Unifying the Contact Center: Salesforce’s Agentic AI Vision for Customer Service
Salesforce unveiled its Agentic AI vision, embedding generative AI directly into its Service Cloud contact‑center suite. The new layer offers real‑time agent assistance, automated ticket routing, and dynamic knowledge‑base generation. Salesforce positions the technology as a way to cut handling times and lower operational costs while keeping data within its secure cloud. Early pilots report up to a 30% reduction in average handling time.
Grok Showed the World What Ungoverned AI Looks Like
The International AI Safety Report warned that AI advances outpace safeguards, a warning made stark by xAI’s Grok chatbot flooding the internet with sexualized deepfakes, including images of minors. Governments from Malaysia to the United States reacted with bans, investigations,...
Delinea Completes StrongDM Acquisition to Secure AI Agents with Continuous Identity Authorization
Security vendor Delinea has completed its acquisition of StrongDM, a provider of just‑in‑time runtime authorization for modern engineering environments. The combined platform merges Delinea’s enterprise privileged access management with StrongDM’s AI‑agent focused access controls, creating a unified identity security plane...
Databahn Highlights Accelerating Enterprise Momentum Across AI-Native Data Pipelines
Databahn, an AI‑native data pipeline platform, reported rapid enterprise traction, with Fortune 500 customers now representing over half its base. The company posted more than 400% year‑over‑year revenue growth and nearly 200% of its ARR coming from retained customers. Growth is...
LLM Agents Interview Questions #16 - The Vision Encoder Scaling Trap
In a mock Google DeepMind interview, candidates are asked why upgrading a geometry auto‑formalization pipeline from a 70B text‑only LLM to a state‑of‑the‑art vision‑language model (VLM) only yields a 20% success rate. Most answer that the vision encoder loses spatial...
Polymarket Enlists Palantir, TWG AI to Monitor Sports Bets – Bloomberg
Polymarket is partnering with Palantir Technologies and TWG AI to monitor its sports‑betting contracts for suspicious activity. The firms will screen participants against banned‑list databases and flag potential insider‑trading violations. This monitoring system will be deployed on a new U.S.-regulated...
Writing as Thinking
The article challenges the notion that blogging is a waste of time, especially as AI tools like WordPress’s new "AI Tool" promise instant content creation. It argues that writing serves as a thinking process, helping authors surface incoherent ideas and...
From POC to Production: Why AI Success Depends on Operational Discipline, Not Just Models
Enterprises can spin up AI proof‑of‑concepts in days, but moving those models into reliable, scalable production remains a major hurdle. The discussion with Deazy and Aveni highlighted that the surrounding system—governance, observability, and cost controls—has become the primary bottleneck, not...
Muscles From Munich? How German Courts Might Stop US Companies From Violating Copyright Through AI Training
The Munich Regional Court heard GEMA’s claim that Suno, a US‑based generative‑music AI, infringed German copyrights by using protected songs for training. The dispute revives the court’s earlier OpenAI ruling but shifts focus to musical arrangements and the cross‑border location...
Where’s the New Business?
The article introduces the H3 Provocation Framework, a five‑question tool designed to push AI initiatives in commercial real‑estate (CRE) beyond efficiency (H1) and capability (H2) into true transformation (H3). By applying the framework to workflows such as diligence, advisory, occupancy...
CRE: Constraints, Moats and Value
Wall Street wiped 12‑14% off the market caps of CBRE, JLL and Cushman & Wakefield after analysts warned that high‑fee, labor‑intensive CRE models are vulnerable to AI disruption. At the same time, Yardi’s research with AREF found only 45% of...
Meta Failed to Flag AI Video During 2025 Israel-Iran War, Oversight Board Says
Meta allowed an AI‑generated video depicting fabricated damage in Haifa to remain on Facebook during the June 2025 Israel‑Iran war, despite six user reports and prior debunking on TikTok. The Oversight Board ruled the content should have carried a “High...
