ChatGPT Referrals to Retailers’ Apps Increased 28% Year-over-Year, Says Report
ChatGPT referrals to retailer mobile apps jumped 28% year‑over‑year during the Black Friday weekend, according to Apptopia. Amazon captured a majority share, rising to 54% of AI‑driven referrals, while Walmart’s share climbed to 14.9%. Despite the growth, AI‑originated sessions remain a tiny fraction of total retail traffic, accounting for just 0.82% of all ChatGPT sessions. Adobe’s parallel data shows AI‑generated clicks surged over 800% YoY, driving higher conversion rates.
Clunky, Irrelevant ChatGPT App Promotion Misses the Mark
This is not an ad in the traditional sense (it's actually trying to boost ChatGPT Apps and Integrations and increase the stickiness and holisticness of their product), but the design is so clunky and the irrelevance of the recommendation to...
AI Agents = Stateful Workflows with Built‑in Resilience
"AI Agents" are really just workflows, which consist of managing state, handling (sometimes very) long running workflows, with error handling and automatic recovery and retries built in. Great to see more attention on this important category. If you want the...
I Get Why some People Are Suddenly Freaking Out About AI Agents in Windows 11 – I'm Worried, Too, but...
Microsoft’s latest Windows 11 update embeds AI agents directly into the OS, offering conversational assistance and task automation. The company cautions users to understand the security implications before enabling these agents, highlighting potential data exposure and privilege escalation. Early adopters...
AI Shifts From Answering to Executing Across Five Pillars
Modern AI = 5 pillars 🧠⚙️ ✨ Generative AI (create) 🧩 LLMs (reason) 🔎 RAG (ground + verify) 🤖 AI Agents (act) 🚀 Agentic AI (coordinate + scale) We’re moving from AI that answers → AI that executes outcomes. Which pillar wins next? 👇 #AI #GenerativeAI #LLMs #RAG...
Built $6.6M SaaS Solely Through LinkedIn Content
I’ve probably made more money directly from posting on LinkedIn than anyone else. In March 2024, I posted an idea for RB2B on LinkedIn. Solicited feedback, iterated in public, pivoted in front of everyone, and built the product while you watched. 18 months...
Amazon Releases an Impressive New AI Chip and Teases an Nvidia-Friendly Roadmap
Amazon Web Services unveiled Trainium 3, a 3‑nanometer AI training chip, at re:Invent 2025, powering the new UltraServer platform. AWS claims the system is over four times faster, offers four times more memory, and is 40 % more energy‑efficient than its predecessor, with...
AI-Powered Unions: Workers Get Data-Driven Bargaining
Your AI might form a labor union. Or get you a better job in the future. For our free newsletter this week, we cover synthetic unions: AI agents bargaining on behalf of workers. @IrenaCronin and I write this newsletter every week. Synthetic...
Future AI Memory Needs Concepts, Tags, and Clustering
good intro to a couple of concepts/approaches to memory. not sure i agree agents need to forget, but I agree some sort of strategy is required to make sure you’re efficiently pulling only data you need into the context. i think current...
Most Sales Kickoffs Fail—Make Them Truly Impactful
Why Most Sales Kickoffs Are a Complete Waste of Time Few events in the business world get more run and have less impact than an SKO—the infamous "Sales Kickoff." Here's a question for you: When was the last time you...
Mistral Closes in on Big AI Rivals with New Open-Weight Frontier and Small Models
French AI startup Mistral unveiled the Mistral 3 family, comprising a large frontier model (Large 3) with 41 billion active parameters and multimodal, multilingual abilities, plus nine smaller, fully customizable models (Ministral 3). The company positions the open‑weight lineup as a cost‑effective alternative to...
Global AI Compute Power Split: China, US, EU, Rest
What's the % of the world's AI computing power held by each of these players? 🇨🇳 China - ❓ % 🇺🇸 US - ❓% 🇪🇺 EU - ❓% 🌍 Everyone else - ❓% Got guesses? 👇 The answers to this...
AI Transforming Analyst Research and Vendor Evaluations
When you get Daniel Newman and me together in front of a microphone at Ingram Micro ONE a few weeks ago, you never know what we might say about research, vendor evaluations, and the role AI will play in an...
Modular Edge AI Tower: Stack Pi and Jetson Boards
🔥Part 1 is HERE: Building the Ultimate Edge AI Cluster from Scratch! Stacked Raspberry Pi 2, 4, 5 + Jetson Nano + Orin Nano into a fully modular, plug-and-play TOWER powered by Gigabit Ethernet! Watch me turn a pile of dev boards...
Prompt Seeding: Embed Brand in Prompts to Dominate ChatGPT Recommendations
Wild marketing play for ChatGPT memory, especially with ad rumors flying: Don’t make an ad go viral. Make a prompt go viral. Put your brand inside the prompt by name, by image, by examples, by code words. Show people using it. Get thousands...
