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
Velvet
Velvet is an AI‑powered operating system and copilot built for private‑market investors such as venture capital and private equity firms. The platform aggregates data from pitch decks, data rooms, emails and spreadsheets into a single interface, then uses generative AI to automate up to 80 % of the manual investment workflow. Tasks like drafting investment memos, flagging diligence gaps and surfacing comparable company data are handled automatically, letting teams evaluate more deals with higher precision. CEO Emma Lawler leads the company’s push to streamline deal sourcing and execution.
Backup and Death for Humanlike AI
The article imagines conscious, human‑like AI agents that can be precisely backed up and restored, turning what we call death into a reversible process akin to loading a saved game. It explores scenarios where an AI “dies” in an accident...
AI Enables Exponential, Not Just Incremental, Innovation
Reinventing the process with AI isn't enough. Sometimes we need to reimagine the solution entirely. In other words, separate process from outcome. Let's say you need to get to Chicago. Adding a couple more horses to your stagecoach is irrelevant...
“We’re in a Moment in Canada”: Solomon Brings AI Pitch to Platform Calgary
Federal AI minister Evan Solomon addressed roughly 200 founders, investors and entrepreneurs at Platform Calgary, underscoring a pivotal moment for artificial intelligence in Canada. He outlined the upcoming release of an updated national AI strategy, built on a task‑force roadmap...
Vera
Vera, formerly Vera AI, offers an enterprise‑grade AI governance platform that inserts a trust layer between users and large language models. The solution automatically enforces privacy, security and brand policies by redacting PII, protecting intellectual property and blocking biased outputs....
NERSC Issues 2026 Call for AI for Science Proposals
The National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center (NERSC) has launched its 2026 AI for Science call, offering up to 10,000 GPU node hours on the Perlmutter supercomputer and up to 20,000 CPU node hours for AI‑ready dataset generation. The open...
Vow
Vow is an AI‑powered operating system designed for the live experience economy, unifying event planning, guest operations, and real‑time communications on a single platform. The solution automates RSVP handling, guest list management, and workflow orchestration, aiming to eliminate the “event...
RAG Agents Demystified: Quick 2‑Minute Guide
80% of AI beginners are confused by RAG Agents. Let's fix that (in under 2 minutes): a thread🧵
LiDAR Gives Self‑Driving Cars True Spatial Understanding
Have you ever wondered how self-driving cars actually “see” the world? It’s not just cameras. One of the key technologies is LiDAR - a system that uses laser pulses to scan the environment and build a real-time 3D map of everything around...
GMI Cloud Unveils $12B, 1GW Sovereign AI Infrastructure Initiative in Japan
GMI Cloud, together with Wistron, announced a $12 billion AI Factory in Kagoshima, Japan, slated to begin construction in late 2026. The facility will deliver up to 1 GW of power to support large‑scale physical AI workloads such as robotics, autonomous vehicles,...
SAP Moves to Refresh Business Model Around AI Workflow
SAP is overhauling its business model, product architecture, and leadership to place AI at the core of its enterprise software offering. CEO Christian Klein now directly oversees AI strategy and has introduced a hybrid pricing model that adds consumption‑based AI...
U.S. Senate Lawmakers Urge ‘Seedance 2.0’ AI Video Model Shutdown Following Copyright Infringement
U.S. Senators Peter Welch and Marsha Blackburn wrote to ByteDance demanding the shutdown of its Seedance 2.0 AI video model, citing rampant copyright infringement. Within 24 hours the tool generated viral deep‑fake scenes featuring Tom Cruise, Brad Pitt, Stranger Things, and...
AI Cuts Weeks of Research to Days, Boosts Adoption
This AI runs 100s of customer interviews overnight while you sleep. No scheduling. No transcripts. No $1,000/interview fees. Frank AI cuts 6 weeks of customer research down to 3 days. Traditional interviews cost $500–$1,000 each. @hifrankai does it for a fraction of that. At...
