Today's AI Pulse
Salesforce to acquire AI‑agent platform Fin for $3.6B
Salesforce announced a $3.6 billion purchase of Fin, the AI‑agent platform formerly known as Intercom, to strengthen its Agentforce suite. The deal comes as Salesforce reported strong Q1 results and a $50 billion buyback program. Fin’s technology enables automated customer support across chat, email, WhatsApp, phone and Slack.
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By the numbers: Waymo acquires Apple’s Arizona Proving Ground for $220M
AI‑Driven Data‑Centre Bonds Surge to $40 Bn, Redefining High‑Yield Market
AI‑related high‑yield bond issuance has exploded to nearly $40 bn, with about $30 bn issued since the start of the year. The new subsector now accounts for roughly 1.6% of the global and 2.6% of the U.S. high‑yield bond indices, prompting active managers to reassess risk and return dynamics.
NHS to Spend £900 Million on Healthcare AI
Britain’s National Health Service announced a £900 million (≈$1.15 billion) investment in artificial intelligence for healthcare. The funding will be allocated over an eight‑year period beginning in 2027. The program aims to accelerate AI‑driven diagnostics, patient triage, and operational efficiencies across NHS...
Red Hat Bridges the Local-to-Cloud Gap for Agentic AI Development
Red Hat announced the general availability of Red Hat Desktop and major upgrades to its Advanced Developer Suite, aiming to unify local container development with Red Hat OpenShift cloud environments. The new Desktop, built on Podman Desktop, offers isolated sandboxing for...
Eudia Assembles Unified Workspace, Inc. Digital Twins +
Eudia, the Palo Alto‑based legal‑AI provider, has rolled out a unified workspace that consolidates its specialized agents—Argument Analysis, Case Analysis, PII Redaction—and its Expert Digital Twins into a single interface. The Digital Twins model senior lawyers’ decision pathways, delivering expert...
Commerzbank to Cut 3,000 Jobs as €600M AI Push Aims to Boost Efficiency
Commerzbank announced it will eliminate 3,000 positions – roughly 8% of its workforce – while committing €600 million to artificial‑intelligence projects over four years. The move is part of the Momentum 2030 plan and is intended to free up 10% of...
Cloudera Hackathon Shows Enterprise AI Can Cut RFP Cycle to Hours, but Data Governance Lags
At Cloudera's recent hackathon, Citadel Edge delivered an RFP‑to‑Proof‑of‑Concept builder that shrank a three‑to‑four‑week process to a few hours, demonstrating how enterprise AI can move quickly from concept to market. Yet Cloudera's own readiness survey warned that just 7% of...
Project44 Launches Autopilot, a $1 B No‑code AI Logistics Platform
Project44 introduced Autopilot, a no‑code AI‑enabled logistics operating system built on a data layer that cost more than $1 billion. The platform promises a 4% drop in freight spend, a 70% cut in manual coordination and faster sourcing, positioning the company...
BNY Built Its Digital Workforce Backward — And It’s Working
BNY Mellon became the first global systemically important bank to deploy “digital employees,” AI agents with logins, email addresses and human managers. It built a model‑agnostic platform called Eliza in 2023, trained over 1,400 staff in AI bootcamps, and only...
Samsung Leads $27M Seed Round in Config, the ‘TSMC of Robot Data’
Config, a Seoul‑San Jose AI startup that supplies data for robotic foundation models, closed a $27 million seed round led by Samsung Venture Investment. The round, which brings total funding to $35 million and values the company at more than $200 million, includes...
Figma's May 14 Earnings Could Ignite a Stock Rally Amid AI Scrutiny
Figma is slated to release its first‑quarter results on May 14, a filing that analysts say could spark a dramatic rebound for a stock that has fallen 83% since its IPO. The report will test the company's ability to counter...
Nubank Deploys AI Model to Expand Credit While Keeping Risk Flat
Nubank rolled out nuFormer, a transformer‑based AI underwriting engine that slashes projected risk by 70% and helped the bank lift its credit‑card spend share by 50 basis points in Q4 2025. The move expands the lender’s credit portfolio 40% year‑over‑year while...
Honeycomb Introduces Agent Observability Features to Keep an Eye on Production
Honeycomb, the full‑stack observability startup, unveiled a suite of AI‑agent monitoring tools—including Agent Timeline, Canvas Agent, Canvas Skills, and auto‑investigations. The features give engineers a real‑time, single‑pane view of large language model calls, tool invocations, and decision paths without requiring...
