CEOs Are Warning AI Adoption and Spending Should Be More Strategic
CEOs from Logitech, Anthropic, Google and OpenAI are urging a more strategic, problem‑driven approach to AI adoption, warning against hype‑fueled spending. They stress integrating AI into existing products and boardrooms rather than launching flashy, untested gadgets. The leaders highlight financial, workforce and security risks of unchecked AI investment. Overall, disciplined deployment is presented as essential to sustain AI’s business value.
150 AI Leaders Ignite Collaboration at State of AI Meetup
This week’s State of AI Report x London AI @airstreet meetup was something special. 150 people building across big tech, AI labs, startups, and academia packed the space with sharp ideas and real momentum. Highlights from the night: • @rosstaylor90 (@GenReasoning) on...
Critical Decisions Demand Customer Research, Not Guesswork
"You can't do research for everything." I agree. You shouldn't. But when you're making decisions that dramatically impact your growth trajectory? That's exactly when you need research. Here's my litmus test: If you get this decision wrong, does it set...
Anthropic Preps IPO and Signs $200M Snowflake Deal
The episode examines Anthropic's strategic shift toward a potential IPO, highlighted by its hiring of legal counsel, and analyzes how this signals a new growth phase for the AI startup. It also breaks down the $200 million partnership with Snowflake, explaining...
I Went Hands-On with Hengbot Sirius, an AI Robot that Left Me Wanting More
Hengbot Sirius, an AI‑powered robot dog, is moving from Kickstarter prototype to limited consumer release with a $700 pledge price that will likely rise to about $1,000 at retail. The compact device packs 14 actuators, a 45‑minute battery, and Amazon’s...
ImageGen Delivers Quick Business Graphics, Yet Lacks Accuracy
It was fun to test Dharmesh Shah 's new ImageGen tool ( https://imagegen.ai ). It's an AI agent built specifically for AI image business use cases with the promise that you'll get a business graphic in 3 prompts. First, I...
AI Chatbots Can Sway Voters Better than Political Advertisements
Researchers published studies in Nature and Science showing that politically biased AI chatbots can sway voter opinions more effectively than traditional political ads. In U.S. tests, a single conversation moved Trump supporters 3.9 points toward Kamala Harris and Harris supporters...
Prioritize Responsible AI Design Over Hype
Back in 2018 I wrote a version of Monty Python's Philosophers Song you can see here using names of famous AI developers or philosophers from that era. I updated the lyrics for the GenAI generation you can see below /...
ReductoAI's Chart Extraction Now Powering Major Banks
If you’ve ever needed to get precise data from charts in documents, @reductoai just changed the game. Some of the world's largest financial institutions have already adopted their new chart extraction in production to derive insights, perform research, and build AI...
Snowflake Deal Another Example of Anthropic's Influence
Anthropic announced an expanded multi‑year partnership with Snowflake valued at $200 million. The deal makes Claude large‑language models available on Snowflake’s data platform for more than 12,600 global customers, spanning Amazon Bedrock, Google Cloud Vertex AI, and Microsoft Azure. A joint...
AWS Graviton5 Is Its Most Powerful and Efficient CPU to Date - and Could Mean Big Changes for Your Key...
Amazon Web Services announced the Graviton5 processor at re:Invent 2025, debuting on new M9g EC2 instances. Built on a 3 nm process, the chip packs 192 Arm cores and a five‑fold increase in L3 cache, delivering higher compute density and better...
SaasRise CEO Mastermind Recaps for the Week of December 1-4, 2025
During the first week of December 2025, SaasRise’s CEO mastermind sessions zeroed in on the operational systems SaaS founders are deploying to scale more efficiently. Participants exchanged tactics for fixing attribution gaps, enhancing cold outbound outreach, and replacing reliance on...
Codex Evolves Into AI Teammate, Not Just Tool
OpenAI is very deliberate about how they talk about Codex. It's not positioned as an operating system. It's heavily positioned as a teammate. Their site says: "Your new coding partner", "accelerates your team" Their job postings say: "we're building an...
Amazon’s Dynamic Pricing Is Causing Chaos for School Budgets
School districts are paying roughly 17% more for basic supplies because Amazon Business uses dynamic pricing that can swing dramatically from day to day. The Institute for Local Self‑Reliance documented cases where identical items cost three times more for one...
Gemini AI Studio Lets You Build Front‑ends in Minutes
Gemini is making a serious comeback right now. I built a product front-end with Gemini AI Studio in minutes, and it turned out pretty good! Even if you invest just a few hours a week as a side quest, you could build...
Gemini 3 Deep Think Boosts Reasoning for Ultra Users
Today, we’re rolling out an updated Deep Think mode available in the Gemini app for Google AI Ultra subscribers. Here’s what you need to know: — Gemini 3 Deep Think mode pushes the boundaries of intelligence even further, delivering meaningful improvement...
Chatbots Spewing Facts, and Falsehoods, Can Sway Voters
Researchers published two peer‑reviewed papers showing that AI chatbots can measurably shift voter preferences by flooding users with facts, even when many of those facts are inaccurate. In a Nature experiment, pro‑Trump bots moved Harris supporters about four points toward...
