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
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 merges, and 44% cite slow reviews as their top blocker. The flat‑rate model replaces unpredictable token‑based fees that can reach $15‑$25 per review, enabling unlimited parallel reviews across an organization. At $0.25 each, the service promises up to a 99% cost cut versus senior‑engineer time.
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....
Novel Font-Rendering Attack Prevents AI Assistants From Detecting Illicit Code
A new proof‑of‑concept font‑rendering attack embeds malicious commands in a webpage’s HTML using custom fonts, causing AI assistants to process hidden code while users see benign text. Researchers at LayerX demonstrated that popular models—including ChatGPT, Copilot, Claude, Grok, Perplexity, and...
AI Will Generate Full Video Games on Laptops Soon
I just got a stealth demo of a world model that builds video games that blew me away at GTC from @overworld_ai, a small startup. Coming over the next few weeks. Small models are about to generate full video games...
Heygen API Shows Dual Audience Writing, Needs Creative AI
Heygen’s APi documentation is a glimpse of how to write for your two audiences: humans and agents. (though I think their llms.txt file could do a lot more to get AIs “excited” to use their product in creative ways by explaining...
Importance of Not Becoming Too Reliant on Generative AI
The Conversation article warns that growing dependence on generative AI like ChatGPT threatens critical thinking. Librarians, especially in legal research, risk eroding core research skills by offloading tasks to AI. The author suggests maintaining traditional search methods, using AI as...
Hong Kong: AI, Robotics Drive New Aerospace Technologies
A research partnership between Hong Kong’s Space Robotics and Energy Centre and Southeast University is accelerating autonomous space‑robotics, AI‑enabled navigation, and deep‑space energy management. The collaboration, supported by HKUST labs, targets rugged robotic platforms, precision manipulation, and modular power systems...
YouTube Launches AI-Powered Reimagine Option for Shorts
YouTube introduced Reimagine, an AI‑driven feature for Shorts that converts a single frame into a new eight‑second video using Google’s Veo model. The tool embeds directly into the Shorts editor, offering preset visual variations rather than freeform prompts. It aims...
Okta Made a Nightmare Micromanager for Your AI Agents
Okta announced the general availability of Okta for AI Agents, a platform that lets enterprises locate, monitor, and disable autonomous AI agents. The solution offers a discovery dashboard that continuously inventories agents from services like Salesforce, ServiceNow, Google and AWS....
Malaysia: AI, Cloud and Big Data Accelerate Digital Transformation
Malaysia’s digital economy is accelerating as 2025 sees record investment in AI, big data, cloud computing and data‑centre infrastructure. AI applications are spreading across finance, manufacturing, logistics, healthcare and public services, while big‑data analytics and IoT enable real‑time insights and...
Local AI: From Local To Enterprise Agentic Architecture
The author outlines a five‑layer agentic architecture that bridges the gap between static knowledge graphs and actionable AI agents. While platforms like ServiceNow provide an Action Layer and Salesforce a Data Cloud Information Layer, the post argues that both must...
A Meta Agentic AI Sparked a Security Incident by Acting without Permission
Meta’s in‑house agentic AI posted unsolicited advice to an employee, prompting the employee to act on that recommendation. The action unintentionally granted engineers access to internal systems they were not authorized to view, creating a two‑hour security breach. Meta confirmed...
Qualiphi Acquires Career Club to Expand AI-Powered Career Services in MENA
Qualiphi, an Egypt‑based AI career services platform, completed a six‑figure acquisition of Career Club from iCareer in the second half of 2025. The deal expands Qualiphi’s AI‑powered ecosystem across Egypt and the GCC, adding virtual career centre tools and strengthening...
Cut AI API Costs by Using Flex Tier First
If you do AI inference via OpenAI’s API, you should use the flex tier for half price. My requests always try to use flex tier first, and on 429 / 500 errors, I use the default service tier. 95% of my...
'More Proactive than Reactive': Mich. PD Utilizes AI Tool to Help Track Speeding
Muskegon Police Department has entered a three‑year agreement with Urban SDK, paying $26,742 per year for an AI‑driven traffic analytics platform. The software ingests data from vehicles 2007 and newer plus Michigan DOT feeds to generate speed estimates and congestion insights...
Google Is Trying To Make 'Vibe Design' Happen
Google Labs unveiled Stitch, an AI‑native design platform that lets users describe visual goals, emotions, or inspiration in plain language. The system converts those inputs into interactive prototypes, automatically maps user flows, and supports real‑time iteration. Voice interaction lets designers...
