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
WageSafe Rolls Out Real‑Time Payroll Compliance Features
WageSafe announced new payroll compliance capabilities that detect and correct payment errors in real time. The upgrade aims to help employers avoid costly compliance breaches and streamline payroll operations.
Adobe Expands Partner Ecosystem to Accelerate AI‑Driven CX for B2B Marketers
Adobe announced an expansion of its partner ecosystem aimed at delivering frictionless, AI‑orchestrated customer‑experience workflows for B2B marketers. The move is positioned as a way to help enterprises scale demand‑generation programs while reducing operational complexity.
UiPath Teams Up with Databricks to Power AI-Driven Enterprise Automation
UiPath confirmed a technology partnership with Databricks on April 28, 2026, integrating the robot‑process‑automation platform with Databricks’ data and AI suite. The joint solution aims to eliminate the “last‑mile” gap between insight and execution, giving B2B marketers and operations teams...
Cirrova Launches Platform for Azure Spend Management
Cirrova Systems, a Brisbane start‑up, unveiled a cloud‑cost platform that automates Azure spend management without requiring dedicated FinOps staff. The tool ingests Azure billing data multiple times daily, delivering near real‑time visibility, anomaly detection and optimisation insights. It adds budgeting,...
Turn Markdown Files Into Shareable Mini Sites Instantly
Started using https://t.co/VL3jpsBy2d recently and it’s awesome. Basically turning every long md file into a mini site now. And makes sharing md files way easier (still surprised there’s no good agent friendly md reader out there)
Salesforce Summer’26 Release Quick Summary
Salesforce’s Summer ’26 release is now live, with early sandbox upgrades beginning May 8. The rollout spotlights Agentforce, introducing the Agentforce DX MCP Server, Vibe IDE, and a suite of AI‑driven extensions that simplify building and scaling intelligent agents. Across the platform, Salesforce adds...
Microsoft Praises Azure Growth, Calls for Usage‑Based Pricing
$MSFT Postive comments about Azure growing at 40% in June vs 39% in March was offset by them talking about the elephant in the room, the need for a new monetization model for software that is usage based. https://t.co/7rGE0ICsT1
Conquest Planning Hires CRO, COO, CMO to Accelerate U.S. Expansion
Conquest Planning announced three senior go‑to‑market hires—Rob Crnkovic as CRO, Kristen Winther as COO and Karen Budell as CMO—to power its U.S. growth strategy. The moves follow the platform’s recent milestone of more than two million financial plans created, underscoring rising demand for...
Coheso Adds AI to Slack, Teams, Outlook and Gmail for In‑house Legal Work
Coheso, the AI‑native legal front‑door platform, rolled out AI‑powered integrations for Slack, Microsoft Teams, Outlook and Gmail, enabling automatic intake and workflow routing of informal legal requests. The enhancements aim to reduce manual effort for legal teams while keeping business...
Workday Powers Club Med's Global HR Overhaul for 30,000 Staff
Workday is implementing its Human Capital Management platform for Club Med, covering roughly 30,000 employees across 70 resorts in 40 countries. The rollout unifies recruiting, time‑and‑attendance and talent management, addressing the hospitality group's complex, seasonal workforce.
SoundHound AI's Stock Plunge Highlights SaaS Growth Challenges
SoundHound AI saw its share price tumble 66% from its lifetime high, leaving a market value near $3.5 billion. The decline follows a slowdown in revenue growth after a 99% jump to $168.9 million in 2025. Analysts question whether the company can...
Microsoft Dynamics Partner Roundup: Enhanced Shipping Solution; AP Solution; Fundraising Integration; Membership Platform
The Microsoft Dynamics partner roundup highlighted four major releases. Insight Works launched Dynamic Ship 2.9, adding real‑time carrier rate shopping, reverse logistics and handheld scanner support to Business Central. Ancora Software teamed with New Arc Solutions to offer AI‑driven accounts‑payable automation...