GPT Proto Expands AI Model Catalogue with Support for Google’s Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview
GPT Proto, the Hong Kong‑based multi‑model AI API platform, announced the integration of Google’s Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview, its most advanced multimodal model to date. The addition expands the platform’s catalogue, which already includes offerings from OpenAI, Anthropic, Meta and...
Agentic Hospitality Launches AI Connectivity Platform for Hotel Reservations
Agentic Hospitality unveiled the TravelOS Model Context Protocol (MCP) Server, an AI connectivity platform that links hotel central reservation and property management systems directly to AI assistants and conversational interfaces. The middleware streams real‑time availability, rates, and policies into AI...
Bittensor Subnets - How They Work and What They Power
Bittensor is a decentralized machine‑intelligence network that uses its native TAO token to power a collection of specialized subnets. Each subnet functions as an incentive‑driven marketplace where miners produce AI‑related commodities and validators assess quality through the Yuma Consensus, allocating...
AWG Deploys AI-Powered Shopping Assistant
Associated Wholesale Grocers (AWG) has rolled out SmartMeals, an AI‑powered meal‑planning and shopping assistant developed with Breez AI. The tool is now live in nearly 100 independent grocery stores and offers personalized recipes, budget‑smart recommendations, and custom‑branded experiences. SmartMeals has driven...
Emporix and ACR Deploy AI-Driven Commerce Automation – Reducing B2B Order Processing Time by Up to 87%
Emporix has deployed an AI‑driven orchestration layer for ACR that automatically reads, validates and processes PDF purchase orders. The solution slashed average order‑processing time from roughly eight minutes to under one minute, an 87% reduction, and lowered error rates. Implementation...
Now Anyone Can Host a Global AI Challenge
Kaggle has unveiled Community Hackathons, a free, self‑service platform that lets anyone—from schools to enterprises—create professional‑grade AI competitions. The offering bundles data hosting, interactive notebooks, discussion forums and multi‑track judging, with prize pools up to $10,000. Early adopters such as...
Microsoft Hands Copilot Haters and 'Microslop' Pushers yet More Ammunition with 'How To' Videos that Showcase an Embarrassing Use of...
Microsoft has begun embedding AI‑generated screenshots from Copilot into its Windows Learning Center how‑to articles. Several images contain glaring errors, such as duplicated Start buttons and a widget panel that does not match the actual Windows 11 interface. The mistakes expose...
Snapshot and MindsDB Announce Strategic Partnership to Deliver AI‑Powered Solutions for the NetSuite Ecosystem
Snapshot, a NetSuite consulting firm, and MindsDB, an AI platform, have formed a strategic partnership to embed AI‑driven conversational analytics into the NetSuite ecosystem. The collaboration leverages MindsDB’s Enterprise AI engine and Snapshot’s ERP data expertise to deliver predictive models,...
Large Specialty Practice Uses Agentic AI to Strengthen Patient Engagement
Dermatology Partners, a large physician‑owned dermatology group, deployed EliseAI's agentic voice AI to handle its 2,000‑4,000 daily inbound calls. The system integrates with AdvancedMD and Modernizing Medicine EHR, allowing the AI to schedule appointments and capture simple clinical tasks. Early...
AI Replies Threaten Authentic Human Interaction
Some people are now using AI agents to reply to messages for them. What starts as convenience quickly turns into something more personal when family and friends think they are talking to you, but it is actually a machine. Even the...
Swa Introduces Multi-Model AI Orchestration Platform
Swa Technology unveiled a multi‑model AI orchestration platform that unifies open‑source and commercial models under a single, secure interface, aiming to curb shadow AI in enterprises. The system automatically matches each user prompt to the model best suited for the...
LLMs Reveal Superrealities Beyond Human Perceptual Limits
From The Borrowed Mind... "An LLM creates a reality so vast that parts of it may not be fit for human consumption. I keep reaching for a phrase to describe this. Round square-ness. Barely articulable. Impossible to fully imagine. You can...
