OpenAI Needs $1 Trillion!?, Google Kills Ads, BlackRock's $40B Data Center
Jaeden Schafer’s post surveys a whirlwind of AI‑industry headlines, from Amazon’s lawsuit against Perplexity’s “Agent Shopping” feature and OpenAI’s $38 billion shift to AWS, to Nvidia’s historic $5 trillion market cap and OpenAI’s purchase of the Sky desktop‑control AI. The author intersperses interviews—Brian Solis on enterprise AI, Ray Jang on AI‑driven advertising, Ali Manouchehri on defense, and Myles Spencer on legacy‑preserving AI—to illustrate how AI is reshaping commerce, advertising, national security, and personal memory. Across the segments, the piece emphasizes the strategic, financial, and ethical stakes of rapid AI adoption while maintaining an upbeat, exploratory tone.
Google Cloud C4 Brings a 70% TCO Improvement on GPT OSS with Intel and Hugging Face
Intel and Hugging Face benchmarked OpenAI’s GPT OSS on Google Cloud’s new C4 VMs (Intel Xeon 6/Granite Rapids) and report a 1.7x improvement in total cost of ownership versus prior-generation C3 instances. The C4 machines delivered 1.4x–1.7x better throughput per...
Ep. 194: How Successful B2B Companies Are Increasing Their Web Traffic
In this episode, CMO Nicholle Stacey explains how B2B firms can boost web traffic by starting with a thorough SEO audit, aligning content with their Ideal Customer Profile, and fixing technical issues to improve domain health. She stresses that quality,...
Mac Mini Excels at Inference; DGX Spark Needed for Fine‑tuning
Saw that DGX Spark vs Mac Mini M4 Pro benchmark plot making the rounds (looks like it came from @lmsysorg). Thought I’d share a few notes as someone who actually uses a Mac Mini M4 Pro and has been tempted...
AI Art Hits Sameness, Lacks Emotional Storytelling
AI is amazing but it isn't good enough yet. @Kantrowitz says, below, AI has a sameness problem. The problem is if you hang out here on X all day long we see the sameness. Look at my AI Artist's feed. If...
One-Day Prototype Loop Redefines Product Development
I just recorded a pod with @thisisgrantlee (CEO of @MeetGamma), and he described a way his product team operates that I think is a glimpse into the future of how product teams will operate: 1. Team member has an idea in...
A Holiday Season Gift-Wrapped In Agentic Commerce
OpenAI has published a Product Feed Specification to let merchants list and sell products directly through ChatGPT’s Instant Checkout, complete with product-level controls (enable_search, enable_checkout), support for rich media/3D assets, and 15-minute feed updates. Major partners including Walmart and Salesforce...
Let Vendors Handle AI Agent Deployment, Not You
You probably need a team of Forward Deployed Engineers. Even if you don't think you do. We've deployed 11 AI Agents so far at SaaStr, and we're adding our 12th, Agentforce. More on that soon! One common thread: the vendor...
LinkedIn Powers B2B Presence at Advertising Week
Note: All things B2B at Advertising Week, including me, were sponsored by LinkedIn Marketing Solutions. Here’s what I heard this week at Advertising Week New York, where 20,000 marketers, media pros, and creative minds filled the city to talk about...
How to Filter Out AI on Pinterest
Pinterest has added a desktop setting that lets users toggle off GenAI interests to reduce AI-generated content in their recommended Pins, accessible under Settings → Refine Your Recommendations → GenAI interests. The change is rolled out via the desktop app...
From Moonshot to Millions: Veo’s Video Revolution
In 2018, video generation was a moonshot project by the Google Brain team. Today, hundreds of millions of videos have been generated with Veo. 🤯 In this episode of Release Notes, @doomie and @OfficialLoganK reflect on Veo's journey from research to...
Join Fizzy Private Beta: Early Access Before Public Launch
Aiming to begin sending out a handful of Fizzy private beta invites as soon as tomorrow. If you want to get on the list, quickly sign up here: https://t.co/6eFNse2WPf Also... Promise that if you sign up on the list you *will* get an...
Anthropic’s Latest AI Model, Claude Haiku 4.5, Doubles Down on Speed and Safety
Anthropic launched Claude Haiku 4.5, a lightweight AI model that it says matches Claude Sonnet 4’s coding performance while running twice as fast and at one-third the cost. The model is available across Anthropic’s apps, Claude Code, Amazon Bedrock and...
AI Contests Accelerate Product Fixes and Empower Creators
Since I just judged another, similar, contest, these are smart for companies to do. First, they are a forcing function to get AI companies to ship and fix things, but they get feedback from real users and get lots of...
You're Invited: Connect at Our Upcoming Event
You're Invited Want to see my new keynote? It's all about how to use the human touch to out-perform your competition in the age of AI and automation. It might be my best work, ever. I'm doing the whole talk...
Google’s AI Videos Get a Big Upgrade with Veo 3.1
Google unveiled Veo 3.1, an upgraded text-to-video model that improves prompt adherence, audio realism and now supports both landscape and portrait (16:9) outputs, plus a lower-cost “Fast” variant. The model is rolling out across Google’s ecosystem—Gemini app, Flow filmmaking tool,...
AI Autonomously Resolves IT Outages, Easing Human Overload
AI is stepping in as an autonomous operator for overloaded humans. ➡️ AI agent detected VPN outage ➡️ Authenticated into New Relic ➡️ Re-established expired integration ➡️ Streamed telemetry data ➡️ Identified SW update as root cause ➡️ Suggested a rollback IT lead reviewed...
