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Procter & Gamble is emphasizing its strengths in data and artificial intelligence as the packaged goods giant contends with a fragmented "new media reality," executives said on a call discussing earnings earlier this week. The owner of brands like Tide and Downy is working to redefine its brand-building framework to deliver more relevant marketing and better capitalize on emergent channels like retail media that are rewriting the CPG advertising playbook.

The round, for which Goldman Sachs International acted as sole placement agent, will be used to accelerate product development, expand Preply's AI and data capabilities and fuel international growth as the company seeks to reshape education through personalised, tutor-led learning supported by artificial intelligence. Founded as an online language tutoring marketplace, Preply now connects more than 100,000 tutors with learners in 180 countries, offering one-to-one lessons across more than 90 languages.

True to its name, Ramble can take your meandering, unstructured speech and turn it into organized tasks. The app will also capture other details you mention, like project deadlines, priorities, duration, and assignees. The idea is that people often think of things they need to do while on the go, but taking out their phone to jot down a note or create a reminder can be challenging.

As we enter 2026, we mark this anniversary by bringing together three leaders navigating the most complex intersection of technology, geopolitics, and organizational change we have ever witnessed. André Pienaar, Dr. David Bray, and Ken Banta joined us to discuss what boards and CEOs must understand to remain competitive in an era defined by cascading disruptions and incomplete information. The conversation focused on the critical questions every board should be asking this year.

The COVID-19 pandemic has emptied the world's offices, sending most of us to work from home for the foreseeable future and facilitating a mass migration to the digital workplace. But will it also jumpstart the arrival of our non-human colleagues? AMELIA ("AI + ME = AMELIA") from IPsoft can read 300 pages in 30 seconds, comprehend multiple languages (including logic and context), and is installed in more than 500 banks, insurance companies, and retail giants.

Business Insider is on the ground at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, this week, and we want to take you along with us.

"AMD failed us," decried Gamers Nexus, pointing out that the company's keynote was entirely fixated on AI.

Depressingly, Kennedy seems to be excited about AI and wants to work with the tech to make new stuff. She also told the outlet that she's been planning this exit for a few years now and hand-picked her successors, Clone Wars creator Dave Filoni and veteran ILM manager Lynwen Brennan. And while she'll still be around producing future Star Wars movies, including Ryan Gosling's Starfighter and the upcoming Mandalorian and Grogu flick, it's clear from this interview that Kennedy was tired of Disney not wanting to take more risks on projects like Andor.

As part of Wikipedia's 25th anniversary, parent company Wikimedia a slew of partnerships with AI-focused companies like Amazon, Meta, Perplexity, Microsoft and others. The deals are meant to alleviate some of the cost associated with AI chatbots accessing Wikipedia content in enormous volumes by giving the tech companies streamlined access. As noted by , the timeline on these deals is a little squirrely.

Presence CRM integrates contact data, communication history, website activity and third-party information to monitor changes such as property ownership records, employment updates and other indicators that may signal a future real estate transaction. The system is designed to generate suggested outreach and prioritize contacts based on those signals, the company said. Luxury Presence said Presence CRM will be included across its platform offerings and is scheduled to begin rolling out in early 2026.

The cuts to Reality Labs - which has roughly 15,000 employees - could be announced as soon as Tuesday. The layoffs would be a fraction of Meta's total workforce of 78,000, but are set to disproportionately affect those in the metaverse unit who work on virtual reality headsets and a VR-based social network, said the people, who asked not to be named since they were not authorized to discuss confidential decisions. The cuts could end up affecting more than 10 percent of the division, one of the people said.

After AppLovin Corp.'s ( NASDAQ: APP) share price tumbled more than 35% early last year due to a pending class action lawsuit and to short seller reports, the software company's better-than-expected quarterly reports helped the stock recover. Shares hit a new high of $745.61 a piece in September and took another run at that high in late December. AppLovin stock easily outperformed the S&P 500 and the Nasdaq last year.

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang delivered an expectedly lengthy presentation at CES, taking a victory lap for the company's AI-driven successes, setting the stage for 2026, and yes, hanging out with some robots. The Rubin computing architecture, which has been developed to meet the increasing computation demands that AI adoption creates, is set to begin replacing Blackwell architecture in the second half of this year.

Shadow Child is a Portsmouth fan who has fond memories of the FA Cup that go back much further than when Pompey won it in 2008. "That was huge, and so was when we lost narrowly in the final two years later," he told BBC Sport. "But my favourite FA Cup memory was actually 1992, when we had a run to the semi-finals and lost to eventual winners Liverpool in a replay.

Software used to feel separate from us. It sat behind the glass, efficient and obedient. Then it fell into our hands. It became a thing we pinched, swiped, and tapped, each gesture rewiring how we think, feel, and connect. For an entire generation, the connection to software has turned the user experience into human experience. Now, another shift is coming. Software is becoming intelligent. Instead of fixed interactions, we'll build systems that learn, adapt, and respond.

The wings are lifting the valuation of Segev's startup too. In June, Cyera was valued at $6 billion in its seventh funding round. Now, just six months later, Cyera is worth $9 billion. Cyera raised $400 million in its recently closed Series F funding, the company exclusively confirmed to Fortune. Blackstone Growth led the round, with participation from existing investors including Accel, Coatue, Cyberstarts, Georgian, Greenoaks, Lightspeed Venture Partners, Redpoint, Sapphire Ventures, Sequoia Capital, and Spark.