Today's SaaS Pulse
OpenAI acquires Ona to embed secure workspaces for autonomous AI agents
OpenAI announced the acquisition of Ona, a 79‑person cloud development environment provider, to embed secure, persistent workspaces for autonomous AI agents. Ona’s platform has seen a 13‑fold rise in weekly agent sessions across banks, pharma firms, and sovereign wealth funds. Analysts estimate the deal value between $450 million and $500 million.
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By the numbers: NinjaOne raises $400M Series C extension
Microsoft Touts Copilot Growth, Boosts Spending as Revenues Soar
Microsoft announced that its 365 Copilot tool now has over 20 million paid seats, with customers holding more than 50,000 seats quadrupling year‑over‑year. AI revenue run rate surged 123% to roughly $37 billion, contributing to an 18% rise in Q3 revenue to $82.9 billion. Capital expenditures jumped to $31.9 billion in the quarter and are slated to exceed $40 billion next quarter, putting the company on track for $190 billion of capex this year. The firm also refreshed its OpenAI partnership, keeping Azure as the main compute platform while OpenAI opens to AWS.
Single Brain Automates Ad Insights and Creative Scaling
Many people have been *talking* about having a single brain to help them get things done faster. Here’s an example of ours in action where you ask an agent how your ads are performing, then ask a creative agent to create...
Ask Customers What They're Thinking, Not if They'll Buy
He had 8 customers before he had a CTO. He raised $100K on a vibe-coded MVP. 14 months later: $8.6M ARR. Most founders pick an idea and spend a year trying to make it work. Marius Meiners , founder of...
Michael Till Eyes June Rollout of ProBuilt TMS Post PCS Sale
Michael Till, the founder of PCS Software, is set to launch ProBuilt TMS, a cloud‑based transportation management system, on June 1. The platform tackles the industry’s “one page at a time” limitation by allowing unlimited, non‑modal forms in a single browser...
One Prompt Turns Granola Meeting Into Video
You can now type this into Claude: "Pull my latest Granola meeting and turn it into a 60-second HeyGen video." Claude pulls the meeting from Granola, drafts the script, hands it to HeyGen for rendering, and gives you back a finished video....
Sage HCM Targets Cost Gaps Bleeding Product Manufacturers Dry
Sage introduced Sage HCM as a unified platform that merges HR, payroll, time‑tracking, and Sage Intacct financials to give manufacturers real‑time labor cost visibility. The solution tackles three profit‑draining gaps—stale quoting data, unbudgeted overtime, and unrecoverable labor variance—by delivering live...
Conductor Introduces AgentStack to Scale AI Search Visibility
Conductor has launched AgentStack, an enterprise suite of native LLM apps, developer infrastructure, and turnkey agents designed to help brands scale AI‑driven search visibility. The platform introduces Answer Engine Optimization (AEO), a discipline focused on ensuring a company appears in...
AI-Powered Platform Generates Full GTM Stack Instantly
The music is about to stop.Vibe coding rewired software. Vibe marketing is about to rewrite everything else. Lantern just dropped the first real platform: 50+ agents running on a full Revenue Ontology. Feed it a creative brief → get personalized campaigns, ABM...
AI Enables Real‑Time Alignment,
It turns out @RayDalio was right all along. The top AI-pilled CEOs I work with use the recorded meetings that we're now used to (Granola, Otter, Fireflies etc) to get to ground truth. Every insight is surfaced in a daily...
Snowflake Intelligence Partner Solutions Bring AI Edge to Industries
Snowflake announced its Intelligence Partner Solutions, a suite of AI‑driven agents that let users ask natural‑language questions across both structured and unstructured data. Partners such as Anblicks, CitiusTech, Deloitte and others have built industry‑specific agents for retail, healthcare, finance and...
AWS Expands Amazon Connect Into AI Tools for Hiring, Healthcare, and Supply Chains
AWS unveiled four new agentic‑AI extensions to its Amazon Connect platform—Connect Decisions, Connect Talent, Connect Customer and Connect Health—bringing AI‑driven automation to supply‑chain planning, recruiting, customer support and healthcare administration while keeping humans in the loop. The tools promise real‑time...
