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 eight commercial titles and three internal environments, the agent can self‑improve through trial‑and‑error, using Gemini‑generated hints when it fails. In tests on novel, AI‑generated worlds, SIMA 2 demonstrated the ability to navigate, use tools and follow open‑ended instructions without preset goals. The system still struggles with long‑term memory and complex multi‑step tasks, but marks a step toward agents that can transfer skills to real‑world robots.
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...
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,...
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...
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...
Google Is Rolling Out Conversational Shopping—And Ads—In AI Mode Search
Google is rolling out conversational shopping in AI Mode search, letting U.S. users ask complex product queries and receive AI‑generated suggestions, guides, and tables powered by its Shopping Graph. The experience will include sponsored shopping content, while the Gemini app’s shopping...
Google Will Let Users Call Stores, Browse Products, and Check Out Using AI
Google is launching a suite of AI‑powered shopping tools for U.S. users ahead of the holiday season, adding conversational product search to Search’s AI Mode, an agentic "Let Google Call" feature that phones local stores on a shopper’s behalf, and...
IAB Tech Lab Unveils Agentic RTB Framework to Boost Real-Time Ad Trading Efficiency
The IAB Tech Lab released version 1.0 of the Agentic RTB Framework (ARTF) for public comment, a new specification that standardizes agentic interoperability among demand‑side platforms, supply‑side platforms and related services in shared data‑center environments. The framework claims to cut...
Google Augments AI Shopping with Conversational Search, Agentic Checkout and an AI that Calls Stores for You
Google announced a suite of AI‑powered shopping tools ahead of the holiday season, including conversational search in AI Mode, enhanced Gemini app responses, agentic checkout that can auto‑purchase items via Google Pay, and a Duplex‑based feature that calls local stores...
Customer‑owned AI Agents Poised to Disrupt Marketing
Putting the final touches on our big "Martech for 2026" report — over 100 pages of lovingly, human-written explanation of what's actually happening with #AI and #martech headed into the next 6-12 months. Of course, there's a lot about agents....
AI Is Forcing a Shift From Data Silos to Shared Customer Context
AI is reshaping enterprise data strategy by replacing siloed, system‑centric metrics with shared, customer‑defined context. The technology requires real‑time signals—clicks, language, intent—to generate meaningful insights, forcing organizations to integrate data around the customer journey rather than around internal platforms. This...
Mitel Unveils Workflow Studio: Low-Code/No-Code GenAI-Powered Automation for The Modern Workplace
Mitel announced the global launch of Workflow Studio, a low‑code/no‑code integration platform that uses Generative AI to automate communication workflows across its voice, collaboration and contact‑center solutions. The drag‑and‑drop tool lets enterprises create AI‑driven processes such as smart call routing,...
Spotify’s New Audiobook Recap Feature Uses AI to Remind You of the Story so Far
Spotify is rolling out an AI‑driven "Recaps" feature in its iOS app that automatically generates a spoken summary of the portion of an audiobook a listener has already heard, after 15‑20 minutes of playback. The tool, initially limited to a...
ADHD Insight Beats Slides, Closes $200K Deal
My ADHD brain closed a $200K deal in 12 minutes. While neurotypical consultants were building 40-slide decks, here's what I did instead: Walked into the meeting with nothing but my phone and a napkin. The CMO looked confused. "Where's your...
How To Increase The Productivity Of Your Agency
The post argues that agency productivity hinges on aligning clear performance metrics, fostering a culture that embraces digital tools, and automating repetitive tasks, rather than relying solely on automation. It highlights common management pitfalls—vague expectations and resistance to change—and offers...
The Download: AI to Measure Pain, and How to Deal with Conspiracy Theorists
AI-driven pain assessment tools like PainChek are gaining regulatory clearance across three continents and have recorded over 10 million evaluations, signaling a shift toward objective pain measurement. Social psychologist Sander van der Linden offers strategies for families to counteract the pull of conspiracy‑theory...
Google Drive Is Offering Dropbox Users an Easy Way to Spruce up Their Cloud Storage
Google Drive has launched a Data Migration Service that lets administrators transfer Dropbox files directly into Drive while preserving folder structures and permissions, but migrations must be done in batches of up to 100 users or team folders at a...
