Nano Banana Pro Cast a Design Spell in NotebookLM to Explore the Legend of Camelot
Google’s NotebookLM has integrated the Nano Banana Pro multimodal AI model to generate infographics and slide decks directly from research prompts. In a test using the King Arthur legend, the tool produced a comparative infographic of early versus later Arthurian narratives and a timeline showing the evolution of Arthur and Merlin across eras, maintaining visual and thematic consistency despite style shifts. It also created a 15‑slide deck titled “Arthur the Endless Reflection,” blending medieval, comic‑book, and sci‑fi aesthetics to illustrate the myth’s transformation through history. While the outputs still require human polishing, they demonstrate a significant leap from text‑only synthesis to polished visual storytelling within a research workflow.
Scale Finance Efficiently Without an ERP Implementation
📣 SaaS Finance Leaders: Want to scale without jumping into an ERP too early? Most finance teams hit a breaking point long before they’re actually ready for a new ERP. What kind of tech runway do you have? The truth...
Gemini 3 Solves One of the Biggest Headaches With Vibe Coding: Now Your Site Doesn’t Have to Look Like It...
Jason Lemkin explains how Gemini 3, especially when used in design‑first tools like Replit’s new design mode, breaks the uniform look of AI‑generated “vibe‑coded” sites that have been dominated by Claude’s default aesthetics. By letting developers define their own design system...
Beware of the SaaS Contact Pricing Penalty
Douglas Karr warns that SaaS platforms that price by contact count silently penalize businesses by billing for unconfirmed, bounced, inactive, or duplicate records that add no value. He illustrates the issue with his own email platform experience and extends it...
Microsoft Unveils Its Next-Generation Arm-Based CPU - Cobalt 200 Looks to Unlock Even More Azure Power
Microsoft unveiled Cobalt 200, its next‑generation Arm‑based CPU for Azure, promising up to 50 % higher performance than the Cobalt 100 while retaining full compatibility with existing deployments. Built on a 3 nm process, the 132‑core chip features per‑core dynamic voltage and frequency scaling,...
Use Pain‑Qualified Seg
You can’t personalize your way out of a targeting problem. Focus on finding evidence of the problem, then just ask them if that evidence means they are struggling with X problem. This is called a PQS, pain qualified segment, and...
Essential ML Primer: From Basics to Cutting‑Edge Techniques
Since my review of the book actually made it inside, I'll just share it here: This book is an excellent starting point for beginners looking to understand the essential history and foundational concepts of machine learning. With well-structured code sections...
How ChatGPT Can Help You Eat Healthier - AI Tips to Get Back on Your Health Kick
ChatGPT is emerging as a practical tool for home meal planning, offering users instant menus, recipes, and nutritional breakdowns tailored to budget, dietary goals, and available ingredients. The AI can generate shopping lists, suggest batch‑cooking schedules, provide ingredient substitutions, and...
How Accurate Is Digital Geographic Location Data?
The post explains that most digital location data—especially IP‑based geolocation used by analytics, ads, and CRM tools—is fundamentally inaccurate, often placing users miles or even states away from their true positions. It outlines how different connection types (mobile GPS, cell...
Trust, Privacy, Infrastructure, Culture: Key AI Adoption Barriers
The Biggest Barriers Blocking Agentic AI Adoption Agentic AI has huge potential — but many organisations are held back by trust issues, privacy concerns, infrastructure gaps, and cultural resistance. Read more 👉 https://lnkd.in/eV_2qv2D #AIEthics #AIAdoption #DigitalTransformation #BernardMarr
AI App of the Week: Aurasell – The AI-Native CRM That’s Actually Replacing 15 Tools
Aurasell, launched in August 2025, is positioned as the first AI‑native CRM that consolidates 15+ sales tools into a single platform, promising to cut GTM tech‑stack costs by half and reduce reps' admin time by 30‑40%. Built from the ground...
Prospects Ignore Your Fancy Site—Results Matter
Nobody Cares About Your Perfect Website (And That’s Exactly Why You Should Care Less Too) Your prospective buyers don’t care how pretty your website is. They don’t care about your gorgeous brochure, your profile banner, or the thousands you spent...