When to Invest in Sales Tax Automation Software
The article outlines when businesses should invest in sales tax automation software, emphasizing that expanding jurisdictional footprints, e‑invoicing mandates, and the rising cost of manual compliance make automation increasingly essential. It identifies key triggers such as operating in multiple states...
Scaling the Agentforce Life Sciences Ecosystem to Drive the Future of Pharma and MedTech
Salesforce announced a major expansion of its Agentforce Life Sciences ecosystem, forging deeper collaborations with global systems integrators, content partners, and independent software vendors to accelerate adoption of the Agentforce 360 platform. Leading SIs such as Accenture, Deloitte Digital, Cognizant...
AI Turns Chat Into Docs, Freeing Creative Flow
How much momentum gets lost just setting up a blank document? Inspiration thrives on flow, not on hunting for templates or wrestling with formatting. But a more natural rhythm to work is taking shape. Through @GoogleWorkspace, everyday conversations with @GeminiApp now...
Enerflo Integrates Residential Solar Operating System with Solargraf Design Tool
Enerflo has integrated Enphase’s Solargraf design platform into its residential solar operating system, creating a single workflow for design, proposal, and permitting. The AI‑driven 3D design tool now syncs directly with Enerflo, eliminating manual data entry and tool switching. Sales...
Faster Fixes, Less Context Sharing: How Grafana Assistant Learns Your Infrastructure Before You Even Ask
Grafana Assistant now builds a persistent, pre‑loaded knowledge base of your infrastructure by automatically scanning Prometheus, Loki and Tempo data sources. The AI agents map services, metrics, logs and dependencies ahead of any query, storing the information in a vector...
Worth Reading – AI’s Economics Don’t Make Sense
Microsoft’s Copilot subscription, priced at $30 per month, masks far higher underlying compute expenses, a problem echoed across the AI sector. Analysts argue that current pricing cannot sustain the massive GPU and data‑center costs required for unlimited interactions. As AI...
Unlocking Unstructured Data: Building AI-Powered Support Triage with Data 360
The article outlines how Salesforce’s Data 360 platform, combined with vector databases and foundational large language models (LLMs), can transform raw support emails into structured, actionable case records in near real‑time. Traditional email‑to‑case rules rely on brittle keyword logic, leading...
Boomi Shifts to Data Activation, Tackles AI Semantic Gap
I haven't written about @boomi in a while. That changed when I noticed they stopped calling themselves an integration company sometime in Q1 2026. The new label is "data activation company" and it's not cosmetic. Integration Platform as a Service...
Klaviyo Brings Custom Skills to Customer Agent
Klaviyo launched Custom Skills for Customer Agent, letting businesses create bespoke AI-driven interactions on its existing CRM platform. The feature enables brands to define logic in plain language, build new skills from scratch, modify existing ones, and connect to any...
Superagent AI Launches Superagent 2.0
Superagent AI unveiled Superagent 2.0, a unified autonomous workforce platform for independent insurance agencies. The solution bundles AI‑driven agents, managed telephony, email deliverability, real‑time ACORD quoting, and pre‑built revenue workflows into a single environment. Agencies can now provision compliant phone numbers,...
First Orion Introduces SIP Redirect Call Authentication Integration
First Orion unveiled a SIP‑redirect‑based call authentication integration that verifies outbound calls before they reach carrier networks. The service tags verified calls with the INFORM branding suite or blocks them via SENTRY, enhancing caller ID trust. It operates across major...
Anthropic’s Claude Security Emerges From Closed Preview to Scan Your Codebases for Vulnerabilities
Anthropic has taken Claude Security out of closed preview, launching a beta version for Claude Enterprise customers while extending access to Team and Max plans soon. The AI‑driven tool scans entire codebases with parallel agents, validates findings to curb false...
Enterprise AI Dashboards Shifting From Hacky Code to Secure UI
The cool thing about Agents and Agentic Workspaces is just how user friendly you can envision the UI becoming. In my opinion, the "hacker" era of AI where every investor who wants to use AI has to be in an IDE...
AI Playbooks Deliver Fully Automated, Customized GTM Workflows
We just shipped AI Playbooks - opinionated GTM workflows that AI agents execute, customize, and own end to end. This is the biggest thing Swan has ever built and GTM automation will never look the same - here's why. AI...
