Famous Labs Taps AI for Speedy E-Commerce Site Building
Famous Labs has launched Famous.ai, an artificial‑intelligence platform that builds complete e‑commerce stores from plain‑language descriptions. The service automatically generates site architecture, design, product pages and integrates native payments through its FamousPay solution. Retailers can choose a traditional website, a mobile app for iOS and Android, or even a cryptocurrency‑focused marketplace. The AI agents handle all layout and copy tasks, promising a rapid, revenue‑ready storefront without developer involvement.
OpenAI Shifts to Usage-Based Pricing for Codex in ChatGPT Business Plans
OpenAI announced a shift to usage‑based pricing for its Codex model within ChatGPT Business and Enterprise plans, eliminating upfront seat licenses. Administrators can now enable free Codex access across a workspace and pay only for the compute actually consumed, with...
WealthStack Roundup: Plancorp Saves 700 Hours a Month Using AI
Plancorp Wealth Management partnered with AI workflow provider CogniCor to test its Advisor Copilot, uncovering more than 700 hours of time saved in a 28‑day pilot. The fee‑only firm, which oversees $8.6 billion in assets, reported that advisors reclaimed 45‑60 minutes...
NAB 2026: Encompass Digital Media and Techex Launch Cloud-Based Master Control Service for Live Events
Encompass Digital Media and Techex have unveiled Altitude Events, a cloud‑native master control service that combines Encompass’s Altitude Media Cloud platform with Techex’s tx darwin transformation engine and Densitron UI. The solution handles the full live‑event chain—from signal acquisition and dynamic...
Computer Guidance eCMS v4.2 Named Constructech Top Product
Computer Guidance Corporation’s eCMS v4.2 ERP platform was named a 2026 Constructech Top Product, joining a roster of solutions deemed most innovative and impactful in the AEC sector. The award highlights the platform’s cloud‑based architecture that unifies finance, project management,...
Microsoft Still Working to Fix Exchange Online Mailbox Access Issues
Microsoft is still investigating intermittent Exchange Online mailbox access problems that affect Outlook mobile and the new Outlook for Mac client. The issue, first reported on March 11 and briefly marked resolved on April 1, resurfaced under a new incident tag. Microsoft...
Podcast Consumption in Japan, Podcasts on Beehiiv, & More
Beehiiv, the newsletter platform, has launched an IAB‑compliant podcast hosting and monetization service, aiming to bridge newsletter and podcast audiences. Sounds Profitable’s research reveals that 27% of very conservative Americans have never listened to a podcast, highlighting a discovery‑architecture gap. A...
Red Seat Ventures Launches Speakeasy, a New Hosting, Distribution and Monetization Platform Built for the Next Generation of Creator Media
Red Seat Ventures, a Fox Corporation Tubi Media Group division, unveiled Speakeasy, an owned‑and‑operated platform that unifies hosting, distribution and monetization for audio and video creators. The service bundles AI‑powered analytics, ad‑supported revenue, and subscription options via an integration with...
Truecaller Opens Global Market Access For Its Business Chat Platform
Truecaller has opened its Business Chat platform to global channel partners and enterprise solution providers, enabling a shift from low‑trust SMS to verified, media‑rich conversational messaging. The move gives brands access to over 500 million active users who already interact through...
Free WhatsApp Bulk Message Sender That Won’t Get You Banned
WaSender, a free WhatsApp bulk messaging tool, lets small businesses send personalized campaigns without needing a WhatsApp Business API token. The platform operates through a browser extension tied to the user’s own WhatsApp Web session, incorporating random delays and cooldowns...
Zapier MCP: Perform Tens of Thousands of Actions in Your AI Tool
Zapier has launched the Model Context Protocol (MCP) gateway, letting large language models like Claude and ChatGPT trigger actions across Zapier’s library of more than 9,000 apps without custom code. The service is available on all Zapier plans and charges...
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Token Factory GA: Monetize AI with Token-Based APIs | Rafay
Rafay Systems has launched Token Factory, a token‑metered API layer for AI models that lets neocloud and AI‑factory operators monetize compute without building their own orchestration stack. The announcement coincides with the industry’s pivot to token‑based commerce, a trend underscored...
