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
Three Ways AI Can Help CSCOs Navigate Emerging Supply Chain Cost Pressures
AI is reshaping how chief supply chain officers (CSCOs) confront rising cost pressures by exposing hidden cost‑to‑serve drivers, enabling real‑time, SKU‑level optimization, and powering scenario modeling of geopolitical disruptions. By integrating siloed procurement, logistics and planning data, AI uncovers margin leakage that traditional reviews miss. The technology allows CSCOs to replace blunt cost‑cutting with precise adjustments that preserve service and resilience. Gartner predicts that by 2030, 40% of supply chains will rely on AI for proactive cost management, elevating CSCOs to strategic financial partners.
AI Agents Act Autonomously, Prompting Control Limits Debate
AI agents are starting to do real tasks, not just answer questions. They can send emails, edit files, even book things. Useful, but also risky if something goes wrong or gets misinterpreted. Feels like we are getting close to a point where...
As AI Fuels In-Housing Surge, Agency Execs Take The Entrepreneurial Path
Artificial intelligence is accelerating a wave of in‑house creative adoption, as brands seek tighter data control and faster production cycles. A recent NewtonX/Adweek survey finds 32% of brands plan to handle nearly all creative internally within the next 12 months,...
The AI Era Is Turning Corporate America Into a CEO Churn Machine
Adobe CEO Shantanu Narayen is stepping down after 18 years, pressured by investors demanding AI results. His exit highlights a broader surge in CEO turnover, with 168 new CEOs named in the S&P 1500 last year, the highest in 15...
GMV-Led Consortium Launches MYRIAD to Advance AI-Driven Satellite Intelligence for EU Defense
The European Defence Fund has launched the MYRIAD research project, a 48‑month, €5 million initiative coordinated by GMV to embed AI into satellite imagery analysis for EU defence. Nine European partners will develop multi‑sensor fusion, radiometric calibration and explainable AI to...
How I Created a Claude Skill So Every PDF, Deck, and Doc Comes Out On-Brand
The post walks readers through building a Claude brand skill—a reusable design system that automatically injects a company’s colors, fonts, logo, and layout rules into PDFs, presentations, and docs. By feeding Claude a single master prompt, users can extract visual...
Generative AI Improves a Wireless Vision System that Sees Through Obstructions
MIT researchers have combined generative AI with millimeter‑wave (mmWave) radar to reconstruct hidden 3D objects and entire indoor scenes. The new Wave‑Former system fills gaps in partial reconstructions, boosting shape‑accuracy by roughly 20 % over prior methods. An expanded system called...
From Reactive AI to Outcome‑Driving Autonomous Agents
AI agents have levels 📈🤖 1. Rule-based (if-then automation) 2. Tool-using assistants 3. Strategic multi-step agents 4. Context-aware autonomous agents 5. Superintelligent digital personas (theoretical AGI) We’re moving from “AI that responds” → to “AI that executes outcomes.” What level is your org at today? 👇 #AI #AIAgents...
Descartes Expands AI Innovation on Global Logistics Network with AI Agents for Freight Visibility
Descartes Systems Group has added a suite of AI agents, OpsForce, to its Global Logistics Network to automate freight‑visibility workflows. The agents have linked an additional 435,000 drivers and generated over 720,000 AI‑driven outreach interactions. Customers report up to 100%...
Strategy Summit 2026: Why AI Means Radical Change
In this HBR IdeaCast episode, Harvard Business School professor Sadal Neely explains why AI drives radical organizational change, introducing the "30% rule" that sets a baseline AI literacy for all employees. She outlines AI’s historical waves, distinguishes narrow (specific) AI...
Mr. CEO, How Many AI Tokens Come with This Job?
Jensen Huang warned that the once‑exceptional “10x employee” has become a baseline, with major tech firms now generating roughly half of their code through AI. Engineers are no longer just coders; they orchestrate multiple models and autonomous agents daily. The...
