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 AI Is Rewriting Schools’ Drama Scripts
AI tools are increasingly being used by scriptwriters in Kenya's National Drama and Film Festival, prompting accusations of cheating and sparking a debate over artistic authenticity. Organisers lack formal AI guidelines but are considering teacher‑training workshops to help educators harness the technology. Proponents argue AI can accelerate brainstorming, character development, and set design while lowering production costs. Simultaneously, the festival is piloting the removal of traditional backdrops to cut logistical expenses.
How AI Is Changing the Way We Work
AI is being embedded directly into enterprise tools like Jira and Confluence, turning them into proactive teammates that generate drafts, summarize threads, and suggest actions. By eliminating the blank‑slate friction of starting work, AI cuts the time needed to create...
Stack AI Advantage Now, Leap Years Ahead
9-figure founder messaged me saying he thinks AI is overblown because he just isn’t seeing the impact in the enterprise. He cited the Anthropic chart showing that coding was the only major job affected. This alone should tell you that if you...
Legora's $550M Raise Fuels Walter AI Acquisition
AI legal tech startup Legora, after raising $550M this week, acquires Walter, a Canadian based startup that builds AI agents that work within Microsoft Word and Outlook. Walter launched the AI agents after pivoting last September. The acquisition is believed...
How One Canadian Startup Is Reinventing Language Learning with AI
Canadian startup Mocko.ai is reshaping language exam preparation by delivering AI‑driven, instant feedback on writing, speaking, and grammar. The platform mimics the format of high‑stakes tests such as TEF Canada and TCF Canada, allowing learners to take full‑length mock exams...
Wiley and OpenEvidence Partner to Integrate Peer-Reviewed Medical Research Into Clinical AI
Wiley is licensing its extensive portfolio of peer‑reviewed medical content to OpenEvidence, the clinical AI platform used by more than 40% of U.S. physicians. The deal brings the Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews, Cochrane Clinical Answers, and over 400 Wiley...
Tearing Down the Paper Ceiling
AI-driven skill assessments could replace degree requirements, offering faster, merit‑based hiring. The article proposes a Department of Labor challenge to create portable, job‑specific AI tests for high‑demand roles. Successful tools would lower hiring costs, improve labor mobility, and reduce reliance...
Dr. Tanvi Jayaraman on Oura Ring’s First Female-Focused LLM and the Future of AI Wellness Chatbots
Oura Health, the Finnish wearable maker behind 5 million rings, has unveiled its first proprietary large language model (LLM) built exclusively for women’s health. The model powers Oura’s in‑app Advisor chatbot, delivering answers drawn from clinically vetted studies rather than generic...
Thinking With AI: The Student Workshop Series (Complete Release)
The author has released the complete student component of the "Thinking With AI" workshop series, delivering five detailed lesson plans and accompanying interactive artifacts for classroom use. Each session introduces a specific AI‑engagement role—Critic, Verifier, Interlocutor, Editor, and Architect—to help...
Furniture.com Was Built for SEO. Now It’s Trying to Crack AI Search
Furniture.com, a legacy domain acquired by Rooms To Go’s venture arm, relaunched in 2023 as a market‑aggregation platform for over 70 furniture retailers. Facing the rise of AI‑driven chatbots, the company is shifting from traditional SEO to generative engine optimization...
Gem AI: 10x Growth and What’s Next
Gem announced that its AI recruiting platform has delivered a 10‑fold increase in AI revenue, a 7‑fold rise in AI customers, and an 18‑fold jump in monthly AI‑assisted hires over the past year. The suite now includes real‑time search, a...
Estate Agents Expect AI to Transform How Buyers Find Homes
Estate agents recognize AI’s potential but see limited current impact, with only 7% reporting improved listing visibility. A GetAgent survey reveals 84% expect AI‑powered search to become the primary way buyers find homes, while 88% warn that firms ignoring AI...
Craveable Brands Has One Eye on AI, and the Other on the Project Failure Rate
Craveable Brands, the franchisor behind Red Rooster, Oporto, Chicken Treat and Chargrill Charlie’s, is exploring AI for customer loyalty and franchisee support while demanding proven ROI from vendors due to a 95% AI project failure rate. The company has unified...
Moglix Appoints Animesh Srivastava as Chief Technology Officer to Lead Technology and AI Charter
Moglix, a leading Asian B2B commerce platform, named Animesh Srivastava as its new Chief Technology Officer. Srivastava will steer the company’s technology charter, scaling the AI‑driven operating system Cognilix across global markets. The move comes as Moglix leverages its $40 billion...