The Walls Are Coming Down Between Open and Closed Systems
The security industry is witnessing a convergence of open and closed platforms as cloud‑based APIs enable formerly siloed systems to interoperate. Manufacturers that expose open, channel‑friendly cloud APIs are unlocking new partnership opportunities and expanding market reach. Integrators, once feared...
New Agentic AI Tool Analyzes Oracle Fusion and Workday Releases
Opkey has unveiled Release Advisor, an agentic AI platform that automates analysis of Oracle Fusion and Workday release notes. The tool promises to slash manual review time by 60‑80% and enable certification of updates in as little as three days....
This Startup Helps Companies Solve an AI Dilemma—And Could Be Worth $1.3 Billion
OpenRouter, a startup that offers a single API to access and switch among hundreds of AI models, is in the final stages of a $120 million funding round led by Google’s CapitalG, valuing the company at $1.3 billion. The firm reports annualized...
Never Stop Disrupting Yourself; Introducing the Fin API Platform
Fin announced its new Fin API platform, exposing its high‑performing customer‑service AI models via a scalable API. The service offers three options—a fully managed agent platform for most firms, a flexible API for custom integrations, and the Apex specialized LLM...
Microsoft Expands Copilot Agentic Tools in Government Clouds
Microsoft announced the availability of new Copilot agents for Analyst and Researcher roles across its Government Community Cloud, GCC‑High, and Department of Defense environments. The agents automate data gathering, synthesis, and visualization to speed decision‑making, while Agent Builder and Copilot...
Broot.ai Partners with Vonage
Broot.ai, a B2B contact‑management platform, has integrated Vonage Voice APIs to embed one‑click, in‑app calling and instant local‑number provisioning. The new feature lets sales and marketing teams dial prospects directly from the CRM and assign US, European, and Pacific local...
Kustomer Launches Kustomer AI - Signals
Customer experience platform Kustomer introduced Kustomer AI‑Signals, an add‑on that delivers real‑time sentiment, escalation risk, and unified context to agents and managers. The feature pulls purchase history, prior interactions, and sentiment analysis to generate a plain‑language summary as soon as...
3Commas Launches QuantPilot: The Agentic AI Platform Built for the Next Generation of Crypto Traders
3Commas unveiled QuantPilot, an agentic AI platform that lets crypto traders design, backtest, and deploy quantitative strategies without writing code. The system uses autonomous AI agents to translate plain‑language ideas into fully tested strategies and integrates market data from sources...
Domo Launches AI Agent Builder, MCP Server to Connect Enterprise Data to AI Ecosystem
Domo unveiled an AI orchestration framework that includes an AI Agent Builder, AI Toolkits, a centralized AI Library, and the Domo MCP Server. The suite lets enterprises create custom AI agents that operate on trusted, governed data and connect to...
Stearns Bank Advances Omnichannel Transformation with Prelim Account Opening
Stearns Bank N.A. has chosen Prelim’s omnichannel account‑opening platform to unify its in‑branch and digital onboarding processes. The fintech solution integrates with the bank’s Fiserv Premier core, automating everything from application intake and identity verification to account issuance while preserving...
Create, Edit and Share Videos at No Cost in Google Vids
Google Vids now offers free, high‑quality video generation using the Veo 3.1 model, granting every Google account ten video generations each month. Subscribers to Google AI Pro and Ultra gain access to custom music creation via Lyria 3 and Lyria 3 Pro, as well...
Google Vids Adds AI Avatars that You Can Customize & Direct, Free Veo Generation
Google has upgraded its Workspace video suite, Google Vids, with AI‑driven avatar customization, new music generation via Lyria 3, and expanded Veo clip limits. Free users can now create up to ten 8‑second clips each month, while AI Ultra subscribers receive...
Tote Deploys AI Employee Agent With Loop Neighborhood Markets
Tote AI’s Genie employee agent has been rolled out across Loop Neighborhood Markets’ 50‑plus California stores, delivering instant answers to associate queries on customer service, POS operations, maintenance and payments. The deployment recorded 100% first‑contact resolution with zero escalations, operating...