How Brands Can Prepare for the Post-Human Web
In this episode, Michael Walrath, CEO of Yext, explains how brands must adapt to a "post‑human" web where AI‑driven answer engines dominate search. He outlines strategies such as using structured data, intent‑based optimization, and granular content to ensure AI discoverability,...
Monetize N8n Workflows with Lovable’s Simple UI
There is an incredible business opportunity using n8n & Lovable - and I don't hear anyone talk about it! n8n is getting serious traction. And because of this, YouTube and LinkedIn are now FILLED with people sharing really amazing workflows. What is a...
Monetize N8n Workflows with Lovable’s Simple UI
There is an incredible business opportunity using n8n & Lovable - and I don't hear anyone talk about it! n8n is getting serious traction. And because of this, YouTube and Twitter are now FILLED with people sharing really amazing workflows. What is a...
Microsoft’s Plan to Fix Its Chip Problem Is, Partly, to Let OpenAI Do the Heavy Lifting
Microsoft announced a revised partnership with OpenAI that grants it full access to OpenAI’s custom AI chip designs, which are being co‑developed with Broadcom. The deal also secures Microsoft’s rights to use OpenAI’s models through 2032 while excluding OpenAI’s consumer‑hardware...
Sales Reps Once Defined Your Brand Perception.
If you’re new-ish to the business world, this won’t shock you. But back in the day, the primary way someone learned about your brand was through your sales team. Today? We all have supercomputers in our pockets. By the time...
Your Next Role: Train AI to Champion Your Brand
🔴 Your new job: Train the AI to recommend your brand! Will “vector embedding” help you generate leads from AI? What about “citation tracking” or “retrieval augmentation mapping”? Lots of new buzzwords these days. Many of them come from the...
DJI’s Neo 2 Selfie Drone Launches Globally, but Not in the US
DJI is rolling out its Neo 2 selfie drone to a broader set of markets—including Japan, Canada, the UK and other regions—after an exclusive launch in China, but the device will not be sold through DJI’s official channels in the...
Cash App Debuts a New AI Assistant that Answers Questions About Your Finances
Cash App rolled out a fall update that introduces Moneybot, an AI chatbot that can analyze users' spending, income and savings and suggest actions such as bill splitting or Bitcoin transactions. The assistant launches to a limited user group with...
Joe Hill On AI: 'It's Just Part Of The General Rot'
Horror author Joe Hill warned that AI, exemplified by OpenAI’s Sora video generators, is accelerating a wave of misinformation and reflects a broader "rot" in tech driven by billionaire‑run companies that evade regulation. In his new novel *King Sorrow* and...
TRAE SOLO Coder: Responsive AI Builds MVPs Instantly
Cursor should worry. The rules just changed. TRAE SOLO Coder is the first Responsive Coding Agent and it's crazy good 🤯 → Ship MVPs from idea to deploy → Refactor and review with parallel sub-agents → Built-in DB, Auth, LLM APIs, and payments And more! Let's dive...
What Enterprises Can Learn From NTT’s Approach to Customer Insight
NTT and NTT DOCOMO have introduced a Large Action Model (LAM) that analyzes the sequence of customer actions across digital and physical channels, moving beyond traditional demographic segmentation. The platform structures data using a 4W1H framework and leverages time‑series modeling to...
Robots Will Flood Market, Redefining Humanity
Your robot will learn everything in one day. This is what the “AI must slow down” people don’t get. AI is about to speed up. And https://t.co/eGVCUkhwZe’s NEO won’t have a human inside for long. This is why @elonmusk keeps telling me that robots...
How AI Will Accelerate Breakthroughs in Biotechnology with Benchling CEO Sajith Wickramasekara
In this episode, Sarah Guo talks with Benchling co‑founder and CEO Sajith Wickramasekara about the systemic bottlenecks in drug development and how Benchling’s AI‑driven platform is reshaping biotech R&D. Wickramasekara explains how AI agents and simulation can speed up experiments,...
Employee Advocacy and Community Building Are Now Essential
Marketers - your buyer landscape is changing faster than most realise. If you’re not building trust through your people, you’re already behind. Yesterday, at SocialDay ® London I was reminded just how fast B2B buying behaviour is shifting. For those...
