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December 20, 2025
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☕️ Starbucks’ New CTO is an Amazon Vet
☁️ Palo Alto Networks Signed Deal With Google Cloud
👨💻 Cursor continues acquisition spree with Graphite deal
🚀OpenAI is trying to raise $100B at an $830B valuation
💡 AI Tutorial:How to analyze and visualize data in ChatGPT
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From one major company to the next. Starbucks announced the hire of its new Chief Technology Officer, Amazon veteran Anand Varadarajan, most recently the leader of its grocery technology and supply chain. The hire comes after Deb Hall Lefevre, Starbucks’ former CTO, departed in September as the company underwent a second round of layoffs and announced a $1 billion restructuring plan as a part of its ongoing turnaround.
Big products require big partnerships. In an effort to expand their strategic partnership and deepen their engineering collaboration, cybersecurity producer Palo Alto Networks is migrating key internal workloads to Google Cloud as part of a new multibillion-dollar agreement.
AI coding assistant Cursor announced that it has acquired Graphite, a startup that uses AI to review and debug code. Although the terms of the deal were not disclosed, Axios reported that Cursor paid “way over” Graphite’s last valuation of $290 million, which was set when the five-year-old company raised a $52 million Series B earlier this year.
OpenAI is in talks to raise up to $100 billion in a funding round that could value the ChatGPT maker at up to $830 billion, The Wall Street Journal reported Thursday, citing anonymous sources. The funding would come as OpenAI commits to spend trillions of dollars and strikes deals around the world as the company tries to stay ahead in the race to develop AI technology.
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How to analyze and visualize data in ChatGPT
Go to ChatGPT
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Upload your data or spreadsheet
Use the following prompt: Analyze the data attached, generate key trends and insights, and generate charts to visualize and understand the data
Press enter and wait to get your output
Note: Please be careful when uploading any sensitive company or personal data to any AI app. Take necessary precautions and anonymize data where appropriate.
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Instead of pushing polished product shots, the brand activated creators across food, lifestyle, and everyday routines - pairing premium gifting with seasonal moments and culturally relevant hooks. The result wasn’t just content; it was momentum. Snack boards, game-day recipes, self-care rituals, and kitchen-counter creativity started taking over feeds, delivering 560K+ views, 247K reach, 9K likes, 2K saves, and $58K EMV - all from authentic storytelling that felt like discovery, not advertising.
More importantly, it became repeatable. Mid-tier creators expanded visibility. Micro-influencers added warmth and trust. And with Creator.co managing recruitment, briefs, and delivery, the brand built a scalable content engine, everything from 71K-view recipe videos to 600+ save snack hacks. As one marketing leader put it: “The team is accessible, easy to work with, and provides frequent updates — all our data was right at our fingertips.”
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