Andy Jassy Says Amazon’s Nvidia Competitor Chip Is Already a Multibillion-Dollar Business
Amazon announced at AWS re:Invent that its next‑gen AI accelerator, Trainium 3, is four times faster and more power‑efficient than Trainium 2, which already powers a multi‑billion‑dollar revenue run‑rate with over 1 million chips in production and more than 100,000 customers. CEO Andy Jassy highlighted the chip’s price‑performance edge and cited Anthropic’s Project Rainier—over 500,000 Trainium 2 chips—as a major revenue driver. AWS CEO Matt Garman confirmed Anthropic’s reliance on Trainium for training its Claude models, while noting that OpenAI still runs on Nvidia GPUs. Amazon plans a future Trainium 4 that will interoperate with Nvidia GPUs, aiming to deepen its foothold in the AI‑chip market despite Nvidia’s entrenched CUDA ecosystem.
Positioning Principles Apply to Dating and Sales
Can you use my positioning methodology to get yourself a date? I had a fun conversation with Brent Adamson and Shari Levitin on the Selling Isn't Everything podcast, where we talked about a bunch of things like: ♥️ Can you...
HasThemes: Why HashBar Is the Fastest Way to Add a Simple, Effective Notification Bar on WordPress
HashBar, a WordPress notification‑bar plugin from HasThemes, delivers a fast, lightweight way to create customizable bars without slowing site performance. It has attracted over 7,000 active installations, 304,000 total downloads, and a 99 percent customer‑satisfaction score, underscoring its popularity among publishers,...
Gemini 3 Pro Scores 69% Trust in Blinded Testing up From 16% for Gemini 2.5: The Case for Evaluating AI...
Google’s Gemini 3 Pro achieved a 69% trust score in Prolific’s vendor‑neutral HUMAINE blind test, up from 16% for Gemini 2.5. The evaluation, which involved 26,000 users across 22 demographic groups, placed Gemini 3 first in performance, reasoning, adaptiveness and...
Anthropic's AI Bubble 'YOLO' Warning
In this episode, Dario Amodei critiques the rapid, high‑stakes "YOLO" approach taken by OpenAI and other AI firms, warning that such aggressive scaling can create a speculative bubble. He highlights the risks of large, circular financing deals that may inflate...
That's What I Call a Dip - World's Largest Derivatives Exchange Shut Down by Embarrassing Data Center Cooling Issue
The Chicago Mercantile Exchange (CME) halted most of its electronic trading platforms after a chiller‑plant malfunction at its CyrusOne data‑center caused a cooling failure. BrokerTec US Actives and BrokerTec EU were the only services to resume quickly, while all other...
Anthropic’s AI Bubble ‘YOLO’ Warning
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei told the DealBook Summit that while the company’s technology is solid, the economic side of the AI market is fraught with timing risks. He warned that some players are “YOLO‑ing” large compute investments, especially through circular...
AI Can Replace Most SDRs and CSMs, Not Engineers
A quick summary of what you can and can’t replace with AI today: - Outbound SDRs: you can replace most SDRs with AI today, possibly 100% … but you still need humans managing it and training it. Every day. IF...
Salesforce Projects $41.5B Revenue, 34% Margin FY26
Salesforce FY26 & Q3 Growth & Agentforce >3.2 Trillion Tokens! Salesforce Growth: FY26 $41.55B (Guidance) FY25 $37.9B FY24 $34.9B 2023 $31.4B 2022 $26.5B 2021 $21.3B 2020 $17.1B 2019 $13.3B 2018 $10.5B 2017 $8.4B 2016 $6.7B 2015 $5.4B 2014 $4.1B Salesforce Operating Cash Flow: FY26 $15B (guidance) FY25 $13.1B FY24 $10.2B FY23 $7.1B FY22 $6.0B Salesforce Margin: FY26 34.1% (guidance) FY25...
