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Reddit decides who AI recommends: what I found measuring 241 software categories

Buyers have started asking ChatGPT and Gemini which software to use instead of opening ten tabs. So over the last few weeks I ran a simple experiment 241 times: for each software category, I asked the…

  • Reddit appeared in 93% of 241 software categories studied.
  • 1,202 individual answers were provided by Reddit in the study.
  • AI assistants frequently cited vendors' own comparison pages.

Crypto’s infrastructure era arrives, with AI agents poised to reshape demand

Crypto companies are trying to build a second growth engine by turning agents into the next wave of users.

  • AI agents integrated into crypto wallets and payment networks to serve as users.
  • Kraken overhauls app to enable AI agents for real-time market monitoring and trading.
  • Circle expands Arc blockchain for agentic economy with AI agents handling operational tasks.

My local AI ran on the CPU for a week and I didn't notice

My first Ollama setup felt fast. One evening, one model, one question, a clean answer streaming back at a speed that made cloud AI feel unnecessary.

  • Local AI setup ran on CPU for a week unnoticed
  • Oversized model and context length caused GPU VRAM limit
  • Two mistakes: partial offloading and GPU passthrough conflict