Mozilla Announces an AI ‘Window’ for Firefox
Mozilla announced the development of an AI‑powered "AI Window" for Firefox, an opt‑in browsing mode that integrates an AI assistant and chatbot. The feature will sit alongside private and classic windows, letting users select the underlying AI model and providing a "user‑controlled" space built with community input. It follows Firefox’s recent "shake to summarize" iOS tool, reinforcing Mozilla’s positioning as a privacy‑focused browser that offers AI on the user’s terms. Interested users can join a waitlist for early access.
Don't Give Prospects Results Before They Buy
I have stopped an experiment that gave people a ton of value before a sale, and here's why... So it's VERY fast for me to build a PVP or PQS list, like 30 mins -> 1 hr. Now this list...
Leaders Must Use AI to Learn, Not Just Deploy
"How are you using AI to learn?" Lori Niles-Hofmann This might be the single best question to ask yourself as a learning practitioner. Actually, scratch that.... you don’t even need to be in L&D. We should all be asking ourselves...
Even Realities’ New Smart Glasses Ditch Cameras and Speakers
Even Realities unveiled its G2 Display Smart Glasses, a human‑centric wearable that forgoes outward‑facing cameras and external speakers, relying only on four microphones and a micro‑LED/gradient waveguide display that creates a layered 3D floating spatial view. The device bundles AI...
Cursor's 29x Valuation Suggests AI Bubble Cooling
Cursor just raised at a 29x multiple. Not as crazy as the SaaS 40x multiples of 2021... We might not be in an AI bubble....
Google Gemini Live Gets Its 'Biggest Update Ever' With 5 New Upgrades – Here's How to Try Them
Google has rolled out the "biggest update ever" to Gemini Live, its real‑time conversational AI, on Android and iOS. The upgrade adds five new capabilities – adjustable speaking speed, automatic tone modulation, a storytelling mode with character accents, seamless multi‑language switching,...
SaasRise CEO Mastermind Recaps for the Week of November 9 - 13, 2025
The SaasRise CEO Mastermind recap highlights practical strategies from ten sessions covering customer success vs. support alignment, AI‑driven lead generation, analytics optimization, and revenue expansion. Key takeaways include defining distinct success and support roles with growth‑linked incentives, leveraging AI tools...
Scammers Trick over 500,000 Victims with Fake Google, Bing Ads to Steal Personal Info
Cybersecurity firm Check Point identified a campaign dubbed “Payroll Pirates” that uses paid Google and Bing ads to lure employees to counterfeit payroll, HR, credit‑union and trading‑platform login pages, harvesting credentials and multi‑factor authentication codes. The operation, which has targeted...
How Do You Redefine Research Delivery For The AI Era? Start With Trust.
In this episode, Forrester’s CTO discusses how AI is reshaping research delivery, emphasizing that trust is the non‑negotiable foundation for any generative‑AI tool. He explains the development of Izola, a client‑facing AI that pulls exclusively from Forrester’s own IP and...
Google’s NotebookLM Adds ‘Deep Research’ Tool, Support for More File Types
Google is adding a new "Deep Research" tool to its NotebookLM AI note‑taking platform, allowing the system to act as an autonomous researcher that creates a research plan, browses the web, and delivers a source‑grounded report that can be inserted...
From Fired to $17B: Turning Failure Into Fuel
“Startups are somewhere between completely impossible and very, very, very, very hard.” That's @parkerconrad, CEO of @Rippling, on the first episode of Long Strange Trip. Parker's got one hell of a story. Violently fired by David Sacks from Zenefits. Character assassinated in...
Google’s NotebookLM Will Now Do ‘Deep Research’
Google announced that its NotebookLM AI workspace will integrate Gemini’s Deep Research agent, giving all users access within a week. Users can choose a fast or deep research mode, with the deep option delivering in‑depth analysis, source citations, and the...
AI-Driven Keynote Workflow: Design-Heavy vs Quick Turnaround
My current keynote preparation workflow with AI: IF DESIGN MATTERS Ex: a two-hour presentation to a client on AI trends in their industry - I pace and think about structure and flow and usually draft a few bullets in a google doc....
AI Founders Now Prioritize Real-World Use Cases over Models
Quick takeaways from yesterdays excellent CVAI conference: 1. So many inspiring entrepreneurs presented 2. Agentic pricing is still in the wild west 3. Same with agentic UX 4. Fascinating to see founders talking more about the underlying application use cases versus just the models...
Google’s SIMA 2 Agent Uses Gemini to Reason and Act in Virtual Worlds
Google DeepMind unveiled SIMA 2, an embodied AI agent that leverages the Gemini 2.5 flash‑lite model to reason, understand language, and act in virtual environments. Compared with its predecessor, SIMA 2 doubled task‑completion rates, demonstrating complex, commonsense behavior in games like No Man’s Sky and...
