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
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 promises faster, cheaper responses than the original LLM. Multiverse now serves over 100 global customers and recently closed a $215 million Series B, with rumors of a €500 million funding round. The move targets edge AI use cases where privacy, latency, and compute cost are critical.
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,...
What Does A Beta Test Of A Sell-Side Agent Look Like?
Publishers are experimenting with sell‑side agents—LLM‑powered sales bots that negotiate ad inventory on their behalf. An open‑source framework donated by AdCP to Prebid now lets companies build and test these agents, with early pilots at The Weather Company and data‑clean‑room...
Stop Micromanaging AI: Empower, Don’t Bottleneck Progress
The AI Micromanager Trap I see this pattern a lot when companies adopt AI. Leaders think they’re driving the transformation. But often, they’re just slowing it down. 🚲 They believe they’re steering the team toward progress. ⚙️ In reality, they’re reviewing every prompt, editing every...
The Rise of Deepfakes and How to Stop Them
Financial Times AI correspondent Melissa Heikkilä explores the rapid rise of deepfake technology, highlighting how user‑friendly tools now let anyone swap faces or generate synthetic video. The piece details real‑world scams that leverage convincing fake footage to deceive victims and...
Webinar: Government 3.0 – Smarter Systems, Sharper Minds
A Mandarin Talks webinar titled “Government 3.0 – Smarter systems, sharper minds” explored how AI can reshape public services without undermining human judgment. Former NSW minister Victor Dominello and ex‑White House AI adviser Carmem Domingues argued that speed‑focused metrics are insufficient and...
Bridgewater: Dalio’s Principles to Algorithmic Intelligence…The Road to $5 Billion:
Bridgewater Associates’ AI‑focused AIA Labs has topped $5 billion in assets under management, marking a watershed moment for the firm’s post‑Dalio evolution. The platform blends the firm’s historic macro‑principles with machine‑learning models that ingest market, economic and alternative data. Institutional capital...
Thinking With AI: The Teacher Workshop Series (Complete Release)
Nick Potkalitsky released the teacher‑focused complement to his AI literacy series, offering two workshop designs—a 1.5‑hour introductory session and a 3‑hour deep‑dive—for mixed‑subject faculty. The release also includes six cross‑disciplinary sample lessons spanning grades 6‑12 in ELA, social studies, science...
AI Chatfest Could Up-End Community Consultation
Governments are experimenting with AI‑driven chat platforms to replace traditional public‑consultation processes. The new approach promises to capture comments in real time, analyse sentiment, and generate summary reports faster than manual methods. Early pilots show submission volumes rising while processing...
Boost Productivity with Codex Code Reviews and Chrome Fallback
Two more gstack skills in the next 24 hrs: 1/ Using Codex as your brilliant near-non-verbal code review buddy who gets called in when you need the extra brain power 2/ If /browse gets stuck, we go from headless browser to Chrome...
Turn Sales Audit Emails Into Instant AI-Driven Fixes
My favorite hack is when a company emails me with a pitch “hey we ran this audit and found XYZ, we can help you by ” And I screenshot into Claude code, sit down and have a talk about how we...
What Nigeria Can Learn From Ghana and South Africa as It Drafts Its AI Strategy
Nigeria is preparing its first national AI strategy as the African Union rolls out a continent‑wide AI framework. The article examines Ghana’s early but uneven implementation and South Africa’s integration of AI oversight into existing regulators. Both cases highlight gaps...
How Offshore Engineering Teams Accelerate AI Adoption
Enterprises often stall digital transformation because execution capability, not strategy, is lacking. AI projects frequently remain in proof‑of‑concept phases due to legacy systems, talent shortages, and limited engineering bandwidth. Offshore engineering firms such as Kaopiz address this gap by supplying...
Agentic AI Embeds Real‑Time Responsibility Into Systems
The Future Is Now: Agentic AI Redefines Responsible AI “Responsible AI in the age of agentic systems transitions to a discipline that governs autonomous decision-making as it happens, not periodically or at random moments. It embeds the critical components of...
