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title: "AI"
description: "508 posts about AI, summarised, each linking to the original."
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# AI
> 508 posts about AI, summarised, each linking to the original.

## Articles

### [Welcome Lena Waters, Notion’s new Chief Marketing Officer](https://yomu.fyi/post/welcome-lena-waters-notion-s-new-chief-marketing-officer.md)
- Company: [Notion](https://yomu.fyi/company/notion.md)
- Author: Erica Anderson
- Published: Apr 7, 2025
- Type: Announcement

Notion announces Lena Waters as its new Chief Marketing Officer while the company prepares to ship Notion Mail and enters a new phase of growth. Waters says she was attracted by Notion’s technical vision, user enthusiasm, mission, and volume of product releases, and brings experience from Grammarly and Docusign across consumer and B2B marketing, AI, IPO, acquisition integration, and multi-product expansion. She describes her operating theme as building scalable systems without sacrificing creativity, authenticity, or user connection. Her view of marketing’s AI role includes articulating a clear vision and roadmap, educating users, and collecting feedback as Notion AI changes how people work, think, and create. Her immediate priorities are listening, learning, meeting users, and understanding individual and enterprise customers.


### [Boolean Query Operators Guide, With Examples](https://yomu.fyi/post/boolean-query-operators-guide-with-examples.md)
- Company: [Brandwatch](https://yomu.fyi/company/brandwatch.md)
- Author: Mélanie Corolleur
- Published: Mar 4, 2025
- Type: Tutorial

Social listening queries filter relevant brand, product, industry, or consumer mentions from large volumes of online conversation, beginning with the research questions the analysis should answer. The guide explains Boolean operators including quotation marks for exact phrases, OR for alternatives, AND for context, NEAR/x for proximity, NOT for exclusions, wildcards for variations, and brackets for grouping. It recommends adding misspellings, hashtags, account handles, websites, and exclusions, then testing and adjusting the query while keeping its structure simple where possible. Brandwatch Consumer Research offers Boolean, non-Boolean, and blank query options, with editor validation and Iris AI suggestions for entities, keywords, hashtags, subreddits, and multilingual terms.


### [Faster and Local Shopping on eBay Just Got Simpler](https://yomu.fyi/post/faster-and-local-shopping-on-ebay-just-got-simpler.md)
- Company: [Ebay](https://yomu.fyi/company/ebay.md)
- Author: Avital Derazon, Harshal Parikh, Abhishek Bishnoi, Prerna Dubey, Shuja  Rahman, Epsita Maharana and Julie Katz
- Published: Feb 26, 2025
- Type: Announcement

eBay has introduced UX enhancements that make local listings, fast-shipping items, delivery estimates, and retail standards easier to find on Search item cards. Because its inventory comes from thousands of sellers in a global, decentralized network, eBay uses artificial intelligence that considers customer proximity, chosen shipping service, seller shipping history, and real-time data synchronization to improve estimate accuracy and coverage. Item cards now show delivery ranges for all fast-shipping items, whether delivery is paid or free, while the “Shipping and pickup” filter supports fast shipping, Free shipping, Local pickup, and Click & Collect options. For local pickup, cards display the exact distance between the buyer and item location. In Germany, the eBay Top-Service badge identifies items meeting standards including fast and free shipping, easy returns, and trusted sellers, simplifying overlapping retail signals.


### [We Were Wrong About GPUs](https://yomu.fyi/post/we-were-wrong-about-gpus.md)
- Company: [Fly.io](https://yomu.fyi/company/fly-io.md)
- Published: Feb 14, 2025
- Type: Incident / postmortem

Fly.io’s GPU bet was intended to give internet-facing apps fast AI/ML inference through Fly GPU Machines, which pair a hardware-mapped Nvidia GPU with a Fly Machine. Building them required dedicated GPU servers, Intel Cloud Hypervisor with PCI passthrough, driver work, orchestrator changes, security assessments, and handling large model-weight files. The product has not found product-market fit because most software developers want LLM APIs and services such as OpenAI, Anthropic, Claude, GPT, Replicate, or RunPod rather than raw GPUs, while serious GPU users seek much larger clusters and lightweight users may be too uncertain a market. L40S demand exists, but those GPUs are not driving the core business. Fly.io will keep existing GPU Machines but does not plan a near-term v2, concluding that the bet was worth making without compromising its isolation or developer experience.