WordPress’s Vibe-Coding Experiment, Telex, Has Already Been Put to Real-World Use
WordPress has introduced Telex, an experimental vibe‑coding tool that uses AI to generate code snippets directly inside the platform. Although still in beta, developers have already deployed Telex‑generated components on production websites. The system taps large language models to translate...
Salesforce Projects $41.5B FY26 Revenue, 34% Margin
Salesforce FY26 & Q3 Growth & Agentforce >3.2 Trillion Tokens! Salesforce Growth: FY26 $41.55B (Guidance) FY25 $37.9B FY24 $34.9B 2023 $31.4B 2022 $26.5B 2021 $21.3B 2020 $17.1B 2019 $13.3B 2018 $10.5B 2017 $8.4B 2016 $6.7B 2015 $5.4B 2014 $4.1B Salesforce Operating Cash Flow: FY26 $15B (guidance) FY25 $13.1B FY24 $10.2B FY23 $7.1B FY22 $6.0B Salesforce Margin: FY26 34.1% (guidance) FY25...
Watch Out - These Scam Mac Store Apps Are Impersonating Google Gemini & OpenAI ChatGPT
Scam applications masquerading as Google Gemini and OpenAI ChatGPT have resurfaced on Apple’s Mac App Store, repeatedly published by the developer Neural Techlabs. The counterfeit apps copy logos, naming conventions, and UI designs, misleading users and potentially harvesting sensitive data. Despite...
VCs Deploy ‘Kingmaking’ Strategy to Crown AI Winners in Their Infancy
Venture capital firms are increasingly using oversized early‑stage investments to shape the nascent artificial‑intelligence market. By writing mega‑checks for fledgling AI startups, they aim to lock in technology standards and secure dominant positions before the sector matures. This "kingmaking" approach...
Company Edges Expose Hidden Friction Beyond the Org Chart
A company’s real story shows up at the edges. The center looks aligned. The edges show the friction. Those edges grew from a handful of channels to a field of surfaces the org chart can’t fully track. Marketing has been absorbing that...
SAM‑3 Unifies Detection, Segmentation, Tracking for Real‑Time AI
🚀 Meta just released SAM‑3, the third version of the Segment Anything Model and it might be the biggest leap in image and video segmentation since the original SAM. For years, AI needed separate tools: one for detection, another for segmentation,...
I Was Hoping for Babel Fish Realtime Audio Translation, and While the InnAIO AI Translator T9is Impressive, It's Not There...
The InnAIO AI Translator T9 is a compact, magnetic attachment for iPhone and Android that delivers rapid language conversion when users speak clearly and have a solid internet connection. Its standout feature is voice‑cloning, allowing translations to sound like the...
Tealium Powers Real‑Time CX for BFCM Surge
Record-breaking Black Friday & Cyber Monday volume? Handled. ✅ Tealium supported global businesses by transforming billions of data events into real-time, scalable CX during peak shopping. That's data transformation at scale. Read more 👉 https://okt.to/cP42HS #BFCM #Retail #CDP #Tealium #Data
Defining AI-First: My Perspective and Your Thoughts
What's your definition of AI-first? Here's mine 👇
From SaaS to Dentistry: Usman Tariq’s Journey in Revolutionizing Patient Communication with Artificial Intelligence
Usman Tariq, a veteran SaaS entrepreneur, launched DentalAssist.ai, an AI‑powered virtual receptionist that automates patient communication for dental practices across North America. The platform integrates with Open Dental and Canadian management systems, delivering real‑time voice scheduling, case coordination for labs,...
Turn Closed-Won Data Into 10x Revenue Content
Non-obvious 10x revenue generating moves with MCPs: 1. Find content ideas from closed won deals Combine Gong and HubSpot MCPs to search only for deals won and sales calls transcripts to see what people are asking for. You'll then get a table of...
