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
Anthropic Accuses Chinese AI Labs of Claude Mining
Jaeden and Jamie dissect Anthropic's claim that Chinese AI labs are illicitly mining the Claude model to train their own systems, focusing on the controversial 'distillation' technique used to replicate capabilities. They examine how this practice fuels competition in the AI landscape and weigh the role of open‑source models as a cost‑effective alternative for developers. The hosts also explore the broader implications for AI innovation, censorship, and the future direction of the industry.
AI in Practice: SISO CEO Summit to Explore What’s Actually Happening
The SISO CEO Summit convenes March 9‑12 at Kiawah Island, South Carolina, under the theme “Innovation in Action,” shifting focus from AI hype to concrete implementation. Attendees—C‑level leaders from trade shows, media groups, and suppliers—will explore evolving KPIs, AI‑driven M&A...
News Corp, Meta Strike AI Content Licensing Deal
News Corp has inked a three‑year AI content licensing agreement with Meta, granting the social‑media giant access to the publisher’s U.S. and U.K. news assets for model training and user consumption. The deal could net Meta up to $50 million per...
New Zealand: Expanding AI Tools Across Healthcare
New Zealand has rolled out an artificial‑intelligence scribe tool across every emergency department, giving more than 1,250 clinicians automated note‑taking support. The pilot showed doctors could see an extra patient per shift, and post‑deployment surveys reported 80% of staff noting productivity...
Fal.ai Raises $300M, Hiring Global Account Managers
fal has quickly become one of the most developer-beloved platforms in generative AI and its momentum is nothing short of incredible. In 2025 alone, they raised over $300M across three funding rounds. What makes fal.ai special is that they've made...
Hardware for Humanoid Robots: New Perspectives for Industrial Value Creation in Europe
Humanoid robots are emerging as a high‑growth market that could outpace the automotive sector, especially in Europe where manufacturers are seeking new value streams. A Fraunhofer‑IPA and P3 white paper reveals a fragmented hardware landscape lacking standardized architectures, with key...
What DoD’s Anthropic Ban, FY26 Spending Plans Mean for Contractors
The Pentagon has labeled Anthropic a supply‑chain risk, forcing prime contractors and their subcontractors to assess, report, and wind down any reliance on Anthropic’s AI tools. This unprecedented move targets a domestic vendor and extends beyond DoD contracts, prompting agency‑wide...
Micro's X Integration Turns Email Into AI-Powered CRM
Been using Micro since last week and it’s awesome. Especially the new integration with X that allows you to find important people that follow you. I was going to call it a CRM killer but it does so much more...
Channel Partners Are Flying Blind on Network Risk as AI Traffic Surges
AI-driven workloads are reshaping enterprise traffic, creating sudden, high‑volume data bursts that bypass traditional monitoring points. As hybrid, multi‑cloud and edge environments proliferate, channel partners lose end‑to‑end visibility, exposing them to hidden performance and security risks. Legacy network tools, built...
COMPUTEX 2026 Brings the Global AI Ecosystem to Taipei
Computex 2026 will run June 2‑5 in Taipei across four venues, featuring 1,500 exhibitors and 6,000 booths, positioning the event as a global AI benchmark. The show’s “AI Together” theme spotlights AI & computing, robotics & mobility, and next‑gen technologies,...
Not Done Weekly - Vibe Coding 101 for Hotels
Choice Hotels CEO Pat Pacious outlined a multi‑pronged growth plan, highlighting a rebound in the economy‑to‑midscale segment, rapid expansion of extended‑stay rooms, and a shift toward “suits and boots” travelers who need on‑the‑road lodging. He described AI as an equalizer,...
FourKites Launches Loft: AI Platform to Orchestrate Enterprise Systems with Real-World Intelligence
FourKites introduced Loft in February 2026, an AI‑driven orchestration platform that links internal ERP, CRM and ITSM systems with its Intelligent Network of over 500,000 trading partners. The platform centers on Sophie, an AI developer agent that converts natural‑language requests...