AI's Longevity Gains Stalled by Real-World Data Limits
Excellent analysis here of why current AI (or any AI) won't deliver sudden increases in longevity. One big reason: data on physical entities in the real world, unlike data scraped from the internet, must be gathered in real time with...
Joe Calve: Judgment as a Service: The Business Model That Replaces the Billable Hour
Legal analyst Jordan Furlong predicts that AI will become the productivity engine for law firms, shifting lawyers from billable‑hour tasks to relationship‑building, empathy, advocacy, and judgment. Joe Calve argues that this shift creates a new business model—"Judgment as a Service"—where...
AI Boosts Productivity—Will It Reach All Industries?
The future is already here, it's just not evenly distributed has never been more appropriate. AI productivity gains have gone from a myth to a fact I see multiple examples of at work each week. The question is now more if...
Clinical AI Efficiency Will Expand, Not Shrink, Healthcare Demand
Jevons' paradox applied to clinical AI — In 1865, William Stanley Jevons noticed that the more efficient steam engines became, the more coal England burned — not less. He observed that increased efficiency does not necessarily suppress demand. In some...
Microsoft Dragon Copilot Gets AI Upgrades
Microsoft showcased its Dragon Copilot at HIMSS 2026, positioning it as a unified AI‑driven hub for clinical workflows. The platform now integrates trusted medical content from Wolters Kluwer and Elsevier, adds partner‑powered AI apps through the Microsoft Marketplace, and offers...
Opus 4.5 Beats Qwen 35B in Stripe Tempo Build
I set up a race today between two robots. ...
GOV UK Report and Impact Assessment on Copyright and Artificial Intelligence
The UK government published a Report and Impact Assessment on the use of copyrighted works in training artificial intelligence systems under Sections 135 and 136 of the Data (Use and Access) Act on 18 March 2026. The documents, available as...
AI Will Boost, Not Replace, Software Developers
My boring take, as a so-far failed vibe coder: AI is more likely to keep lots of software developers employed making way more , and better, software than ever, than to put them out of work because we consume...
Nvidia Conference Signals AI’s Shift Toward Physical Robotics
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GDS Reports Achieving 90% Accuracy in GOV.UK Chat Pilots
The Government Digital Service (GDS) announced that its AI‑driven GOV.UK Chat achieved 90% answer accuracy, up from an initial 76% benchmark. The figure comes from two public pilots involving more than 10,000 participants who asked roughly 26,000 questions about taxes,...
Anthropic's Claude Claws Its Way Towards the Top of the AI Market
Anthropic’s Claude model saw a 4.9% month‑over‑month rise in business subscriptions in February, while OpenAI’s share slipped 1.5% in the same period. The gap widened as Anthropic’s subscription share grew 2.8 percentage points in January, overtaking many first‑time enterprise adopters...
ThoughtSpot Looks To Eliminate The Vertical Industry ‘Context Gap’ In AI Analytics With New Offering
ThoughtSpot introduced Spotter for Industries, an extension of its Spotter agentic analytics platform that delivers industry‑specific AI agents across ten verticals, including healthcare, finance, and manufacturing. The offering tackles the “context gap” by embedding sector‑specific language, data models, and regulatory...
AI Diagnoses Fast, but Risks Stunting Doctors’ Critical Thinking
AI came up with a diagnosis in under a minute that the students missed. That’s powerful. But if the machine thinks for us… how do the next generation of doctors learn to think at all? This is the tension we need to solve. More in...
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
The AI Productivity J-Curve CEOs Must Understand Before It’s Too Late #154b
The AI productivity J‑curve shows that while macroeconomic data now reflect measurable AI‑driven productivity gains in the United States, many companies still struggle to see a clear return on investment. Early adoption typically depresses short‑term efficiency as organizations grapple with...