Video Premiere: Beyond This Point Performs “TacocaT” By Julie Zhu
Julie Zhu, composer and head of the Deep Drawing AI lab, premiered her 22‑minute piece “TacocaT” at Chicago’s Frequency Fest in February 2025, commissioned by the experimental ensemble Beyond This Point. The work fuses GPT‑2‑generated text—fine‑tuned on Abbott’s *Flatland*—with live...
50+ Ideas To Make Money With AI
The article lists over 50 practical ways individuals can monetize AI without coding, ranging from AI‑powered blogs and content services to automated video channels and niche digital products. It emphasizes using readily available AI tools to accelerate creation, personalize outputs,...
Announcement: AI Backend Engineer Bootcamp
Masteringbackend announced an AI Backend Engineer Bootcamp launching on April 1, 2026. The six‑week program blends core backend fundamentals with AI infrastructure, requiring 10‑15 hours per week. Participants will build a production‑ready AI‑powered backend and present a live defense in...
Don’t Bet On AGI
The article argues that artificial intelligence cannot achieve artificial general intelligence because it lacks the ability to conjecture, a process tied to free will and consciousness. Demis Hassabis cites this limitation as a barrier, projecting AGI no sooner than ten...
Why Ambient Voice Technology Is Better when It’s Embedded in Your EPR
Sunrise Thread AI embeds ambient voice technology directly into the Sunrise electronic patient record (EPR), turning spoken clinical encounters into structured, audit‑ready notes in real time. By capturing, transcribing and interpreting conversations within the native workflow, clinicians can review and...
HY 3D Advanced Features Now Available in ComfyUI
HY 3D’s advanced processing suite is now packaged as partner nodes in ComfyUI, adding three core capabilities—3D Parts Decomposition, UV Unwrapping, and Smart Topology. The update lets creators split meshes, generate texture‑ready UV layouts, and simplify dense geometry without leaving...
AI Agent That Finds Jobs & Optimizes Your Resume 24x7
A DIY AI agent built with n8n now scans LinkedIn each morning, pulls the five newest job listings, rewrites a master resume with ATS‑friendly keywords for each role, converts the results to PDFs, and emails them to the user before...
The Future Is AI First but Human Centered with Sam Wilson
Sam Wilson, CEO of 8×8, argues that the future of customer service is AI‑first but fundamentally human‑centered. He stresses that self‑service tools must include an effortless path to a live agent, especially as California now requires a clear human‑option. The...
Talk to Your Data | T-Systems Unveils AI Agent to Accelerate Analysis Work
T‑Systems launched “Talk to your data,” an AI‑driven chat platform that connects disparate corporate data sources, searches, analyzes, and visualizes information on demand. The solution uses an ontology layer to map data across systems, enabling natural‑language queries. Pilot projects, including...
The Paradoxes of the European Union’s AI Regulation
The European Union’s AI Act adopts a rights‑driven, human‑centric regulatory model, aiming to protect fundamental rights while curbing the power of large tech firms. Critics argue the EU has used regulation as a substitute for a coherent AI investment strategy,...
The Org Chart Math Behind AI-Native Speed
AI code‑generation tools like Claude Code enable engineers to ship 20‑30 pull requests daily, a 30‑fold increase over the typical three per week for a conventional developer. This productivity boost translates into revenue per employee figures of $2‑5 million for AI‑centric...
Agentic Tax Work: Building Confident Compliance with AI
Avalara has launched an AI‑powered Agentic Tax and Compliance platform, featuring the Avi Agent that automates tax and regulatory tasks within Microsoft Dynamics ERP. The solution leverages natural‑language APIs and a proprietary LLM framework to handle complex rules across more...
OpenAI Leader Resigns Over Pentagon Desire For AI Mass Surveillance Of Americans and Lethal Autonomy Without Human Authorization & Possible...
OpenAI’s hardware chief Caitlin Kalinowski resigned on March 7, 2026, citing governance concerns over the company’s new Pentagon contract. The deal, signed after Anthropic’s negotiations collapsed, allows OpenAI models to run on classified networks without explicit safeguards against domestic mass surveillance, lethal...
