Monday, January 27

What you missed today

Good evening!

Bad news: your morning omelet is probably going to get more expensive.

Here are the 7 things you missed today:

1. šŸ›’ Amazonā€™s Bringing on Whole Foods CEO For Grocery Expansion

Amazon tapped Whole Foods CEO Jason Buechel to oversee its growing grocery business. Buechel will continue to lead Whole Foods alongside Amazonā€™s worldwide line of Fresh supermarkets, its online grocery service, and its Go convenience stores. (CNBC)

2. šŸ¤© A New Innovative Marketing Strategy?

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Thatā€™s exactly what My Lead Ads Funnel does.

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3. šŸ›”ļø OpenAI Rival Was Hit With Large-Scale Cyberattacks

DeepSeek, a Chinese artificial intelligence startup, has generated lots of buzz in recent weeks and just today took over OpenAIā€™s coveted spot as the most downloaded free app in the US on Appleā€™s App Store. It has since temporarily limited user registrations ā€œdue to large-scale malicious attacksā€ on its services. (CNBC)

4.  šŸ› ļø DIY LinkedIn Ads Approaches Donā€™t Work

Many small SMB companies opt for a DIY approach for their LinkedIn Ads. They often waste up to 40% of their budget due to lack of expertise, time, and ineffective strategies.

Alamere Digital can help you fix that. Do you also want to double CTRs or decrease CPCs by up to 75%?

5. šŸ„š Ongoing Bird Flu Outbreak is Spiking Egg Prices

The rising price of eggs has become a key issue for Americans, but relief may not be coming for some time. H5N1, a type of highly-contagious bird influenza, has been spreading throughout farms in the US with nearly 12 million cases in the past 30 days. As a result, US egg production fell 3% in December, causing rising prices in grocery stores. (Quartz)

6. šŸš« LinkedInā€™s Co-Founder Raises $25M to Take on Cancer Using AI

LinkedIn co-founder and venture capitalist Reid Hoffman launched an AI startup today aimed at discovering new treatments for cancer. Manas AI, which users a proprietary AI-driven platform to help speed up the drug discovery process, raised nearly $25 million in a seed round led by General Catalyst. (Quartz)

7. šŸ“± Appleā€™s Latest Software Update Turned AI on by Default

If youā€™ve updated an Apple Intelligence-supported device to iOS 18.3, you probably have AI turned on by default. The update also disables AI summaries for news apps, which have been infamous for displaying inaccurate facts in push notifications. (CNBC)

Bonus. CEO Tip Of The Day

Are sales teams just lazy now? This sales email from Salesforce has been hotly debated and might be some inspiration on what not to do (+ why!).

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