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
How to Build Your First Claude Code Agent | Step-by-Step Guide 2026
The guide walks developers through creating their first Claude Code agent, starting with the CLAUDE.md file that stores project preferences across sessions. It contrasts this simple persistence method with full‑featured agents that embed a defined role, decision‑making framework, and behavioral rules. By the end, readers build "The Operator," an agent that automatically surfaces the day’s priorities at session launch. The tutorial equips users to replicate the pattern for any workflow they wish to automate.
All LLMs Share Same Supply Risk, No Technical Difference
Wild. If any of this is true (and most if it isn’t*) it’s true of all LLMs and not just Anthropic’s models. There is no technical difference between models that would make one more of a supply risk than another. *mimicking text...
Tailor AI Learning: Engineers Need Both, Others Choose One
Generative AI or Machine Learning do you need to learn both? 👉 If you are going into AI engineering or data science career, you need to learn how to build models and systems with both ML & Gen AI 👉 If you...
AMD ZenDNN 5.2 Brings A Major Redesign, AOCC 5.1 Recently Released
AMD announced ZenDNN 5.2, a fully re‑engineered deep‑learning library that adds multi‑backend support and promises notable performance and scalability gains while remaining backward compatible. The release also bundles support for AOCL‑DLP, oneDNN, FBDGEMM and libxsmm, broadening its applicability across heterogeneous AI...
Rivian's Decade: AI-Driven Autonomy Redefines Humanity
Rivian CEO RJ Scaringe: "The next 10 years will be the most important period in human history." The full interview: 2:45 Rivian’s big 2026 moment 4:23 The origin of Rivian 6:25 The pivot that changed Rivian 7:21 Rivian’s core mission 9:06 Obsessing over details 9:57 Why R2...
Redesign Work with AI, Not Just Cut Jobs
Everyone’s asking the wrong question about AI and jobs. The issue isn’t what AI will replace. It’s how leaders will redesign work so humans and AI create outcomes neither could achieve alone. Companies that use AI to cut costs may...
Why AI Summarization Is One of the Best Use Cases for GenAI in Legal Today
Legal firms are increasingly deploying generative AI to summarize contracts, pleadings, and discovery material, turning thousands of pages into concise briefs within minutes. The technology leverages large language models fine‑tuned on legal corpora, delivering context‑aware abstracts that preserve critical clauses...
AI Adoption, Innovation Lagging in Pediatrics
In a Healio Community webinar, pediatric leaders James S. Barry, MD, MBA, Clara Lin, MD, and Ryan McAdams, MD highlighted that AI adoption in pediatrics lags behind adult medicine due to safety, privacy, and cost concerns. Most AI tools are...
Tablevoice Partners with OpenTable
Tablevoice, an AI-powered restaurant host, has announced a partnership with OpenTable to convert missed phone calls into confirmed reservations. The integration allows the AI to converse with callers, capture details, and book directly in OpenTable while logging the interaction in...
Krisp Brings Customer Accent Conversion to Call Centers
Krisp has introduced Customer Accent Conversion, an AI-driven feature that transforms inbound speech in real time so agents hear a clearer version while the caller’s voice, emotion, and context remain unchanged. The processing occurs locally on the agent’s device, eliminating...
Kaltura Launches Agentic AI Conversational Avatars
Kaltura announced Kaltura Agentic Avatars, a real‑time conversational AI video agent that delivers human‑like, intent‑driven interactions across customer, employee, and learner journeys. The company also unveiled a Conversational Agents SDK, enabling developers to embed these avatars into any digital experience...
How Lowe’s Tailors Its AI-Backed Mylow to Different Customers
Lowe’s rolled out its generative‑AI assistant Mylow a year ago and now handles roughly one million monthly queries from DIY shoppers and professional contractors. A dedicated version, Mylow Companion, equips store associates with instant product recommendations, cutting preparation time from...
CLAUDE.md: The New Essential Dev File for AI
Writing crystal-clear instructions for machines is the new 10x dev skill. The most important file in your repo is no longer your code. It’s your `CLAUDE.md` 🔥 Top devs are using this file as an onboarding doc for AI. Instead of typing lines,...
Bob Robertson Discusses Leveraging AI to Analyze Client Data
Bob Robertson addressed Legalweek 2026’s Day 3 session, highlighting how artificial intelligence can integrate, synthesize, and analyze disparate client data for law firms. He emphasized AI‑driven platforms that translate complex datasets into intuitive visualizations for attorneys. The discussion underscored real‑time...
Open‑Source Canopy Height Maps V2 Boosts Global Forest Detail
We’re announcing Canopy Height Maps v2 (CHMv2), an open source model for high-resolution global forest canopy mapping, developed in partnership with @worldresources. CHMv2 leverages our DINOv3 Sat-L vision model, specifically optimized for satellite imagery, to deliver substantial improvements in accuracy,...
Google Canvas AI Enables No‑Code 3D XR Graphics
Ok now this is cool. Remember how Google released Canvas in AI Mode (and it's been in the Gemini app for a while)? You can now Canvas to generate interactive 3d web graphics that can be used in the upcoming...