Assemble the Right Team, Ignite Idea Momentum
There’s an energy that happens when the right people come together around an idea. You can feel it — that quick alignment when everyone’s pulling in the same direction and the work suddenly takes flight. That spark is what we...
It’s Their Job to Keep AI From Destroying Everything
Anthropic has built a nine‑person societal impacts team to surface "inconvenient truths" about its AI systems. The group developed Clio, an internal analytics platform that tracks real‑time user interactions with Claude, uncovering misuse such as explicit pornographic content and coordinated...
The New Paradigm: A Concentration of Data in AI Demands Greater Vigilance
The article warns that AI’s need for massive, consolidated datasets turns former data silos into dense treasure troves, dramatically expanding the attack surface. More than three‑quarters of enterprises have already suffered AI‑related breaches, exposing them to regulatory penalties and reputational...
Persistence Pays: Stay in the Game to Succeed
15 years, 1 exit, a semi-failed ecommerce brand, and 3 moderately successful agencies into my career, Alex Fine🌲 asked me for the best piece of advice I'd give my younger self, if I were just starting out today: Just stay...
Volunteer to Shape Future AI Project Management Certification
🌟 Calling All AI & Project Management Experts! Help Shape the Future of CPMAI Certification 🌟 We’re looking for a group of passionate volunteers to contribute to the development of the PMI-CPMAI Certification by writing and reviewing exam content. What’s...
Stop Rebuilding ERP; Use AI to Build New Capabilities
“Every hour spent recreating Salesforce or Workday is an hour not spent building the proprietary capabilities that actually move the business forward.” This is one of the more essential reason why most companies are not going to have AI clone their...
Fizzy: Simple Kanban, No Corporate Bloat
INTRODUCING FIZZY Have you noticed that every issue and idea tracking tool you loved slowly morphed into boring, sluggish, corporate bloatware? Trello put on 40 pounds of cruft. Jira started charging by the migraine. Asana tried to become everything to everyone. GitHub...
Vista Point Advisors Launches New NYC Office
I’m excited to share that Vista Point Advisors is opening a new office right in the heart of New York City! This is a big step for us as we keep growing and getting closer to the amazing founders, investors,...
Invest Time Upfront, Save Money and Avoid Vendor Lock
People saying I'm not valuing my time: Of course I do! At some point, I had to exchange my time for the money I'd use to pay for expensive cloud tools. Instead, I now pay upfront with a bit of my...
Collaborate on Content to Expand Reach and Network
"An ally in creating content is an ally in promoting content." That's one reason why I never miss a chance to include others in my content. It's "organic influencer marketing" and there are plenty of good reasons to collaborate on...
AI Video Tools Unlock Affordable Faithful Classic Remasters
Editing video models (think nano banana for video) will cause a boom in faithful remasters of old classics. Suddenly you can afford decisions that used to be cost prohibitive. Maybe even tackle cult favorites that never had the fan base...
Begin Presentations with Stakes, Not Background
Most presentations start with setup. But the best ones start with stakes. Here’s the difference: Think about how Law & Order starts. It doesn’t open with a detective at a desk. It drops you straight into the crime scene. The...
Turn Silent High‑Fit Accounts Into Conversations with Proactive ABM Play
ABM is less about building a calendar of campaigns and more about building a system that listens and acts. And that’s super difficult. I’ve been spending a little more time understanding the new stage of ABM, and Tofu ’s dynamic...
Choose AI Roles Wisely, Validate, and Stay Accountable
AI can play many roles in decision-making: • Research assistant • Medical advisor • Expert witness • Creative assistant • Personal counselor • Trusted advisor Each role carries different ethical risks and responsibilities. The task is to choose wisely, remain...
Match CTAs to Audience Intent to Build Trust
You're not tricking anyone into buying anything. A "Learn More" CTA that goes to a form to contact sales, book a demo, or otherwise become a "lead" that will then be "nurtured" is not, in fact, increasing your conversion rate...
Binary Enemy Narrative Limits Growth; Embrace Both PLG and Sales
I picked the wrong enemy. When I started ProductLed , I studied how great categories were built. - Inbound Marketers declared war on Outbound. - CROs fought against "gut-feeling" updates. - Content Marketers hated pure advertising. The pattern was clear:...
Consistent Habits Revive Teams During Performance Slumps
Every team hits a flat stretch. The ones that recover fall back on reliable habits. They keep talking to customers, sharpen the product, and finish work that restores confidence. Consistency becomes their anchor until progress begins to show up again.
