and business impact. Download the full report today to see how AI is being used — and where go-to-market professionals think there are gaps and opportunities.

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Tomasz Tunguz

AUGUST 3, 2025

2025 is the year of agents, & the key capability of agents is calling tools. When using Claude Code, I can tell the AI to sift through a newsletter, find all the links to startups, verify they exist in our CRM, with a single command. This might involve two or three different tools being called. But here’s the problem: using a large foundation model for this is expensive, often rate-limited, & overpowered for a selection task.

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The Zapier Blog

AUGUST 4, 2025

I'm currently working on adding a translation API to a flashcard app I'm building to teach my toddler new words in English and Spanish. After a couple of days of vibe coding frustration, I finally gave Claude Code a go. Within a few prompts, it had traced the entire data flow, identified multiple issues, and laid out a step-by-step to-do list to fix it.

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Founder Bounty

AUGUST 5, 2025

Spicy chat includes over 750K different characters of all types and sizes but there are in fact some great alternatives out there which are just as good for any AI companion. AI chat bots are great for any kind of emotional support and empathy. EDITORS CHOICE: Candy AI 1. Candy AI One of the best around. Very realistic AI companion chatting. Has a few characters to choose from too 2, HeraHaven Gives you the ability to create an AI girlfriend.

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Founder Bounty

AUGUST 4, 2025

So your looking AI companions that are realistic and easy to use as well as priced accordingly. AI companions provide great emotional support and show empathy to any set of personal problems you may have. EDITORS CHOICE: Candy AI 1. Candy AI This is still one of the best AI girlfriend or boyfriend companions as well as uploading images that are unrestricted. 2, HeraHaven Create your own AI girlfriend or companion for any situation as well as being pretty well priced. 3.

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