If You Review Digital Evidence, This 15-Minute Session Is Worth Watching
Former UK police sergeant Tom Oldroyd presents a 15‑minute on‑demand session showcasing three Semantics 21 tools that streamline digital evidence analysis. The tools—S21 School Badge Lookup, S21 Deepfake Detector, and S21 AI Describe—operate offline and slot into existing forensic workflows. Each...
Voice Becomes AI’s Frontline: Sound Defines Brand Trust
Voice is becoming the front line of AI. As conversational AI moves from text to real-time speech, the question is no longer just what your company’s AI can do, but how it should sound to customers. In a world where AI...
AI Therapist Beats Humans, Hits Top 10% Performance
Infinite mental health services affordable @Limbic_ai. Key finding in Nature Medicine: https://t.co/ga8xxjSzor Limbic Layer™ turns any frontier LLM into a behavioral health specialist, improving therapeutic performance (as judged by other therapists), patient experience, and clinical outcomes. 75% of Limbic's...
ChatGPT’s Default & Premium Models Search The Web Differently via @Sejournal, @MattGSouthern
A Writesonic analysis reveals that ChatGPT’s premium GPT‑5.4 model cites brand‑owned pages for 56% of its references, while the default GPT‑5.3 cites brand sites only 8%. The premium model runs an average of 8.5 sub‑queries per prompt, frequently employing site:...
Guide Clients to Ambitious AI Futures, Not Cost Cuts
This: “Your customer knows even less about these models than you do. You need to start guiding them toward the most ambitious version of their future. If you're in an industry that really values its employee base, paint a picture...
Search Robot Thinks for Itself
Researchers at TUM have built a broom‑shaped robot that fuses 3‑D image recognition with large language models to understand and search real‑world spaces. By constructing centimeter‑accurate spatial maps and translating internet knowledge into robot‑specific cues, it can locate misplaced items...
How KiloClaw Is Built to Be Secure
KiloClaw is a managed compute platform for OpenClaw AI agents that places security at its core. Each customer runs on a dedicated Firecracker microVM, providing hardware‑level isolation, while five independent layers—identity routing, dedicated app environments, network isolation, VM boundaries, and...
Accelerate Your Business with AI Mastermind Coaching
What’s inside the AI Business Lab® Mastermind: • 3 in-person intensives in Nashville • Monthly 90-min virtual sessions • Private Slack channel • Custom GPTs, tools, and templates • Live sessions with vetted AI experts • Direct access to me What you actually walk away with: clarity,...
monday.com Adds AI Agents to Transform How Work Gets Done
monday.com unveiled a dedicated infrastructure that lets external AI agents sign up, authenticate, and operate directly inside its work‑management platform. The new agent pathway grants free API access, instant GraphQL keys, and enterprise‑grade governance, enabling agents to organize projects, trigger...
Mantra Softech Taps $14M Investment to Accelerate Development
Mantra Softech, an Indian deep‑tech firm, secured $14 million in an initial funding round led by India SME Fund II and Motilal Oswal Principal Investments. The capital will fund AI‑enabled digital identity solutions, next‑generation biometrics, liveness detection, and a Centre of...
Huawei Targets AI Data Centre Reliability with Xinghe AI Fabric 2.0
At Mobile World Congress, Huawei unveiled Xinghe AI Fabric 2.0, a three‑layer AI‑centric architecture designed to improve reliability and performance of AI‑heavy data centres. The suite introduces Rock‑Solid Architecture 2.0 with an AI Eagle‑Eye engine that can monitor up to 200,000 service...
AI Agents May Disrupt Software, Uncertain Elsewhere
This to me is the trillion dollar question. The software industry has felt like a perfect fit to be disrupted by AI Agents like Claude Code including for reasons such as the vast amount of free training data on GitHub...
Blue Yonder Expands Agentic AI and Mobile Experiences for Industry-Specific Supply Chain Execution
Blue Yonder unveiled an expanded suite of agentic AI tools and role‑specific mobile applications for its end‑to‑end planning and execution platform. The release adds AI agents for retail, manufacturing, transportation, warehouse and customer service functions, plus mobile allocation, operator and...
Federal AI Series: Training and the Workforce
Chad Tetreault, Zscaler’s Public Sector CTO for AI Strategy and Governance, outlined how federal agencies can modernize their AI workforce training. He argued that conventional classroom models lag behind AI’s rapid evolution, recommending "prompt‑athons" to democratize skill acquisition. Hands‑on, mission‑driven...
Building an AI‑Native Software Company: Max’s Playbook
New episode of Uncapped with @MaxJunestrand from Legora and my partner @chetanp. Every time I'm with Max I come away thinking "this is what it takes to build an AI native software company." He's one of my favorite founders, hope you enjoy. (0:00)...
AI Won’t Replace Human Creativity or the Human Heart
CA AG Rob Bonta says, "AI cannot and will not replace human creativity and human heart."