Download - Charter Leading with AI Summit 2026
Charter’s Leading with AI Summit 2026 convened executives, economists, and researchers in New York and San Francisco to address the "messy middle" of AI adoption—where isolated productivity gains have not translated into enterprise-wide transformation. Attendees exchanged lessons from two years of pilot...
Karpathy’s AI Agent Pattern You Should Steal - #116
Andrej Karpathy has open‑sourced Autoresearch, an autonomous AI agent that conducts its own machine‑learning experiments overnight. Users provide a GPU, a training script, and a performance metric; the agent then rewrites code, launches five‑minute trials, evaluates outcomes, and iterates without...
I Ran Qwen3.5-35B-A3B Locally with Cline Code Agent For Free, Forever
A developer ran the 35‑billion‑parameter Qwen3.5‑35B‑A3B‑4bit model on a Mac Mini M4 with 64 GB RAM, using the omlx inference server and the Cline VS Code AI agent. The MoE architecture and 4‑bit quantization shrink the model to ~20 GB, delivering an average...
AI-Generated Market Research: Strengths, Flaws, and Next Steps
I did market research and some base financial estimates in ChatGPT. I then put that in CoWork & told it to analyze - tell me what GPT got right & wrong & where we could do better…
How I Became My Own AI Case Study & What I Learned
In this episode, the host explains how they leveraged AI to amplify a single content idea into multiple formats—articles, videos, posts, and notes—resulting in a steady rise in LinkedIn impressions, reaching over 2,000 in a week and 40,000 organically over...
To Make AI Safe, Put Women and Girls at the Heart of the Technology
In February, Hong Kong’s Office of the Privacy Commissioner co‑signed a statement with 60 overseas organisations condemning the surge of deepfake misuse targeting women. The piece notes that 90% of non‑consensual deep‑fake pornography depicts women and that nudification AI apps...
Proofpoint Expands AI-Driven Security Strategy While Strengthening Partner Ecosystem
Proofpoint is expanding its AI‑driven security platform to protect the emerging human‑AI workspace, adding intent‑based detection for AI‑generated phishing and modernising threat investigation tools. The company now processes roughly six trillion messages daily, covering about 45 % of global enterprise email...
Pentagon Seeks System to Ensure AI Models Work as Planned
The Pentagon and the Office of the Director of National Intelligence are issuing an Area of Interest for a modular "harness" that can evaluate any AI model against mission‑specific benchmarks. The system must test isolated AI performance, human‑AI team outcomes,...
AI Co‑pilot: Adopt or Risk Obsolescence for Radiologists
AI is rapidly improving at reading medical images. But the real question is not whether it will replace radiologists. Most experts see AI becoming a powerful co-pilot: spotting patterns faster, flagging anomalies earlier and helping radiologists focus on complex diagnoses and...
Databricks Buys Quotient AI to Boost Genie Tools
Databricks acquires startup Quotient AI, a software to diagnose and evaluate AI agents. Databricks plans to utilize the acquisition to improve its Genie Code and Agent Bricks tools. Quotient AI was founded in 2023 by Julie Neagu and Freddie Vargus. The...
How Smart Shopify Brands Are Using AI Personalization to Grow AOV Without Spending More on Ads
Shopify merchants earning $200K‑$5M are turning to Rebuy’s AI‑driven personalization to lift average order value by 11‑25% and subscription revenue by up to 63% without extra ad spend. The platform layers recommendation widgets across five key touchpoints—homepage carousel, product detail...
What ChatGPT Has to Do with Robots
Robotics is entering a new era as artificial intelligence, especially large neural networks, merges with physical machines to create embodied AI capable of handling novelty. Traditional robots excel at repetitive, well‑defined tasks, but recent breakthroughs allow them to perceive, decide,...
AI Misplaces Funnel Stages, Requires Manual Correction
Gamma 5, Dave 0 in the "funnel wars" where I have tried 15 different prompts to get it to point the marketing funnel downwards. Let's not forget that it actually re-ordered the layers as well, somehow putting conversion at...
Walker S2 Battles Human in Live Tennis Rally
UBTECH’s Walker S2 Takes on a Human in a Live Tennis Rally by @XRoboHub #Robotics #Engineering #ArtificialIntelligence #Innovation #Technology https://t.co/WdieaboxVa
Australians Taking Longer to Buy Cars as AI Becomes Major Influence
Australia’s Car Buyer Report 2026 shows the vehicle purchase journey is stretching, with 63% of shoppers backtracking and 34% pausing their search. Cost‑of‑living pressures are shifting priorities toward value, making “good value for money” the top driver across generations. For...
