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
Dematic Redefines Warehouse Intelligence with Launch of Command Center
Dematic announced Command Center, a vendor‑agnostic, cloud‑based intelligence platform that unifies real‑time monitoring, AI‑driven decision support, and analytics for warehouse operations. Unveiled at LogiMAT 2026 and showcased at MODEX 2026, it aggregates data from automation, software, and manual processes into a single interface. Built on insights from more than 9,000 automation projects, the solution offers root‑cause analysis, early issue detection, and scalable visibility across single‑ and multi‑site sites. Future releases will add advanced AI orchestration and digital‑twin modeling.
Agentic AI Shopping Bots Are Coming. Banks Need to Be Ready
Agentic AI shopping bots from firms like Google, Amazon and Visa are poised to execute purchases and payments on behalf of consumers, thrusting banks into a new risk landscape. Existing charge‑back rules under Reg E and Reg Z may not apply, leaving...
Google Is Testing Search Live in More Markets
Google announced that its Search Live visual AI feature, previously limited to the United States, is now being tested in additional markets beyond the US and India. The tool lets users point their phone camera at objects or scenes and...
How AI Scribes Can Rescue Clinical Education From Burnout
Clinicians are overwhelmed by EHR documentation, eroding patient interaction and clinical teaching. AI‑driven scribes promise to offload clerical work, freeing preceptors to engage more directly with patients and students. The article argues that while AI is not a cure‑all, it...
UK Plans To Require Labels On AI-Generated Content
Britain’s technology ministry announced it will consider mandatory labels on AI‑generated content to shield consumers from deepfakes and disinformation. Minister Liz Kendall said the policy aims to balance protecting creative industries with fostering AI innovation, and the government has not...
5 Agentic AI Ventures Earning $10K/Month on $100
From $0 to $10k/Month: Top 5 AI Businesses To Start In 2026 WATCH HERE 👉 https://t.co/93U2EmmCZm The 2026 AI Gold Rush is here, but most people are doing it wrong. Generic chatbots are dead. In this video, I break down the...
Claude Code Drains Laptop Battery; Use VPS Instead
Another great argument for running Claude Code on your VPS server and not your laptop is its battery use "Terminal" app here is all Claude Code sessions, ignore the Claude app here I have a MacBook Pro 13" M4 and with Claude...
Comcast & NVIDIA’s Killer AI Cocktail: Edge, SLMs, and 15ms Latency
Comcast and NVIDIA announced a joint deployment that places GPU accelerators at the network edge to run stateful small language models (SLMs) within 15 ms of the user. By processing tokens locally, the solution eliminates the round‑trip latency inherent in centralized...
Gracenote: AI Will Influence Audience Discovery, Engagement with Content
Artificial intelligence is set to overhaul how viewers find and interact with entertainment, with large language models (LLMs) becoming the backbone of next‑generation search tools. Gracenote’s new report warns that LLMs alone can hallucinate, so it promotes "grounded" models that...
AI Software for Smart Glasses Wins £1m Prize for Technology to Help People with Dementia
CrossSense Ltd’s AI‑powered smart glasses, featuring the Wispy conversational assistant, have won the £1 million Longitude prize for dementia technology. The glasses combine a camera, microphone and speakers to deliver real‑time verbal cues and floating text that help wearers complete daily...
Multiply Closes $9.5M Funding
Multiply, an AI‑native media agency targeting B2B firms, emerged from stealth with a $9.5 million Series A round led by Mayfield. The funding includes contributions from Sorenson Capital, Instacart co‑founder Max Mullen, Google Gemini head Josh Woodward, and senior executives from...
Sidekick + Lone Wolf: Unifying Brokerage Workflows Nationwide
Sidekick and Lone Wolf have formalized an integration that lets real‑estate brokerages run TransactionDesk and zipForm tasks from a single interface. Sidekick’s AI layer pulls data from agents and automatically populates Lone Wolf’s jurisdiction‑wide forms library, selecting the correct template...