ElevenLabs Deploys Engineers to Every Non‑Technical Team to Speed Enterprise Voice‑AI Rollout
ElevenLabs announced it will embed a dedicated engineer within each non‑technical group—people, go‑to‑market, legal and others—to accelerate automation and upskill staff as the company scales its voice‑AI platform for enterprise clients. The move follows a $500 million Series D raise that lifted...
HPE Expands Hybrid Cloud Stack with Unified Private Cloud and AI-Ready Storage Updates
Hewlett Packard Enterprise unveiled a fourth‑generation Private Cloud that merges virtual machines and Kubernetes under a single Morpheus interface, while expanding its Alletra MP X10000 storage platform to support both file and object workloads up to 23 petabytes. The company also upgraded...
AIwire Unveils 2026 People to Watch
AIwire, the leading AI‑focused news outlet, announced its 2026 People to Watch, spotlighting six influential figures shaping the next wave of artificial‑intelligence innovation. The list includes Daniela Amodei (Anthropic), Andrew Feldman (Cerebras Systems), Ranjay Krishna (University of Washington), Adam Lewis...
Manifold Scores 7,700 MCP Servers in Manifest Expansion Aimed at Agent Security Teams
Manifold Security announced that its Manifest supply‑chain intelligence tool now indexes over 7,700 Model Context Protocol (MCP) servers from the official registry. Each server receives a composite Manifest Score that blends a Lineage Score—assessing publisher provenance—and a Safety Score—flagging behavioral...
Machines with the Ability to 'Feel' Currently in Development as We Enter Next Frontier of AI
Professor Rocky Scopelliti’s new book "Perceptive Machines" argues that AI is moving from pure cognition to genuine perception, enabling machines to sense, interpret and even replicate human senses such as sight, sound, touch, smell and taste. Early applications focus on...
Tolion Health AI Announces Launch of Tolion Brain Coach, First AI-Driven Personalized Mobile Application for Brain Health, Longevity, and Prevention...
Tolion Health AI launched Tolion Brain Coach, a free AI‑driven mobile app for brain health, now available on Android and iOS. The app integrates data from Apple Health and Google Health Connect, using wearables to generate a personalized Brain Score...
Girls Say AI Is a Smarter Tutor, a Funnier Comedian, and Has Better Taste than Their Parents, New Girl Scouts...
A Fortune‑commissioned Girl Scouts survey reveals that AI has become a daily companion for girls aged 5‑13, with 65% treating voice assistants as friends and nearly half preferring AI over parents for homework help. Usage spikes with age, and 44%...
Tanium Atlas Brings AI Into Endpoint Operations, Gives MSPs a New Services Play
Security firm Tanium unveiled Atlas, an autonomous operating system that merges AI models with its real‑time endpoint data platform. The solution surfaces relevant information, recommends actions, and lets users interact via natural language, aiming to cut manual investigation and context‑switching...
Greenboard Raises $15.5 Million to Keep Compliance From Slowing Down Business in the AI Era
Greenboard announced a $15.5 million Series A round led by Base10 Partners, with participation from Y Combinator, General Catalyst, Commerce Ventures, Transpose Platform and Liquid2 Ventures. The AI‑driven compliance platform now serves more than 500 financial institutions and has introduced a conversational tool...
AI Is Turning Connected Cars Into Pothole-Finding Machines
Fleet‑management firm Samsara has launched Ground Intelligence, an AI‑driven service that turns its network of camera‑equipped trucks into mobile pothole sensors. By analyzing video feeds, the system identifies pothole size, severity and deterioration rate, then surfaces the data on a...
Charms Closes $1.5M Pre-Seed to Launch the AI Character Economy
Charms Interactive announced the launch of Charms.ai and closed a $1.5 million pre‑seed round to fund its creator‑centric AI character platform. The app lets users build characters with memory, personality, voice and a built‑in economy that rewards both creators and the...
Grok 4.3 Features Most Beginners Overlook : Unlock Smarter AI Answers
AI Master’s walkthrough introduces Grok 4.3, an upgraded conversational AI platform that combines multiple operational modes—including Auto, Fast, Expert, and Heavy—with advanced features such as Python code execution, structured JSON output, and long‑context handling. The tool also offers built‑in project management,...