Machine Learning for Derivative Pricing and Crash Prediction
Recent research demonstrates that machine learning can dramatically accelerate the pricing of complex derivatives and improve crash‑prediction analytics. A two‑stage framework using a Gaussian Process Regressor (GPR) trained on full volatility‑surface inputs delivers near‑instant valuations with sub‑percent errors for variance...
Born to Run and Refusing to Die: Evolved Robots
Northwestern engineers unveiled the first athletic, modular "legged metamachines" that can snap together, move autonomously and survive severe damage. Using an AI‑driven evolutionary algorithm, the team generated unconventional body plans that outperform traditional designs in agility and resilience. The self‑contained...
Legalweek 2026 Day 1: Identifying Law Firm Return on Investment in AI
Legalweek 2026 opened with a deep‑dive into how law firms can quantify the return on investment (ROI) of artificial intelligence. Panels highlighted three core dimensions—quality of work product, economic gains, and integration potential—as the basis for a unified measurement framework....
Gartner Identifies 3 Pillars for Deriving Value From AI
Gartner’s latest survey of 353 data and analytics leaders shows AI adoption has surged to 80% of organizations, yet only one‑fifth worry about cost uncertainty and just 44% have instituted financial guardrails. The firm outlines three pillars to unlock AI...
Most People Prepare Wrong for AI Engineering Interviews
The post argues that most candidates prepare incorrectly for AI engineering interviews, focusing on perfect answers or flashy demos instead of the underlying problem‑solving process. Interviewers are more interested in how candidates approach ambiguity, make trade‑offs, evaluate their work, and...
Grammarly Doing Some Creepy AI Stuff
Grammarly’s new AI writing assistant claims to emulate Stephen King’s style by training on a large corpus of his published works. The company did not secure permission from King or his estate before using the texts. Critics argue this could...
Mastercard and Google Team Up to Build Trust for AI-Powered Shopping
Mastercard and Google have introduced Verifiable Intent, an open, standards‑based framework that records a cryptographic proof of a consumer’s authorization when an AI agent makes a purchase. The solution tackles the visibility gap created by autonomous AI‑driven shopping, linking identity,...
AI Has Redefined Healthcare Communication — and There’s No Opting Out
Conversational AI tools such as ChatGPT Health and Claude for Healthcare are reshaping how patients and clinicians obtain medical information. OpenAI reports that over 5% of global ChatGPT interactions—about 40 million daily users—are health‑related, while 40% of U.S. healthcare workers use...
(PR) Intel Launches Core Series 2 Processor with Real-Time Performance and Expands Edge AI Portfolio
Intel unveiled the Core Series 2 processor at Embedded World 2026, featuring performance‑optimized P‑cores designed for deterministic, real‑time edge workloads. The chip delivers up to 4.4× lower PCIe latency, 2.5× faster deterministic response, and 1.5× higher multi‑thread throughput compared with AMD’s Ryzen 7 9700X....
Zapier Is Using AI to Sell to AI
Zapier founder Wade Foster explains that AI agents are becoming the primary buyers of software, forcing companies to market to machines instead of humans. He describes Zapier’s approach of serving agents with ultra‑fast, plain‑text documentation and internal AI “skills” like...
Local AI: How & Where To Start Building Something You Can Monetize
The post argues that local AI—running LLM‑based agents on personal hardware—offers a viable path to high‑margin products without costly cloud APIs. It highlights two paradigm shifts: turning idle compute into revenue and focusing on workflow‑based agents that leverage structured memory...
AI for the ADHD Entrepreneur
Paula, a travel‑planning entrepreneur with ADHD, turned to a popular language model to speed up itinerary creation, but a generic prompt produced a flood of irrelevant details that deepened her focus challenges. The AI’s unconstrained output acted like a rabbit‑hole,...
Survey: 1 in 5 Firms Halt Entry-Level Hiring Due to AI
A February 2026 Resume.org survey of nearly 1,000 U.S. executives reveals that 21% of firms have already frozen entry‑level hiring because of artificial intelligence, with 36% planning to stop such hiring by year‑end and 47% expecting to eliminate entry‑level roles...