Introducing Amplitude Wizard CLI: Set Up Amplitude From Your Codebase
Amplitude launched the Wizard CLI, an AI‑driven command‑line tool that provisions the full Amplitude analytics stack directly from a developer's codebase. By running a single "npx @amplitude/wizard" command, the tool signs users up, detects the project framework, installs the appropriate...
Satya Nadella Says He’s Ready to ‘Exploit’ the New OpenAI Deal
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella said the revised OpenAI partnership gives Microsoft royalty‑free access to OpenAI’s models through 2032 and eliminates direct licensing fees. He highlighted that the AI business now runs at a $37 billion annual revenue rate, up 123% year‑over‑year, and...
Reallocating IT Budgets Around Unequal AI Outcomes
. @satyanadella today: “IT budgets get reshaped by business outcomes and reallocation from other line items on the income statement.” He is right, per seat breaks when two users consume AI completely differently. Consumption pricing is the easy part. Reorganizing enterprise...
Microsoft Says It Has over 20M Paid Copilot Users, and They Really Are Using It
Microsoft announced that its AI‑powered Microsoft 365 Copilot now has over 20 million paid enterprise seats, signaling rapid adoption across large organizations. The company said the number of firms buying more than 50,000 seats has quadrupled, with Bayer, Johnson & Johnson, Mercedes and...
MLS Tech Push Focuses on AI, Data Access, Consumer Engagement
MLS technology providers are accelerating AI integration across the real‑estate workflow. FBS launched the Flexmls MCP Server, letting over 330,000 users query MLS listings through ChatGPT, Claude and Gemini. RealReports expanded its AI‑driven property intelligence platform to Mid Georgia MLS,...
Google Cloud Surpasses $20B, but Says Growth Was Capacity-Constrained
Google Cloud reported first‑quarter 2026 revenue of $20 billion, a 63% year‑over‑year increase, driven primarily by explosive demand for its generative AI offerings. AI‑related services grew nearly 800% YoY, while Gemini Enterprise sales rose 40% quarter‑over‑quarter. The division’s backlog surged to...
Sage Expands Partnership with AWS to Accelerate SMB Cloud Migration and AI Adoption
Accounting software vendor Sage announced an expanded partnership with Amazon Web Services at its Sage Future event in San Francisco. The collaboration will embed Sage’s AI‑powered financial tools into AWS’s Bedrock AgentCore and list them on the AWS Marketplace, aiming...
AI Cloud Surge Validates Bull Thesis Across Tech Giants
The bull thesis just got validated. In a single afternoon. ...
Google's Subscriptions Business Is Booming — and AI Is a Big Reason
Google reported its strongest quarter for subscriptions, reaching 350 million paying users. The subscriptions, platforms and devices segment grew 19% year‑over‑year in Q1 2026, mirroring the same pace as Search. Growth was led by YouTube and Google One, with AI‑enhanced Google One...
Google Gains 25M Subscriptions in Q1, Driven by YouTube and Google One
Google added 25 million paid subscriptions in Q1, bringing its total to 350 million, driven primarily by YouTube Premium and Google One plans. The company bundled advanced Gemini AI features into Google One, reporting a 40% quarter‑over‑quarter rise in paid enterprise Gemini...
Marvin AI Teams with VA and Regional Medical Societies to Support 45,000 Clinicians
Marvin AI announced partnerships with the Veterans Health Administration and a consortium of medical societies spanning five states, extending its behavioral‑health platform to more than 45,000 clinicians in ten states. The move targets burnout, a pressing workforce issue as healthcare...
Intuit Financial Intelligence Apps Now Available in Claude
Intuit announced that its suite of financial‑intelligence apps—QuickBooks, Mailchimp, TurboTax and Credit Karma—are now available inside Anthropic’s Claude chat platform. The integration lets consumers and small‑to‑mid‑size businesses retrieve tax estimates, run credit‑score analyses, generate marketing copy and pull financial reports...
