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
#204: AI Answers - What Should Stay Human, AI Pricing Vs. Labor Cost, Leapfrogging Digitalisation, Getting Legal On Board &...
In this AI Answers episode, hosts Paul Reitzer and Kathy McPhillips field questions from their Intro to AI class, covering how marketers can transition into AI without coding, the most valuable AI skills for job seekers, and the challenges of billing hour‑by‑hour when AI workflow experimentation is involved. They discuss the risk of over‑reliance on AI—such as weakened critical thinking and potential staff reductions—and explore how creative professionals can reframe AI as a collaborative tool rather than a threat. Throughout, Paul and Kathy draw on their experience running AI education programs and partnering with Google Cloud to illustrate practical up‑skilling strategies and ethical considerations.
Tonic.ai Announces General Availability of Tonic Textual for Microsoft Fabric
Tonic.ai announced the general availability of Tonic Textual within Microsoft Fabric, bringing AI‑powered entity detection, redaction, and high‑fidelity synthetic text generation to the platform. The integration lets data teams process contracts, transcripts, clinical notes and other unstructured text directly in...
LLM Agents Interview Questions #23 - The CoT Self-Verification Trap
The post explains why standard prompting tricks like lowering temperature or adding a fact‑check clause fail when a large language model hallucinates entities in long, list‑based outputs. The root cause is the Autoregressive Hallucination Trap, where token‑level predictions gravitate toward...
Vertiv Supports NVIDIA DSX AI Factory Infrastructure Design
Vertiv announced its role in designing converged physical infrastructure for NVIDIA's Vera Rubin DSX AI factory reference design and the Omniverse DSX Blueprint. The OneCore Rubin DSX model is simulation‑ready, providing digital power, cooling assets, validated interfaces and repeatable building...
Unily Announces Availability of Unily Glass, Reinventing Enterprise Productivity for the AI Era
Unily announced that its AI‑native conversational execution layer, Unily Glass, will be generally available on March 31, 2026, after early demos at UNLEASH America and Gartner Digital Workplace Summit. The new feature transforms the Unily employee experience platform from an...
Eve Webinar: 3x Attorney Capacity with Eve AI Agents
Eve Legal is hosting a March 25 webinar to unveil its AI Agents designed for plaintiff law firms. The platform promises to triple attorney capacity and shave more than 60 days off case resolution times by automating routine tasks around the...
From Boardrooms to Bus Terminals
UIB partnered with Park May Berhad to launch Malaysia’s first WhatsApp‑based booking platform for Transnasional and Plusliner bus tickets, demonstrating how conversational AI can replace a native app. The solution lets travelers type a simple "Hi" to search routes, check...
This New Documentary Turns AI Anxiety Into Something More Personal
The AI Doc: Or How I Became an Apocaloptimist is a new documentary co‑directed by Charlie Tyrell and Oscar‑winner Daniel Roher that follows Roher, an expectant father, as he investigates artificial intelligence’s promises and perils. The film interviews a spectrum of voices—from...
XBOW Secures $120 Million Series C, Hits Unicorn Valuation as Autonomous Hacker Platform Scales
XBOW announced a $120 million Series C round led by DFJ Growth and Northzone, pushing its valuation past $1 billion. The funding will accelerate the rollout of its AI‑powered autonomous offensive security platform to Fortune‑500 enterprises worldwide. Investors cite the company’s proof that...
RCTs for Human-AI Evaluation
RAND’s new working paper investigates the use of randomized controlled trials—referred to as human uplift studies—to evaluate artificial‑intelligence systems. Drawing on interviews with 16 AI practitioners, the authors map methodological hurdles that arise throughout the trial lifecycle, from task definition...
Rep. Eric Swalwell's Private AI Company Raises Money, Questions
Rep. Eric Swalwell co‑founded Findraiser, an AI‑driven platform that scans campaign fundraising data. Dozens of Democratic campaigns, including Swalwell’s own congressional and gubernatorial bids, have paid the firm for its services. The company is close to profitability, valued between $100,001...