New Real-World Evidence Supports the Use of AI in Lung Cancer Screening
A prospective trial of 911 asymptomatic patients undergoing low‑dose chest CT showed that AI‑assisted nodule detection modestly increased interpretation time by about 15 seconds but significantly boosted the identification of Lung‑RADS‑positive nodules. Radiologists using the AI tool reported roughly double...
3 Trillion-Dollar Tech Stack Titans
The post argues that the next wave of AI dominance will be decided by companies that own the entire technology stack, not just the models. Nvidia, SpaceX, and Anthropic are highlighted as exemplars of vertical integration, each covering hardware, software,...
Emagia Unveils Gia AlphaCash to Unlock Millions in Trapped Receivables
Emagia launched Gia AlphaCash, an AI‑driven cash‑discovery superagent that pinpoints high‑value receivable accounts for faster collection. The tool ranks “Alpha Accounts” using ledger, payment and operational data, and works with the Gia Collect agent to automate outreach. Early reports claim...
Decoding Nvidia’s 103 AI-Native Startups: The List Everyone Got Wrong
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang recently posted a slide featuring more than 100 companies labeled “AI‑native.” While most readers only recognized a handful of logos, the author argues the list is a blueprint of where AI value is being created today...
New MiniMax M2.7 Proprietary AI Model Is 'Self-Evolving' And Can Perform 30-50% of Reinforcement Learning Research Workflow
MiniMax unveiled its proprietary M2.7 large language model, a reasoning‑only LLM that can autonomously manage 30‑50% of its own reinforcement‑learning development loop. The model earned a 66.6% medal rate on the MLE Bench Lite, tying Google Gemini 3.1 and approaching Anthropic...
Perplexity's Comet AI Browser Is Now Available for iPhones
Perplexity has launched its Comet AI browser as a free standalone iOS app, extending the AI‑powered web assistant that debuted on PCs last summer as a $200‑per‑month service. The iPhone version, which leverages Apple’s Liquid Glass UI and can be...
Is Cheap Energy the Key to China Gaining AI Supremacy?
China's AI sector is leveraging abundant cheap electricity to accelerate development across the AI stack. Companies like ByteDance, DeepSeek, and Huawei are rolling out new video‑generation tools, large‑language models, and AI chips, respectively. The low‑cost power reduces training expenses, giving...
How New Infrastructure, Like the Model Context Protocol, Is Reshaping Marketing Workflows
Amazon Ads has launched an open‑beta Model Context Protocol (MCP) server that gives AI agents a contextual layer over its advertising APIs. The protocol lets agents orchestrate multi‑step campaign creation, ad‑group configuration, and analytics queries with a single natural‑language prompt....
Training for the Work AI Creates
Recent enterprise data from 2024‑2026 shows AI reshapes work rather than eliminates it. Productivity rises when workers use up to three AI tools, but declines sharply with four or more due to coordination overhead and constant app switching. Studies from...
Districts Can’t Fully Evaluate Your AI But You’ll Still Be Held Responsible
Districts are rushing to adopt AI tools while their procurement systems, built for static software, cannot fully evaluate these dynamic solutions. Approval processes focus on compliance paperwork rather than real‑time data handling or model behavior, leaving schools exposed to vendor...
AI Bots Free Doctors for Patients, Not Just Tech
Dr. Selene Castrejon doesn’t run a tech company. She runs a medical practice. Every hour she spends on admin is an hour not spent with patients or growing her business. Inside the AI Business Lab® Mastermind, she built trained AI bots...
AI Agents Are Full Tech Stacks, Not
AI agents = full tech stacks, not just LLMs. 🧊🤖 Above water: UI + “smart” assistant. Below water: 🧠 models 🕸️ orchestration 🗂️ memory/RAG 🛠️ tools & APIs 📊 AgentOps/observability 🔐 auth & security 🗄️ data + ETL ☁️ infra Great agents are systems + governance + data, not prompts. What layer...
