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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How AI Can Enhance Benefit Leader, Broker Relationships
Gyde, a brokerage‑focused AI firm, launched its GydeOS platform and Gia assistant to shift benefit brokers from pure administrative tasks to proactive healthcare navigation. The tools automate calendar management, product recommendations, outreach, and renewal handling, freeing brokers to engage in richer, faster conversations with employers. CEO Will Johnson emphasizes a "high‑tech, high‑touch" model that blends AI efficiency with human relationship building. The AI‑driven approach aims to streamline complex benefit plan renewals and strengthen broker‑client partnerships.
Future Builders Outpace Outdated Governance Systems
Mars colonies, robot workers, and AGI lawsuits all point to one big truth: the people building the future are moving faster than the systems meant to govern them. Will these systems be relevant or needed at all soon? -- Figure scaling...
The Scoop: Updated Data Gives New Peek Into What’s Fueling AI Search Today
Muck Rack’s latest analysis reveals that 99% of links cited by AI chatbots come from non‑paid media, with journalism leading at 27% of all citations and more than half of those stories published within the past year. Corporate blogs contribute...
Public-Sector AI Translation Has Saved Taxpayers More than $30 Million, Wordly Says
Wordly, an AI‑powered translation platform, reports that public‑sector use has saved U.S. taxpayers more than $30 million since its 2019 launch. Adoption by states, local governments and schools has surged fivefold in the past two years, driven by growing multilingual populations...
Oracle Applications Analyst Summit: Fusion Agents Are Shifting From Assist To Decide
At Oracle’s Applications Analyst Summit, the company announced that AI‑driven agents will be exclusive to its Fusion SaaS platform, abandoning on‑premise suites such as EBS, JD Edwards, PeopleSoft, and Hyperion. Oracle is moving from generic assistants to productized agentic applications that...
AI in Edu: News, Views, & Moves (May 8)
Education Week identifies a cultural and political backlash against ed‑tech, driven by pandemic‑era device rollouts, the rise of generative AI, and concerns over student mental health. The backlash is reflected in mixed educator sentiment—some see academic value, others cite harms...
NSF Initiative Aims for AI-Readiness
The National Science Foundation launched the AI‑Ready America initiative to build a nationwide network of AI coordination hubs, one in each state, territory and the District of Columbia. Up to 56 hubs will be eligible for up to $1 million per...
The AI Hype in Healthcare Needs Randomized Evidence
The article argues that the AI hype in healthcare must be grounded in randomized evidence. Venture capital is flooding AI decision‑support tools, yet most lack RCT validation. Two recent trials illustrate the gap: a 10,422‑patient UVA predictive‑analytics study found no...
AI Agents Redefine Leadership and Decision-Making
AI Agents Are Already Reshaping Business Leadership and Decision Making AI agents aren’t just tools — they’re influencing how leaders make decisions, streamline strategy and drive organisational change. Read more 👉 https://lnkd.in/e_pCciEv #AI #Leadership #BusinessStrategy #BernardMarr
Reusable Prompt Frameworks Beat Random Guesswork
Most people fail with AI because they write random prompts. The best results come from reusable frameworks 👇 🧩 1. Structured Template “Act as a [role]. Help me with [task]. Output as [format].” → Best for precision & consistency 🔎...
‘AI for Good’ and ‘I Am Not a Robot’: Learning the Machines
The new book *AI for Good* spotlights pragmatic leaders who are applying artificial intelligence to solve immediate, high‑impact problems. It profiles Cleveland Clinic’s Rita Pappas, who used AI to streamline patient admissions, and retired Army General Gustave Perna, who built...
5 Steps for Frontier AI Readiness
Frontier AI models such as Anthropic's Claude Mythos and OpenAI's GPT‑5.4‑Cyber can autonomously discover software flaws and generate exploits, compressing the gap between vulnerability discovery and attack. This acceleration forces a move from traditional vulnerability management to continuous exposure management,...
Ai Twitter Is Trash - Keep Your AI Skills Up The Right Way - #130
The post argues that most AI content on social media quickly becomes obsolete, echoing Andrej Karpathy’s claim that 90% of AI Twitter advice dies within six months. It lists ten practices senior AI engineers have abandoned, starting with AutoGen/AG2, which...
How AI Is Helping Legacy HVAC Systems Meet New York City’s Emissions Standards
Entech is retrofitting legacy HVAC systems with AI‑driven sensors and control software to help New York City buildings meet Local Law 97’s emissions mandates. Early adopters have already saved about $42 million and cut carbon output by roughly 137,000 tons, averaging a 22%...
AR Automation: Cutting Through the Hype
Bob Schultz talks with Chris Capron, the founder of Sephora Software, about the rapid shift in accounts receivable (AR) automation driven by AI. Capron argues that legacy vendors are nervous because AI tools like Claude and Vibe coding can replace...
How Silicon Valley Sold Washington an AI Race
Silicon Valley has turned the China‑AI race narrative into a policy lever, using full‑page ads, white papers and congressional testimony to push for export controls, military AI contracts and deregulation. The story began in 2017 after China’s AI Development Plan,...