Datometry for Snowflake: Accelerate Teradata Migration
Datometry for Snowflake entered public preview, offering enterprises a lift‑and‑shift path from Teradata to Snowflake without code rewrites or downtime. The solution virtualizes Teradata SQL on Snowflake, enabling a three‑step repoint‑test‑transition workflow that can be completed in weeks. By eliminating...
TrueCommerce Appoints Sean Flynn as CRO to Drive AI‑powered Supply‑chain Growth
TrueCommerce announced the appointment of Sean Flynn as chief revenue officer, tasking him with scaling its AI‑focused supply‑chain and omnichannel platform. Flynn, who joins from Avalara after senior roles at IBM Sterling Commerce, will lead global revenue and partner strategy...
Geovation’s Cohort 22 Launches AI‑Driven PropTech Start‑ups Backed by HM Land Registry
Geovation, the accelerator run with HM Land Registry, announced Cohort 22 – a group of AI‑focused PropTech start‑ups including Leamur, TreeStock and VisiProperties. The cohort marks the program’s 10‑year anniversary and reflects growing government‑driven demand for data‑centric real‑estate solutions.
IBM Unveils Envizi Emissions API to Embed GHG Calculations in DevOps Pipelines
IBM announced the general availability of its Envizi Emissions API, a tool that integrates GHG Protocol‑aligned emissions calculations into existing software, CI/CD pipelines and monitoring systems. The API draws on IBM’s Envizi ESG Suite to deliver real‑time, traceable Scope 1‑3 data...
Vernon Building Society Deploys AI Platform to Speed Mortgages While Preserving Human Underwriting
Vernon Building Society has rolled out an AI‑driven mortgage platform from FintechOS to accelerate loan origination, aiming to match the speed of larger banks while retaining human underwriting for complex cases. The 102‑year‑old mutual, with assets of about $678 million, expects...
Proton CEO Andy Yen Warns AI‑driven Privacy Threats, Unveils Encrypted Google‑Workspace Rival
At a Semafor World Economy panel, Proton founder‑CEO Andy Yen warned that AI is accelerating data‑theft and mass surveillance, then announced a fully encrypted Google Workspace competitor. He also blasted broad age‑verification mandates as a danger to online anonymity.
Chess.com Surpassed 250 Million Users And Is Launching a New Advertising Gambit
Chess.com announced it has surpassed 250 million registered users, a landmark for the freemium platform. The company, which generates $150 million in annual revenue, said advertising now accounts for about 10% of that total and is being positioned for rapid expansion. With...
Alkami Reports Subscription Revenue Hits 90% of Total, Up 30% YoY in Q1 2026
Alkami (ALKT) posted Q1 2026 results showing subscription revenue now accounts for 90% of its $126.1 million total, up 30% year over year. The fintech‑focused SaaS firm also reported ARR of $494 million, a 22% increase, underscoring rapid expansion of its digital...
Vimeo Confirms Data Access via Compromised Anodot Integration, Ransom Threat Looms
Vimeo disclosed that a breach of third‑party analytics provider Anodot allowed an unauthorized actor to view limited user data, including video titles, metadata and some email addresses. The incident, linked to ransomware group ShinyHunters, has prompted Vimeo to disable the...
Adthena Launches Free “AdBridge” Tool Letting Advertisers Migrate Google Ads Campaigns Into ChatGPT Ads
Adthena, a paid‑search intelligence firm, introduced AdBridge, a free tool that migrates Google Ads campaigns into the emerging ChatGPT Ads format. The platform automatically generates keyword lists, negative keywords and competitive insights ready for use on ChatGPT’s ad service. Several...
Only 7.5% of Enterprise Chatbots Are Truly AI
Your chatbot probably isn't as smart as you think it is. We tested hundreds of enterprise chatbots as part of the largest agentic CX study ever conducted. We weren't just clicking around. We ran a structured four-part capability evaluation: style...
Writer Launches AI Agents that Can Act without Prompts, Taking on Amazon, Microsoft and Salesforce
Writer, the enterprise AI agent platform backed by Salesforce Ventures, Adobe Ventures and Insight Partners, launched event‑based triggers for its Writer Agent, enabling autonomous detection of signals in Gmail, Slack, Google Workspace, SharePoint and other tools. The new triggers fire...