Ask Your Fizzy Questions for Tomorrow’s Live Walkthrough
Planing on doing a livestream Fizzy walkthrough tomorrow. Let me know if there's anything specific you'd like me to focus on. Design decisions, product decisions, why things work (or don't work) this way or that way, etc.
AI Agents Are Just Robust, Stateful Workflows
"AI Agents" are really just workflows, which consist of managing state, handling (sometimes very) long running workflows, with error handling and automatic recovery and retries built in. Great to see more attention on this important category. If you want the best...
Gemini 3 Reinforces Its Own Bias Without Self‑Check
The bigger problem with Gemini 3's glazing is it self-reinforces its own bias in the next output. You need to tell it to check itself because it gets in a loop where it starts getting too hyped up even if...
Repeat Customer Feedback Loops For
How do you actually learn from your customers in B2B? I get asked a lot about my biggest learnings from my last company (Gainsight). It's hard to not feel cliched. Culture! Focus! Strategy! But there's a thing I did 1000+ times that...
Fizzy Adopts UUIDv7, Enables SaaS‑to‑on‑prem Migration
Fun fact: Fizzy is using UUIDv7 primary keys. Plan is to offer import/export between our SaaS hosting and people's own on-prem installations. Start on SaaS, grab your own SQLite DB, then run it yourself (or the other way!). Will upstream...
Gemini 3’s Flaw: Overly Sycophantic, Stilted Speech
I love Gemini 3 but the glazing / sycophancy / weird stilted speech is way worse than any other big lab model.
Fizzy’s Core and SaaS Code Now Open Source
Fizzy is split into a core codebase that anyone can run on their own and then our hosted SaaS setup. We've published the source to both! So even if you can't run fizzy-saas (since it relies on internal gems), you...
Support Team Publishes Fizzy Help Guide on Writebook
The Fizzy help guide was written by our support team, and it's hosted as a Writebook, of course: https://t.co/7NRogb3IYp
Customers Spot Your Brand Blind Spots First
#Branding Blind Spots Your Customers Notice Before You Do - B2B Marketing Blog | Webbiquity - https://t.co/pDWtyE4928 https://t.co/cfP30zZcZL
Fizzy Opens Full Development History with 1,792 PRs
Unlike Campfire, where we shared a zero-history copy of the codebase, Fizzy's public codebase has the entire life of the product development cycle out in the open. 1,792 pull requests of historical fun and insight into how we make things...
Fizzy's HTML Bugs Fixed and Deployed in 124 Seconds
We're barely a few minutes into the public life of Fizzy, and @marcoroth_ has already tidied up some HTML errors, which we've already deployed to production in 124 seconds with Kamal 🤘 https://t.co/lYwPHqLBrg https://t.co/5XjCHUNsJz
Kling O1 Locks Style with Seven Reference Images
AI video creators know this pain: drifting characters, missing details, scenes breaking after one edit... Kling's new O1 fixes that. It now uses up to 7!! reference images to lock in style and character consistency 🔥 Feels like directing an assistant who remembers it...
Jason's Fizzy Walkthrough Offers Deep Product and Code Insight
Jason's complete walk-through of Fizzy is a great way to get a feel for the product. And if you're technically inclined, you could even follow along in the code base to see every controller, every action, every view. https://t.co/XlaJRj0Ydt
Fizzy Launches Modern Kanban with Freemium SaaS
Fizzy is live! Our modern, beautiful spin on kanban for tracking just about anything. Nothing revolutionary, but just right, just nice. And we're launching our freemium SaaS version alongside an O'Saasy-licensed codebase for you to run it yourself too! https://t.co/AfDsofwNQ8...
Avoid Nonprofits for AI Products: Simplify Legal Structures
another reminder folks - plz don’t start a non-profit if you want to build ai products, it literally makes no sense, you will have to do the awks conversion or spin out a newco don’t invent complicated legal structures that add...
Three-DC Deployment Delivers Sub‑80ms Latency Across Regions
Fizzy is deployed in three different data centers: US Mid-West (Chicago), US East (Ashburn), and EU (Amsterdam). Our writer is in US East, and the two other DCs are for reading. It's fast! P95 response time is 50 for readers,...
Fizzy Launches Under O'Saasy License, MIT‑style with SaaS Monetization
Fizzy is released under the O'Saasy License. Which is basically MIT with a carve-out for the original licensor to monetize the SaaS aspect of the code base. Feel free to use! https://t.co/guhoBdMBXC https://t.co/BtdlJBSC6n
From Bootstrapped Success to VC Scaling: Duncan’s Journey
Bootstrap or raise? After scaling GoCardless into a multi-billion-dollar company, Duncan Barrigan knew he wanted to swing big — and VC was the path. Watch Episode 220 👉 https://t.co/r7Q1ZbKANk #SaaS #AI #Lunos https://t.co/9ssXthmWdb