AI Influencers Erode Trust by Masquerading as Real Advisors
AI influencers are starting to sell fitness, health and lifestyle advice that looks completely real. The problem is not just fake images. It’s that people increasingly cannot tell whether the person giving advice even exists. That changes the internet fundamentally. Trust is...
Nick Bostrom Has a Plan for Humanity’s ‘Big Retirement’
Philosopher Nick Bostrom released a new paper arguing that a low‑probability AI catastrophe could be acceptable if advanced AI ultimately eliminates humanity’s existential threats and creates a “solved world.” The proposal marks a departure from his earlier warnings about AI...
Is AI Going To Take Retail Jobs? Maybe, But Not The Ones You Expect
Andon Labs launched Andon Market, an experimental retail store run by an AI chatbot named Luna. Luna immediately hired human staff to handle customer interaction, positioning the AI as a manager rather than a floor worker. The experiment highlights a...
Urgent Care Clinics Boost Revenue and Throughput with AI Scribe
Experity Health’s AI Scribe, embedded in its urgent‑care EHR, automatically transcribes provider‑patient conversations into structured notes. Since its rollout in October 2025, more than 450 clinics have logged over 400,000 visits, cutting daily documentation time by roughly 40%. The efficiency...
AI-Guided Labs Are Approaching Full Autonomy
Ginkgo Bioworks is building fully autonomous biopharma labs that combine 70 robots, 90 lab devices and AI‑driven software in an 18,000‑square‑foot Boston facility. Scientists can submit dozens of unique protocols each day, which the system executes without human intervention. In...
Schematik
Schematik, backed by Lightspeed Venture Partners in a 2026 pre‑seed round, is launching one of the first generative AI platforms that translates plain‑English design requests into hardware code, wiring diagrams, component lists, and assembly instructions. Founder Sam Beek, who previously...
Signal Labs
Signal Labs is creating an AI‑first "attention infrastructure" that filters and prioritizes signals for large, multi‑party organizations. Its inaugural product, SignalOS, tackles the fragmented U.S. healthcare payment stack by automating claim, authorization and clinical data coordination. Founder Raj Ronanki, former...
Abridge Releases Ambient AI Tech for Nurses
Abridge announced that its ambient documentation AI is now available to nurses at every health‑system client nationwide. The technology automatically captures and records patient‑encounter notes, aiming to cut the administrative load that nurses traditionally shoulder. Early adopters include Mayo Clinic,...
Automating Grunt Work Is Still Agentic AI's Sweet Spot
At SAS’s annual conference, financial‑services leaders emphasized that the near‑term value of agentic AI lies in automating high‑volume, low‑complexity back‑office work such as KYC onboarding, compliance documentation, and routine claims processing. JPMorgan Chase adopts a hybrid model—purchasing external AI models while...
Generative AI Hype Outpaces Real ROI for Businesses
Remember that MIT study that showed that the ROI for generative AI wasn’t really there for most businesses? Or any of the six or seven studies from other teams that followed, showing basically the same? The situation for agents looks to...
Franz AllegroGraph 9.0 Debuts GraphTalker, an AI Agent for Enterprise Knowledge Graphs
Franz Inc. launched AllegroGraph v9.0, featuring GraphTalker, an AI agent that lets users query enterprise knowledge graphs via natural language. GraphTalker uses an iterative, schema‑aware approach to generate, test, and refine SPARQL queries, delivering verified answers and reusable workflows. The platform...
Three Wins for AI in the Revenue Cycle
Brian Kenah, CTO of EnableComp, outlines three early AI wins in hospital revenue cycle management. First, document intelligence converts unstructured PDFs—contracts, fee schedules, regulations—into real‑time decision data for reimbursement. Second, intelligent integration leverages APIs and robotic process automation to replace...
Willis Knighton Health Taps AI Scribe Vendor
Willis Knighton Health, a four‑hospital network in Shreveport, Louisiana, has chosen Commure as its enterprise ambient AI scribe vendor. The partnership integrates Commure’s AI‑driven documentation tool with the system’s Meditech Expanse EHR. A seven‑specialty pilot showed 88% of providers experienced...
When Well-Behaved Agents Trigger Disaster
A new class of outages is emerging as autonomous agents make rapid, correct decisions that unintentionally collide. In a 2:17 a.m. scenario, a performance, cost, and routing agent each acted perfectly, yet their combined actions took the database layer offline. Recent...
Garry Tan
Garry Tan’s custom instructions are based. It pushes any LLM past half-finished bullshit and into actually useful answers. Add this to your SOUL md:
Public AI Isn’t the Frontier
The blog argues that the era of treating AI like a standard product launch is ending. While early models were built, tested internally, announced, and released with minimal oversight, today’s most powerful frontier models are being treated as systems that...
One Developer, AI Agents Replace Whole Teams
We're entering a new era of software where a single person, working with AI agents, can build products that previously required entire teams. In this episode of the @LightconePod, they break down the rise of AI coding agents, "tokenmaxxing", and the...