Lenovo Bolsters Hybrid AI Platform with Nvidia GPUs
Lenovo announced an expanded Hybrid AI Advantage portfolio powered by Nvidia GPUs, targeting end‑to‑end production AI inferencing. The new lineup spans laptops, desktops, ThinkSystem and ThinkEdge servers, and integrates Nvidia AI Enterprise, Dynamo, NIM and Vera Rubin technologies. Lenovo emphasizes...
AI Valuations Likely Overinflated, Reset Imminent
VC Bill Gurley sees a reset coming in AI. His point is simple. When a real wave hits, a lot of money is made quickly, and that’s usually when excess builds up. The question isn’t whether AI is real. It’s whether valuations...
Storage Vendors Orbit the Nvidia Sun at GTC
At GTC 2026 Hitachi Vantara, IBM, Nutanix and Seagate unveiled new integrations with Nvidia’s Blackwell GPUs and AI software, tightening the bond between storage and accelerated compute. Hitachi iQ added support for Blackwell and RTX PRO GPUs and AI blueprints; IBM demonstrated an 83%...
GSA, NIST Partner to Craft Evaluation Standards for AI Tools in Federal Operations
The General Services Administration (GSA) and the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) announced a partnership to develop standardized evaluation methods for AI models used by federal agencies. Housed in NIST’s Center for AI Standards and Innovation, the effort...
TEKEVER and EPE Announce Strategic Partnership to Support Advanced Autonomous Systems Capability in New Zealand
TEKEVER, a pan‑European AI‑centric defence tech firm, has entered a strategic partnership with New Zealand‑based EPE to deliver advanced autonomous systems to the NZ market. The deal combines TEKEVER’s AR5, AR3 EVO and ATLAS platforms with EPE’s local customer relationships and support...
AI Generates My Weekly Plan with Deep‑Work Focus
One prompt I run every Monday that plans my whole week: ↓ "Pull my goals for this quarter. Look at what I shipped last week and what rolled over. Check my calendar for the week ahead. Build me a realistic weekly...
Talent Engineering Is the AI Speed Bottleneck
A good heuristic for whether your company is moving fast enough for AI: Append "engineering" to every function. Then rate it. GTM → GTM Engineering ✅ | Product → Product Engineering ✅ | Talent → Talent Engineering ❌ Talent is where it breaks....
Bootstrapped Founders Can Attract VC Love Beyond Capital
When my friend raised $6M and I told him I was sad to lose another bootstrapper to the VC dark side, he said something that totally dumfounded me. Him: “We're building a generational company and not planning on raising any...
Early Rubin GPU Access Confirms Nebius as True Partner
$NBIS priority allocation from Vera Rubin clearly signals that Nebius is being treated as a real partner That matters because in AI infrastructure, getting the newest GPUs early directly translates into attracting top customers and higher-margin workloads. This validates $NBIS strategy...