Brain-Inspired AI Enables Adaptive, Stable Soft Robot Arms
Brain-inspired #AI helps soft #Robot arms switch tasks and stay stable by Gaby Clark @TechXplore_com Learn more: https://t.co/BTbdJm8aSU #ArtificialIntelligence #MachineLearning #ML #DL https://t.co/3b9qFibgPW
ChatGPT Barely Passes Graduate Business and Law Exams
#WhosNext? Grad students? Law students? ChatGPT barely passed graduate business and law exams. (Engadget) #AI https://t.co/bQmfvsvApG https://t.co/lgqfEKtVU1
Firms Predict an AI Productivity Boom Is Coming
A new cross‑country survey of over 5,000 senior executives shows that 69% of firms in the US, UK, Germany and Australia are already using AI, with the United States leading at 78%. While AI has had virtually no impact on...
AI Agents Replace SEO Agency I Never Had
I replaced my entire SEO agency with 8 AI Agents Here's how: I never had an SEO agency
GPT‑5.4 Benchmark Scores Will Split Audiences Into Freak‑Out Camps
No matter what GPT-5.4 scores on the METR long task horizon benchmark, there will be a group of people who will absolutely freak out. The score determines which group.
AI-Underwriting,-a-New-Generation
Edge Focus CEO Elliott Lorenz discussed a new generation of AI underwriting that transforms asset‑backed finance. By applying advanced machine‑learning algorithms to securitisation, lenders can more accurately price and structure credit for esoteric assets such as royalties, aviation leases, and...
Models Now Run Labs, Not People
i think it’s funny that people believe frontier labs are still run by people the models are running the labs
AI Alignment Should Prioritize Pro‑social Values over Owners
Fascinating and important research. As I've said lately, we don't want to align AI to its creators or its owners. The ideal alignment of AI is to a pro-social set of values. This suggests that such alignment is happening and...
Enable Intelligent Insights with Red Hat Satellite MCP Server
Red Hat introduced a Model Context Protocol (MCP) server for Satellite as a Technology Preview, allowing large language models (LLMs) to query Satellite’s RHEL inventory via REST APIs. The server runs as a container, authenticates with a personal access token, and...
ChatGPT Adds Teaser Prompts to Boost Engagement
A subtle change I’ve noticed with ChatGPT is it is teasing juicer promises at the end of responses to try to motivate follow-up chats…starting to optimize for time engaged, to sell ads? https://t.co/nIT2COuzRc
AI Will Either Guard or Undermine Gaming, Not End It
Barring AGI is achieved in the next couple years, I have a question. What wins — AI systems created to prevent cheating or AI systems creating the cheats? Or is it all irrelevant & video games die because they’ve become...
Claude Simplifies Complex Academic GEO Studies
Enjoying using Claude to break down some of the “academic GEO studies” I’ve been reading https://t.co/HNl9KQYHdn
LLMs Achieve Rapid Logistic Gains on New Benchmark
Exponential improvements* everywhere for those with the eyes to see them. This is a cool benchmark, and was impossible for early non-reasoner LLMs to do at all. * Okay, technically "logistic improvement" because the maximum score is bounded at 100 (and...
Specialized Compute Models Offer Cheaper Attention in LLMs
This is kind of insane LLM research. It postulates a world of specialized compute models with cheaper attention embedded with an LLMs weights.
Editing Live Code Directly Eliminates Deploy Pipeline
I work with Claude Code in production mostly, then sometimes I push to save for the day (as a backup kinda?) But since it's in production I don't need the deploy pipeline anymore (laptop -> push -> GitHub -> webhook...
AI Layoffs Create Self‑inflicted Tech Debt Loop
“The causal chain is: I fired the engineers, the AI replaced the engineers, the AI broke what the engineers used to protect, and now the engineers I didn't fire must protect the system from the AI that replaced the engineers...
Hunter Alpha on OpenRouter: Just Okay So Far
So far, Hunter Alpha, the new mystery model on OpenRouter is only okay. Some examples of the Lem Test and the Sparks TiKZ unicorn. https://t.co/iXLx1jnoRe
AI Agents Auto‑review Code Before Humans See Diff
I type /commit and my code reviews itself - three agents fix issues before two more even see the diff. One markdown file, twelve repositories. https://t.co/rbbO2Cy10R
Built AI-Powered Options Screener in 35 Minutes
holy shit, @perplexity_ai computer build an options screener with AI built in for my parents in 35 minutes
AI-Driven CX Insights Power Business Transformation
.@IvanK_NH has published a new @NHInsight blog post – 'Movate’s BizGenie: AI-powered CX Insights as Transformation Lever' https://t.co/NfXBnGkc4W #CXservices #CX #AI #GenAI @Movate_Inc https://t.co/fs3N0jTrkw
Humans Will Continue Overseeing AI for Years
This is a pretty good way of thinking about this, and leads to the conclusion that humans will remain as overseers of AI for quite a long time to come.