### [How the leading AI companies are using AI tools](https://yomu.fyi/post/how-the-leading-ai-companies-are-using-ai-tools.md)
- Company: [Notion](https://yomu.fyi/company/notion.md)
- Author: Drew Evans
- Published: Jan 23, 2025
- Type: Explainer

The article examines how companies on the Forbes AI 50 list are adopting AI for knowledge work, noting that research with Harvard Business Review found only three percent of organizations use AI for knowledge management. Examples from Synthesia and Wiremind favor small, practical wins, including onboarding videos, data visualizations, staging-versus-production comparisons, and complex dataset validation. Adoption is supported through experimentation, departmental AI champions, sandbox hours, documented guidelines, colleague-led training, and feedback systems rather than forced rollout. To measure impact, the companies track usage, new use cases, employee satisfaction, time savings, and output quality; Pinecone reports an 8× increase in sales activity after implementing AI tools. The article concludes that AI may initially expand team capability instead of immediately reducing costs, while repeated experiments can build lasting work habits and support innovation.


### [Announcing a New Collaboration Between eBay and OpenAI](https://yomu.fyi/post/announcing-a-new-collaboration-between-ebay-and-openai.md)
- Company: [Ebay](https://yomu.fyi/company/ebay.md)
- Author: eBay News Team
- Published: Jan 23, 2025
- Type: Announcement

eBay announces a collaboration with OpenAI as part of its strategy to shape agentic ecommerce and redefine online discovery and shopping for enthusiasts. The company is among the first to collaborate on the research preview of Operator, an AI agent that acts as a virtual assistant and autonomously performs tasks across the internet, including online shopping. Operator directs users to eBay for unique inventory finds, a model eBay anticipates will expand sellers’ reach by giving more buyers exposure to that inventory. The announcement also places the work within eBay’s broader effort to evolve internal AI agent capabilities and deepen strategic partnerships while learning how these technologies can empower buyers and help sellers grow their businesses.


### [Supercharging LLM application development with LLM-Kit](https://yomu.fyi/post/supercharging-llm-application-development-with-llm-kit.md)
- Company: [Grab](https://yomu.fyi/company/grab.md)
- Author: Boon Zhan Chew
- Published: Nov 29, 2024
- Type: Problem & solution

Grab developed LLM-Kit, a comprehensive framework for setting up production-ready Generative AI applications while addressing security, scalability, integration, monitoring, and standardisation concerns. Its pre-configured structure includes an API server, configuration management, a sample LLM Agent, tests, and an integrated stack spanning Poetry, Gunicorn, FastAPI, LangChain, LangSmith, HashiCorp Vault, Amazon EKS, and GitLab CI. Engineers submit application details through a form, which triggers GitLab project and code-scaffold generation, CI/CD setup, Terraform-based staging and production infrastructure provisioning, and secure GPT-token storage in Vault. The scaffold also includes authentication, API documentation, observability, Redis and vector-database integrations, deployment pipelines, and a cookbook with organisational examples; the post reports that it has onboarded hundreds of GenAI applications and saves an estimated 1.5 weeks before teams begin their first feature.


### [Supermaven joins Cursor](https://yomu.fyi/post/supermaven-joins-cursor.md)
- Company: [Cursor](https://yomu.fyi/company/cursor.md)
- Author: Michael Truell
- Published: Nov 12, 2024
- Type: Announcement

Cursor announces that Supermaven, a fast, context-aware coding copilot, is joining the company, bringing creator Jacob Jackson and the Supermaven team into the effort. The post says the combination is intended to accelerate development of a more useful product built around purpose-built models, a tailored editing experience, and other product ideas. It anticipates product improvements, including a future version of the Tab model designed to be fast, context-aware, and highly intelligent during sequences of long changes. The Supermaven plugin will remain maintained, although Cursor will be the team’s core focus. The shift follows Supermaven’s earlier move toward an editor because extension APIs were blocking further capabilities the team wanted to build.


