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AI video recreation: Pollo Recast rebuilds any clip
Pollo AI’s Recast rebuilds existing clips around your characters, products and settings. We explain the tool, the crowded category, and the consent question the release leaves open.
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AI coding agents: OutSystems opens its platform to Claude Code
OutSystems has opened its platform to external AI coding agents — Claude Code, Cursor, Codex and Kiro — letting them design apps while it generates the code. We look at the inversion, and the claim it rests on.
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Agentic testing: what TestMu’s Gartner Leader placement really shows
TestMu AI is a Leader in Gartner’s new Magic Quadrant for Agentic Software Quality Assurance Platforms. The badge sits in a just-renamed category, the citation date is off, and governance is the real gap.
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Usage-Based Revenue: What 8×8’s AI Pivot Really Costs
8×8’s usage-based revenue grew more than 70% year on year and now makes up about 23% of service revenue. It also carries a lower gross margin, and 8×8’s own model walks margin toward the low 50s by 2030.
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Digital adoption platform: what LKQ Europe’s Academy overhaul actually tests
Whatfix has won a deployment at LKQ Europe, guiding 70,000 registered users of its automotive training academy. The interesting question is not the logo but the category: can a digital adoption platform close a gap that independent research puts at millions in wasted software every year?
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SiBionics PharmaSens: The Race to a Single-Patch Artificial Pancreas
SiBionics and PharmaSens have shown that a single-patch artificial pancreas — CGM, insulin delivery and algorithm in one wearable — is feasible. It’s a real milestone, but the device is investigational and the accuracy isn’t there yet.
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Google Maps Scraping: The Gray-Market Industry That Undercuts Google’s Own API
Scrapers sell the business data Google’s terms prohibit, at a tenth of the Places API’s price. The law says contract, not crime — and Google’s DMCA case against SerpApi just narrowed.
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Truecaller Scam Checker: Free Tool or Strategic Pivot?
Truecaller’s free Scam Checker verifies links, numbers and messages with no sign-in — and doubles as a strategic pivot as ad revenue shrinks, caller ID gets commoditised, and India’s scams move to messaging apps.
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Truecaller LinkedIn Partnership: Verified Caller ID, Explained
LinkedIn’s verification system is now attached to 500 million phone calls. We look at what the Truecaller integration actually verifies, the CNAP threat it answers, and the consent-model inversion nobody is discussing.
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TRAI Spam Rules Tighten the Three-Front Squeeze on Truecaller
India’s regulator now requires caller-ID apps to feed user spam reports into telcos’ blockchain platform — while restricting their labelling and backing a KYC-based rival. Truecaller calls it a one-way street.