AI Shifts Scarcity, Creates New Bottlenecks
What if AI doesn’t eliminate scarcity—but simply moves it? A growing number of technologists argue that AI will create a world of abundance where human labor is no longer needed. In a recent Future of Education Substack post, I explore why...
WBA Publishes Industry First Guidance on AI, ML for Intelligent Wi-Fi
The Wireless Broadband Alliance released its first industry guidance on applying AI and machine learning to Wi‑Fi networks, emphasizing a shift from rule‑based to predictive, self‑optimizing management. The report, led by Intel and co‑authored by Airties, Cisco and HPE, details...
AI Shifts From Assistant to Autonomous Worker
Anthropic just took a major step toward autonomous work. With Dispatch for Claude, the shift is from AI that assists you to AI that completes tasks independently while you are doing something else. This is not about faster answers, but about...
AI Isn't Conscious; Our Minds Misread Language Models
LLM based AI is NOT conscious. I co-founded a company literally called Sentient, we're building reasoning systems for AGI, so believe me when I say this. I keep seeing smart people, people I genuinely respect, come out and say that AI has...
Adobe’s AI Image Generator Can Now Be Trained on Your Own Art
Adobe has opened a public beta for Firefly Custom Models, letting creators and brands train its AI image generator on their own artwork. The tool preserves specific visual attributes such as stroke weight, color palette, lighting, and character features, ensuring...
A New Front Line: How AI And Other Innovations Are Transforming The Fight Against TB
AI-powered handheld X‑ray devices and molecular diagnostics are rapidly reshaping tuberculosis detection in low‑resource settings. The Global Fund now backs AI‑driven screening in more than 22 countries, while Indonesia has moved treatment initiation to over 460 primary health centers, reducing...
The Magic Words to Master AI
The author shares 12 prompt phrases that make AI responses sharper, more specific, and less wasteful. Techniques like “Go harder,” “What’s missing from the standard 50‑page PowerPoint?” and preserving voice while fixing clunkiness illustrate how precise language guides large language...
AI Drives Smarter Ecommerce Pricing
AI is shifting ecommerce pricing from static, rule‑based models to real‑time, shopper‑specific offers that protect margins. By analyzing intent, timing and browsing history, AI decides whether to intervene, what type of incentive to apply, and how personalized it should be....
Can AI Fix Loneliness? Researchers Say Talking to Strangers Beats Chatbots
University of British Columbia researchers found that first‑semester students who texted random peers daily for two weeks experienced a nine‑percent drop in loneliness, far outperforming a Discord chatbot powered by ChatGPT‑4o mini, which yielded only a two‑percent reduction. The study...
I Built 3 AI Agents This Morning. Before Breakfast.
A founder built three no‑code AI agents before breakfast using MindStudio, eliminating the need for developers. The agents automate lead qualification, proposal drafting, and weekly market briefings, cutting hours of manual work to seconds. Each tool delivers immediate time savings—zero...
AI Strategy OS Delivers Free 7‑Dimension Brand Audit
We spent thousands of hours building an AI-powered Strategy OS for market perception intelligence (and you can try it free) — Brand diagnosis scoring — Competitive intelligence mapping — White-space opportunity detection — Strategic content generation — Trust & authority analytics — Founder signal amplification — Message-market...
Google Dominates AI Search; Rivals Struggle to Compete
Well, that's an interesting quote. :) "Google does a much better job here than anyone else in the world, including Perplexity". And he's right, which is why it will be hard for other AI Search platforms to get people to switch...
Talent Connects, Recruiting and HR Platform, Partners with Fusemachines to Integrate Interview Agent for Its 300+ Customers
Talent Connects, a recruiting platform serving over 300 businesses, announced a partnership with Fusemachines to embed its Interview Agent into the Talent Connects suite. The AI‑driven agent will sit alongside recruiters during interviews, offering real‑time question prompts, response scoring, and...