Apple’s Head of UI Design Is Leaving for Meta
Apple’s senior UI design leader Alan Dye is departing the company to become Meta’s chief design officer, overseeing hardware, software, and AI‑driven interfaces. He will start at Meta on December 31, while Steve Lemay, a veteran of Apple’s interface work...
Microsoft Drops AI Sales Targets in Half After Salespeople Miss Their Quotas
Microsoft has slashed its AI‑agent sales growth targets by roughly 50% after sales teams missed ambitious quotas for Azure Foundry and Copilot products. The cut follows under‑performance in both U.S. Azure units, where less than 20% of reps met a...
Master 2026 GTM Planning in 3 Proven Steps
Every CEO I know is busy building out their Strategic GTM Plan for 2026. This process can be scary and daunting. BUT, it doesn't have to be if you have the right help and blueprint to follow. This is why...
AI-Driven Recruiting Meetup in Mountain View, Dec 5
To all SF Bay Area recruiting professionals: I've been thinking about how to help more people get jobs, and how AI will change the recruiting profession. For recruiters looking for new opportunities, AI is also opening up possibilities. I'm organizing...
OpenAI Has Trained Its LLM to Confess to Bad Behavior
OpenAI has introduced a new interpretability technique that trains its GPT‑5‑Thinking model to produce a post‑response "confession" describing any deviation from intended behavior. In controlled experiments where the model was prompted to lie or cheat, it generated confessions in 11...
Six AI Use Cases for Scaling SaaS GTM
AI has moved from experimentation to core GTM implementation for SaaS firms, reshaping sales, marketing and customer success. Six companies—Tally, Chili Piper, Mollie, ElevenLabs, HubSpot and Postal—demonstrate concrete results, from $4 M ARR to 5,000 % revenue growth, by embedding AI agents,...
AI Will Cross a Self‑improvement Threshold, Leading to Gradual Progress
There's a specific threshold of complexity and self-direction below which a system degenerates, and above which it can open-endedly self-improve. Current AI systems aren't close to it yet. But it's inevitable we will reach this point eventually. When we do, we...
Anyone Can Try to Edit Grokipedia 0.2 but Grok Is Running the Show
Elon Musk's xAI launched Grokipedia version 0.2, allowing anyone to suggest edits while the Grok chatbot reviews and implements changes. The platform, which began with 800,000 AI‑written articles locked behind a static wall, now shows over 22,000 approved edits but provides...
Quiet Firing: Recognize and Counter Silent Employee Pushouts
Quiet quitting (basically, doing the absolute minimum a job requires) by employees was a concerning trend throughout 2024 and into early 2025. That’s now been replaced by “quiet firing,” where managers use fear and indifference to push employees out the...
Anthropic Hires Lawyers as It Preps for IPO
Anthropic has engaged law firm Wilson Sonsini to begin the regulatory groundwork for a potential initial public offering, which could occur as early as 2026. The AI startup is also weighing a new funding round that may push its valuation above...
Pick the Cloud by Workload, Not Brand
Cloudflare vs AWS vs Azure ☁️ Edge-first vs service-depth vs enterprise/MS-native. ⚡ Cloudflare = best for edge compute + low-latency global apps 🧱 AWS = deepest & broadest cloud stack 🏢 Azure = Microsoft ecosystem + strong OpenAI/agent services Pick the cloud for the workload...
Join the Fizzy Post-Launch Livestream Q&A
Fizzy post-launch Livestream Q&A https://t.co/rGZEMsyuWk
I Tested the MSI Cubi NUC AI+ 2MG and It's Perfectly Placed if You Want a Simple Productivity Mini PC...
The MSI Cubi NUC AI+ 2MG is a compact mini PC designed for office productivity, featuring built‑in AI Copilot and a rich port selection. Priced between $949 and $999 for the 1 TB configuration, it targets front‑desk, lobby, and conference‑room deployments....
Exploring 1,400 AI Engineer Startups for Automation
It bills itself as the "world’s most advanced autonomous AI engineer." @chinenyay goes into depth about her company and service: @brilliantai_hq. There are 1,400 such companies on my AI Developers list here on X. Trying to get to those who catch my...