Using ChatGPT and AI in Physical Therapy
In episode 383 of #AskMikeReinold, physical therapists discuss how AI—especially ChatGPT, Google Gemini, and niche tools like OpenEvidence—is being woven into daily practice. They highlight OpenEvidence’s ability to surface PubMed‑linked research with minimal hallucinations, while ChatGPT and Gemini assist with treatment...
The PC Era Is Dying. Welcome to the Collective Computer Era
The personal computer, once a garage‑born symbol of individual empowerment, is losing its central role as cloud and AI services consolidate processing power. Rising demand for AI‑optimized hardware is inflating component costs, pushing PCs toward a premium, niche market. Meanwhile,...
Zalando Is Scaling up Its Use of AI-Powered Warehouse Robots
Zalando is rolling out AI‑powered warehouse robots to multiple European distribution centers. After a pilot where ten robots processed roughly 100,000 picks per day, the company plans up to fifty installations, starting in Germany and Italy and expanding to the...
The Uberization of UPL? How AI Is Outpacing the Unauthorized Practice of Law (Ken Crutchfield, Bill Henderson, Jim Doppke)
In this episode of Technically Legal, host Chad Main and guests Ken Crutchfield, Bill Henderson, and Jim Docky explore how large language models are challenging long‑standing unauthorized practice of law (UPL) rules. They discuss real‑world examples, such as a ChatGPT‑generated...
Kim Launches Enterprise AI Execution Layer
Kim, founded by legal‑tech pioneer Karl Chapman, has launched an execution layer that converts AI‑generated requests into deterministic, governed workflows for enterprises. The platform offers a no‑code configuration tool that integrates across existing systems, ensuring reliable outcomes without locking customers...
AI Scans 600k Posts, Powers NVIDIA Investor Prep
The Investor Report for NVIDIA. (I'm meeting in the morning with their venture arm, Inception). My AI reads 600,000 posts in minutes (it is a new kind of AI from Levangie Labs). And analyzes them. And tells me what's important so...
Interview with AAAI Fellow Yan Liu: Machine Learning for Time Series
Yan Liu, elected AAAI Fellow for her work on machine learning for time‑series and spatiotemporal data, outlines the field’s evolution from statistical models to deep neural networks and now to general‑purpose foundation models. She highlights recent breakthroughs in zero‑shot and...
JFrog Agent Skills Registry Released
JFrog unveiled its Agent Skills Registry, a secure catalog that governs AI agent skills, models, and software packages. The registry is validated through early integration with NVIDIA, supporting the NVIDIA OpenShell runtime and AI‑Q Blueprint. It leverages Artifactory to scan,...
Chainguard Introduces the Guardener
Chainguard unveiled the Guardener, an AI‑driven agent that automatically converts bloated, legacy Dockerfiles into minimal, zero‑CVE Chainguard container images. The tool rebuilds Dockerfiles layer by layer, validates functional equivalence, and delivers migration reports, cutting conversion time from weeks to under...
Probable and Possible: Why the Era of Probabilistic Computing Requires Real World Learning with an Entrepreneurial Mindset
The article argues that we are moving from deterministic to probabilistic computing, where AI models generate distributions of likely outcomes rather than single answers. This shift fuels agentic systems that can execute tasks faster and cheaper than human experts, expanding...
Getting to the How and Why: AI Shows Its Work
AI explainability, once a barrier for insurance underwriting, is fading as next‑generation models deliver transparent insights. Modern AI now consistently outperforms traditional actuarial and rule‑based approaches across multiple underwriting tasks. By ingesting broader data sets and learning from outcomes, these...
The Genealogy of AI Slop: Generative AI Didn’t Invent It – It Learned It
The piece argues that generative AI did not create the phenomenon of “AI slop” but learned it from the abundance of vague, authority‑laden human content such as consulting frameworks, certification manuals, and best‑practice decks. By reproducing these patterns at machine...
From Spectator to Builder: Shape the AI Future
The first time I watched Steve Jobs’ 1983 Aspen keynote, it really struck me. Not because of the technology predictions. But because of the mindset behind them. Jobs said computers would become extensions of human creativity and potential. In 1983, that sounded bold. Today, with...