Hirezon Launches AI Suites to Accelerate Faculty and Staff Recruitment in Higher Education
Hirezon unveiled its AI Suites, beginning with the AI Candidate Summary, to streamline faculty and staff hiring at colleges and universities. The tool automatically extracts job requirements, matches them against applicant materials, and produces side‑by‑side summaries that flag met and...
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Developed with Scale AI, the new AI Trainer signals a tectonic shift in robotics, moving applications from pre‑programmed scripts to fully AI‑driven tasks. The system leverages massive datasets generated in specialized AI training cells where robots imitate human operators, creating...
Our Favorite Management Tips on Leading with AI
Harvard Business Review outlines how leaders can harness AI without overloading staff. It stresses redesigning work for human‑AI collaboration, setting clear expectations, and measuring outcomes rather than tool usage. The article also highlights managing employee anxiety, preventing low‑quality "workslop," and...
Will AGI Really Be the “Last Invention”?
Silicon Valley often cites I.J. Good’s 1960s “ultraintelligent machine” scenario, claiming that achieving artificial general intelligence would be humanity’s final invention. The article argues that this premise rests on shaky assumptions, including limitless computational capacity and seamless alignment of machine...
Some Practical Features of Claude Code Recently
Claude Code has introduced a new /loop command that lets users schedule recurring tasks using plain‑language descriptions instead of traditional cron syntax. The feature bundles three native tools—CronCreate, CronDelete and CronList—to translate prompts into cron expressions and manage the schedule....
Fast R-CNN Speeds up Detection by Reusing Features
⚡From RCNN to Fast RCNN: A Breakthrough in Object Detection Running a CNN 2000 times per image was painfully slow. Enter Fast RCNN-a smarter approach that runs the CNN once, reuses feature maps, and simplifies training end-to-end. This breakthrough made detectors...
AI Empowers Yet Undermines Creative Control
Am I the only one that is blown away by what AI can enable me to do but find myself left with a feeling of being slightly less in control of my work than I used to be. When you're...
Essential Stack for Any Company Is Covered by Anthropic
Anthropic announced an integrated AI stack that addresses the core needs of modern enterprises, including large language models, embeddings, fine‑tuning tools, and built‑in safety controls. The suite is offered as a single‑pane‑of‑glass platform with usage‑based pricing, aiming to simplify procurement...
Anthropic Grabs 73% of New AI Tool Spending
You can see why OpenAI is freaking out a bit -> Anthropic is capturing ~73% of all spending among companies buying AI tools for the first time, up from a 50/50 split with OpenAI in January "Amid the tightening race, the...
Hilton Launches Hilton AI Planner
Hilton has introduced the Hilton AI Planner, a generative‑AI digital concierge that assists travelers in discovering and booking stays across its global portfolio. The tool uses conversational intelligence to guide users through destination selection, property comparison, and amenity exploration, delivering...
Walmart's Instant Checkout Flops, Turns to ChatGPT Bot
Conversion rates were 3X LOWER than when users click out to the website... "Put simply, Instant Checkout has been a flop." But Walmart is not giving up -> Walmart is embedding its own chatbot Sparky in ChatGPT, after conversion rates...
AI Is Making Supply Chain Decisions, But It’s Flying Blind
AI is proliferating across supply‑chain functions, but many firms misuse it by treating algorithms as autonomous decision‑makers rather than advisory tools. Executives often deploy AI on legacy, checkpoint‑based data that is stale and incomplete, leading to confident yet inaccurate recommendations....
From AI Agents to Front Desk: How to Personalize the Guest Experience with Both
The Hotel Moment podcast with Revinate CMO Karen Stephens and Twilio CMO Chris Koehler highlights that the real hurdle to hospitality personalization is data acquisition, not merely data collection. They argue that clean, connected guest profiles are essential for turning raw...