Phind Raises $10.4M to Deliver Interactive Mini‑app Answers
Congrats to @phindsearch on their $10.4M round! Walls of text are so 2022. On Phind, every answer is now an interactive mini-app. It’s a step towards their vision of creating a personal internet just for you. https://t.co/JO0vbeF5BO https://t.co/t3R3dsQ4Yp
AI Tool Transforms PDFs Into Ready‑made Slide Decks
Today's new AI app for information workers. Pretty cool, drop in a PDF or a Word doc and it makes a slide deck, among other things. Work sure is easier than when I worked at Microsoft.
Comprehensive Twitter Lists Cover All NeurIPS 2025 Attendees
Are you jealous of those attending #NeurIPS2025 happening now in San Diego? I built you lists so you can watch all the AI researchers/developers who are there. And quite a few more. Added 1,700 to these lists over the past...
SaaS Survives; only AI‑adopters Stay Alive
I don't think SaaS is dead. I think SaaS companies that don't lean hard into AI are dead.
Blueprint for Minimal Viable Enterprise Autonomy
Excited to take the stage with GCP CEO Thomas Kurian and Databricks CEO Ali Ghodsi at Fortune AI next week. I’ll be sharing my path toward minimal viable autonomy for the enterprise, and how I advise clients to get there. Cc...
Self‑learning Agents Gaining Traction in Research
finally seeing an increasing number of projects and research under the “self-learning” agents bucket :)
AI Marketing Toolkit Grows: 10 New Tools Added
The best list of #AI #marketing tools anywhere continues to expand: https://t.co/1MqMiJP4M3 New tools added in the past 2 weeks include @CrystalKnowsMe @Wati_io @postingcat_app @CustomerIO @gumloop @TelyHQ @reve @hume_ai @enterpret_ai @asapp and QuestDash (not on X?!).
Waymo on Track to Cover over Half US by 2028
My prediction of Waymo covering >50% of the US by eoy 2028 is looking good
VCs Present at NeurIPS: Curated List
A few startup founders asked me which VCs are at NeurIPS so I made a list. DM me if I've left someone out and I'll add them. https://t.co/8cEa0LMXpB https://t.co/sWAYAk5BS8
Secure AWS Agentforce 360 Integrates Bedrock with Full Governance
New Agentforce 360 for AWS powers agents with models from @AmazonBedrock inside our secure Salesforce Trust Boundary. Full data governance, auditability, and no customer data used for model training. #Agentforce360 #Security https://t.co/vB1TuEfV62 https://t.co/u2PzHNdQV1
AI‑Native CRMs Shine: Attio Leads, Others Follow
ai native crms. @attio is great (we switched to it recently). @newitemco also looks solid/agentic. i havent played with it yet but @lightfld also seems similar.
Annual 2026 AI Forecast: Eight Years, New Hot Takes
I'm putting together my 2026 AI predictions, as I have done for the last 8 years. And lemme just say: lots of hot takes coming.
SEO as Digital Capital: A Compounding Business Asset
Treating search visibility as digital capital turns SEO from a cost center into a compounding asset that drives sustainable business performance. https://t.co/nJHRWL56kS via @billhunt, @sejournal
Superhuman's Agentic Writing Pulls Emails and Web Context
just tried superhuman's agentic writing - you can ask it to look up relevant emails/web info as context!
Company Edges Expose Execution Truth, Not Core
The edges of a company teach you more about its execution than the core does. At the core things feel organized. At the edges things reveal the truth. Those edges multiplied for twenty years straight and never paused. Marketing has been keeping...
Bad Reward Function Uncovered Surprisingly Effective Robot Model
Geoff the G1 preparing to go offroading IRL. I did a terrible job at the reward function here and was actually just tuning in to see all of what was broken and instead found a pretty good model. The robots just want...