AI Cuts Docs, Keeps Doctors From Burning Out
I think we will finally end technology’s contribution to physician burnout. Tanay sent me a quote this morning from an ED physician using Commure 's Ambient AI: "I think all my charts are just ready to sign. I had 14...
HEVN Launches Global Banking Platform for Non‑US Firms
HEVN (@hevn_finance) is building a “Brex for non-US companies” — an alternative financial platform that lets businesses open virtual bank accounts in 8 banks worldwide, use USD cards with cashback for Google/Meta ads, and store funds in USD. Congrats on the...
Quickbase’s Pave Targets Vibe Coding’s Notorious 80% Problem
Quickbase unveiled Pave, a full‑stack AI application builder designed to overcome the “80% problem” that plagues vibe‑coding tools, which often stall after rapid prototype creation. Pave bundles data management, cloud hosting, deployment, and granular governance controls into a single no‑code...
Launch of High‑Quality Stock News API, Noise‑Free
We just launched what I believe to be the best news API for stocks. Other news APIs have way too much noise and low quality slop. Clean and relevant news. Now available in API & MCP. Will be implemented and...
AI Billing Platform Handles Claims, Lets Doctors Focus
🏥 @TaigaBilling is the AI-native medical billing company for modern practices. They file claims with insurance and follow up on every single one until the practice gets paid so clinicians can focus on seeing patients. Congrats on the launch, @nandaguntupalli and @AdamWax3! https://t.co/TwZwMCOOoX
Boomi Earns Analyst Accolades in AI and Integration
.@Boomi gains analyst praise across integration & AI https://t.co/MLfoTpQdmv "@Constellationr included it on shortlists for Cross-Platform Agentic AI, Integration Platform as a Service, and Data Integration and Transformation for Cloud-Based Analytical Data Platforms.”
Casa: First Platform to Aggregate 100M Homes for Affordable Ownership
Until Casa, there has never been a digital platform for intelligently understanding the US’s 100M single-family homes — and aggregating that supply to unlock service and pricing advantages, ultimately making homeownership more affordable and enjoyable. https://t.co/vj33pG3HgO
OneStream Marketplace Offers 50+ Apps for Tax & Lease Solutions
Explore the OneStream Marketplace, a hub for apps that extend OneStream's capabilities. Need country-specific tax solutions or lease accounting tools? There are over 50 apps available to meet unique business needs. #OneStream #SoftwareSolutions https://t.co/m5uU6jssgQ
CIOs Must Prove SaaS, Cloud, AI ROI Now
#CIOChat Q1: Across SaaS, cloud, AI, and platforms, CIOs are being asked to justify spend with hard evidence now, not narratives. Where are you actually seeing provable ROI today, and where is it still mostly assumed? https://t.co/ytKIlCYMbG
Cloud Business Powers Big Tech AI, Investments Paying Off
The cloud business is now the main flywheel driving Big Tech’s #AI engine. And the payback on all the infrastructure investments may be creeping into view, despite “the financial strain of the data centre boom starting to show.” Via @RichardWaters @FT https://t.co/0A9jTNjPLF
Google Cloud Outpaces AWS, Azure with 63% Growth
Google Cloud grew 63% year-over-year in Q1 2026. Amazon Web Services posted 28%. Microsoft Azure hit 40%. All three are exceptional. Only one hit 63%. https://t.co/zBaeH0tO08
AI Agents Can Now Auto‑Create Cloudflare Accounts and Deploy Apps
What could go wrong? :) -> Cloudflare says AI agents can now create Cloudflare accounts, start paid subscriptions, register domains, and deploy apps on behalf of users
My Top Underrated Tools for Screenshots, Snippets, and Focus
A few lesser-known products I love and use a ton: 1. https://t.co/gStIkibwnT for screenshots 2. https://t.co/8GYt1Z1D2C replaced Loom for me, so clean 3. https://t.co/tEyEC35G0J for frequent snippets 4. https://t.co/DgiC52h6qZ for emojis 5. https://t.co/G11YmC3TGL for focus