Jordan Schachtel Misrepresents Pro‑Human Opposition as Anthropic
Beware: @JordanSchachtel is conflating the (bipartisan) pro-human opposition to Anthropic and other AI companies with Anthropic itself (and its "race to replace" supporters). See link in replies for my detailed analysis of the ACTUAL two sides. https://t.co/Ou0e56N510
Notion Founder Unveils Expanded Vision Amid AI Surge
ICYMI, last week’s No Priors: Notion founder @simonlast on the company’s expanded vision, given rapidly growing ai capabilities
AI Predicts Four Possible Outcomes for Iran War
the top 4 AI models on how the Iran war is going to resolve: https://t.co/ErtjiwsXtd
Huang Assembles Unlikely Open
And otherwise unlikely panel of open model players that Huang got together (like the #Quantum vendors in 2025) - @hwchase17 of @Langchain - @miramurati of @thinkymachines - @AravSrinivas of @perplexity_ai - @mntruell of @cursor_ai - @MishaLaskin of @reflection_ai #NVIDIAGTC https://t.co/c3OVXMpmSz
AI Revives Val Kilmer for New Film
Val Kilmer Resurrected by AI to Star in ‘As Deep as the Grave’ Movie — First Look (EXCLUSIVE) https://t.co/6XZm3ZWYTg via @variety
Atlas Robot Advances From Walking to Heavy Lifting
From Walking to Heavy Lifting: Atlas Shows Off Next-Level Skills by @lukas_m_ziegler #Robotics #ArtificialIntelligence #Innovation #MI #ML #Tech https://t.co/4uksEsmm3c
MiniMax-M2.7 Sets New SOTA, Handles Incidents
MiniMax-M2.7 is here. → matching Sonnet 4.6 as an agent → recovering live incidents in just 3 minutes → hitting SOTA in SWE-Pro (56.22%) 🔥 It even edits your Office files 👀
Agentic AI Demands Diverse Compute Engines: CPUs, GPUs
Agentic AI will require all kinds of compute engines, including CPUs, GPUs, DPUs, and now LPUs. $NVDA $GOOG $AMD $INTC https://t.co/WVnnc36X2U
AI Agents and Status Signals Redefine Global Scaling
Global expansion, social status, and AI agents are reshaping how companies scale. On #DisrupTV, @ValaAfshar & @RWang0 talk with Russell Haworth and @tobystuart about designing global products, hyper-localization, and how status signals influence decisions in an AI-mediated world. https://t.co/zZJqIjFU7Y
AI Needs SaaS Guardrails for Enterprise Governance
Everyone talks about AI's "magic," but no one talks about Governance. 🏛️ Enterprise apps require layers of compliance that AI isn't ready to handle solo. SaaS isn't dying; it’s providing the guardrails AI desperately needs. Read the AVOA analysis: https://t.co/tqCcpQvgpK #CIO #Cloud...
Fortinet Bets on AI, Silicon, and Edge Data Centers
.@Fortinet’s sees advantage in AI, chip, data center investments https://t.co/l4n1P1c5O0 Fortinet is betting that long-term investments in its own AI data centers and silicon, being early to quantum-safe offerings and AI agents moving to the edge will drive its results...
Gemini API Merges Function Calls with Built-In Tools
YES. Instead of separate calls or agents, now you can combine function calling with built-in tools (like Google Search) in a single Gemini API call. This simplifies a few of my own agents. https://t.co/R97to7Af8U
Arena Leads AI Rankings While Maintaining Neutrality
LMArena (now just Arena) has become the AI industry's top leaderboard. CEO @ml_angelopoulos walks us through how @arena remains neutral in its rankings, even though it partners with/accepts money from the top AI labs. This week on @EquityPod https://t.co/6aXZeXjFMp
AI Permission Fatigue Creates Hidden Security Risks for CIOs
Devs are getting numb to AI permission prompts the same way everyone ignores Terms of Service. Those "approve" clicks can open doors to security, data privacy, and compliance risks CIOs will own. #CIO #AI https://t.co/p18hdtdbZn
Infrastructure Unveils IgniteAI Agent for Canvas LMS
Infrastructure launches IgniteAI Agent for Canvas, builds on @Amazon Bedrock https://t.co/0iOP4GmXpI Infrastructure, the company behind the Canvas learning management system (LMS) launched the IgniteAI Agent, which orchestrates and executes workflows for…
EHRs Will Become Records; AI-Driven Action Layers Rise
Sharp take here from healthcare VC Sam Toole on the future of EHRs in an AI world. Do they become systems of record, and entrepreneurs can build systems of action that sit on top? Link to read the full piece...
Patreon CEO: AI Fair Use Claim Bogus, Pay Creators
Patreon CEO calls AI companies’ fair use argument ‘bogus,’ says creators should be paid https://t.co/MwnGr36nbk