Bitly Introduces AI-Powered Features to Simplify and Accelerate Marketing Analytics
Bitly has launched two AI‑powered features—Bitly Assist, a conversational chat assistant, and Weekly Insights, an automated performance‑highlighting report—aimed at speeding up marketers' data‑to‑action workflow. Assist lets users query link and QR‑code metrics and create assets through natural language, delivering answers...
Triton Digital Selected by NBC Sports to Power Podcast Hosting, Measurement, and Monetization
Triton Digital announced that NBC Sports has chosen its platform to power the network’s podcast hosting, audience measurement, and advertising monetization. NBC will deploy Omny Studio for enterprise hosting, the Triton Ad Platform for programmatic ad sales, Podcast Metrics for...
I Replaced My $120/Year Grammarly Subscription with Self-Hosted LanguageTool
The author swapped a $120‑per‑year Grammarly Premium plan for a self‑hosted LanguageTool Server, attracted by its free price and easy Homebrew installation. While the setup was quick, the grammar checker missed many errors and offered inconsistent suggestions compared with Grammarly....
HubSpot Moves to Outcome-Based Pricing for some Breeze AI Agents
HubSpot announced that, starting April 14, 2026, its Breeze AI Customer Agent and Prospecting Agent will shift to outcome‑based pricing. The Customer Agent will be charged $0.50 only for conversations it resolves, down from $1 per conversation, reflecting its 65%...
Navan Launches AI-Powered Audit Engine for Expense Risk Screening
Navan unveiled an AI‑driven Audit Engine that adds over 45 configurable checks to its travel‑and‑expense platform, enabling real‑time fraud, compliance and policy violation detection. The system automatically approves roughly 75% of transactions, directing finance teams to the remaining 25% that...
How Schneider Electric Is Streamlining Onboarding with WalkMe
Schneider Electric has expanded its use of WalkMe, a digital adoption platform, from a pilot in North America to a global solution that embeds on‑screen guidance across its SaaS tools such as SAP S/4HANA and Salesforce. The rollout, backed by...
Wunderkind Launches New Braze Integration to Turn Identity Into Revenue-Driving, Orchestrated Customer Journeys
Wunderkind has launched a new integration with Braze that embeds its AI‑driven identity resolution and high‑intent behavioral signals directly into Braze Canvas. The connection lets marketers turn anonymous web visitors into addressable Braze profiles, grow email lists in real time,...
Loop Neighborhood Markets Deploys Tote’s Genie AI Agent in Early Step Toward Agentic Retail Operations
Loop Neighborhood Markets has rolled out Tote’s Genie AI agent, an AI‑native associate support tool that delivers instant answers on policies, POS operations, and maintenance. Since launch the system recorded zero escalations and 100% first‑contact resolution, handling inquiries via voice...
HubSpot Flips AI Pricing on Its Head with Outcome-Based Breeze Agents
HubSpot announced an outcome‑based pricing model for its Breeze Customer and Prospecting agents, moving costs from usage fees to performance results. Effective April 14, the Customer Agent will cost 50 cents per resolved conversation, down from $1, while the Prospecting Agent shifts...
Actabl Launches AI Asset Setup
Actabl has introduced AI Asset Setup, an add‑on to its Transcendent hotel asset management platform that automates the collection and structuring of asset data using photo‑based input. The tool extracts details such as equipment type and serial numbers, eliminating the...
Zapier Survey Finds Nearly 3 in 4 Enterprises Would Face Disruption If They Lost Their Primary AI Vendor
Zapier’s latest enterprise survey of 542 U.S. executives reveals that 74% would experience operational disruption if they lost their primary AI vendor, while only 6% believe they could switch without impact. Although 89% are confident they could migrate within a...
Box Unveils the Box Agent to Transform How Enterprises Work With Content
Box announced the general availability of Box Agent, an AI‑driven engine that processes natural‑language prompts to search, analyze, and create content across an enterprise’s unstructured data. The agent leverages large language models from OpenAI, Anthropic and Google while enforcing Box’s...
Niobium Brings Fully Encrypted AI Workloads to the Cloud with The Fog
Niobium Microsystems is set to launch The Fog, a cloud platform that runs AI and data‑processing workloads on fully homomorphic encryption (FHE) without ever decrypting the data. The service relies on the company’s new mistic Core processor, an FPGA‑based chip...
