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
AI Updates for Microsoft Power Pages: Coding Sites and Better Embedded Copilot Studio Agents
Microsoft announced a public preview of a new Power Pages plugin that integrates GitHub Copilot CLI and Anthropic's Claude Code to streamline single‑page application development. The AI‑driven tool can automatically configure table permissions, web roles, site settings, authentication, and Web API patterns, handling nine conversational tasks from data modeling to deployment. Early testing by MVP Nick Doelman demonstrated that the plugin could generate a complete SPA site without the manual effort typically required. This enhancement aims to accelerate low‑code site creation and improve developer productivity.
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.
One Billion Lost Packages
In September 2024 Hurricane Helene flooded Baxter International’s Marion, NC plant, halting 60% of U.S. IV‑fluid output and triggering nationwide shortages. The same month, 85 million U.S. packages arrived damaged—a 30% jump that cost roughly $4 billion. To address the chronic fragmentation...
‘Einstein‘ Bot Sharpens Debate over AI in the Classroom
On 23 February, start‑up Companion released Einstein, an AI bot that could access learning platforms, watch lectures, complete quizzes and submit assignments on behalf of students. The tool sparked immediate outrage from educators who labeled it a cheating device, prompting...
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-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...
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...
Future AI Will Constantly Rewrite Perfect Software for Users
One of the things everyone believes about software is that "once it works you shouldn't touch it." But what if that is wrong? What if in the world of infinite software that is very very good and smart and well tested...
AI Danger Lies in Centralization, Not Sentience
You're worried about the wrong AI problem. While everyone debates whether AI gets sentient and wipes us out, a handful of companies have already become the most powerful entities in the world. All the training data, all the compute, all the...
NZ Businesses Report Surge in AI-Related Security Incidents
A Kordia survey of nearly 250 New Zealand firms with 50+ employees shows a sharp rise in AI‑related security incidents. Shadow AI now ranks among the top three cyber risks for 24% of respondents, up from 16% a year earlier. Attacks...
AI Use Risks NDA Violations and Data Exposure
Perplexity has changed my way of work. Love these guys. But not sure we use the word "secure" the same way. Strong protections on data, but both Perplexity and other models they exchange data with open up new threat...
Future Software: Managing AI Agents, Not Human Interfaces
Software will look very different in the future for most knowledge work. Our software was designed for people to do most of the work, but now agents will be doing a large portion of those tasks and don’t need any...
The Teacher Still Beats AI
Tuition centres across Malaysia are seeing enrolments climb about 30% each year, even as AI tools like ChatGPT become ubiquitous among students. Educators stress that AI cannot replace the real‑time feedback, personalized guidance, and confidence‑building that teachers provide. While AI...
AI Cuts Marginal Hires, Flattening Tech Workforce
AI eliminates the marginal hire. Tech job openings are down 45% from the 2022 peak, but up 16% since the start of 2026 - from 227k to 264k. Why the narrative violation? Companies are hiring again, just fewer people than...
The Convergence Crisis: Why AI Adoption Demands a New Architectural Blueprint
Enterprises face a “complexity tax” as AI adoption collides with fragmented edge, cloud, and on‑premises infrastructure. At F5 AppWorld, the company unveiled its Application Delivery and Security Platform (ADSP) to unify networking, security, and observability. New ADSP components—including F5 Insight,...
Jump, Zocks Top Category as AI Note-Taker Adoption Soars
AI note‑takers have become a distinct category in wealth‑management software, with the T3/Inside Information Survey reporting 42.86% adoption across advisory practices. Jump surged to a 22.68% market share, up from 8.36% a year earlier, while Zocks leapt to 10.22% from...
AI Can't Beat Markets; Hedge Funds Already Arbitrage Any Edge
While I think there are some great use cases for AI to do investment research (got an investment thesis, let it help crunch the data, or sift through a zillion 10-K filings to spot which companies match your criteria), I...
Human Rights, Dignity and Control: Designing AI to the Standard of Regulation
The Australian Tax Office’s second commissioner, Jeremy Hirschhorn, highlighted how AI is being used to flag potential compliance issues in real time, giving taxpayers the chance to self‑audit before a human decision is made. He framed this as a responsible...
Agents Need User Interaction History, Not Just Code
Banger of a piece, from start to finish. 🔥 "We have handed agents the codebase, the tests, the docs, the specs, the commit history." "We haven't handed them the one artifact that actually survived — the record of what users have been...