B2B Brands Struggle to Rebrand Beyond Flagship Products
I think one of the toughest parts of B2B marketing right now is going from single product to multi product. Or... flagship "bread and butter" to "hey we also do this now" but there's no recognition for the new thing....
Copilot Engagement Matches Outlook; Satisfaction Now Key
Copilot weekly engagement now matches Outlook. That is the structural signal, not the 20M seats or the 250% growth. The next number that matters is satisfaction. Email-level habit is not the same as email-level value, and we all use email...
Actively Secures $45M Series B to Deploy 24/7 AI Sales Agents
Actively announced a $45 million Series B round, co‑led by TCV and First Harmonic, to scale its Intelligence‑Led Revenue platform that assigns a persistent AI agent to every account. The funding brings total capital to $68 million and will fund new products, talent,...
Unlock Five Hidden NotebookLM Features for Teachers
📊 Data tables, infographics, and slide decks, all from your uploaded sources. ✨ NotebookLM is packed with features most teachers haven't tried yet. 🔗 I walk you through five of them in my latest episode. https://t.co/tF2UsWB319
Big Tech Shifts to Usage‑Based Intelligence Utility Model
MSFT, GOOG, AMZN all insinuating consumption/usage-based business models. Welcome to the intelligence utility era, friends. https://t.co/cspnwjWdqN
Trust & Will Appoints Bill Parker as CTO to Accelerate AI-Driven Estate Planning
Trust & Will announced Bill Parker as its new chief technology officer. The fintech veteran will steer AI and platform development for a service that now serves over one million users, more than 26,000 financial advisors and $300 billion in self‑reported...
Workday’s Service Empire May Expose Vulnerability
"A $30B company with 10,000+ customers and a services cartel that’s arguably bigger than the product itself will not roll over quietly." https://t.co/eBzsJxBGUV < is Workday finally vulnerable? They've got an enviable footprint and new focus. All platforms need to...
AWS Expands Amazon Connect to Boost Enterprise Automation
.@AWSCloud accelerates enterprise agentic automation with expanded @Amazon Connect portfolio https://t.co/3Y5BXSKfYw @SiliconANGLE @Mike_Wheatley “The supply chain use case is no surprise, because Amazon has plenty of in-house expertise in...” #AWSSummit
Nudge Security Hires Veteran Patrick Dillon as First CRO to Accelerate AI Security Growth
Nudge Security announced the appointment of Patrick Dillon as its inaugural chief revenue officer. The Austin‑based startup, which provides AI and SaaS security governance, expects Dillon to drive global sales, customer success and partner expansion as it builds on two...
From Kickstarter to $150M: Ghost Empowers Publishers
On this day, 13y ago, @ghost started as an idea on kickstarter 5,000+ people backed the project to help bring it to life and support the future of media and journalism Today, Ghost has generated over $150M for independent publishers all over...
Built Free Annotation Tool, Cutting Software Costs
Honestly, I think I’m finally done paying for software, except for Claude. I just built a website annotation tool to share with my clients. Now, they can easily add comments and feedback in a test environment at no extra cost for...
Sage Launches AI‑Powered HCM Platform for Construction, Promising Faster Payroll
Sage announced Sage HCM, an AI‑enabled human capital management suite built on Sage Intacct, to unite payroll, HR and financial data for mid‑market construction firms in North America. The platform, showcased at Sage Future in San Francisco April 28‑30, aims to eliminate...
AWS Records
Amazon’s cloud unit posted its fastest quarterly growth in more than three years, bolstered by new data center capacity and an increasing slice of business from Anthropic and OpenAI. https://t.co/9TOQx29BZK
Azure Hits $108B Run Rate, Growth Lags Microsoft
Azure at a ~$108B run rate growing 39% constant currency Quarterly YoY growth trends below $MSFT https://t.co/YQTdDB2ZJ1
DeepTarget Unveils Growth Hub to Cut “Disconnectivity Tax” For Community‑Bank Leaders
DeepTarget introduced a strategic growth hub on its revamped website to help community‑bank and credit‑union executives eliminate the “Disconnectivity Tax.” The platform offers a data‑driven blueprint for acquiring high‑value households, automating cross‑sell offers and retaining new accounts, positioning leaders to...