### [U.S. elections readiness](https://yomu.fyi/post/u-s-elections-readiness.md)
- Company: [Anthropic](https://yomu.fyi/company/anthropic.md)
- Published: Nov 5, 2024
- Type: Announcement

Anthropic outlines its preparations for the 2024 U.S. election cycle, the first in which generative AI tools are widely available. Since July 2023, it has updated its Usage Policy, strengthened misuse detection, and redirected users toward authoritative voting information. The policy prohibits campaigning, lobbying, election misinformation, targeting voting machines, and interference with vote counting or certification, while Claude's text-only output prevents it from generating image, audio, or video deepfakes. Controls include prompt modifications, API audits, possible account suspensions, cloud-provider coordination, red-teaming, Policy Vulnerability Testing, and automated evaluations of political parity, harmful-query refusals, misinformation prevention, and voter-profiling risks; a TurboVote pop-up handles voting-information requests because models lack real-time election data, while the system prompt states Claude's knowledge cutoff.


### [What is a Vector Database?](https://yomu.fyi/post/what-is-a-vector-database.md)
- Company: [Databricks](https://yomu.fyi/company/databricks.md)
- Author: Databricks Staff
- Published: Oct 11, 2024
- Type: Explainer

Vector databases store and manage high-dimensional vector representations of data, grouping them by similarity rather than traditional row-and-column organization. They support semantic and similarity-based retrieval by converting text, images, audio, or video into embeddings, indexing them with methods such as product quantization and HNSW, and comparing query vectors with indexed vectors. These capabilities underpin use cases including RAG, hybrid search, recommendations, NLP, image and video recognition, and anomaly detection, while sharding, partitioning, caching, and replication support scale. The article distinguishes a vector database from a standalone index because it also provides storage, CRUD, metadata filtering, horizontal scaling, and data management functions, and describes Databricks AI Search as an integrated implementation with automatic scaling, optimization, security, and governance.


### [eBay Empowers Sellers with Innovative Tools at eBay Open 2024](https://yomu.fyi/post/ebay-empowers-sellers-with-innovative-tools-at-ebay-open-2024.md)
- Company: [Ebay](https://yomu.fyi/company/ebay.md)
- Author: eBay News Team
- Published: Sep 25, 2024
- Type: Announcement

At eBay Open 2024, eBay announces tools and services intended to help sellers streamline operations and connect with buyers. Recent additions include generative AI-powered descriptions, image background enhancements, social media promotion methods, mobile-friendly product research, and combined international shipping. The simplified listing flow is rolling out across all categories in the United States and United Kingdom, while an AI-powered bulk listing tool in Seller Hub lets US sellers create multiple listings quickly; it currently supports Sports Trading Card listings and may expand to more categories and markets. The redesigned Seller Hub adds an improved interface, more efficient business management, and better data visualization, and eBay is developing a dedicated Sell Mode for its mobile app.


### [How eBay’s AI Tools Helped This Seller ‘Work Smarter, Not Harder’](https://yomu.fyi/post/how-ebay-s-ai-tools-helped-this-seller-work-smarter-not-harder.md)
- Company: [Ebay](https://yomu.fyi/company/ebay.md)
- Author: eBay News Team
- Published: Sep 25, 2024
- Type: Explainer

Ashley Moulder, who runs Millennial Mouse, sells pre-loved and vintage fashion on eBay and uses the marketplace’s AI tools to streamline her workflow. After starting online sales for extra income in 2018, she reached full-time selling by the following April and now maintains thousands of active listings, with an emphasis on non-traditional sizes. One regular time-saver is eBay’s background removal tool, which can replace product-photo backgrounds with a clean white backdrop or AI-generated alternatives. Moulder also shares selling tips and how-to videos on Instagram, aiming to help other sellers succeed, and demonstrates the photo tool in the video referenced by the source.


