Author: Awais

We independently review and test every app we write about. When you click some of the links on this page, we may earn a commission. Learn more.Full disclosure: You can ask Google Sheets’ built-in AI assistant Gemini to write a VLOOKUP formula for you and save yourself from reading the rest of this article. But there’s something deeply unsettling about having a robot paste a formula into your spreadsheet and having no idea how it works. It’s like letting a robot vacuum clean your apartment. It’ll probably do a great job, but you won’t know until your dog starts barking from…

arXiv:2603.15643v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Green Stormwater Infrastructure (GSI) systems, such as permeable pavement, rain gardens, and bioretention facilities, require continuous inspection and maintenance to ensure long-term performance. However, domain knowledge about GSI is often scattered across municipal manuals, regulatory documents, and inspection forms. As a result, non-expert users and maintenance staff may struggle to obtain reliable and actionable guidance from field observations. Although Large Language Models (LLMs) have demonstrated strong general reasoning and language generation capabilities, they often lack domain-specific knowledge and may produce inaccurate or hallucinated answers in engineering scenarios. This limitation restricts their direct application to professional…

Walmart said conversion rates for purchases made directly inside ChatGPT were three times lower than when users clicked through to its website. Why we care. This suggests agentic commerce isn’t ready to replace traditional shopping. Sending users to owned environments still drives higher conversion rates. The details. Starting in November, Walmart offered about 200,000 products through OpenAI’s Instant Checkout. Users could complete purchases inside ChatGPT without visiting Walmart’s site. Daniel Danker, Walmart’s EVP of product and design, said those in-chat purchases converted at one-third the rate of click-out transactions. He called the experience “unsatisfying” and confirmed Walmart is moving away…

, we talked in detail about what Prompt Caching is in LLMs and how it can save you a lot of money and time when running AI-powered apps with high traffic. But apart from Prompt Caching, the concept of a cache can also be utilized in several other parts of AI applications, such as RAG retrieval caching or caching of entire query-response pairs, providing further cost and time savings. In this post, we are going to take a look in more detail at what other components of an AI app can benefit from caching mechanisms. So, let’s take a look…

We independently review and test every app we write about. When you click some of the links on this page, we may earn a commission. Learn more.So you’re trying to keep heaps of data organized and correctly formatted in one spreadsheet with multiple collaborators. What could possibly go wrong? Yeah.If you use Google Sheets to manage your data, there are some features that can help with data consistency and accuracy. One of those features: dropdown lists. Make your Google Sheets work for youA Google Sheets dropdown includes a list of values, such as numbers or categories, which you can select…

arXiv:2603.15642v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large language model (LLM) agents are increasingly deployed in long running workflows, where they must preserve user and task state across many turns. Many existing agent memory systems behave like external databases with ad hoc read/write rules, which can yield unstable retention, limited consolidation, and vulnerability to distractor content. We present CraniMem, a neurocognitively motivated, gated and bounded multi-stage memory design for agentic systems. CraniMem couples goal conditioned gating and utility tagging with a bounded episodic buffer for near term continuity and a structured long-term knowledge graph for durable semantic recall. A scheduled consolidation loop…

Microsoft is changing how advertisers configure automated bidding, aiming to reduce complexity while keeping performance outcomes the same. What’s happening. The platform is streamlining its bidding options by folding familiar targets like Target CPA and Target ROAS into broader automated strategies rather than standalone campaign settings. Going forward, advertisers will choose between two core approaches: Maximize Conversions or Maximize Conversion Value, with optional targets layered on top. Credit – Hana Kobzova of PPC News Feed How it works. For conversion-focused campaigns, advertisers select Maximize Conversions and can optionally set a target CPA. For value-focused campaigns, they select Maximize Conversion Value…

on LinkedIn a few days ago saying that a lot of the top engineers are now just using AI to code.  It reached thousands and got quite a few heated opinions. The space is clearly split on this, and the people against it mostly think of it as outsourcing an entire project to a system that can’t build reliable software. I didn’t have time to respond to every comment, but I think there’s a fundamental misunderstanding about how you can use AI to build today. It may surprise you that a lot of it is still engineering, just on a…

Google updated the Universal Commerce Protocol with new Cart and Catalog capabilities, highlighted Identity Linking as an available option, and announced a simpler onboarding process through Merchant Center. The update is UCP’s first since Google launched the protocol at NRF in January. Cart and Catalog are published as draft specifications. Identity Linking is in the latest stable version of the spec. What The New Capabilities Do The additions expand what AI agents can do within UCP-powered shopping experiences. Cart lets agents save or add multiple items to a shopping basket from a single store. According to the UCP spec, Cart…

Not to get all “back in my day” about it, but texting etiquette today is so different from when I was in high school. Gen Z seems to have an aversion to long text blocks, so instead, it’s multiple messages with one idea per text (sometimes in quick succession). But if you had a cell phone in 2009, you remember phone plans that charged per text, not per month. When you don’t have unlimited texting, every message has a cost—so you make sure every text counts. Power your business with AI automationBuild fully automated, AI-powered workflows on Zapier.Make’s credit model…