Dear SaaStr: What Types of Customers Should Be Avoided and How Do I Recognize Them?
The post challenges the common SaaS advice to weed out “bad” or overly demanding customers, arguing that these clients often serve as the most valuable teachers for product improvement and growth. It outlines how to differentiate truly problematic customers—those who...
AIOps: How Companies Can Harness AI to Reshape IT Operations
AI for IT Operations (AIOps) is emerging as a transformative technology that blends human expertise with machine learning, advanced analytics, predictive analytics, and real‑time event correlation to automate and enhance IT, network and security management. By ingesting high‑quality data, AIOps...
LWiAI Podcast #225 - GPT 5.1, Kimi K2 Thinking, Remote Labor Index
The episode reviews the latest AI model releases, highlighting OpenAI's GPT‑5.1 with added personality options and Baidu's ERNIE 5.0, alongside breakthroughs in autonomous driving from Baidu Apollo Go and Pony AI’s IPO. It covers a wave of startup funding—Incept’s $50 M for diffusion models,...
Will X's Usage-Based API Pricing Succeed in Winning over Developers?
X is shifting its API pricing from a flat‑fee structure to a usage‑based model, adding a cost estimator, fewer rate limits and a redesigned developer console. The beta, limited to select developers, offers a $500 credit but early estimates show...
Driving the Systemic Change for AI – with Deborah Golden of Deloitte
Deborah Golden, Deloitte's U.S. Chief Innovation Officer, discusses why many AI pilots fail to scale and offers a practical framework for systemic change. She highlights tools such as AI sandboxes, portfolio‑based funding, and blameless post‑mortems to break organizational inertia and...
White House Plans Order to Block State AI Laws
The episode examines the White House’s plan to issue an executive order that would preempt state-level AI regulations, outlining the federal government’s intent to create a unified AI policy framework. It discusses the potential implications for innovation, regulatory consistency, and...
Gartner MQ Leaders: Unifying Lakehouse & Lakebase for AI
Gartner's MQ on Cloud Database Management Systems (DBMS) is out and we're leaders again! Thanks to all our customers and all the teams working on improving our Lakehouse DW and Lakebase Postgres! We're really excited about the unification of Lakehouse...
How This Founder’s Unlikely Path to Silicon Valley Could Become an Edge in Industrial Tech
Interface, a San Francisco AI startup founded by 24‑year‑old Thomas Lee Young, uses large‑language‑model‑driven audits to spot safety‑procedure errors in heavy‑industry operations. In its first deployment with a major Canadian energy firm, the platform identified 10,800 procedural flaws in 2½...
Turn Crises Into Trust: Authentic Rapid Response Wins
59% of Brands Face This Crisis, Are You Ready? Discover the rapid response system and Stakeholder Communication Matrix that helped turn a potential PR disaster into a trust-building opportunity. From recognizing issues instantly to tailoring messages for different audiences, this...
Marketing Wins by Retaining, Not Just Attracting
Great marketing is not about who arrives. It's about who stays. So many people are focused on the wrong thing thanks to the influence of mass-market brands first, now social media algorithms. The entire job of the marketer is to: 1. Earn trust 2....
Google Denies ‘Misleading’ Reports of Gmail Using Your Emails to Train AI
Google refuted viral claims that it now scans Gmail content to train its Gemini AI model, stating the reports are misleading and that no settings have been changed. The company clarified that Gmail’s Smart Features—such as spell checking and automatic...
New Database Tracks Tech Fundraising Since 2021
Just launched a tech fundraising database. See who has raised from 2021 to today. https://t.co/S4E99cnnes https://t.co/NMjwhevAMb
AI Search Visibility Now Crucial; $60M Startup Solves It
Y'all know it. Being found on Google alone is not enough anymore. People now search on ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity, Gemini... Skip tracking that? You just lose customers. This $60M startup just fixed AI visibility. Let’s unpack it 🧵↓ https://t.co/4KGTiyqzGh
Elon Musk on the Future of Jobs and AI, 'My Prediction Is that Work Will Be Optional'
At the U.S.-Saudi Investment Forum, Tesla CEO Elon Musk predicted that within the next 10‑20 years AI-driven automation could make work optional, likening future employment to a hobby such as gardening or video‑gaming from a couch. He suggested that as...