### [Magical Bulk Listing Tool is eBay’s Latest AI-Powered Time Saver for Sellers](https://yomu.fyi/post/magical-bulk-listing-tool-is-ebay-s-latest-ai-powered-time-saver-for-s.md)
- Company: [Ebay](https://yomu.fyi/company/ebay.md)
- Author: Vidya Balasubramanian
- Published: Sep 25, 2024
- Type: Announcement

eBay has unveiled its magical bulk listing tool, an AI-powered feature that helps sellers create product listings from batches of uploaded images. The tool generates draft listings with suggested categories, titles, and item specifics in seconds, allowing sellers to review details for accuracy before publishing. It can process hundreds of photos per batch and create numerous drafts simultaneously; it is currently available to U.S. Seller Hub users listing in Sports Trading Card, with expansion to more categories and countries planned in the coming months. Early data showed that the tool significantly reduced listing time among users creating trading-card listings, and the rollout follows other recent AI features for sellers and buyers across eBay's marketplace.


### [Series A and Magic](https://yomu.fyi/post/series-a-and-magic.md)
- Company: [Cursor](https://yomu.fyi/company/cursor.md)
- Author: Cursor
- Published: Aug 22, 2024
- Type: Announcement

Cursor announces milestones in its effort to change software development with AI, describing a shift from slow, cumbersome building and modification toward greater lightness and control. The company says its tool replaces searches for primitives with instant answers, turns mechanical refactors into single “tabs,” expands terse directives into working source, and applies thousand-line changes in seconds. It reports more than 40,000 customers and an initial team that has built SOTA next-edit-prediction models, multi-billion-file retrieval systems, and fast code rewrites using speculative inference. The announcement also says Cursor raised $60m in Series A funding from Andreessen Horowitz, Thrive Capital, OpenAI, Jeff Dean, Noam Brown, founders of Stripe, GitHub, Ramp, Perplexity, and OpenAI, and others, while inviting people excited about coding’s future to consider joining the company.


### [We're Cutting L40S Prices In Half](https://yomu.fyi/post/we-re-cutting-l40s-prices-in-half.md)
- Company: [Fly.io](https://yomu.fyi/company/fly-io.md)
- Published: Aug 15, 2024
- Type: Announcement

Fly.io lowered the hourly price of NVIDIA L40S GPUs to $1.25, making them available at the same price as A10s after customer data showed that A10s—not the more powerful cards—were its most popular GPU. The post argues that most users adding GPUs to fast networks are running inference rather than training, making networking, memory, object storage, and request latency more important than access to an H100. The L40S is described as an AI-optimized L40 with AI compute performance comparable to an A100, while the L40 retains graphics hardware and is designed for rack use with more memory and lower energy consumption than gaming GPUs. The intended combination places model parameters, datasets, and compute near one another on Fly.io’s Anycast network and Tigris object storage. Examples include Llama 3.1 70B, Flux, Whisper, SegAlign, and DOOM Eternal.


### [eBay Introduces Intuitive Search Redesign to Elevate Shopper Experience](https://yomu.fyi/post/ebay-introduces-intuitive-search-redesign-to-elevate-shopper-experienc.md)
- Company: [Ebay](https://yomu.fyi/company/ebay.md)
- Author: Prerna Dubey, Avital Derazon, Harshal Parikh and Kimi Robertson
- Published: Aug 8, 2024
- Type: Announcement

eBay redesigned its search experience after 18 months of user research and testing, targeting a more seamless, intuitive, and visually rich shopping journey. The update uses larger high-resolution listing images, a modernized information layout, redesigned navigation menus, and streamlined filters, with particular attention to visual categories such as Clothing, Shoes & Accessories, Jewelry & Watches, and Toys & Hobbies. A new Shopping View replaces the previous gallery view with a full-width display without sidebar ads, while delivery options are consolidated and the price filter adds an interactive graph showing price distribution. eBay says it will continue using artificial intelligence and machine learning to refine relevance, listing benefits, and seller details, with the stated aim of improving efficiency and trust for buyers and sellers.