Datadog Debuts Experiments to Unify Product Testing and Observability Data
Datadog announced Datadog Experiments, a unified platform that lets product teams design, launch, and measure A/B tests alongside real‑time observability data. The service combines product analytics, application performance monitoring, and business metrics from data warehouses, eliminating the need for separate...
Creator Platform Beehiiv Launches Podcast Hosting and Distribution
Beehiiv, originally a newsletter platform, has launched a full‑stack podcast hosting and distribution service. The new tool lets creators upload MP3, M4A or WAV files, automatically generate transcripts, and push episodes to Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Overcast and Castro. Beehiiv charges...
TradingView Introduces AI Chart Copilot
TradingView launched the AI Chart Copilot, an AI‑powered assistant that lives in a browser side panel alongside its charts. The tool instantly delivers technical breakdowns—moving averages, RSI, MACD, support/resistance and a rating—plus news, earnings and fundamental data for any asset....
Freshworks Expands Freshservice with Continuous Discovery and Dependency Mapping for IT Asset Management
Freshworks Inc. launched a redefined IT Asset Management (ITAM) module for its Freshservice platform, adding continuous infrastructure discovery and dependency mapping. The AI‑powered service operations layer unifies data from hybrid, cloud, and on‑premises environments, enabling real‑time visibility of hardware, applications,...
URC TV Cuts Streaming Costs with Eluvio Migration
United Rugby Championship migrated its direct‑to‑consumer service, URC TV, to Eluvio’s Content Fabric platform, slashing streaming operating costs by 62%. The move sparked a 64% jump in transaction volume and lifted revenue 35% despite lower pricing. Subscriber numbers more than doubled,...
New Belgian AI Platform Backbone Aims to Cut Costly Quality Failures in Food Production
Belgian startup Backbone launches an AI platform for real-time quality and compliance management in food production, backed by seed funding from 100IN. The system consolidates fragmented supplier, lab, and procedural data to detect risks before they reach production, addressing an...
From Chaos to Control: How Verx Is Helping African Businesses Run Smarter, Faster, and More Profitably
Verx, an all‑in‑one SaaS platform built by Omoniyi Owoeye’s team at Worldest Dinero Services, targets African SMEs plagued by fragmented tools and manual processes. It consolidates sales, finance, marketing, compliance and AI‑driven analytics into a single dashboard, offering automated tax,...
How AI Is Impacting SaaS Products
Artificial intelligence is turning traditional SaaS dashboards and step‑by‑step workflows into conversational, outcome‑driven services. Users now issue simple prompts, while the platform interprets intent, gathers data, and executes actions autonomously. This shift forces product teams to move from feature‑by‑feature design...
Omniscient Raises $4.1m to Bring Real-Time Reputation Intelligence to the C-Suite
Omniscient announced a $4.1 million funding round led by Drysdale, Plug and Play and other investors to scale its real‑time reputation intelligence platform for C‑suite executives. The solution ingests data from over 100,000 sources—including press, social, video and audio—and delivers prioritized...
Tapcheck Teams with Paychex to Deliver Seamless Embedded On-Demand Pay Solution Giving Instant Access to Worksite Employees
Tapcheck Inc. has partnered with Paychex to embed its on‑demand pay technology directly into the Paychex HR PEO platform. The integration lets eligible workers instantly move a portion of earned wages to a bank account or a free Tapcheck Mastercard...
How Acclaim Autism Cut Patient Onboarding From Six Months to Four Days with Appian
Acclaim Autism, a Philadelphia‑based autism‑care provider, used Appian’s low‑code automation to shrink patient onboarding from six months to four days. Insurance denial rates fell from 80% to 5%, and monthly intake rose from three to 47 patients, a fifteen‑fold increase....
Denmark’s Financial News Systems Raises €1.5M to Build AI-Only Financial Newsroom for Real-Time Market Intelligence
Denmark‑based Financial News Systems (FNS) closed a €1.5 million (≈$1.6 million) pre‑seed round led by Ugly Duckling Ventures to scale its AI‑only newsroom. The platform uses specialised models to pull market‑moving data from press releases and regulatory filings in as little as...