Fujitsu to Deploy Underwater Drones and AI for Ocean Digital Twin at Port of Barcelona
Fujitsu Spain and the BCN Port Innovation Foundation have launched a proof‑of‑concept to build an ocean digital twin for the Port of Barcelona. The project combines autonomous underwater drones with AI‑driven analytics to capture high‑resolution seabed imagery, quantify biodiversity, and...
Your Job's at Risk Unless You Master AI
Microsoft's AI chief said most white-collar work will be automated in 18 months. But you won't lose your job to AI. You'll lose it to a person who's better at AI than you. It's already happening. The person who gets promoted isn't the...
Federal Leaders Confront the Next Wave of AI Security Risks
Federal leaders highlighted escalating AI security risks at Zscaler’s Public Sector Summit, noting that over 70% of AI‑generated code goes unchecked and 90% of AI systems were compromised within 90 minutes in a recent red‑team test. The discussion emphasized the...
TPM26: Flexport CEO Sees AI’s Impact on Logistics Accelerating
Flexport CEO Ryan Petersen announced that artificial‑intelligence tools can trim roughly 10% off the back‑office component of ocean freight costs, enabling logistics firms to scale without proportionate hiring. He revealed that Flexport entered a "code red" mode in November 2025,...
Cisco: AI Is a Double-Edged Sword in Industrial Networks
Cisco’s 2026 State of Industrial AI Report reveals AI is a double‑edged sword for industrial networking teams, simultaneously creating security challenges and offering defensive benefits. While 40% of surveyed professionals cite cybersecurity as a major barrier and 48% list it...
Ireland to Digitize 100% of Key Digital Public Services by 2030
Ireland aims to digitise 100% of its key public services by 2030, leveraging a Life Events approach that groups services around citizen milestones. The Digital Public Services Plan 2030 outlines 20 objectives and 90 deliverables, targeting 90% digital uptake for...
Glen Tullman — Consumer-Directed Care and the Rise of AI-Powered WayFinding in Healthcare
Glen Tullman, CEO of Transcarent, says consumer‑directed care powered by generative AI is the next structural shift in a fragmented, costly health system. His WayFinding platform moves patients from simple search to agentic actions such as automated scheduling, symptom checking,...
Xometry Tightens Grip on AI Sourcing
Xometry is upgrading its AI‑driven marketplace with a new lead‑time prediction model and enhanced dynamic pricing logic. The lead‑time model, trained on a dataset four times larger, now incorporates supplier certifications, material requirements and specialized finishing specifications, improving forecasting accuracy...
Claude Code Rolls Out a Voice Mode Capability
Anthropic has added a Voice Mode to its Claude Code AI coding assistant, allowing developers to issue spoken commands like refactoring code. The feature is currently available to roughly 5% of users, with a wider rollout planned in the coming...
GenAI Augments Security Stack; AI Firms Target Specific Markets
Anthropic entering secure code has everyone predicting the collapse of security vendors. I think that framing is too binary. GenAI will augment nearly every layer of the security stack. That does not mean the stack disappears. The better question is: which markets do...
Gartner Acknowledges Growth of Decision Intelligence Platforms with Inaugural Magic Quadrant
Gartner released its inaugural Magic Quadrant for Decision Intelligence Platforms, signaling a shift from data‑driven to decision‑centric strategies. The report highlights legacy players like FICO alongside newer pro‑code solutions such as Quantexa, and notes that generative AI integration remains early....
Federal Technology Lifecycle Management Adopts AI and Automation
Federal agencies are turning to AI and automation to revamp technology lifecycle management (TLM) as the federal workforce shrinks by roughly 317,000 employees in 2025. Real‑time asset visibility and predictive analytics enable proactive maintenance, allowing agencies to shift resources from...
Do We Have a Dunning Kruger Effect Problem in Healthcare AI?
