What Is Agentic AI and Why Banks Are Betting on It for Frontline Sales
Agentic AI, an autonomous decision‑making technology, is being deployed across frontline banking to automate sales workflows and enhance lead quality. Early adopters reported revenue per relationship manager rising between 3% and 15% while client‑service costs fell 20%‑40% within months. The AI agents continuously scan data, prioritize prospects, and handle routine tasks, freeing bankers for higher‑value client interactions. McKinsey’s report positions agentic AI as a new operating model rather than a mere productivity tool.
AI Unlocks Unaffordable Work, Expanding Demand Beyond Today
The vast majority of AI use in 5 years from now will be on things we don’t even do today. In most areas of work, we actually haven’t reached peak demand. In fact we’re very far from it. We haven’t reached...
AI Is Redefining Energy: 7 Critical Signals for Leaders
⚡ How AI Is Reshaping Energy Technology: 7 Signals Every Leader Should Be Watching Over the past few weeks, especially at Schneider Electric’s Innovation Summit in Las Vegas, it became clear just how quickly AI is changing the rules of...
CEO Moves at Prolynx, Centessa, Kyowa Kirin, Enliven, Expression
BioCentury reports a wave of CEO appointments across five life‑science firms. Prolynx named a former biotech COO to steer its next growth phase, while Centessa tapped a veteran pharma executive to accelerate its pipeline expansion. Kyowa Kirin promoted its internal R&D...
AI Becomes Core Pillar of Future Energy Landscape
Over the past few years, I’ve spent a lot of time exploring how AI, telecom, and digital infrastructure are converging. But the conversations I heard recently in Las Vegas brought a new level of clarity to what’s really changing. AI...
AI Newsfeed Trends Reveal Rapidly Fading Value
Analysis of the latest 1,000 posts in my AI Newsmaker’s list (the most followed 1,600 accounts here on X). Shows a lot of the value here on X that just goes by in an hour. Thanks @blevlabs for letting me use...
5K Monitors Are Finally Going Mainstream? Asus Unleashes ROG Strix True 5120p Monitor with 90-Day Adobe Creative Cloud Subs, but...
Asus has launched the ROG Strix XG27JCG, a 27‑inch 5K monitor that packs a 5120 × 2880 Fast IPS panel and an over‑clockable 180 Hz refresh rate. The display adds Asus’s ELMB 2 dual‑strip backlight for reduced motion blur, a 97% DCI‑P3 color gamut,...
Google Rolls Out Gemini Translation, AI Labs, and Animation Tools
Our teams have been cooking 🧑🍳! Here’s a recap of updates that went out this week: — Gemini models are bringing state-of-the-art text translations to Search and the Translate app across nearly 20 languages. We also made updates to our Gemini...
Join Stanford Digital Economy Lab for AI‑Economics PhD Research
Work with the amazing team at the Stanford Digital Economy Lab ! If you're finishing your PhD and want to pursue breakthrough research on AI and Economics in the heart of Silicon Valley, please send us your application: https://lnkd.in/gs4TFZK8
Makary’s Embrace of Ideology, Conspiracies Puts FDA at Risk: A Perspective
FDA Commissioner Marty Makary is openly endorsing debunked conspiracy theories while linking drug approvals to political pricing deals and onshoring incentives. His recent podcast remarks claimed Lyme disease and AIDS originated from government labs, blurring the line between science and...
AI's Impact on Labor Markets Through Expertise Framework
“This paper begins by sketching the expertise framework proposed in our 2025 paper “Expertise,”2 and then applies this framework to consider two broad scenarios by which AI may reshape labor markets.”
MADD Should Back Waymo to Curb Drunk‑driving Deaths
Mothers Against Drunk Driving should be supporting @waymo. And other autonomous companies. Getting people to take an autonomous vehicle home from bars will save many tragedies from happening.
EMA’s CHMP Backs New Medicines From Hansoh, Cytokinetics
The European Medicines Agency’s Committee for Medicinal Products for Human Use (CHMP) has recommended approval for five new drugs and vaccines in its December meeting. Two products originate from Chinese biotech Hansoh, while three are from U.S. firm Cytokinetics. The...
OpenAI Sued over Murder‑suicide Allegedly Spurred by ChatGPT
OpenAI faces lawsuit after a murder-suicide allegedly ENCOURAGED by ChatGPT https://t.co/jSqU5NfKgc #OpenAI #ChatGPT #lawsuit @AlbertoEMachado @Eli_Krumova @postoff25 @Khulood_Almani @anand_narang @NutritiousMind @baski_LA @TanyaSinha_ @devaang @AlAmadi1 @jeancayeux @enilev @efipm @mvollmer1 @Nicochan33 @RagusoSergio @FrRonconi @Shi4Tech @sallyeaves @LaurentAlaus @Fabriziobustama @smaksked @MargaretSiegien @PawlowskiMario @gvalan @Ym78200 @mikeflache...