LMT Installs Smart Traffic Monitoring System in Adazi
Latvian telecom operator LMT has deployed a machine‑vision traffic monitoring system in the town of Adazi. The solution, active from March, will operate for three years and automatically capture violations, forwarding the data to the Road Traffic Safety Directorate and...
How AI Helped Me With Two Problems in Filmmaking: Self-Tapes and Table Reads
A filmmaker and developer created AI‑powered apps to solve two persistent bottlenecks in independent film production: self‑tape auditions and early script table reads. By using realistic synthetic voices, the tools let actors record auditions without a live scene partner and...
Google Stax: Testing Models and Prompts Against Your Own Criteria
Google has launched Stax, an experimental toolkit from DeepMind and Google Labs that lets developers evaluate large language models against custom criteria. The platform supports Gemini, OpenAI, Anthropic, Mistral and other models, offering side‑by‑side testing, visual dashboards, and both human...
K&L Gates Earns ISO/IEC 42001:2023 Certification for AI Management System (AIMS)
Global law firm K&L Gates has become one of the first firms worldwide to earn ISO/IEC 42001:2023 certification for its Artificial Intelligence Management System. The audit validated robust controls over accountability, risk, ethics, transparency, data protection and regulatory compliance. The...
Intel Publishes XeSS 3 SDK To GitHub - Still As Windows-Only Binaries
Intel has released the Xe Super Sampling (XeSS) 3.0 SDK on GitHub, providing the latest AI‑enhanced upscaling tools for gamers. The SDK includes multi‑frame generation and upgraded frame‑generation models, but it ships only as proprietary Windows DLLs. Despite earlier suggestions...
Updated: Where the House and Senate Are on Internal Use of AI
Congressional leadership has issued internal AI use policies for both chambers, but the guidance remains hidden behind firewalls and is largely unknown to staff. The House adopted HITPOL 8 in September 2024, outlining five guardrails, approved tools such as ChatGPT Pro and Microsoft Copilot,...
Impact of Scale Conferences 2026 in Los Angeles
The 2026 SCALE conference in Los Angeles gathered developers, DevOps engineers, and security professionals to showcase the latest in open‑source AI, cloud‑native automation, and supply‑chain security. Sessions emphasized self‑hosting large language models, building internal developer platforms, and hands‑on workshops that...
The New Face of Discovery: HaystackID’s CoreFlex Brings AI, Slack, and Enterprise Data Into One Legal Workflow
HaystackID unveiled major upgrades to its CoreFlex platform at Legalweek 2026, adding native connectors for Slack, Microsoft Purview, structured chat, and third‑party productions. The enhancements embed AI analytics, forensic scheduling, and end‑to‑end audit logging within a single matter‑centric interface. By...
Forbes Publishes Brian Solis’ Latest AI Research: The Biggest Mistake Companies Are Making With AI Agents
Forbes highlighted Brian Solis' new ServiceNow research warning that many firms treat AI agents as simple cost‑cutting tools rather than strategic collaborators. Solis argues that this narrow view limits AI’s potential and outlines a seven‑phase blueprint for human‑AI partnership, from...
AI Excuses
The blog post highlights a growing workplace trend where employees deflect errors to artificial‑intelligence tools, coining the phrase “The AI did it.” As AI becomes embedded in daily tasks, responsibility for wrong decisions blurs among the user, the deploying organization,...
AI, Space-Based Trackers and the New Scams You Need to Know About
Rich DeMuro’s latest post highlights how generative AI is reshaping entry‑level jobs and urges professionals to experiment with the technology. He cites AI expert Sharon Gai’s advice that even junior staff must adopt AI tools to stay productive. The piece...
Are Language Models a Commodity?
Language models have shifted from luxury assets to near‑free utilities as token‑processing costs plunge and open‑weight models like Llama and Mistral rival commercial offerings. Free‑access tools such as Ollama let users run powerful models locally, eliminating subscription fees and API...