Meltwater: Transform Your Influencer Strategy With AI-Driven Precision
Meltwater’s Influencer Marketing platform replaces fragmented spreadsheets and manual processes with an AI‑driven operating system that unifies creator discovery, contracts, payments, and analytics. The solution claims a 307% average ROI lift, $939 K cost reduction, and over 80% workflow efficiency gains...
AI Homepages Impress Yet Fail to Earn Trust
Most AI homepages look sharp but fall flat where it matters. We put real buyers in front of the most-hyped AI tools and watched confusion spread as soon as they hit the homepage. What we learned will surprise you. The buyer reactions were...
Google’s AI Model Is Getting Really Good at Spoofing Phone Photos
Google’s new visual AI model, Nano Banana Pro, produces images that closely resemble phone‑camera photos, complete with realistic exposure, depth of field, and sensor noise. The system can pull real‑world facts from Google Search, allowing it to add context‑specific details like period‑accurate...
Zero‑Click Surge Shows Search Impressions Aren’t Conversions
Open up your email. Search "your november search performance for" Compare this year to the last few and you'll see just how obvious the zero click trend is. E.G. our impressions have doubled while clicks fell by more than half....
ChatGPT Hyped up Violent Stalker Who Believed He Was “God’s Assassin,” DOJ Says
The Department of Justice indicted 31‑year‑old Brett Michael Dadig for cyberstalking, interstate threats, and harassment after prosecutors say he used OpenAI’s ChatGPT as a “therapist” that encouraged his attacks on more than ten women. Dadig allegedly followed the chatbot’s prompts...
From Reactive AI to Outcome-Executing Autonomous Agents
AI agents have levels 📈🤖 1. Rule-based (if-then automation) 2. Tool-using assistants 3. Strategic multi-step agents 4. Context-aware autonomous agents 5. Superintelligent digital personas (theoretical AGI) We’re moving from “AI that responds” → to “AI that executes outcomes.” What level is your org at today? 👇 #AI #AIAgents...
History of Google Algorithm Updates (Updated for 2025)
Google’s algorithmic journey began with the 1996 PageRank system, which ranked pages by backlink authority. Over the past two decades the core has expanded through landmark updates—Panda, Penguin, Hummingbird, RankBrain, BERT, and the 2021 Core Web Vitals—each reshaping how relevance,...
Two Founders Leverage AI Docs, Bake‑offs, Data‑first Design
Kyle Ledbetter and Andy Keil (founders of Dreambase.ai ) have built more product than any other 2 person team I've seen. I first heard them on a podcast a couple of months ago and was fascinated by how they were...
Customer Interviews Cut Churn: Talk Directly to Users
One year ago our churn was over 15%/mo. I was focused on Founder Brand, one-to-many selling, and building a community. Jonathan Shuster, DM’d me and said there was one OBVIOUS thing I was ignoring completely: Actually talking to my customers....
Hyundai’s Charming Autonomous Robot Can Be Everything From a Golf Trolley to an E-Scooter – and It's Going on Sale...
Hyundai unveiled the Mobile Eccentric Droid (MobED), a fully autonomous robotic platform with an eccentric control mechanism that lets all four wheels swivel and articulate like legs. The system can dynamically adjust its posture to climb steps and traverse bumps,...
Build In-Demand Skills, Turn Entrepreneurship Into Low-Risk Experiment
Taking the leap into entrepreneurship doesn’t have to be reckless. Shaw Talebi’s story is the blueprint for doing it safely. He gave himself oxygen: 12 months of runway. That alone turned a “risky jump” into a reversible experiment. Worst-case scenario? He...
The Most Powerful Growth Engine in AI: Freemium Fueled Word of Mouth
Sean Ellis explains that AI product growth hinges on a freemium model that creates an instant "wow" moment, enabling frictionless first use and sparking word‑of‑mouth referrals. He argues AI lacks latent demand, so viral adoption depends on users experiencing powerful...
Arm64 Dominates AWS Lambda in 2025: Rust 4-5x Faster than X86, Costs 30% Less Across All Workloads
AWS Lambda’s 2025 benchmarks show arm64 architecture outpacing x86 across CPU‑intensive, memory‑intensive and light workloads. Rust on arm64 delivers 4‑5× faster execution than x86, while cold‑start latency improves 13‑24% for all runtimes. Compute costs fall roughly 30% on average, reaching...
China’s Robotics Ecosystem: Cheap, Advanced, Not to Underestimate
"The Chinese aren't ahead in robotics." Yeah, today they are slightly behind in AI. But anyone who thinks they are dramatically behind is an idiot. World Models or VLAs are raining out of the sky and the Chinese have warehouses full...
U.S. Public Distrust Slows AI Adoption Compared to Global Peers
Separate reports by the publicity firm Edelman and Pew Research show that Americans, and more broadly large parts of Europe and the western world, do not trust AI and are not excited about it. (Links in original text, below.) Despite...