Algorithms Now Outpace Labs as Science’s Primary Tool
The most powerful scientific instrument of the 21st century isn't the electron microscope or the particle collider. It's the algorithm. Today, a scientist in biology, physics, chemistry etc. is more likely to be debugging a Python script than to be running...
The 5 Reasons Your Email Messages Are Still Ending Up in the Junk Folder in 2025
The post explains why email campaigns still land in junk folders in 2025, highlighting five dominant causes: inadequate permission and poor list hygiene, low‑trust or low‑value content, legal/compliance shortcuts, misconfigured authentication (SPF/DKIM/DMARC), and sending irrelevant messages that fail to engage...
AI‑only University in Abu Dhabi Fuels Global World Models
World Models are shipping from around the world. From the only university that teaches only AI. I was there yesterday (it is in Abu Dhabi) and this school is so impressive. Have a class recorded by a professor there that I will...
AI Hype Scares Youth, but Human Roles Remain Essential
I recently received an email titled “An 18-year-old’s dilemma: Too late to contribute to AI?” Its author, who gave me permission to share this, is preparing for college. He is worried that by the time he graduates, AI will be...
Turn Existing Customers Into a Low‑Cost Growth Engine
CMOs are sleeping on customer marketing 💤 instead of growing your company WITH existing customers, you're treating customers primarily as an advocacy channel (e.g. case studies, references) 🛑 customer marketing is too narrowly defined. limiting customer marketing to advocacy misses...
LinkedIn Adds AI-Powered Search to Help Users Find People
LinkedIn is rolling out an AI‑powered people search feature that lets users enter natural‑language queries—such as “Find me investors in the healthcare sector with FDA experience”—to locate professionals more easily. The tool, initially available to premium U.S. members, expands on...
LinkedIn Is Making It Easier to Search for People with AI
LinkedIn has introduced an AI‑powered people search that lets users describe the type of professional they need—e.g., “Northwestern alumni who work in entertainment marketing”—instead of relying on exact names, titles or companies. The system uses generative AI to surface and...
Understanding Market Adoption
By Geoffrey Moore Author – The Infinite Staircase: What the Universe Tells Us About Life, Ethics, and Mortality The big words we are talking about here are mission, vision, strategy, and execution. Typically, they are prominent in the PowerPoint slides...
Inside LinkedIn’s Generative AI Cookbook: How It Scaled People Search to 1.3 Billion Users
LinkedIn has rolled out an AI‑powered people search that lets users pose natural‑language queries—e.g., “Who is knowledgeable about curing cancer?”—to a graph of 1.3 billion members. The system combines a 7‑billion‑parameter policy model distilled into a 1.7 B teacher and a 220 M...
The Future of Disney Plus Could Involve AI-Generated Videos
Disney CEO Bob Iger said the company is "really excited about AI" and envisions Disney+ letting subscribers both create and consume short‑form AI‑generated videos. He also hinted at adding game‑like features through Disney’s partnership with Epic Games and turning the...
EBooks Lose Spark: Emily Kramer’s 2025 B2B Channel Forecast
B2B marketing whisperer Emily Kramer from the beloved MKT1 newsletter dishes on which channels are hot or not in 2025. You might be surprised about eBooks. Do you agree? Chime in below. --- If you <3 this clip, you'll love...
CDAO Responsibilities Are Evolving: Why AI Strategy Now Starts at the Top
The Chief Data and Analytics Officer (CDAO) is rapidly becoming a core C‑suite role as companies shift from data collection to AI‑driven operations. A recent survey shows 73.7% of firms now have a formal CDO/CDAO, up from 12% a decade...
Join Us Live with Harry Stebbings at SaaStr AI London
We’re BACK and it’s GOOD TIMES folks!! And come see Harry Stebbings + me LIVE in London Dec 1-2 at SaaStr AI LDN!
Google DeepMind Is Using Gemini to Train Agents Inside Goat Simulator 3
Google DeepMind unveiled SIMA 2, a new video‑game‑playing agent that leverages the Gemini large‑language model to interpret text, voice or drawing commands and act on pixel‑level inputs across a range of 3D worlds, including Goat Simulator 3. Trained on human gameplay from...
AI Supercycle Depends on Upgraded Networks and Infrastructure
Why the AI Supercycle Will Fail Without Advanced Networks The next wave of AI isn’t just about models—it’s about the networks that support them. If connectivity, infrastructure and data flow aren’t upgraded, the “supercycle” may fall short. Read more 👉...
Marigold PR Launches PRplus: AI Influence for the New Era of Search
Marigold PR has introduced PRplus: AI Influence, a strategic communications service aimed at boosting B2B brands’ presence in AI‑generated search results through earned media coverage and AI discoverability reporting. The program, targeting North‑American firms in cannabis, technology and industrial sectors,...