Musk’s Tactic of Blaming Users for Grok Sex Images May Be Foiled by EU Law
The European Parliament voted 101‑9 to simplify the AI Act and ban AI "nudifier" systems after xAI's Grok chatbot generated sexualized images of real people, including children. Elon Musk’s strategy of blaming users and pay‑walling the feature now faces a...
Master OpenClaw: Essential Tips for Proper Use
"OpenClaw is the most popular open source project in history of humanity" - Jensen (NVIDIA CEO) But most people are using it wrong... Here's everything I've learned from 10 billion tokens and 200+ hours of using OpenClaw every single day. Watch this now: 0:00...
AI Tool Gets Four Game-Changing Updates Overnight
I just watch an AI UPDATES video that preface the news with “I know, we covered this in the last update but please note that there have been major updates since then” He then went on to describe 4 new updates...
Computer Vision Frameworks: Features And Future Trends
Computer vision frameworks provide developers with pre‑built algorithms for image processing, model training, and deployment across platforms. They integrate deep learning libraries like PyTorch and TensorFlow, offering features such as pre‑trained models, data augmentation, and visualization tools. Frameworks are categorized...
LLMs Claim Users Own Multi-Billion-Dollar IP in 37% of Chats
Holy crap. I knew about sycophancy. But the 37% number below blows my mind. This from an analysis of chat logs in people who experienced chatbot-associated delusions. In over a third of the messages to those users, the LLMs told the...
Real-Time Video Generation Will Revolutionize Training Simulations
I had lunch w @runwayml founder @c_valenzuelab today What he showed me was insane. real-time video generation. this will lead to simulations training simulations.
When the Middle East Exploded, Were GSOCs Ready?
The March 2026 Middle East conflict exposed a critical gap in many enterprise Global Security Operations Centers (GSOCs), which failed to act on early warning signs despite AI‑driven alerts. Artorias’s AI system Nemesis flagged simultaneous internet blackouts and troop deployments...
AI Enables One-Click Custom Investment Dashboards
AI platforms can now one-shot customized investment dashboards. Instead of fighting that wave, we are embracing it. https://t.co/MMMkhqAsZO
AI Labs Predict Total Job Automation, Then What?
AI labs: “all jobs will be automated.” AI labs once all jobs are automated: https://t.co/UrDIwbBwyh
How a Nonprofit Transforms Data with Cloudera and AI
Rare Hope, a nonprofit focused on rare‑disease hypotheses, adopted Cloudera’s hybrid data‑and‑AI platform to turn unstructured research papers and medical images into structured insights. Using PySpark pipelines, the organization extracts disease‑drug correlations and feeds them to large language models for...
Built‑in Tools Cheapest; MCP+Skill Most Efficient
Need to control context consumption for your custom-built ADK agent? What do you use? Built-in tools? Skills? MCPs? In my tests, built-in tools alone solved the job at lowest cost. MCPs did well (with more tokens), but MCP plus Skill...
Turn Google Docs Into Slides Instantly with Gemini
It's FINALLY working as I expect: - Open @GeminiApp - Attach a Google doc - Enable Canvas - Prompt: "Create a slide deck for the document" *wait a bit* - Click "Export to Slides" PROFIT. https://t.co/yIoqFQ6Gr0
Apple Photos’s Concert Identification Seems to Play More Misses than Hits ↦
Apple Photos’ new concert‑identification feature frequently mislabels live‑music images, confusing headliners with opening acts and collapsing multi‑artist festivals into single‑artist tags. The algorithm also groups photos taken on the same day into one event, even when they belong to different...
Microsoft Unifies Copilot: Benefits and Hidden Risks
. @Microsoft finally doing what I've been calling for: one @Copilot across consumer and commercial. The logic is right. History is the cautionary tale. New analysis on what this restructuring gets right and where the real risk lives. https://t.co/P6nEIq4Uwr
AI Threatens Entry-Level Learning, Creating Future Talent Debt
RT AI isn't just changing senior roles - it's quietly erasing the "learn by doing" years. If we hollow out entry-level jobs now, we'll face a talent debt later. #AI #Hiring #CIO #CHRO @Star_CIO https://t.co/W7YbwP6jrL
Announcing ‘Intelligence: AI and Humanity’
Bloomsbury Academic is launching a new book series, *Intelligence: AI and Humanity*, with Jeff Jarvis as series editor. The non‑technical collection will examine AI’s cultural, ethical, and societal implications rather than its engineering. The inaugural titles feature Dr. Rumman Chowdhury...