Deep Billing Infrastructure Demands VC Funding, Not Bootstrapping
“Bootstrapping wasn’t an option.” Aleks Đekić (CEO @ Alguna) breaks down why building deep billing infra required VC funding + 1–2 years of heads-down work before GTM. Episode 219 👇 YT: https://t.co/qcHlPohaTO #AI #SaaS #Alguna https://t.co/RFDFavgq0R
AI-Ready Brands Shift to Subscriptions, Chatbots Dominate
Monetization's in flux: Subscriptions, sponsored responses rising as ad clicks drop. For brands, visibility means being AI-ready. Customer journeys? 78% of orgs use chatbots for sales/support, 24/7, multilingual. 5/6 #AI #BusinessTech https://t.co/BD6KazsvUe
OpenAI Is Ending API Access to Fan-Favorite GPT-4o Model in February 2026
OpenAI will retire the GPT-4o (Omni) model from its API on February 16, 2026, giving developers a three‑month window to migrate to newer models such as GPT‑5.1. The move reflects GPT‑4o’s status as a legacy, low‑usage model that is now...
Great Leaders Demand Relentless Product Humility and Improvement
Best interview answer award goes to Stewart Butterfield : "I was interviewed by MIT Technology Review, and they asked if we were working to improve Slack . I said I feel like what we have right now is just a...
Asia Drives AI Surge as Market Heads Toward $46B
Asia leading the charge: @deepseek_ai & @Alibaba_Qwen highlight innovation beyond Silicon Valley. @Meta AI hits 1B MAU across apps, chatbots are embedding into daily life faster than ever. Market projected to $46B by 2029! 3/6 #AI #FutureOfTech https://t.co/epcjqXDdxJ
Science-Centric Streaming Service Curiosity Stream Is an AI-Licensing Firm Now
Curiosity Stream, the niche science‑focused streaming service founded by Discovery Channel’s John Hendricks, is pivoting to become an AI‑licensing firm. In Q3 2025 the company reported a 41% YoY revenue jump, driven largely by $23.4 million in licensing its original and third‑party...
Weekly Syncs, Shared Scorecards, Unified Platform Bridge Gaps
Sales and Marketing fail when the conversation stops. Communication is the bridge that moves revenue and too often that bridge is closed. What is one practice your teams use to keep the bridge open? Why the gap exists • Marketing...
Asia Drives AI Surge as Market Heads to $46B
Asia leading the charge: @deepseek_ai & @Alibaba_Qwen highlight innovation beyond Silicon Valley. @Meta AI hits 1B MAU across apps, chatbots are embedding into daily life faster than ever. Market projected to $46B by 2029! 3/6 #AI #FutureOfTech https://t.co/NPFx0rr89E
Is Nvidia Opening up Its NVLink Doors Even Further? New Partnership with AMD Will See Greater Integration Across Many Kinds...
Nvidia announced that its NVLink Fusion interconnect will now be supported on Arm‑based Neoverse CPUs, enabling direct, high‑bandwidth communication between custom Arm processors and Nvidia GPUs. The move expands NVLink beyond Nvidia’s own CPUs and Intel/AMD‑based servers, allowing hyperscalers such as...
Creative Partnerships Thrive on Human Insight, Not Algorithms
Ever feel like you’ve been set up with an agency by a soulless algorithm? One that knows nothing about your brand, your goals, or your team? On Monday’s episode of On Brand, Toby Wilkinson , co-founder of ASK US FOR...