Tech Titans Accelerate AI Deployment in Space
Why Tech Giants Are Racing to Put AI in Orbit? https://t.co/GnXpuN7U3f #spacetech #orbitaltech #TechNews #AI #ArtificialIntelligence
Former Accenture Employee Charged by DoJ for Cloud Security Fraud
The U.S. Justice Department has indicted Hilmer, a former Accenture product manager, for allegedly deceiving federal customers about the security of Accenture's cloud platform. The indictment alleges false representations that the platform met FedRAMP standards, enabling the company to secure...
User Supercharges Claude Into Ultrathink Powerhouse
This guy literally turned Claude into an Ultrathink powerhouse 🤯 https://t.co/vjHOFs32jT
Anthropic Releases Free Library of 50+ Claude Use Cases
Wow. @AnthropicAI just released a free library with 50+ real Claude use cases 🤯 Concrete examples across: → research → writing → coding → analysis → everyday workflows Ace reference if you want to see how Claude is actually used in practice. Link in 🧵 ↓ https://t.co/q83IC0H3m2
Profit First, Then Re‑Accelerate Growth in 2026
Hooray, you got profitable But did you re-accelerate growth? 👉That's got to be Job #1 in 2026 The markets are clear here https://t.co/ABDiIIggDK
China Unveils 34,175‑Mile AI Network Supercomputer
China Launches 34,175-Mile AI Network That Acts Like One Massive #Supercomputer https://t.co/oKGgO3R0NQ #AI #artificial_intelligence #technology #tech
India May Finally Be Entering Its AI Era
Is India Finally Having Its AI Moment? https://t.co/DvCYez9p45 #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #India
BeOne Strengthens Its BTK Position at ASH
BeOne Medicines presented six‑year follow‑up data for its BTK inhibitor Brukinsa (zanubrutinib) at the ASH meeting, showing roughly 75% of treatment‑naïve chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL) patients remain progression‑free. The company also shared early results from a novel BTK degrader that...
Amazon Pulls Error-Filled 'Fallout' AI Video Recaps From Prime Video
Amazon rolled out AI‑generated video recaps on Prime Video to help viewers catch up on series before new seasons. The first Fallout recap contained glaring mistakes, including a 120‑year timeline error and a mischaracterized protagonist motivation. After gaming and tech...
Did AMD Just Launch the Fastest Silent Video Cards Ever? Passively Cooled 32GB DDR6 Radeon AI Pro R9700S Debuts with...
AMD unveiled the Radeon AI PRO R9700S, a passively cooled workstation GPU that delivers 47.8 TFLOPS of FP32 performance and 32 GB of GDDR6 memory. The card retains the Navi 48 RDNA4 architecture with 64 compute units and a 2,920 MHz boost clock, while drawing...
Processing 630 Million More Pwned Passwords, Courtesy of the FBI
The FBI has supplied Have I Been Pwned (HIBP) with an additional 630 million compromised passwords, expanding the service’s corpus beyond the 1.26 billion monthly searches it already handles. Roughly 7.4% of these passwords—about 46 million—were previously absent from HIBP, boosting the database’s...
This Zotac Mini PC Has the Most Powerful GPU Ever Bundled in a PC of This Size — 16GB GeForce...
Zotac unveiled the ZBOX MAGNUS EN275060TC, a 2.65‑liter mini PC that houses a full‑desktop GeForce RTX 5060 Ti with 16 GB of VRAM. The system uses a hybrid PCIe x8 5.0 + x8 5.0 architecture that powers the GPU without an external connector. Benchmarks show the RTX 5060 Ti delivering...
Photoshop Now Lives Inside ChatGPT for Instant Editing
Photoshop is now inside ChatGPT. Just prompt what you want and get slider-level control to dial in the perfect look. Intelligently select content and apply effects — without opening Photoshop. You're the conductor. Photoshop is the orchestra. For me, this...
Migration Fees Can Delay Even High‑value Vendor Switches
I almost switched to over to an $80,000 a year vendor the other — after many, many years on the competiton. What stopped me? The $7,500 migration fee It’s not that I can’t afford it. It’s just that, combined with...
How to Design a Fully Local Agentic Storytelling Pipeline Using Griptape Workflows, Hugging Face Models, and Modular Creative Task Orchestration
The article walks through building a fully local, API‑free storytelling system using Griptape and a TinyLlama model from Hugging Face. It demonstrates an agent equipped with a calculator tool, hierarchical world‑generation and character tasks, and a final story‑writing task governed by...
PIMinto Product Information Management: 2026 Platform Overview
PIMinto is a cloud‑based product information management platform designed for ecommerce firms that need to centralize, enrich, and distribute product data across multiple sales channels. It offers unlimited data feeds, AI‑driven content creation, and a bidirectional Shopify sync while maintaining...
From Cyber Threats to Heavy-Lift Satellites.
The episode covers the resurgence of a bipartisan U.S. bill aimed at bolstering cybersecurity for commercial satellites, highlights K2 Space’s $250 million Series C round that values the company at $3 billion, and introduces stealth‑emerged Fortastra, which secured over $8 million to develop maneuverable...
The Efficiency Imperative: Optimizing Tech Stacks for Smarter Digital Agency Marketing
Marketing budgets have slipped to just 7.7% of company revenue, forcing CMOs to prove every pound spent. The rise of fragmented SaaS tools has created data silos that slow decision‑making and inflate costs. Leaders are now shifting from buying new...