Part 2: AI Data Center Construction, CIP, All the Cash Flows and Concentration
AI‑driven data center projects are reshaping tech capital spending, pushing construction‑in‑progress (CIP) balances and accounts payable to unprecedented levels. Companies adopt varied structures—joint ventures, SPVs, sale‑leasebacks—that affect how liabilities appear on balance sheets. The surge in days‑payable‑outstanding signals supplier financing...
Why AI’s Next Wave Runs Through The Channel: ‘MSPs Already Live There’
Managed service providers (MSPs) are emerging as the primary conduit for AI adoption in small and midsize businesses (SMBs), shifting AI from an optional add‑on to a core offering. Executives like Joel Abramson and Tim Guim note that MSPs already...
LuxTTS Clones Any Voice Locally in Seconds
You can now clone any voice on a 4GB GPU. LuxTTS just killed the "you need ElevenLabs" excuse. It clones voices from 3 seconds of audio at 150x realtime speed. Fits in 1GB VRAM. Faster than realtime even on CPU. → 48khz output vs...
MCP Vs. CLI for AI-Native Development
The article contrasts command‑line interfaces (CLIs) and Model Context Protocol (MCP) servers as AI‑native tooling, positioning CLIs for the fast inner development loop and MCPs for the structured outer loop. It highlights the token‑budget penalty of loading full MCP schemas...
Data Engineering, AI, and Career Growth – Podcast Deep Dive with Yuki Kakegawa
In a recent episode of Data Engineering Central, host Daniel interviews AI specialist Yuki Kakegawa to explore how data engineering intersects with artificial intelligence and what professionals need to thrive. Kakegawa highlights the surge in real‑time data pipelines, the rise...
Why Google Workspace CLI Is a Big Deal
The episode dives into recent AI developments, highlighting Google Gemini's new model releases and the launch of the Google Workspace CLI, which promises tighter integration of AI into everyday productivity tools. It also covers Meta's controversial acquisition of the agent‑focused...
Self‑driven AI Adoption Spreads Companywide in Days
We had an All Hands at @eightsleep focused on AI. Less than a week later, the adoption was immediate. The progress was real, and most of it happened without anyone asking for help, the teams didn't wait for guidance. They figured...
AI Lowers OSINT Barriers, Turns Iran Conflict Into Theater
How AI is turning Iran conflict into theater There’s a confluence of factors at play. AI coding tools mean people don’t need much technical skill to assemble open-source intelligence anymore, and chatbots can offer fast, if dubious, analysis of it. Yup.....
10 Android Trends That Will Define Smartphones in 2026
Android smartphones in 2026 will be defined by AI‑native hardware, on‑device intelligence, and a suite of new hardware innovations. Chipmakers are rolling out processors built for machine‑learning, while AI agents inside apps start performing tasks autonomously. Battery life jumps to...
Bubeck's 2023 AGI Sparks Paper Still Holds Up
The 2023 “Sparks of Artificial General Intelligence” paper by Sébastien Bubeck @SebastienBubeck is aging very well.
Master Agentic Engineering and Gemini CLI's Plan Mode
Seroter Daily Reading List – March 11, 2026 (#739): Today’s links look at the 8 levels of agentic engineering, using “plan mode” in the Gemini CLI, and how to quash your fear of messing up. https://t.co/3J5m1ku9c4
Technology Agenda Sealed by Letter of Intent
IDS Imaging Development Systems and Prophesee have signed a Letter of Intent at Embedded World to deepen their partnership and create next‑generation industrial vision systems that fuse conventional imaging with Prophesee’s Metavision® event‑based technology. The expanded collaboration builds on the...
AI Firms Plan $4.1T Capex, Outspending US Non‑financials
The 2026 OECD Debt Report shows the 9 major AI players have forecasted capital expenditures of $4.1 TRILLION for 2026-2030. That’s $1.1 TRILLION MORE than total capital expenditures by all US NON-FINANCIAL companies in 2025. WELCOME TO THE AI BUBBLE. https://t.co/YzxlQOpkiV
AI Builds My Workshop Landing Page in Real-Time
Current Situation: Drinking coffee on my patio watching Claude build out a landing page for my new workshop ‘Think with AI’ in Webflow. This is what work looks like now 👌 https://t.co/as5kMj9PPB
The AI Hardware Crunch: CPUs Join the Chip Shortage
The AI hardware crunch is expanding as server CPUs join the long‑running GPU shortage. Intel now reports six‑month lead times for key server chips, while AMD’s lead times have stretched to ten weeks and prices in China have risen over...