Microsoft Q3 Beats on Revenue, EPS and Cloud as Capex Comes in $3.4bn Below Estimates
Microsoft reported fiscal Q3 2026 revenue of $82.89 billion, an 18% year‑on‑year rise that topped the $81.46 billion consensus, and earnings per share of $4.27 versus the $4.03 estimate. Azure and other cloud services surged 39% in constant currency, beating the 37‑38% guidance...
Google Cloud Revenue Jumps 63%, Backlog Nearly Doubles
$GOOG 👀 "Google Cloud revenues grew 63% with backlog nearly doubling quarter on quarter to over $460 billion."
OneTrust Integrates Consent Signals Into Snowflake Data Clean Rooms for Privacy‑First Collaboration
OneTrust announced a partnership with Snowflake that embeds its consent‑aware signals directly into Snowflake Data Clean Rooms, giving companies a way to enforce user permissions during multi‑party data collaboration. The move addresses a growing gap between data accessibility and privacy...
Robinhood Q1 Revenue Jumps 15% as Gold Subscriptions Hit 4.3 Million
Robinhood reported $1.07 billion in net revenue for Q1 2026, a 15% year‑over‑year increase, propelled by a record 4.3 million Gold subscribers—a 36% jump. The fintech’s subscription‑based services, banking expansion, and a new public‑sector partnership signal a deeper move toward SaaS‑style monetization.
Google Cloud Rolls Out Gemini Enterprise, a Unified Control Layer for Business AI Agents
Google Cloud announced Gemini Enterprise, a platform that bundles AI models, infrastructure, data security and workplace tools into a single control layer for corporate AI agents. CEO Thomas Kurian said the end‑to‑end stack differentiates Google from other hyperscalers and is...
Deliverect CEO Predicts AI Agents Will Transform Restaurant Industry
Deliverect has rolled out a suite of AI‑powered autonomous agents and smart assistants, first to UK restaurant operators with North America, Australia and New Zealand slated next. The agents dynamically adjust menus, pricing and promotions in real time by ingesting...
Libsyn Video on Spotify, New Patreon Feeds, & More
Libsyn has enabled video distribution on Spotify across all its hosting plans, letting creators upload MP4 files for a $25‑per‑month fee. Patreon rolled out a redesigned home feed that surfaces creator collaborations, free posts and recommended creators, claiming a five‑fold...
Nashville Advisor Launches AI-Powered SEO Platform
Nashville advisor Shaun Melby launched AdvisorSEO Max, an AI‑driven SEO platform built for financial advisors and RIAs. The tool combines website audits, compliance‑aware meta‑tag generation, and a Claude‑powered assistant called Commander that creates strategy plans, tracks competitors and prioritizes fixes....
Xactly and ServiceNow Unveil AI Integration for RevOps to Boost Sales Productivity
Xactly and ServiceNow have introduced a Dispute Management AI Agent that links Xactly’s revenue platform with ServiceNow’s Now Assist conversational AI. The agent uses the Model Context Protocol to automate compensation inquiries and dispute resolution in real time, turning a...
The Top Senior Care Scheduling Platforms for Nurses Compared
Senior care operators are turning to specialized nurse scheduling platforms to balance labor costs with resident safety. The article reviews five leading solutions—SmartLinx, OnShift, PointClickCare Apploi Schedule, ShiftMed, and IntelyCare—highlighting features such as real‑time visibility, acuity‑aware staffing, open‑shift tools, and...
Codex Drains Tokens Far Faster than Claude
seems like codex has a token problem now. i'm 65% through my $200/month plan in just two days (5.5 extra high, standard speed). with claude i'm 15% through (opus 4.7, 1m, max). using both constantly in use, with 6-7 sessions...