Why Real-World AI Performance Depends on the Control Layer
Industry discussions often spotlight accelerator specs, but real‑world AI performance hinges on the surrounding control layer. In modern AI datacenters, CPUs orchestrate data movement, memory bandwidth, and network fabric, ensuring accelerators receive a steady stream of work. Futurum Group’s report...
From Apprehension To Empowerment: Creating A Four-Part AI Education PD Series
Mead School District’s AI Implementation Specialist Courtney Bock launched a four‑part professional development series to build AI literacy among teachers. Each 90‑minute session—covering AI fundamentals, ethics, classroom integration, and workflow automation—serves cohorts of about 25 educators and offers STEM clock...
Your360 AI Reveals Team Insights Beyond Traditional Surveys
Your360 AI has launched a full‑scale group 360 offering that replaces costly interview‑based assessments with AI‑driven voice conversations. The service includes confidential AI interviews, synthesized coaching reports, and live debriefs led by PhD‑qualified people scientists, starting at $2,500 for up...
Interview: Huy Dao, Director of Data and Machine Learning Platform, Booking.com
Booking.com’s data and machine‑learning platform, led by Huy Dao, has completed a seamless migration from on‑prem Hadoop to a Snowflake‑based cloud ecosystem. The new Booking Data Exchange serves over 1,500 practitioners, handling petabytes of data and billions of daily predictions...
Prompted Design Makes UI Creation Effortless, Thinking Becomes Bottleneck
The UI layer is getting eaten by prompts. Google just upgraded their design platform Stitch. Describe an interface in plain language, get production-ready layouts, components, and working code. Tweak spacing, shift layouts, adjust flows through conversation. No Figma. No handoff. Prompt...
AI Accelerates Modbus Tool Development for Training
Understand Modbus without real hardware? That is exactly why we built our own tools with AI for our training courses. 🤖 For practical exercises we needed a web based Modbus simulator and an additional Modbus server as an EXE. Instead...
The Companies that Win with AI May Not Look Like Companies at All
The article argues that artificial intelligence is reshaping the very definition of a viable organization, not merely boosting productivity. Rather than serving as a cost‑cutting layer, AI compresses the amount of work that can be done by fewer people, challenging...
Astra-HR Reduces Onboarding Burden with AI-Powered Solution
Lunagen Inc. launched Astra‑HR, an AI‑driven onboarding platform that automates twelve repetitive tasks such as Slack setup, background checks, and device provisioning. The solution claims to cut onboarding administrative effort by 40‑60 % while delivering a consistent, error‑free day‑one experience for...
Most Firms Are Already Using AI, but Not Many Are Seeing a Return
A Studio Graphene poll of 500 UK executives shows 78 percent of firms now use AI tools, rising to 85 percent among mid‑sized companies. Yet only 31 percent report a positive return on investment, while 18 percent say projects fell short of expectations. Less...
A Coding Guide to Implement Advanced Differential Equation Solvers, Stochastic Simulations, and Neural Ordinary Differential Equations Using Diffrax and JAX
The tutorial demonstrates how to use the Diffrax library together with JAX, Equinox, and Optax to solve ordinary and stochastic differential equations, perform dense interpolation, and train neural ordinary differential equation (Neural ODE) models. It walks through logistic growth, Lotka‑Volterra,...
Multiverse Computing Pushes Its Compressed AI Models Into the Mainstream
Multiverse Computing has launched CompactifAI, an app that runs its ultra‑small Gilda model locally on compatible devices, offering offline AI chat. The startup also unveiled a self‑serve API portal giving enterprises direct access to compressed models such as HyperNova 60B, which...
Gartner Predicts Surge in AI-Powered Public Services
Gartner forecasts that by 2028 at least 80 % of governments worldwide will deploy AI agents to automate routine decision‑making, boosting efficiency and service delivery. The firm highlights a shift toward decision intelligence, where governance focuses on the decisions themselves rather...
Philips-Nvidia Team-Up Strives to Create a ‘Self-Driving MRI’ Machine
Philips and Nvidia have unveiled an AI‑driven preview that generates a synthetic MRI image before the scan begins, using Philips' MR foundation model combined with Nvidia's NV‑Segment, NV‑Generate, and NV‑Reason tools. The preview ingests patient data and protocol settings to...