Never Manually Edit Code When Using AI Agents
One of my most painful realizations using agentic systems is that they treat all work-in-progress as ephemeral. They’ll gladly reset your branch or dev database to “try something”, because they expect to write working code eventually. Never manually add code while...
Learn Claude Code to Build Polymarket Bots Live
This guy shows exactly how to use claude code in order to build polymarket bots and he does a daily zoom call for anyone who actually wants to build bots join the next zoom: https://t.co/6yivBnZEm1 https://t.co/W0lTzR2lnw
The Rise of AI Fashion Models
Drapers reports a rapid increase in AI‑generated fashion models, highlighting how brands are swapping digital avatars for human talent. The technology promises faster turnaround, unlimited styling options, and lower production costs. However, the shift raises legal questions around copyright, image...
AI Delivers Value only when Embedded, Governed Like Core Systems
RT AI value doesn't live in slideware or labs. It shows up when agents are embedded in day-to-day work, governed like core systems, and held to the same standards as any critical operation. #AgenticAI #EnterpriseAI @Star_CIO https://t.co/VtuS5rQ0ZG
Voicebox Dethrones ElevenLabs with Open‑source, Local AI TTS
With Voicebox, @ElevenLabs just lost its moat. → Powered by Alibaba's Qwen3-TTS for near-perfect cloning → Ships with a DAW-like "Stories Editor" → No cloud, runs locally on your machine 100% Open Source. 100% Local. Link to repo in 🧵↓ https://t.co/45TRrsYjJH
The Dead Zone
The post warns that as Agentic AI matures, businesses will face pressure to replace slow, costly human‑driven processes with automated experiences. It labels the gap between full automation and high‑touch service as the "dead zone," where outdated skills and inefficient...
AI Warfare, Sports Betting Surge, and Banksy's Unmasking
✍️ Longform links: AI warfare, the spread of sports gambling, and how Banksy was unmasked. https://t.co/J2sqivFGWY image: https://t.co/RQUtg2vOWC https://t.co/BUuX63wK07
Tripo AI Unveils Quiet 3D Revolution at GDC
AI 3D generation just had a watershed moment at #GDC2026. While the show floor was packed with hype, the real revolution was quietly running live at the @Tripoai booth. Here’s what most ppl missed 🧵 ↓ https://t.co/eIYhMvWjlG
The Directions Group Launches Linara, an Integrated Intelligence Platform Transforming Research Into Always-On Decision Support
The Directions Group unveiled Linara, an AI‑driven intelligence platform that converts static research into continuous, conversational decision support. Its debut feature, Linara Personas, lets teams query proprietary customer personas in real time, enabling scenario testing and instant insight. Built on...
Investors Favor AI Infrastructure Over New Models
The hidden pattern in Q1 2026 AI adoption: Infrastructure consolidation is outpacing application innovation nearly 3:1. The smartest money is not chasing foundation models. It is buying the plumbing every model needs. Source: https://t.co/KNtNLIRTOQ https://t.co/IOd2dCsbi4
Shrek Creator Warns AI Will Replace Animators
#WhosNext? Animators? The Guy Behind "Shrek" Says AI Is Going to Wipe Out Human Jobs in Animation. (Futurism) https://t.co/Bi0Nk2kdTz https://t.co/SBauTATrFB
Shipsy Launches AgentFleet, an AI Workforce for Logistics Operations
Shipsy has unveiled AgentFleet, an AI‑driven workforce that assigns virtual agents to core logistics roles such as customer experience, driver support, finance and dispute resolution. The agents monitor signals, make rule‑based decisions and execute tasks across TMS, ERP and third‑party...
Palantir and Moder Partner to Transform Mortgage Industry
Palantir Technologies and Moder announced a strategic partnership to co‑develop an AI‑powered mortgage operations platform, with Freedom Mortgage as the first pilot customer. The solution uses Palantir’s Ontology to translate regulatory guidelines into configurable, testable, auditable rules that integrate with...