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🪐 What’s happening in tech today, May 8, 2025?
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From
Build a Smarter Store: Let GPT Label Your Products and Predict What Sells Next
to
Speechify, ElevenLabs, Hume: Which AI Voice Can Actually Feel Something?,
let’s dive right in.
By @hacker9038799 [ 3 Min read ] RocketReach, Hunter, Lusha get expensive, fast. So we built an open-source alternative for discovering and verifying professional emails. Read More.
By @badmonster0 [ 11 Min read ] Build a real-time knowledge graph for product insights and recommendations with taxonomy and complementary taxonomy LLM extraction. Read More.
By @anywhichway [ 5 Min read ] Explore how AI text-to-speech engines (Eleven Labs, Hume, iCednant Speech, Speechify) perform when generating emotionally nuanced speech. Read More.
By @neer-varshney [ 5 Min read ] Google, OpenAI, Perplexity, they all want one thing — to control the very portal through which you access the digital world, i.e. the web browser. Read More.
By @johnwrites [ 4 Min read ] Which crypto ETF will be next? Bloomberg raises odds for Solana, XRP, and Litecoin ETFs in 2025 as SEC review timelines tighten. Read More.
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