The integration of AI tools such as large‑language models into clinical workflows is flattening the traditional Dunning‑Kruger curve, causing users of all expertise levels to overestimate their performance. Studies show modest performance gains but a larger perceived boost, a phenomenon...
Calibration Scores Gradually Grant AI Autonomy
Calibration Loops allow your Claws/agents to become fully autonomous. If your Claws needs your permission all the time, you're the bottleneck. But you also can't let it yolo in the beginning when it's lacking so much context. So you have to train it...
NDAP Overhaul in Works to Handle Surge in Big Data
India’s National Data and Analytics Platform (NDAP) will undergo a major revamp as NITI Aayog seeks a private‑sector partner to redesign, operate and hand over the system. The upgrade aims to handle vastly larger data volumes, add advanced analytics and...
Billtrust Debuts Agentic Credit to Catch Payment Risks
Billtrust announced the Agentic Credit Lines product, an AI‑driven credit risk tool embedded in its AR workflow. It leverages a proprietary network of 13 million buyers and 25 years of B2B payment data to analyze payment history, utilization patterns, and external credit...
Tatsoft Launches FrameworX AI Designer: The Biggest Shift in SCADA Development in 30 Years
Tatsoft unveiled FrameworX AI Designer, an industrial development platform that lets engineers describe SCADA and IIoT requirements in plain language while AI generates the full configuration in real time. The tool automates tag databases, communication channels, alarms, displays and historian...
Pixel Homescreens Are Getting Custom Icons, but Google’s Keeping Them Locked to AI
Google announced that Pixel 6 and newer devices will receive AI‑generated custom icon packs as part of today’s Pixel Drop. The new packs—named Cookies, Treasure, Scribbles, Easel and Stardust—are created by Google’s generative AI and replace the limited Material You color scheme....
Mouser's Autonomous Vehicle Online Resource Center Addresses Real-World Deployment Challenges
Mouser Electronics has expanded its Autonomous Vehicle (AV) Online Resource Center to help engineers tackle real‑world deployment hurdles. The hub consolidates technical articles, eBooks and product data covering perception, deterministic networking, functional safety, cybersecurity and ethical decision‑making. It emphasizes software‑defined,...
Introducing Conveyor Connect: How Chef Robots Communicate With Different Conveyors
Chef Robotics unveiled Conveyor Connect, a capability that lets its AI‑driven Chef robots communicate directly with any type of conveyor, from continuous belts to indexing lines. The system uses a wireless Conveyor Companion Box attached to the conveyor’s VFD, providing...
From Human-in-the-Loop to Human-on-the-Loop: An AI Agent Architecture for Proactive Planning
The paper proposes a shift from traditional human‑in‑the‑loop supply‑chain planning to a human‑on‑the‑loop AI agent architecture. Coordinated agents continuously ingest demand, supply and disruption signals, enabling event‑driven, proactive plan adjustments. This approach surfaces risks earlier, reduces the latency of corrective...
Autonomy Shifts From Tech Goal to Economic Strategy
For years, telecom has talked about automation as a technical ambition. Closed loops. AI-driven optimization. Zero-touch operations. The language has been consistent, almost ritualistic. But what became clear at MWC26 was not just that automation was advancing, it was that...
AI Agents Accelerate SaaS Product Management Tenfold
AI agents are collapsing the traditional PM function. Here’s what that means for your SaaS over the next three years👇 For years, SaaS scaled with PMs translating customer input into documentation, and engineering turning that into a product. But now...
AI Creates a Mandate... And a Gift
AI deployment in claims processing now forces organizations to adopt real‑time instrumentation, exposing a decades‑long blind spot in operational visibility. Traditional dashboards offered static, delayed metrics, while AI’s speed and scale demand continuous monitoring of model outputs, drift, and edge...