China Prioritizes Efficient, Open-Source AI Over Scale
China is running multiple AI races Great read showing how the US and China are on different paths with AI and not really in the same race. China's focus on AI efficiency is infinitely more practical. ↳...
AI Use at Work in Europe: Which Countries Use Generative AI Tools Most, and Why?
Eurostat data show that 15% of Europeans aged 16‑74 used generative AI at work in 2025, but adoption varies dramatically across the continent. Norway tops the chart with 35.4% workplace usage, while Hungary lags at 1.3%, reflecting a north‑west versus...
TESLA FSD 14.3 Testing Now Will Wide Release in a Few Weeks
Tesla announced that its Full Self‑Driving software version 14.3 is currently in beta testing and will be released to the broader fleet in a matter of weeks. The update promises substantial upgrades to city‑street navigation, dynamic obstacle avoidance, and smoother...
AI Will Not Replace Auditors’ Judgment, Says Regulator Chief
Richard Moriarty, chief executive of the UK Financial Reporting Council, told City AM that artificial intelligence will not replace auditors’ core judgment, professional scepticism and challenge of management. He warned that regulators must focus on the people deploying AI rather than...
Codex Delivers Rapid Code Reviews, Outshines Claude Conversationally
I was at the YC Spring 2026 kickoff social tonight and founders were asking me for Codex code review / plan review support, so I came home and shipped it same night And they're right, Codex is the amazing genius friend,...
Media Overreacts: AI Agents Aren’t Real Children
Here begins the media and moral entrepreneur panic over agents as addictive. Sorry, Mom. You’re Chatting With an A.I. Agent, Not Your Son. https://t.co/1ptKSHdFxA
AI Translation Falls Short on Unstable Literary Meaning
"When meaning is unstable as it is in literary works, a probabilistic, least-common-denominator interpretation is inherently worthless. An AI translation is fluff, it is slop and it is void" Brilliant piece on machine translation. https://t.co/VMg6W5C58m ht @lenitiv
Trae AI on Linux Supercharges Development with Minimax M2.7
Honestly, @Trae_ai on Linux is exactly what I needed, an intelligent assistant that understands my workflow and speeds up development in my preferred environment. With Minimax M2.7 now built in, I can take on even more complex tasks effortlessly. https://t.co/1kmZKxIeBt https://t.co/S5QDeHBm04
Full‑stack Ownership, Not Model Size, Builds AI Moats
Evaluating AI companies on model strength? Wrong lens. The ones pulling ahead own the whole stack. Nvidia: GPU + CPU + inference + agents + robotics + space. Anthropic: open-sourced the framework. OpenAI/Google adopted it. That's ecosystem lock-in. That's a moat. https://t.co/peRssqeTQf
AI Lily Pond: Which Day Are We Really On?
The AI Lily Pond: Are We on Day 29 or Day 30? by @Timothy_Hughes https://t.co/UeYxopffc9 @DLAIgnite #SocialSelling #DigitalSelling #Sales #SalesTips #SalesLeader #Salesforce #Marketing #Leadership #ArtificialIntelligence #Innovation #Technology #Tech #TechNews https://t.co/vons4157DG
Design, Test, and Align Humans Before Scaling AI
Don't scale AI workflows before they're designed, tested, and understood. Clearly define roles, expectations, and how jobs will change. The human element is as crucial as the AI tool itself for successful adoption. #AIImplementation #WorkflowDesign https://t.co/BRuwIeZhHP
New Codex Skill Boosts Bug Detection and Design
I added a /codex skill that does plan and code review in Claude Code and it has found so many more bugs and helped with far more elegant architectural designs And tomorrow I will launch native Codex support so you can...
ChatGPT Threatens Essay‑writing Services for Cheating Students
#WhosNext? Essay writers for hire? #ChatGPT Could Put People Who Write Essays for Cheating Students Out of Business. (Futurism) #AI #EdTech https://t.co/Vp4jeaVvee https://t.co/jDJQXUfB0m