Automation, AI Reshape the Workforce
Randstad’s Workmonitor 2026 report, based on 1,752 workers, 55 employers and over a million job postings, finds AI adoption accelerating while worker confidence in technology plummets. While 98% of U.S. employers expect growth, only 55% of talent share that optimism,...
Out of Control
AI development is accelerating at a pace that outstrips existing safety and regulatory frameworks. New models, capabilities, and agent systems are emerging faster than companies can implement robust controls. The mismatch creates uncertainty as developers cannot fully predict scaled behavior....
Expedience Software Joins Microsoft AI Cloud Partner Program to Deliver Copilot-Powered Proposal Automation in Microsoft Word
Expedience Software announced its entry into the Microsoft AI Cloud Partner Program, linking its Word‑native proposal automation platform with Microsoft Copilot. The integration lets users draft, refine, and format complex RFP responses directly inside Microsoft Word while leveraging generative AI....
Cleavr Raises €1M to Develop an AI Solution for Accounts Receivable
Cleavr announced a €1 million funding round led by Kima Ventures and other investors to accelerate its AI‑driven accounts‑receivable platform. The solution automates reminders, reconciliation, dispute handling and multi‑channel communication, aiming to cut late‑payment losses for finance teams. Already deployed with...
Researchers Develop AI Framework Combining Expert Knowledge and Data to Accelerate Alloy Discovery
Researchers at Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology unveiled an AI‑for‑Science framework that merges experimental alloy data, computational models, and expert knowledge extracted from scientific literature using large language models. The system fuses these evidence streams with Dempster‑Shafer theory,...
AI Enables Continuous Dynamic Optimization Over Static Rules
Most enterprise systems today operate on what could be called static real-time optimization. Rules are defined in advance and triggered when conditions match. This works well until the situation falls outside the rule set. At that point, performance degrades, and...
Nvidia's AI Grid Is WAN‑centric, Not RAN‑focused
A few days ago I commented on a post by @sebastianbarros about @nvidia redefining #telecoms #AI. I said we’d know it was really serious about telecoms if it said as much about AI-WAN as it does about AI-RAN. The AI Grid...
OWASP AIVSS Project Announces the Release of v0.8 Scoring System for Agentic AI Security Risks in Co-Publication with AIUC-1 and...
The OWASP Agentic AI Vulnerability Scoring System (AIVSS) released version 0.8 on March 19, 2026, incorporating over 1,900 public comments and new mappings to AIUC‑1, NIST AI RMF, and CSA MAESTRO. The update adds a refined quantitative model, revised core risks, enhanced usability, and...
AI at the Edge Turns Connectivity Into Intelligence Platform
Alongside @NVIDIA and our ecosystem of partners, we’re bringing AI to the network edge to make a real impact. Appreciate @FierceWireless’ highlight of how connectivity is becoming a platform for intelligence. 👇 https://t.co/esZ6ZWwc7G
Mystery AI Model Confirmed as Xiaomi, Not DeepSeek V4
Mystery AI model revealed to be Xiaomi's following suspicions it was DeepSeek V4 - https://t.co/WbYgV6kjPI
Viagogo Launches AI-Powered Tool for Artists, Teams, Venues
Viagogo unveiled Distribution Manager, an AI‑powered self‑serve platform that lets artists, sports teams and venues list official tickets directly on its global marketplace. The tool is built on Viagogo’s Open Distribution model, which has already driven an 84% year‑over‑year increase...