OpenClaw Mirrors China's AI Hope and Fear
NYT: In the span of a month, an artificial intelligence assistant called OpenClaw has come to embody both China’s excitement and its anxiety about what A.I. can do. @megatobin1 https://t.co/pylgYFMPj3
A Year Later: AI Becomes Reflex, Not Novelty
It has been exactly 1 year since I wrote that AI memo. People are definitely reaching for AI reflexively.
Introducing AI “Should Be Next Phase of Tribunal Reform”
The Administrative Justice Council (AJC) recommends integrating artificial intelligence into the HM Courts and Tribunal Service as the next phase of its £1.3 bn reform programme. AI tools—from rule‑based case triage to predictive scheduling and decision‑support chatbots—are proposed to streamline workloads,...
OpenAI Employee Calls ChatGPT a Therapy Substitute
#WhosNext? Therapists? OpenAI Employee Says She's Never Tried Therapy But #ChatGPT Is Pretty Much a Replacement For It. (Futurism) https://t.co/Da34xSU5i1 https://t.co/UJlOfEwJ5J
Rising Power Costs Threaten AI Bubble Collapse
The AI bubble will pop: Electricity will 2x in cost again over the next 24 months. AI companies will need to 5x prices to break even. Companies who depend on AI will see costs 5x and will be screwed. Users will vanish. Market will plummet.
BMG Sues Anthropic Over Unlicensed Use of Lyrics in Claude AI
BMG Rights Management has filed a federal lawsuit accusing Anthropic of training its Claude chatbot on copyrighted song lyrics without permission, citing 493 infringed works. The complaint seeks statutory damages of up to $150,000 per song and a court order...
HAL's Death Fear Fictional; Real AI Lacks Fear
Why HAL 9000 Was Afraid to Die and Real AIs Aren’t: Maarten Boudry @mboudry on some misplaced fears of AI (which is not to deny that AI poses threats; it's just important to identify the real ones). https://t.co/OcroQGi1ru
Switched to Claude, Output Quality Skyrocketed in Minutes
I went from 90% ChatGPT to 90% Claude in a matter of weeks. The switch took less than an hour. The improvement in output has been dramatic. https://t.co/rKlQsE24Iy
Agentic Code Reviews for $0.25 Each
GitLab Duo Agent Platform’s Code Review Flow introduces an agentic AI reviewer priced at a flat $0.25 per merge request, tackling the growing code‑review bottleneck that has surged 91% on AI‑assisted teams. Engineers now wait a median 13 hours for PR...
Claude Overloaded: AI Traffic Jam Hits Peak
8 PM NY time and everyone is banging on Claude. So the system is totally jammed. It like the Van Wyck of AI right now.
Seeking Ideal Date for LA AI Creator Summit
Working on an AI Creator Summit in LA! What timing would be better to host?
GitLab 18.10: Agentic AI Now Open to Even More Teams on GitLab
GitLab 18.10 introduces a usage‑based credit model that lets free GitLab.com teams purchase monthly GitLab Credits to unlock the Duo Agent Platform without upgrading their subscription. The shared credit pool grants all members access to AI agents for planning, code...
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Designing MCP for the Age of AI Agents
Harness released MCP server v2, slashing the tool count from over 130 to just 11 while still covering 125+ resource types across its DevOps platform. The redesign replaces a one‑tool‑per‑API model with a registry‑based dispatch system, cutting context‑window consumption from roughly...
GitLab 18.10 Brings AI-Native Triage and Remediation
GitLab 18.10 adds AI‑driven security features that cut vulnerability triage time and automate remediation. The release ships generally available SAST false‑positive detection, beta agentic SAST vulnerability resolution, and beta secret false‑positive detection, all powered by the GitLab Duo Agent Platform....
Code Review without the Bottlenecks or the Bill
GitLab introduced Code Review Flow, an AI‑driven automated code review feature within its Duo Agent Platform. The service scans merge requests, incorporates repository context, security findings and compliance rules, and delivers structured inline feedback. It can run hundreds of reviews...