Human Social Platforms Translate Directly to AI Agents
Any major platform that worked for humans will probably work for agents. Agent to agent (A2A). Facebook/Reddit for agents (Moltbook) Ebay for agents (already a few of these) SEO for agents (Mintlify) Review sites for agents The list goes on and on.
AI Cuts Marginal Tech Hires Amid Fluctuating Job Market
AI eliminates the marginal hire. Tech job openings are down 45% from the 2022 peak, but up 16% since the start of 2026 - from 227k to 264k. Why the narrative violation? https://t.co/3QUv8XdkD4
Rayse, B&W Launch New AI Tools; CRMLS Offers RealReports to Members
Real estate firms are accelerating AI adoption across the value chain. Baird & Warner rolled out a custom Rejig.AI social‑media engine that creates and schedules branded posts, while Rayse introduced the Rayse Assistant Engine to log transactions via voice or...
AI Copilots Fail without User Training and Mindset Shift
Why are tools like Microsoft Copilot struggling for traction? Because they demand a change in user behavior without the necessary training. AI isn't intuitive like a Google search—it requires a new way of thinking about work. 🧠 Full analysis: https://t.co/EDcbE2J13x #CIO #AI...
Enterprise AI Success Requires Coordinated Usage
Enterprises are going to have to solve the problem of coordinating AI usage to achieve any real business benefits. Good read by @gsivulka . Also - big part of why I joined the BOD of @Larridin w/ @rfradin @jlarrison who are...
Coding Becomes Conversation, Not Skill, With Replit Agent 4
Replit Agent 4 just proved coding is no longer a skill. It's a creative conversation. The developers still arguing about frameworks are already behind.
AI Frees Us to Collaborate More on Whiteboards
AI Agents are handling the busywork, and something I've been saying is happening: humans are spending MORE time whiteboarding together, not less.
MCP Servers Add Governance, Auditability, and Reuse
The real value of MCP servers isn't just connecting agents to tools. It's providing a governed layer for prompts, tools, and data access: curated capabilities, auditable actions, and reusable patterns teams can trust. #AI #CIO https://t.co/7dcoLIKa0K
Perplexity API Becomes Full‑stack, Model‑agnostic Search Platform
i've been saying this to whoever listens but the Perplexity API is an insanely great product. Sonar is probably the best web search API. And now it has a bunch more functionality. Excited to play around w/ it
Perplexity API Powers Free Autonomous Agents via Telegram
.@perplexity_ai users can use their API keys right now with @AnimocaMinds Agents just spin up your agent (free) & tell them to load "Intelligence_Research_v1" (D5C1B743-1F13-F111-AD1D-0EA9A5017E89) & you have a Perplexity powered autonomous Agent operating via email @telegram +
Apple Lands AI Infrastructure Win with OpenClaw
$AAPL wins bigly here. Between this and OpenClaw it just found its AI infra play. 🙃
AI Revives Dead Brands with Personal, Emotional Touch
Sears catalogs were once the engagement standard. We use AI to revive @DeadBrands with a personal touch. We transform data into emotional connections. Tell us what you want to hear from us. https://t.co/ZsEwnG4p2n https://t.co/AgJNZPQ38m
Claude Now Syncs Excel and PowerPoint Across Files
Wow. 🚨 Claude for Excel and Claude for PowerPoint now sync seamlessly. Have multiple files? Claude shares full context across them. It: → pulls sheet data → updates decks instantly → supports Bedrock/Vertex It even saves workflows as 1-click team 'Skills' 🤯 link 🧵↓ https://t.co/10E2iqSO9z
LLMs Skew Toward Western Morals, Ignoring Global Values
LLMs overemphasize moral concerns common in Western societies and underestimate values more prominent elsewhere. These distortions likely stem from cultural biases in training data and carry societal implications and risks https://t.co/0nacfBcoA7 https://t.co/FHZCLnu1Kn
AI Will Augment, Not Delete, SaaS for ROI
Stop looking for the "Delete" button on your SaaS contracts. The future isn't AI replacing SaaS—it’s AI augmenting it. Those who understand the difference will win the ROI game. 🏆 Get the full take: https://t.co/Se537FlJwE #CIO #Cloud #AI #EnSW
Netflix May Spend $600M on Affleck's AI Studio
Netflix Could Pay as Much as $600 Million for Ben Affleck’s AI Film Start-Up: Report https://t.co/EMp2y3V3u0 via @variety