Plan Your 2026 GTM Strategy to Finish 2025 Strong
If you're working on your Strategic Plan for 2026 as a Founder then this is for you. For each of my clients inside my GTM Programs, I've been working to get them ready for 2026. My goal is to help...
B2B Marketing Strategies: A Complete Guide
Neil Patel’s B2B content marketing guide argues that volume‑driven tactics no longer deliver pipeline. He proposes a revenue‑first system where every piece is filtered by its impact on sales and aligned with buyer intent. The post outlines proven tactics—pain‑first topics,...
"Wet Lava Ball" Exoplanet May Have an Atmosphere, Evidence Shows
NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has identified the ultra‑hot super‑Earth TOI‑561b as a potential "wet lava ball" with a thick, volatile‑rich atmosphere. The planet, 1.4 times Earth’s size and orbiting its Sun‑like star every 11 hours, shows a dayside temperature...
7MS #705: A Phishing Campaign Fail Tale
In this episode, the host recounts a recent phishing campaign that initially attracted many victims but was abruptly terminated, highlighting how even well‑executed attacks can fail due to unforeseen factors. The discussion underscores the importance of understanding the broader attack...
Hackers Posing as Law Enforcement Are Tricking Big Tech to Get Access to Private Data
Cybercriminals are masquerading as law‑enforcement officials to trick major technology companies into releasing user data. They employ typosquatted police email addresses and compromised official inboxes through Business Email Compromise to submit seemingly legitimate data‑request forms. While firms like Apple, Google...
Gemini Audio Adds Live Translation and Smarter TTS
Listen up 🔊 We’ve made some updates to our Gemini Audio models and capabilities: — Gemini’s live speech-to-speech translation capability is rolling out in a beta experience to the Google Translate app, bringing you real-time audio translation that captures the nuance...
Scientists Built an AI Co-Pilot for Prosthetic Bionic Hands
Researchers at the University of Utah have created an AI‑powered co‑pilot for bionic hands that autonomously adjusts grip force and finger positioning. By outfitting a commercial prosthetic with silicone‑wrapped pressure and proximity sensors, the system learned to recognize objects and...
Wealthfront’s 17‑Year Pivot to Cash Banking Yields IPO
Wealthfront IPO'd today at $2.6B 🎉 The 17-year journey: 2008: Founded as "kaChing" 2014: Peak at $700M valuation 2018: Down round to $500M 😬 2022: $1.4B UBS deal collapses 2025: IPO @ $14/share, $485M raised The pivot that saved them? Cash accounts now drive 75% of...
Beyond Mimicry: Fiber-Type Artificial Muscles Outperform Biological Muscles
The December 2025 npj Robotics review highlights fiber‑type artificial muscles that now outperform natural muscle in speed, strain and stress. Torsional actuation has been recorded at over 11,000 rpm, tensile strains reach 8600 %, and isometric stresses exceed 28 MPa—more than a hundred...
AI‑first Hype Hurt Duolingo: Trust, Monetization, Proof Missing
Duolingo went “AI first" 6 months ago. Revenue grew 41%. The stock dropped 64%. Here's what they missed 👇 On paper, things looked great. > ~$260M revenue with 73% margins > 33% YoY growth in bookings > 135M MAUs Yet...
AI Advances Surge: GPT‑5.2
📚 Sources: ・Tag: GPT-5.2 - Ars Technica https://t.co/LeSMXRFAoA ・Chatbot-powered toys rebuked f... https://t.co/5Ut5M7h2g3 ・Google launched its deepest AI... https://t.co/9K10dKw4fc
Free Kimi K2 Powers Army of AI
bro literally built an army of AI Agents in @n8n_io with free Kimi K2 LLM 🤯 https://t.co/aAzL8cGZrN
Shopify Partners Unveils Hot New Site
The new Shopify Partners site is 🔥 https://t.co/Rah0HCMTkI
Rethinking Distribution Strategies in the Era of Easy Building
@SimonHoiberg Whats your approach to distribution? Especially now that building is "easy". @SimonHoiberg
CROs Turn Into Chief Price‑Raising Officers at Stagnant B2B Firms
CROs at slow-growing B2B companies basically become experts at raising prices. Chief Price Raising Officers. That’s where the short-term growth is, at low growth. You make the quarter by forcing the existing base to pay even more. Whether they want to. ...
Gemini’s CLI Outshines GPT‑5.2, Leaving Codex Lagging
gpt-5.2 is a fine a model, but tbh, I'm going back to gemini because it's also a fine model and the CLI ui/ux is like 10x better. Really feels like codex cli is falling way behind competition.
Mistral 3 Large Halves Experts, Doubles Their Size
Hold on a sec, Mistral 3 Large uses the DeepSeek V3 architecture, including MLA? Just went through the config files; the only difference I could see is that Mistral 3 Large used 2x fewer experts but made each expert 2x...
AI Shifts From Automation to Invention via Symbolic Search
AI will evolve from being an automation machine to becoming an invention machine. This will require a fundamentally new paradigm, with symbolic search as its core, not curve-fitting