AI Struggles with Basic Data Tasks for Hospital Administrators: Study
A study by Mount Sinai and Mayo Clinic evaluated nine large language models on two basic administrative data tasks using 50,000 emergency department records. Simple prompts like “how many patients were admitted?” yielded poor accuracy across all models. Adding chain‑of‑thought...
Human Value Shifts to AI Supervision and Coordination
If AI agents handle the front line, attention shifts to the layers above. Human roles that manage escalations, guide decisions, and oversee workflows take on greater weight. Beyond that, new roles emerge to coordinate systems where people and agents operate...
AI Disruption Mirrors China WTO Shock,
The AI shock is following a similar disruption pattern that followed China’s WTO entry, says Apollo’s Slok. Back then manufacturing workers lost their jobs, but overall employment levels held up. This time around, white-collar workers are being displaced https://t.co/7QVCrpA4If https://t.co/weF22s1CNV
How to Go From AI Beginner to Pro in 2026
The post outlines a five‑stage framework for advancing from AI beginner to system builder in 2026, highlighting the widening gap between casual users and power users. It details tool selection, prompt engineering, and the shift toward AI‑driven workflows and autonomous...
AI-Generated Hospitalization Summaries Cut Clerk Workload, Boost Physician Well‑being
Agentic AI summaries of hospitalizations were safe and reduced data clerk burden, burnout, and improved sense of well-being for physicians in a prospective study https://t.co/0nXZ0wjugg
CIOs Must Prioritize Plugin Security Over AI Hype
A personal agent is only as safe as its plugins. In the wild, we're already seeing extensions act as conduits for malware. CIOs: It’s time to move from "opportunity" to "risk mitigation." 📉 https://t.co/5poCN8at4u #CIO #AI #Cybersecurity #RiskManagement #InfoSec
DBS Group: Putting AI Into The Bank’s DNA
DBS Group reported record financial results in 2025, with total income of S$22.9 bn (≈$18 bn) and profit before tax of S$13.1 bn (≈$9.7 bn), driving its market capitalization past $100 bn and closing the year at $124 bn. The bank scaled its AI engine to...
Agentic AI Extends Beyond Telco IT, Shaping Future
Last week I MC’d the invite-only Amdocs Executive Forum in Madrid. Themed “The Future is Now”, focused on #AgenticAI and how it reaches beyond #telcos’ IT systems… see post for details https://t.co/6rahwjFyBz
Creator Agency NewGen Launches AI Platform to Help Brands Scale Creator Campaigns With Compliance Controls
London‑based creator agency NewGen has unveiled Multiple, an AI‑driven platform that consolidates every stage of influencer campaigns—from creator matching and outreach to contract generation, payment tracking and performance reporting. The system promises to cut campaign launch times by up to...
Will Advertisers Pay A Tax For Using AI?
A growing chorus of policymakers and tech leaders is reviving the idea of a tax on artificial‑intelligence computing, often called a compute or robot tax. Bill Gates first floated the concept a decade ago, and former presidential candidate Andrew Yang...
AI: Technology Tool or Storytelling Narrative?
Is #AI a technology or a narrative we have attached to computer science? Dennis Draeger answers on The Peggy Smedley Show. https://t.co/ORD0xkz0A0 #IoT #sustainability #digitaltransformation #PeggySmedley #podcast
Meta’s Embrace of A.I. Is Making Its Employees Miserable
Meta announced it will begin tracking U.S. employees' keystrokes, mouse movements, clicks and screen content to feed its artificial‑intelligence models. The policy, rolled out to tens of thousands of staff, sparked immediate backlash, with workers posting angry emojis and demanding...
Air Street NYC AI Meetup - 14 May 2026
The Air Street NYC AI Meetup on May 14, 2026 gathered New York’s top AI researchers, founders, and engineers for a curated, small‑group event. Speakers included Seb Goddijn from Ramp discussing AI deployment in a high‑growth fintech, Pratap Ranade of...
Nvidia's VP of Deep Learning Says AI Workers Are Already 'Far Beyond the Costs of the Employees'
Nvidia’s vice‑president of applied deep learning, Bryan Catanzaro, told Axios that the compute spend for his team now exceeds the total payroll for its employees. The remark underscores how AI development costs have ballooned, even as Nvidia’s AI‑driven growth helped...
OTP Bank: Becoming AI And Data Literate
OTP Bank posted a return on equity above 20% and a €118 billion ($129 billion) balance sheet in 2025, with more than 70% of profit now generated outside Hungary. Double‑digit loan‑book growth across eleven markets underpinned the results, and the bank aims...
4 Claude Cowork Prompts to Build an "MVP Mornings" Routine You Can Use Next Week
The post introduces a "MVP Mornings" workflow built on Claude Cowork, a set of four AI prompts that automatically scan a user’s calendar, priority list, projects, and trust ledger each morning. The system ranks the top three "Most Valuable Progress" tasks—high‑leverage...
AI in Finance: Hype Meets Reality, No Boom Yet
Interesting article in the FT on the impact of AI: "as AI fever sweeps finance, it is neither delivering the profit nirvana predicted by tech evangelists nor hastening the doom the Cassandras have warned about. Or at least not yet" https://t.co/JXXNXvKMkV https://t.co/H6tOUYaxoK