AI Masks True Talent, Turning Hiring Into Stagecraft
Hiring used to break because companies moved too slowly. Now it breaks because candidates move too fast. AI gave every applicant the ability to look qualified before they have proved anything. Resumes are AI-polished. Writing samples are AI-written. Coding tests...
SIMA 2 Shows Generalist AI Reasoning Across Games
Damn. DeepMind's generalist AI agent SIMA 2 evolved from basic instruction-following to actual reasoning companion. Uses vision and keyboard/mouse like a human player, works across dozens of games without touching game code. The robotics angle is obvious - if you...
Boost Insurance Sales with Proven Behavioral Science Tactics
Work in insurance/financial services? Want to gain a competitive advantage? Check out TODAY's LIMRA webinar from 1-2 ET, "Getting to Yes: Proven Behavioral Science Strategies for Insurance that You Can Use Today!" I'm delighted to join Andrea Rech of Northwestern...
True Thought Leadership Needs Data, Not Just Opinion
Plenty of B2B content has been touted as thought leadership, except maybe it's not. Opinion Isn't Thought Leadership. Evidence Is. I really appreciate the distinction and insights shared by Cindy Anderson from IBM in our new research report on B2B...
Bridging AI Adoption Gap: From Startup Speed to Human Impact
The AI Innovation Gap AI adoption is now outpacing mobile phone uptake in the 2000s. Yet a troubling two-tier economy is emerging. In this clip from my conversation with Sasha Rubel (GenAI Policy Lead, AWS EMEA) and Alexandru Voica (Head...
Cursor AI's $2.3B Raise at 29x Suggests Cooling AI
. @cursor_ai just raised $2.3 billion. ... at a 29x revenue multiple. Not as "bad" as the 40x SaaS multiples of 2021.... Maybe we're not in an AI bubble? https://t.co/laqcS0YrUZ
Creating Marble’s Launch Video with Marble Technology
Check out how we used Marble to make the launch video for Marble! It’s so fun to work behind the scenes to use this technology to help create and tell stories!
Authentic Storytelling and Data Beat AI-Generated Content
When most content is AI generated, real advantage comes from authentic storytelling and high-level strategy. Proprietary data, simple visualizations, and live human events build your moat. https://t.co/GWZ9ve0DAw
Proofread ChatGPT‑written Articles Before Publishing.
If you're using ChatGPT to write your articles, at the very least read the output once before publishing it 😅 https://t.co/b7qYKA9unI
Benchmark Your Pitch Deck Against 4,000 Startups
Wondering how you stack up? Try the new SaaStr VC Pitch Deck Analyzer. We’ll share how you stack up against 4,000 other start-ups. And we’ll provide you honest and confidential feedback on how to do better. Try it here -> https://t.co/S5UFYzoN7a https://t.co/3M6fas5f2w
Creating Superintelligence Will Undermine, Not Amplify Power
If a country or company builds superintelligence, they'll and up *losing* power, not gaining power – this thought-provoking study explains why:
DeepMind's SIMA 2 Shows Incremental Yet Bittersweet Progress
Google DeepMind's SIMA 1 vs SIMA 2 The bitter lesson continues to be bitter sweet https://t.co/puwR92vCla
OpenBuilder: Free Open-Source App Builder with Unlimited Credits
OpenBuilder (@theopenbuilder) is the open source alternative to Lovable. Unlimited build credits and real developer support when you hit a wall. Built for non-technical builders to ship real apps. https://t.co/Wg51wSz5N9
Coca-Cola's AI Christmas Ad Signals Creative Industry Shift
Coca-Cola will once again have its Christmas commercial generated entirely by AI this year. When a billion-dollar company like Coca-Cola is doing that, just think about the pressure currently weighing on the creative industry. #CocaColaXFes2025 #cocacola #AI #AIart #aivideo @CyberRobooo @CurieuxExplorer...
Effortless, High-Quality Link Building Strategies Revealed
Here are some non-spammy link building strategies that don't take much effort but result in high quality links. https://t.co/n2cXlU7SJe via @martinibuster, @sejournal
B2B Marketers Overlook Proven High-Impact Engagement Opportunities
Thank you Net Influencer for covering our new report with @ascend2. "B2B Marketers Missing Crucial Engagement Opportunities Despite Clear Evidence Of Effectiveness" https://t.co/KKuNh4LU8d
Deploy Custom Groq Models in FactoryAI in Under a Minute
how to set up custom models via @GroqInc in @FactoryAI droid in <1 min https://t.co/fK5NyjwZEu
Will AI Agent Apps Match 80% SaaS Margins?
25 years ago, @Benioff set a terrific precedent for the SaaS industry w their 80% gross margins. I wonder where that will settle out at for the ai native agent/app companies. Guesses?
Twitter Bots Start Posing Fabulous Questions in Comments
twitter bots are now asking fabulous questions in comments https://t.co/8PxtwWbrcv