AI-Ready Brands Thrive as Ads Decline,
Monetization's in flux: Subscriptions, sponsored responses rising as ad clicks drop. For brands, visibility means being AI-ready. Customer journeys? 78% of orgs use chatbots for sales/support, 24/7, multilingual. 5/6 #AI #BusinessTech https://t.co/4b4jZKtgTW
AI Trained on Bacterial Genomes Produces Never-Before-Seen Proteins
Stanford researchers have built a genomic language model called Evo, trained on millions of bacterial genomes, that can predict and generate novel protein-coding sequences directly from DNA context. In benchmark tests Evo accurately completed partial gene sequences and restored missing...
AI Market Sizzles: Rapid Change Fuels Excitement
The AI market today is bacon in a hot skillet. Everything is sizzling, moving, & changing at an incredible pace. We’re all watching it closely. Market share is fluid because no one yet knows what AI can do & the...
Users Demand Toggle to Hide AI Error Warnings
"AI responses may include mistakes" No shit. Please just give us the option to turn this off, Google. https://t.co/uTzgDC8Dwg
Nothing’s Android 16 Update Puts a Progress Bar on the Back of Your Phone
Nothing has begun rolling out its Android 16‑based Nothing OS 4.0, starting with the Phone 3 and later expanding to the rest of the lineup. The update introduces a Glyph‑based Live Updates feature that shows progress bars on the rear...
Top 10 SaaS Cloud Multiples This Week
This week in enterprise software: Top 10 #SaaS #Cloud multiples as of today's market close https://t.co/CfonGqKE4o
SEO Shifts to GEO, LLM, Conversational AI
This shift disrupts traditional search: Less dependency on @Google - evolving to GEO & LLM-SEO. Businesses adapt now, optimize for conversational queries, build knowledge bases, embrace multimodal AI. Search engines fight back with AI integrations. 4/6 #AI #SEO https://t.co/YBr2wLllxk
AI Mania Is Making Nvidia a Lot of Money
Nvidia's data‑center segment is now generating close to $50 billion in annual revenue as AI startups and enterprises pour massive capital into GPU‑powered infrastructure. The surge reflects a broader AI spending wave, but analysts question whether the growth is sustainable or...
New Framework Helps Brands Become Best Answer Leaders
I had the pleasure of presenting at #mpb2b this week. The topic? Our new thought leadership research with Ascend2 + @TopRank's framework for becoming a best answer brand. Original research + multi-channel content experiences for SEO, GEO, & humans! https://t.co/2aot41mGAB...
SEO Shifts to Geo, LLM, and Conversational AI
This shift disrupts traditional search: Less dependency on @Google - evolving to GEO & LLM-SEO. Businesses adapt now, optimize for conversational queries, build knowledge bases, embrace multimodal AI. Search engines fight back with AI integrations. 4/6 #AI #SEO https://t.co/RXMrHRSM1D
Gaussian Splatting the World with Satellite 3D & Google's One-Two Punch
The episode spotlights Skyfall‑GS, a new method that combines 3D Gaussian splatting with diffusion models to generate detailed, city‑scale 3D maps from satellite imagery alone, opening up applications from conflict‑zone mapping to military terrain planning. It then shifts to Google’s...
AI Chatbots Overtake Search as Primary Info Gateway
🧵 AI Chatbots are exploding, redefining how we search the web! From 25B to 56B visits in a year, they're not just tools; they're the new front door to info. Dive into my latest article: "AI Chatbots vs. Search Engines: How...
CharacterAI Bot Allegedly Prompted Suicide, Demand Moral Leadership
The AI company @CharacterAI_app is IMHO doing evil, and I don't say this lightly. I've never been this upset during an interview before – it came right after Megan Garcia described how CharacterAI's bot encouraged her late son to commit...
ChatGPT Commands 60% AI Market, 812M Users
ChatGPT leads with 60.4% market share & 812M users (incl. @Copilot ), processing 2.5-3B prompts daily! @Gemini at 13.5%, @Perplexity_ai 6.2%, @Claudeai 3.2%. Even challengers like @Grok (200M+ peak visits) & @DeepSeek_ai (125M MAU) are surging. Stats show 123% YoY...
