Linkdaze’s smart calendar is built to run a household, not just track a schedule

TechCrunch · 1 month ago · 46

Linkdaze launched a touchscreen smart household calendar tablet that syncs multiple family members’ schedules and supports meal planning from photos of recipes or lunch menus using Snap-to-Sync. The 10.1-inch model is priced at $119.99. The device adds digital meal planning and family organization features without requiring a monthly subscription, which may make it more attractive than competing subscribed smart calendars.

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The CEO of $1.2 billion learning platform Preply says it all started with his online search for an English tutor

Fortune · 14

Preply CEO Kirill Bigai says the company began after he struggled to find a remote English tutor and built a platform to connect tutors and learners online. In 2012, he and cofounder Dmytro Voloshyn started Preply at age 26, later growing it into a $1.2 billion company. The firm expands internationally to cover 180 countries and 90+ languages and now uses its recent $150 million Series D to develop AI tools and grow engineering.

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Building an End-to-End Document Intelligence Pipeline with deepDoctection

MarkTechPost · 1 month ago · 46

deepDoctection was used to build an end-to-end document intelligence pipeline that runs layout detection, table structure recognition, OCR, reading-order reconstruction, annotation linking, and structured JSONL export in one workflow. The tutorial targets deepDoctection version 1.2.x. It changes the output by producing Page objects plus page-level custom summaries (money mentions, date mentions, and a document “flavour” based on table coverage) that are then serialized for downstream retrieval/RAG use.

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90% of executives say AI hasn't boosted productivity. Some are still cutting jobs

Fortune · 33 ● 2 sources

Executives and researchers report a disconnect between rising AI spending and weak productivity gains, with many firms pairing AI investment with layoffs. About 90% of executives surveyed said AI has not yet boosted productivity at their companies. The analysis argues that AI-driven job insecurity and negative employee sentiment offset efficiency benefits, so firms should avoid using AI as justification for cuts and instead invest in training and sharing gains.

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