UiPath Opens Its Platform to Every Coding Agent - Here's Why Claude Code and Codex Go First
UiPath unveiled UiPath for Coding Agents, an open‑platform integration that lets enterprises run Anthropic’s Claude Code and OpenAI’s Codex within its Maestro orchestration layer. The launch marks a strategic pivot from human‑centric development to AI‑generated automation, with additional agents slated...
BlockchAIn Appoints Christopher Iannacone to Lead Execution of AI Data Center Conversion
BlockchAIn Digital Infrastructure announced the appointment of Christopher Iannacone as Director of Construction Execution to oversee the conversion of its utility‑backed mining sites into purpose‑built AI and high‑performance computing data centers. Iannacone brings more than 25 years of mission‑critical engineering...
20/20 BioLabs Exclusively Licenses PSA Velocity Algorithm From the University of South Carolina
20/20 BioLabs announced an exclusive worldwide licensing deal with the University of South Carolina to commercialize a patented PSA velocity algorithm that flags rapidly rising prostate‑specific antigen levels. The tool identifies aggressive prostate tumors before PSA crosses the conventional 4.0 ng/mL...
Cloudastructure Bolsters Leadership Team With Appointment of Fortune 100 Security Veteran as Chief Security and Operations Officer
Cloudastructure, the Nasdaq‑listed AI surveillance specialist, announced the appointment of Ed Burnett as Chief Security and Operations Officer. Burnett brings over 30 years of enterprise security experience, including two decades leading UPS’s U.S. security and global fraud investigations. The company...
I Asked Three AI Models to Fix the Same Broken Code. One Outperformed the Rest
A tech writer tested three leading AI models—ChatGPT (GPT 5.5), Google Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview, and Anthropic Claude Sonnet 4.6—by asking each to fix a deliberately broken Python script that moves image files. All three corrected the basic syntax errors and missing imports, but...
SAP Launches Managed Joule Studio with Cursor and Claude Code Support
SAP unveiled a fully managed version of Joule Studio at Sapphire 2026, eliminating the need for customers to configure or provision infrastructure. The update adds support for coding tools like Cursor and Claude Code and expands agent frameworks with AutoGen...
SAP CEO: The AI Race Is Being Fought in the Wrong Place
SAP CEO Christian Klein argues that the enterprise AI race is being fought on the wrong battlefield – the interface layer – rather than within operational context. He stresses that AI must be embedded in core systems that capture processes,...
SAP Launches AI Agent Hub at Sapphire 2026 to Tame Vendor Agent Sprawl
SAP unveiled its AI Agent Hub at Sapphire 2026, a vendor‑agnostic platform that inventories and governs all enterprise AI agents, large language models, and Model Context Protocol servers. Previously limited to LeanIX customers, the hub now integrates with Joule Studio...
Cocie AI Launches CTV Autopilot, The First Agentic Contextual Intelligence Platform Built for Programmatic CTV
Cocie AI unveiled CTV Autopilot, an agentic contextual intelligence platform that transforms a single buyer brief into a live, show‑level targeted CTV campaign within minutes. The system ingests billions of bid‑stream and programming signals, enriches them with granular context, and...
Imparta Launches i-Coach.AI for Connected Loop Sales Enablement
Impara launched i‑Coach.AI, an agentic AI platform that delivers a “connected loop” sales enablement cycle integrating preparation, execution, assessment, improvement, and follow‑through. Built on the company’s 3D Sales Agility methodology and 25 years of research, the system combines AI role‑plays,...
AI Generates Behavior‑Based Email Sequences Automatically
I built a skill that designs email sequences — welcome, onboarding, nurture, upgrade, re-engagement, and winback flows with timing, copy, and personalization. You describe your product and goals, and it builds complete sequences: subject lines, preview text, body copy, CTAs, and...
Chrome Update Showcases AI Mode as Search’s Future
My "Your Chrome was updated" tab today was heavily promoting AI Mode's latest features and functionality (including linking to an unlisted video about the changes that was published two weeks ago). Again, AI Mode (or some form of it) is...
ServiceNow’s AI Control Tower Offers Hazy View of Spend
ServiceNow has launched Action Fabric, an AI Control Tower that meters AI "assists" and adds usage‑based fees on top of existing subscriptions. Customers receive a baseline number of assists and must purchase additional credits when usage exceeds that allotment. Because...