Figma’s Silent Change Signals Fight for Design Infrastructure Control
In February 2026, Figma released version 126.1.2. One line in the changelog caught nobody's attention. It should have. The update stripped --remote-debugging-port on startup, with no announcement and no deprecation warning. Just gone. Overnight, developers who'd spent months building automation...
Tiny Qwen3.5 Reimplementation: Top Small LLM For
A small Qwen3.5 from-scratch reimplementation for edu purposes: https://t.co/OnupgeE55l (probably the best "small" LLM today for on-device tinkering) https://t.co/LwyF8x6sle
Multi-Scale Embodied
We made a memory system for our models at PI. We call it Multi-Scale Embodied Memory (MEM). It provides both short-term and long-term memory to enable very long tasks. We tested it on cleaning a kitchen (and yes, washing dishes),...
Half My Recruiting Tasks Still Need Human Touch
I just mapped my role (Recruiter) through JamLab_X's Human-AI Task Map — scored against where AI will be in 18 months. 50% of my tasks require me. Which of your tasks are uniquely yours? https://t.co/9emmwjKkhy
Founders Dream: AI‑Powered Slack Runs All Departments
This is what every founder secretly wishes their Slack looked like. 124 AI agents across 15 departments. Engineering, Sales, Product, Design — all shipping autonomously. No API keys. No cloud bills. No meetings. Just vibes. https://t.co/Uz9P5TigMf https://t.co/W7H4S926JJ
AI Agents Decode Code Instantly, Ending Vibe‑Coding
TIME SPENT UNDERSTANDING THE CODEBASE: Human Dev vibe-coding): 2025: ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ (6 days, still doesn't get it) 2026: ▏ (Quit to become a barista) Anything's new Parallel Research Agents: 2025: ▏ (Didn't exist) 2026: ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ (0.4 seconds, understands the code better than the founder)
Balance Speed and Safety for AI-Driven Releases
RT "Ship fast and break things" must not apply to AI agents with access to customer data or production workflows. My checklist explains how to balance speed with responsible releases. #AI #DevOps #CIO @Star_CIO https://t.co/1tg10UmJNv
Adopt Skill‑focused Hiring to Boost AI Talent Diversity
Still writing job descriptions the old way? Shift to skill- and outcome-based hiring so your AI initiatives attract stronger, more diverse talent rather than narrowing your pipeline. #AI #CIO #CHRO https://t.co/O0K0QkTUyt
Create Custom AI Icons on Pixel with New Feature
Here is how you can generate custom AI icons in Google Pixel with the latest feature drop. It already has some inbuilt AI icons. It doesn't let you enter your own prompts and works similar to how you generate AI wallpapers...
Pixel 9 Journal Gets Generative AI Features
Google has announced that Journal app users on the Pixel 9 series will finally get a taste of the app’s generative AI smarts, including reflections, Revisit Topics, and Mood ID. ✅ Details - https://t.co/vy1DF5BM3T https://t.co/76IUkP6vtJ
AI Data Centers Use Far Less Water Than Golf Courses
I always find the AI uses crazy amounts of water thing weird Here is a fun stat: Globally golf courses use 10x the water of AI data centres
ChatGPT Enhances, Not Replaces, Financial Advisors Today
If the long-term opportunity of ChatGPT and similar AI tools is not to replace financial advisors but to make them better, then the question naturally arises: how, exactly, can financial advisors leverage ChatGPT today to harness its benefits? https://t.co/sQ16RsmATN...
New Identity Layer Powers the Agentic AI Era
AI agents are acting, but your identity stack wasn’t built for that. @agenticfabriq is the identity and governance layer for the agentic era. Congrats on the launch, @paulinazhxu and @matthew_xu23! https://t.co/OVGYbWEZGo https://t.co/nHX5imQZFZ
Alibaba Qwen Loses Top Leader, Future Uncertain
Lots of people commenting on this quitting of @Alibaba_Qwen's top leader. Wondering what it means for Qwen now, will be hard to replace.