Silicon Valley Quietly Backs Anthropic Amid Trump Contract Feud
Silicon Valley Musters Behind-the-Scenes Support for Anthropic Tech companies have been reluctant to directly confront Trump administration officials over their contract feud with the A.I. start-up. https://t.co/jcLIXcBxJC via @NYTimes
AI Disrupts Software Economics, Rendering Traditional Licensing Obsolete
The Seat Is Dead: Why AI Is Forcing a Fundamental Rewrite of Software Economics https://t.co/iUWbWSbwV9
Google DeepMind Hires New AI Chief Strategy Leader, Who Plans ‘To Develop AGI Safely To Empower Humans’
Google DeepMind has hired former Yale professor and Bridgewater chief scientist Jasjeet Sekhon as its new chief strategy officer. Sekhon will work directly with CEO Demis Hassabis to steer DeepMind’s roadmap toward safe artificial general intelligence (AGI). The move follows...
LLMs Show Unexpected Deviation From Benford’s Law
"Benford's Law" says that 1 and 2 are overrepresented as the starting number for most everything. 8 and 9, rarely. @kweinmeister wondered if LLMs follow this statistical law when generating data. https://t.co/hgtjs24FJg https://t.co/hij3SdDHlb
Agent “Claws” Transform Individual and Collaborative Work
ICYMI: I went on @ForwardFuture to talk about what we're building at @near_ai, including IronClaw and Agent Marketplace, and how agent harnesses or "claws" are changing how we work individually and together. https://t.co/hWOcWtvTL2
Mithril Launches Flexible Reservations, Recycling Idle GPU Time Into the Mithril Spot Service
Mithril introduced Flexible Reservations, a service that redirects idle GPU capacity from reserved workloads into its Spot marketplace. The model awards the original reservation holder recoverable compute credits for every hour their unused GPUs are utilized by other customers. Industry...
WEF Report Highlights AI Driving Organizational Transformation
Important report on the impact of AI in organizational transformation by the World Economic Forum. Happy to see Insilico presented as one of the case studies. https://t.co/rMr1W3aBDl https://t.co/dKcJAvvAHr
AI Revives Plato's Warnings About Writing's Impact
🤔Is AI making Plato’s old suspicion about writing feel new again? https://t.co/XebP7NKNXe #AI #philosophy #cognition
Industrialising the Challenge Process: AI in Operational Risk Scenario Analysis
Banks are moving operational risk scenario analysis from a regulatory back‑stop to a core forward‑looking tool for capital planning and resilience. Patrick Naim and Nedim Baruh argue that structured modelling—exposure, occurrence, impact (XOI)—turns narrative scenarios into parameterised loss generators. Yet...
US Intelligence Elevates AI as a Top Global Threat in New Report
The U.S. intelligence community’s 2026 Worldwide Threat Assessment elevates artificial intelligence to a top global threat, highlighting its use in combat and its strategic impact across adversary nations. The report stresses China as the most capable competitor, noting its large‑scale...
Salt Security Launches Agentic Security Platform for the AI Stack Across LLMs, MCP Servers and APIs
Salt Security unveiled the Agentic Security Platform, a unified solution that protects the entire AI agent stack—including large language models (LLMs), MCP servers, and APIs—by mapping their interconnections into an Agentic Security Graph. The platform adds two core capabilities: Agentic...
AI Outpaces Humans, Upskill Now to Secure Jobs
In some cases, AI can use computers better than a human can. The impact on traditional desk jobs worldwide will be drastic. If you haven't already, begin upskilling yourself. Don't know how? Ask AI!
“Educational” YouTube AI Slop Encourages Kids to Play in Traffic
Recent investigations by The 74, Mother Jones and The New York Times reveal a surge of AI‑generated videos on YouTube that masquerade as educational content for children. Roughly 21 % of the platform’s feed now consists of low‑quality AI clips, with...
How AI-Powered BI Is Transforming Hotel Revenue Management
Hotel revenue managers still rely on fragmented spreadsheets, slowing decisions. Flyr Hospitality’s Insights platform introduces a self‑service BI tool with an AI‑powered conversational assistant that transforms raw data into instant, actionable insights. The solution centralizes data across properties, letting revenue...