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June 2025

How DoorDash Used LLMs to Trigger 30% More Relevant Results
What happens when you mix knowledge graphs, tight vocabularies and just enough AI? You get cleaner segments, smarter retrieval and a system that knows…
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When the Ratio Lies: The Denominator Problem Explained
How misleading metrics creep in when you forget to ask “out of how many?”
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Meta Buys Half of Scale AI, Apple Polishes Glass and Veo 3 Crashes the NBA Finals
Zuck drops $14.8B on ‘superintelligence’, Apple skips Siri upgrades and AI-generated ads hit primetime TV
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How Flipkart Scaled Delivery Date Calculation 10x While Slashing Latency by 90%
Optimising for 100 items in 100ms without breaking the backend (or the bank)
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ChatGPT Codex, Lawsuit Drama and A 52 Dollar Festival
OpenAI expands tools, lawsuits heat up, and a small town in Brazil wins the internet with a $52 Veo promo video.
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How Uber Cut Invoice Handling Time by 70% with GenAI (Without Ditching Humans)
What started as a messy mix of bots and spreadsheets is now a smart, scalable pipeline powered by LLMs and human-in-the-loop design.
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Veo's Viral Videos, Upgraded Agents and Dashboards in 10 Minutes
Google’s Veo stuns the internet, OpenAI upgrades its operator and Perplexity Labs mode goes full analyst.
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May 2025

Freelancing in 2025 as a Data Analyst (Guest Post)
Honest reflections of a freelance data analyst
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Google Launches AI Everything, Claude Claps Back and OpenAI Goes Full Hardware
Google floods the zone, Anthropic tops key benchmarks and OpenAI teams up with Apple’s design legend for what’s next.
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How Notion Brought Order to Its Data Chaos (And Why Their First Catalog Failed)
A behind-the-scenes look at the real challenges, missed steps and what finally made their data catalog work.
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Google’s AI Solves 56-Year-Old Math Problem, Codex Writes Code and Manus Makes Art That "Reads" Your Mind
Google builds a model that invents algorithms, OpenAI debuts a GitHub-savvy coding agent and Manus tackles multi-step creative tasks.
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