Optical AI Stocks Hit Record Highs, Supercycle Accelerates
The optical AI trade just had its biggest day of 2026. AAOI surged 24% to $185. Lumentum jumped 17% past $1,053 — an all-time high. Coherent rallied 13% to $380. Ciena climbed 6% to $581. Every name in the group...
The Inside View: Beyond the Hype – GenAI in Legal Practice
Legal IT Insider’s podcast features Travers Smith CTO Olly Bethell discussing the practical impact of generative AI on law firms. He outlines the firm’s current tech stack, its hybrid "buy or build" strategy, and how GenAI is reshaping legal workflows beyond the...
Infrastructure Technology Podcast: The Role GIS Plays In Public Transit Planning
Episode nine of Season 3 of the Infrastructure Technology Podcast spotlights how Geographic Information Systems (GIS) and emerging AI tools are reshaping public transit planning. Guest Jackie Strohmeyer, a recent University of New Orleans graduate, explains how GIS‑based accessibility analysis drives equity‑focused...
Streamlining to ~20 Essential SaaS Providers
Wavespeed for GPU (Photo AI + Interior AI) Cloudflare for R2 storage and domain renewal xAI for LLM AI API for all my sites Backblaze for backups Hetzner for VPS Scrapingbee for scraping (mostly for Hotelist) Google Cloud (also for Hotelist) NameCheap (for like 4 domains left...
Industry 5.0: Why Human-First AI and Smarter Automation Are Reshaping the Future of Industrial IoT
Industry 5.0 reframes industrial IoT by placing human judgment at the core of AI‑driven automation. The model introduces design principles such as human‑first copilots, bounded AI autonomy, clean data pipelines, and stepwise scaling. A three‑layer reference architecture—cognitive, digital, physical—integrates governance, security,...
Why Business Architects Are Poised to Lead the Corporate AI Revolution
Business architects, combining tech know‑how with business insight, are being positioned to steer AI adoption at Siemens, a global conglomerate of 250,000 employees. Senior VP Andrew Allan says the role requires at least a decade of planning experience, deep domain...
American Express on AI-Powered Personalization at Scale
American Express announced the launch of an AI‑powered personalization platform that will deliver real‑time, tailored offers to its roughly 100 million cardholders. The system, built on a partnership with OpenAI, leverages generative AI and extensive transaction data to recommend products and...
Research: Traditional Marketing Doesn’t Work on AI Shopping Agents
A new study shows that traditional e‑commerce persuasion tactics—such as scarcity badges, countdown timers, and strike‑through pricing—do not reliably influence AI shopping agents like ChatGPT, Google’s UCP, or Amazon’s assistant. The researchers simulated over 16,000 purchase decisions across four AI...
Plaid’s CFO Sees AI Usage Taking Off Internally: ‘People Are so Excited to Share What They’ve Built over the Weekend...
Plaid’s CFO Seun Sodipo says AI has become an internal accelerant, helping her and her teams streamline finance work and experiment with new tools. The fintech platform recently hit an $8 billion valuation, a 31% jump from the previous year, after...
Red Hat Adds Support for Agentic AI Development
Red Hat unveiled a suite of agentic AI development tools at its Summit, including the generally available Red Hat Desktop with sandboxed AI agent testing, an enhanced Advanced Developer Suite, dedicated AI skill bundles, and the free rolling‑release Fedora Hummingbird...
AI Workloads Migrate to Spare
What happens when AI queries follow spare megawatts instead of users, hopping between micro data centers at substations? https://spectrum.ieee.org/distributed-inference-data-centers?share_id=9447651
AI Policing Mistakes Cause Real Harm; Oversight Essential
AI errors in policing are not abstract technical problems. They can change lives instantly. From false gun detections to mistaken facial recognition matches, flawed systems are already contributing to wrongful arrests and traumatic encounters. That is why oversight matters. When AI enters...
Gemini Unveils Polished Daily Briefs with Personalized Alerts
Gemini's upcoming Daily brief feature looks a lot more polished now Briefs are generated after midnight and can be delivered via daily, personalized notifications to help users stay informed ✅ More details & screenshots - https://t.co/wDeOaNPBxc https://t.co/tf0CvpeDla