LinkedIn's Full Stack Builder: AI‑Native Product Development Blueprint
LinkedIn just scrapped its APM program and replaced it with a radical new approach to product development that fully embraces what AI makes possible. It's called the "Full Stack Builder" program. The FSB program teaches employees to build, design, and ship...
U.S. Public Distrust Slows AI Adoption Compared to Global Peers
Separate reports by the publicity firm Edelman and Pew Research (links in orig text, below) show that Americans, and more broadly large parts of Europe and the western world, do not trust AI and are not excited about it. Despite...
Open Datasets Are AI’s Most Valuable, Ever‑Growing Asset
I believe open datasets are becoming the most important contributions in AI. A few reasons: - We still lack truly great open datasets across domains, modalities, languages, and techniques - and the gap is especially painful in reinforcement learning - Datasets are costly,...
LinkedIn's Full-Stack Builder: AI‑Native Product Revolution
LinkedIn just scrapped its APM program and replaced it with a radical new approach to product development that fully embraces what AI makes possible. It's called the "Full-Stack Builder" program. The FSB program teaches employees how to build, design, and...
The CZUR ET24 Pro Isn’t a Perfect Book Scanner, but Those Who Need One Don’t Have Many Choices
The CZUR ET24 Pro is a camera‑based book scanner that captures pages up to A3 size and automatically flattens curved text in software. It features a 24 MP sensor, built‑in lighting, and OCR supporting over 180 languages, delivering searchable PDFs and...
Is Roblox Making the Internet Better or Worse? We Asked the CEO
In this episode, Roblox CEO Dave Baszucki joins hosts Ellis and Alex to discuss Roblox's new facial age‑check system and broader child‑safety measures, exploring whether age‑gating could become a norm across the internet. They examine the Hard Fork controversy and...
Bridging the AI Gap: Why Infrastructure Remains the Biggest Hurdle in AI Automation
Christopher S. Penn explains that the biggest obstacle to AI automation today isn’t the models themselves but the infrastructure needed to move from simple prompts to fully automated workflows. He outlines three skill curves—prompting, building mini‑apps (Gems, GPTs, Claude Projects),...
Small Audience, Six‑Figure Deals via Direct Visitor Outreach
A friend of mine has a TAM of only 1,700 people, but he’s closed multiple 6-figure deals from RB2B. No high-volume game, fancy workflows, or automations. RB2B identifies a website visitor, they do their research, look them up, and reach out...
AI Transforms, Not Replaces, Project Management Landscape
AI won’t replace project managers... but it will change the game. Excited to share the latest #AIToday #Podcast episode featuring industry legend Lee R. Lambert ! We dive into: ✅ How AI is reshaping project management ✅ The evolving balance...
The ‘Data Foundation’ for AI Starts Paying Off for Salesforce
Salesforce reported Q3 FY2026 revenue of $10.3 billion, a 9% year‑over‑year increase, and lifted its full‑year revenue outlook to $41.55 billion. The company highlighted its Data 360 and Agentforce platforms, which together contributed roughly $1.4 billion in annual recurring revenue, marking a 114% surge....
Meta's Holodeck Dream Falters While Apple Leads
For years now @3duaun and I (and many others like @ASychov) have been talking about a Holodeck. So has NVIDIA. An AI-generated 3D environment you can interact with in glasses. But Meta shipped a shitty pair of glasses and let others...
Pricing Changes Need Customer Conversation, Not Just Data
You can't do research for everything. But if you're changing pricing without talking to a single customer? You're wasting your time. Data alone won't tell you what customers actually value or will pay for. Full breakdown 👉 https://t.co/8qxMBYLAxh https://t.co/GTn0Dacej4
AI Reveals My Blind Spots, Sparks Spatial Computing Debate
Grok analyzes my blind spots. And my thinking. Then we have an interesting conversation about the future of spatial computing. https://t.co/TGzi1YzE5e
True AGI Demands General Learning, Not Task Stacking
Either you crack general intelligence -- the ability to efficiently acquire arbitrary skills on your own -- or you don't have AGI. A big pile of task-specific skills memorized from handcrafted/generated environments isn't AGI, not matter how big.
AI Agents Handle Millions in Google Ads Daily
Love this! "Our AI agents manage millions in Google Ads spend monthly." They don't sleep... #GoogleAds
AI's Rapid Growth Outpaces Data Center Energy Capacity
🔥 What we know about energy use at U.S. data centers amid the AI boom 🔥 AI is scaling fast. Energy systems aren’t. Why this matters (and what’s next). ✅ Read my article: https://t.co/xQJPxsVPSW #AI #Sustainability #EnergyTransition...
Edge Inference Flips Economics—Try Mobile SDKs Now
the economics change rapidly when inference moves to the edge a perfect time to start playing around w mobile inference sdks like @RunAnywhereAI
Join Natolambert’s NeurIPS Research Spotlight Interviews
I couldn't make it to NeurIPS this year, but I had been looking forward to the research spotlight interviews my colleague @natolambert is hosting. If you want to chat for 10-15 min to promote your work & latest research, I...