### [eBay Advertising Unveils New Dashboard, Personalized Insights, and Intuitive Campaign Tools](https://yomu.fyi/post/ebay-advertising-unveils-new-dashboard-personalized-insights-and-intui.md)
- Company: [Ebay](https://yomu.fyi/company/ebay.md)
- Author: eBay News Team
- Published: Jul 8, 2024
- Type: Announcement

eBay Advertising has introduced a redesigned experience centered on a new dashboard, a unified portfolio, and tools intended to simplify campaign management, increase listing visibility, and support seller growth. The dashboard, available through a new Seller Hub Advertising tab, combines campaign reporting with personalized recommendations, daily optimization tips, suggested campaigns based on historical data and best practices, and trend-based campaigns built using ebay.ai. Sellers can choose among Promoted Listings, Promoted Stores, and Promoted Offsite, with Promoted Listings offering priority or general strategies that differ in placement access, controls, and charging models. The announcement reports average gains of 50% in items sold for priority campaigns, 30% more sales for general-strategy listings, and 25% more sales from external channels with Promoted Offsite, while positioning real-time data and actionable insights as tools for adjusting advertising decisions.


### [eBay’s Christine Su Named to Fast Company’s 2024 Queer 50 List](https://yomu.fyi/post/ebay-s-christine-su-named-to-fast-company-s-2024-queer-50-list.md)
- Company: [Ebay](https://yomu.fyi/company/ebay.md)
- Author: eBay News Team
- Published: Jun 14, 2024
- Type: Announcement

eBay Head of Product Christine Su has been named to Fast Company’s 2024 Queer 50 list for the second consecutive year. The list recognizes LGBTQ leaders across industries, while Su’s role covers product work for AI Recommendations, Homepage, and My eBay. She describes using AI to personalize the eBay experience for buyers and sellers, aiming to connect people with products and communities aligned with their passions. Since her first inclusion in 2023, eBay has added AI-powered features including Shop the look, an immersive carousel that curates complementary fashion looks from a buyer’s past shopping history for fashion discovery within the marketplace. Su says the intended experience should feel personal, support discovery, and connect users with people who share their passions.


### [Background Enhancement Tool Turns Any Photo Into a Studio-Quality Product Image](https://yomu.fyi/post/background-enhancement-tool-turns-any-photo-into-a-studio-quality-prod.md)
- Company: [Ebay](https://yomu.fyi/company/ebay.md)
- Author: eBay News Team
- Published: Jun 4, 2024
- Type: Announcement

eBay’s background enhancement tool addresses the effort and expense of producing polished product photographs for listings. Sellers can remove an existing photo’s background with eBay’s background removal tool, choose from AI-generated scenes, and apply a new backdrop during listing in the iOS and Android mobile apps. The feature is available to iOS users in the U.S., U.K., and Germany, with Android rollout planned over the coming months, and remains in early rollout for feedback and iteration. It uses open source deep learning inpainting models, including Stable Diffusion, alongside eBay’s anonymous data and infrastructure; future visual generation models will be fine-tuned using seller feedback. Responsible AI collaboration, accuracy guidance, and transparency reminders are intended to reduce misrepresentation of products and their condition.


### [More problems](https://yomu.fyi/post/more-problems.md)
- Company: [Cursor](https://yomu.fyi/company/cursor.md)
- Author: Aman Sanger
- Published: May 25, 2024
- Type: Explainer

The post outlines research problems for the next phase of AI programming, centered on making coding systems predict actions, perform larger edits, understand codebases, and debug software. Proposed directions include low-latency next-action models for keystrokes, locations, files, terminal commands, and edits; background execution for “perfect edits” and pseudocode compilation; and multi-file changes supported by stronger tool use, reasoning, and agent trajectories. For context, retrieval alone is described as insufficient for codebase questions requiring multiple hops, while useful context may span documentation, source, history, UI pixels, logs, and messages. The post recommends combining retrieval, recurrence, and long-context attention, alongside specialized rerankers, multi-hop embedders, caching, and codebase-level retrieval. For reliability, it proposes calibrated bug detection, always-on AI linting, runtime-state tracking through cursor/debug, and improved debugger tool use, while noting trade-offs involving latency, false positives, infrastructure, and user experience.


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