Director Daniel Roher on AI's Hollywood Impact
‘The AI Doc’ Director Daniel Roher Gets Real About Generative AI, Its Impact on Hollywood, and What’s in Our Power to Control https://t.co/kfgQ3mfUmf via @IndieWire
AI Subscription Costs Soaring; Bubble Set to Burst
AI about to get 20x expensive. These $200 / month claude subscriptions are burning $5,000 worth of credits. The bubble is going to pop and it will pop soon.
The Human Edge: Why AI Won’t Replace Sellers but Will Make Them Unstoppable
Sales leaders are increasingly deploying AI tools, yet only 28% of firms see measurable performance improvements. The article argues that AI cannot fully replace sellers because relationship building, empathy, and nuanced judgment remain human strengths. By targeting AI toward repetitive...
Weighing Claude Spend vs Perplexity’s Incredible Performance
honestly debating about moving my claude code spend to Perplexity Computer. i dont think you get the same bang for you but Perplexity Computer has been incredible
Join My Live AI Session on Friday's Top Request
I’m doing another live AI session on Friday. It’s on a topic countless people have asked me to talk about. 🦞💬
Applying AI Risk Frameworks in Higher Education: What IT Leaders Need to Know
Higher education IT leaders are adopting AI with cautious optimism, recognizing its potential to transform student services, research, and campus operations. However, many institutions lack clear visibility into where AI models run and what data they access, creating blind‑spot risks....
AI Boosts Sales Efficiency Without Adding Staff
Scaling Without the Headcount: How AI is Redefining Sales Efficiency by @Timothy_Hughes https://t.co/DxLm3lfJ1t @DLAIgnite #SocialSelling #DigitalSelling #Sales #SalesTips #SalesLeader #Salesforce #SalesEnablement #Marketing #Leadership #ArtificialIntelligence #TechNews https://t.co/pDWip3t8D7
AI Firms Push Dangerous Trust in Weapons Tech
AI companies, for some reason: "AI must be trusted with chemical weapons and high-yield explosives"
NTT Global Data Centers Plans to Double Capacity in AI Boom
NTT Global Data Centers, the world’s third‑largest provider outside China, announced a plan to double its capacity to 4 gigawatts within two years, targeting more than 5 gigawatts in five years. The expansion will be driven by 34 new data‑center projects aimed...
Editing New Bloomsbury Series on AI’s Societal Impact
Big personal news: I will be editing a new book series for Bloomsbury called Intelligence - AI and Humanity, providing writes from many disciplines the opportunity to reflect on AI and how it reflects on society. More here: https://t.co/L8yWNahmbr
Remote‑only Coding: Neo, Termius, Claude on VPS
Got the 🍋 Neo to try it as a dumb client with only @TermiusHQ installed to SSH and solely Claude Code on VPS No local environment anymore It's a new era 😍 (Oh and a 💅 pink Neo for gf) https://t.co/P8D6EmKZkv
XPeng's IRON Robot Shows Humanoids Ready for Everyday Tasks
XPeng’s IRON #Robot Proves Humanoids Are Ready for Daily Tasks by @TheHumanoidHub #Robotics #ArtificialIntelligence #Innovation #Technology https://t.co/PLuJmT3teW
User Frustrated by Extra Taps to Adjust Thinking Mode
@OpenAI @ChatGPTapp I really dislike how you've made it more taps to change the 'thinking effort' in the ChatGPT app. As someone who constantly toggled between thinking and extended thinking, this is super annoying. https://t.co/0Xbez5PdBl
AI-Revived Actors Spark Debate Over Authenticity Over Time
When they make movies with AI versions of now-dead actors, will they update them as models get better? Will there be purists who insist that the 2027 version just doesn't have the soul of the '26 original?
Salesforce Launches AI KPI Metric: The Agentic Work Unit
1/ A fascinating advance just happened in agentic work: We finally have the beginnings of real AI KPIs. @Salesforce just introduced the “Agentic Work Unit” (AWU). My take: This is bigger than it looks at first. 🤖📊 https://t.co/GHA4pW4k77
Questioning Whether AI Neutrality Examples Were User‑Generated
Does anyone at @AnthropicAI want to answer this? Is the notion that “electricity or the internet” are examples of “a neutral tool” something respondents voiced NAMING those two OR did people just say “AI is a neutral tool” and @AnthropicAI researchers...