New Research Shows over 90% of Gamers Find Playing with AI-Powered NPCs to Be "Enjoyable and Rewarding"
Newzoo’s 2026 report projects PC gaming revenue will overtake console revenue by 2028, driven by a 6.6% CAGR versus 4.4% for consoles. The combined PC‑console market is expected to reach $103.7 billion, with total revenue climbing from $88.3 billion in 2025 to...
California AG Calls for AI Bias Limits to Protect Communities
CA AG Rob Bonta says of AI that state "must do everything we can to limit bias in AI and disenfranchising people of color."
California AG: AI's Wild West, But Not Lawless
California AG Rob Bonta says while AI may be the "Wild West" it is not above the law.
Ravi Teja Alchuri — Engineering Trustworthy AI for Production-Scale Fleet Systems
Ravi Teja Alchuri, Director of Technology at Assured Techmatics, explains that deploying AI in fleet telematics requires rigorous architectural discipline, governance guardrails, and system‑level trust to operate reliably at production scale. His platform supports over 100,000 drivers and vehicles across...
Embrace Mistakes: Reinforcement Learning Rewards Bold Errors
In the Ai game whoever is willing to be wrongest will become the rightest. Too many people are afraid of error. RL is progressive truth.
Smart Robots Poised to Become Everyday Like Phones
Smart Robots Will Be Everywhere Like Smartphones: Here's Who Will Run the Next Machine Era #ArtificialDecisions #MCC @Ken_Goldberg @willknight https://t.co/ML9iLMrvpl
Governance Stops Shadow AI From Overrunning SaaS
If you think managing SaaS sprawl was hard, wait until you try managing "Shadow AI" apps built on a whim. 📉 Governance is the wall that keeps the "AI replaces SaaS" myth from becoming reality. Deep dive here: https://t.co/Se537FlJwE #CIO #Cloud #AI...
When Buzzwords Clash, Meaning Disappears—Demand Demos
"Agentic AI" appeared in both the rising AND declining trend categories this same week. When a term occupies both categories simultaneously, it has officially lost all meaning. Stop evaluating labels. Start demanding end-to-end demos.
Tom Hanson Shows AI‑Powered Rapid Retooling and Scalable Innovation
Contributor Spotlight: Tom Hanson (p. 16) - retooling at speed, AI-driven resilience and innovating at scale. #Manufacturing #AI #Resilience https://t.co/K6t5frl13c
Reserve Claude for Complex Tasks, Use Perplexity Pro for Queries
Pro-tip (or at least something I as a user concluded): Use Perplexity Pro to handle most Sonnet queries (w web grounding), and reserve your direct paid Claude quota for Opus-level tasks or pure LLM work where you don’t want search...
AI Adoption Stalls without Middle Manager Buy‑in
Not shockingly, execs still think everyone at their company is using AI all the time. The story on the ground is different. But notice the blurb about middle managers. When that tier isn't bought in, the initiative dies. https://t.co/Fys3E6zLm3
Investment Analysis Thrives on AI + Human Intelligence
The human advantage in an #AI world: The future of investment analysis will not be defined by humans versus machines. It will be AI+HI, i.e. combining AI and human intelligence. Mary Leung, @CFA Institute, via Asia Asset Management: https://t.co/aNOLGpYHYm https://t.co/ptCqSimoZp
Instant EHR Integration Boosts AI Accuracy for Clinics
Our new self-serve EHR integrations help clinics get set up on our clinical AI platform in minutes. Giving Glass awareness of patient context hugely increases the accuracy and utility of AI ambient insights, differentials, plans, and documentation. Available now at...
Alexa+ Introduces Profanity‑enabled Adult Mode, Stays Non‑NSFW
Alexa+ gets a new ‘adults only’ personality option that curses but won’t get into NSFW content https://t.co/wUcCxYtjGY
AI Amplifies Existing DevOps Flaws—Refactor Culture First
AI won't fix broken DevOps. It amplifies whatever culture, architecture, and practices you already have. If you're shipping chaos today, AI will just ship it faster. Time for leaders to refactor ways of working, not just toolchains. #AI #DevOps https://t.co/7dcoLIKa0K
Flat Embeddings Miss Context; Vector DBs Need Rethink
Saying you're going to 'kill vector databases' is a bold claim, but honestly? They aren't wrong about the flaws. Flat embeddings don't always cut it when you need actual context. Stoked to see what @nishkarsh and @hydra_db build here 👀
Raised $165M to Shift From Demos to Deployment
We raised $165M at a $1.15B valuation to stop doing demos. 2026 is about 1) deployment and 2) research. We will start shipping Memo with our new frontier models in a few months. Our series-B is led by Coatue, with Thomas Laffont...
Claude Now Creates Custom Charts and Diagrams in Chat
Claude news -> Anthropic says Claude can now generate custom charts, diagrams, and other visualizations directly in a conversation, available to all users in beta https://t.co/cTV9no67Of https://t.co/9xpHA1rfQ0