Forget Blink – This Award-Winning Security Camera Is Half Price for Black Friday, and It's Subscription-Free
The Reolink Altas PT Ultra security camera is now priced at £119.99 on Amazon, a 50% discount from its original £239.99, as part of Black Friday. It delivers pan‑and‑tilt coverage, internal SD‑card storage, AI subject‑detection, ColorX full‑color night vision and...
We only Denounce Policies After They're Legally Enacted
why is it human nature to call a bad idea a bad idea not as it is ideated but after its been legally passed or is basically too late? whether it’s this eu ai act (dumb from the start) or...
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?
One-Size-Fits-All AI Guardrails Do Not Work in the Enterprise
The piece warns that one‑size‑fits‑all AI safety filters, modeled on consumer parental controls, are ill‑suited for enterprise environments where users’ roles and data sensitivities vary dramatically. It proposes persona‑based access controls (PBAC) that tailor AI responses to a user’s department,...
Workers Are Getting Depressed by Everyday Tech Challenges - Could AI Be the Answer?
TeamViewer’s new "Impact of Digital Friction" report finds that 46% of UK firms blame IT inefficiencies for slowing work and 47% say tech frustration fuels employee turnover, with similar concerns in the US and India. One‑third of UK workers expect...
Ideal VC Board Member: Five Essential Traits
If I had my pick of VC’s in my next round, I’d look for a “5 tool board member:” 1. Works at a top tier firm 2. Is a GP 3. Has relevant domain expertise 4. Has been an operator 5. Not an a-hole...
Twitter Bots Start Posing Fabulous Questions in Comments
twitter bots are now asking fabulous questions in comments https://t.co/8PxtwWbrcv
Cursor's Funding Soars to $2.3B, Valuation $29.3B
cursor raises again!!!!! in june they raised $900 million at a $9.9 billion. Now they have raised $2.3 billion at 29.3 billion usd valuation 🤯 https://t.co/9jiDdJ76jW
B2B Commerce Goes Consumer: Marketers Must Adapt
The Consumerization of B2B Commerce: What Marketers Need to Know - B2B Marketing Blog | Webbiquity - https://t.co/wIRyz7GOI8
From Complex 3D Scan Pipelines to Click‑Ready Simplicity
What was a complex hacky pipeline in 2023 to take indoor 3d scans and reskin them to different types of decor is now just a few clicks in 2025. World labs marble has collapsed a lot of the complexity involved...
Start Now; Perfect Ideas Emerge Through Iteration
Most people wait for the "perfect" idea before starting. By then, someone launched a mediocre version and learned what works. Just start with what you have now, and feel confident you'll figure out the rest as you go.
Build Production-Grade Search From BM25 to RAG
In the next few weeks, you will learn how to build a production grade search in a stepwise manner. Starting from basic bm25 to embeddings, hybrid search to a fully fledged RAG application that works on millions (and billions) of...
Set Expectations Early, Reinforce Value, Cut Churn
Your churn problem is solved by setting the right expectation before the sale and reinforcing the value after it. Retention starts long before the customer clicks “buy.”
Bad Offers, Not Ads, Kill Your Acquisition
If your acquisition isn’t working, 9 times out of 10 it’s the offer. You’re paying to show up, but not giving anyone a reason to care. Great ads get attention, great offers close the gap.
Google Releases Free 50‑page Playbook for Production Agents
Google just dropped one of the best guides on agents this year. A 50-page playbook on building agents that actually work in production. → QA limits with reasoning → The four core quality pillars → Observability baseline → A usable eval loop 100% free. Guide in 🧵...
TSGM: Keras 3 Library for Synthetic Time‑Series Generation
TSGM is a Keras 3 based library for generating synthetic timeseries datasets: https://t.co/cKNN2PJtG7
5 Copy‑Paste Prompt Frameworks to Unlock Power
You underestimate the power of good prompts. Here are 5 frameworks to copy and paste 🧵 ↓ https://t.co/fSXVEqPWiO
AWS Launches Open-Source Framework for Multi‑agent AI Orchestration
ICYMI, AWS released a framework that lets you orchestrate multiple AI agents and handle complex conversations. It also runs locally on your machine. Fully open-source. https://t.co/O5Omb6gMIS