AI Enhances Human Creativity and Boosts Event Value
Whirlwind trip to #Dreamforce25 this week, amazing to get time with friends, hang at 6sense 's #Club6 , talk agentic marketing with CMOs at the Qualified breakfast, then hang with the one and only Brent Adamson at his book signing....
AI Will Boost Selling Time to 80% by 2026
Most GTM teams haven’t even entered Phase 1. That’s the punchline of this new piece I wrote regarding my hypothesis on how AI will reshape field of go-to-market over the next decade. In the work, I propose four sequential phases...
Nano Banana Expands to Slides, NotebookLM, Gemini Tools
Several of our launches this week have been absolutely 🍌… Here are the new places you can find Nano Banana: — Edit images using custom prompts directly in Slides @googleworkspace — @NotebookLM’s video overviews got a huge upgrade with 6 new...
Dreamina AI Surpasses Nano‑Banana, Offers Multi‑Media Creation
I'm playing with @dreamina_ai (used it on my post earlier) and it's quite special for creating a wide variety of things, videos, photos, posters. It's from ByteDance and is beating the others, lets you upload six images and mix them...
Underfund Sales & Marketing Limits SaaS Growth Past $5M
The biggest mistake SaaS founders make is spending too little on sales & marketing. This works until around $3M–$5M ARR, not more. Here’s why👇
Invest 10‑40% Revenue in Sales to Scale SaaS
The biggest mistake SaaS founders make is spending too little on sales & marketing. This works until around $3M–$5M ARR, not more....Here’s why👇 Most SaaS founders obsess over product but underinvest in growth. Then the company stalls. The reason is...
India Launches EdGini: Personalized, Fun Learning Platform
Excited to share my new venture– EdGini, a Made-in-India learning platform built to empower students! • 🎯 Smart, engaging & personalized learning experience • 📊 Real-time performance tracking & skill growth • 🧩 Curated challenges to make learning fun • 💡...
Veo 3.1 Adds Audio, Object Tools; Flow Goes Mainstream
Veo 3.1 just dropped - Google listened and added audio everywhere it was missing. You can also insert objects into video and (soon) remove them too. Flow is quickly becoming less of a labs demo, and more of a creation tool....
ChatGPT Redefines App Discovery, Threatening Big Incumbents
The distribution shift is here. OpenAI is making progress on all three main entry points for products: Search (ChatGPT), Apps (Apps SDK), and Social (Sora). Ravi Mehta and Adam Fishman joined me on Unsolicited Feedback. My favorite quote from Ravi:...
Stop Forcing Customers to Master What You Should Do
We've all optimized for the craziest thing. 🤦♂️ Trying to get customers to execute perfectly when they don't have experience, expertise, or even the desire to do so. Yet, we've designed our entire operation and organization to try to make...
Reddit Tops AI Citations, but Marketers Overestimate Its SEO Value
Here is a more detailed version of the scale containing examples of buying-intent queries. Any query scoring higher than 1.35 on our scale was considered “buying-intent”:In June 2025, an infographic began circulating showing the websites most cited by AI Models...
B2B Buyers Turn Searches Into Conversational LLM Dialogues
A lot changes when #B2B buyers use LLMs to research how to best solve their problems. They type in prompts that average 23 words, instead of a 4-word search phrase. We need to shift our thinking from information to conversations....
Invest in People, Experience, and Trust to Drive Growth
When I was asked to spend National CX Day with two outstanding leaders, Van Wolfe from REPAY and Ines van Daalen Thornburg from @splunk, that was an easy yes! After (re)listening to the conversation, I had a few powerful takeaways...
Minority Funding Still Means Investor Decision Power
Founders are often interested in minority transactions for one reason: Control. In a founder's mind, if they retain majority ownership in the company, then they'll fully control the strategic direction of the company, even if they give up a seat...
Stop Guessing: Use Metrics to Scale Beyond $5M ARR
If you’re over $5M ARR and still leading by gut, you’re flying blind. I’ve helped 100+ SaaS companies in the last four years and see the same pattern. - You know the product. - You know the market. - But...
Codex CLI Exit Saves Sessions, Huge QOL Boost
whoever added this to the codex cli when you exit is a lifesaver cannot tell you how many times I've mindlessly ctrl+c trying to copy paste only to break a session then i gotta dig up the latest chat. such a simple...
OpenAI Targets $1 Trillion From $13 Billion in Five Years
"OpenAI has five years to turn $13 billion into $1 trillion." Do you think they can do it? https://t.co/py7EgsSvnP
Acquired.com Launches New Seller Insights and Analytics
New seller insights and analytics coming soon to @acquiredotcom! https://t.co/V2mQKaoOFj
Create High‑Quality Presentations Faster with Alai
Alai (@getalai) helps you create high-quality presentations faster. Designed for iteration, quality, and speed, Alai turns rough ideas into decks you’re proud to present. https://t.co/pTcHjdiApn https://t.co/fX5t8ggpLd
NanoChat Code Sparks Fresh Look at LLM Theory
Karpathy’s nanochat codebase motivated me to revise llm theory
Anthropic Releases Comprehensive Claude Code Blueprint for Developers
Anthropic just published a killer blueprint for Claude Code users! 🔥 → GitHub CLI workflows → .md prompt tuning → Custom slash commands → Headless + multi-agent agents Dense, yes... but pure gold if you're building with LLMs. Download link in 🧵↓ https://t.co/kCbF9amMFW
Watch Dreamforce 2025 Keynote Now Online
The Dreamforce 2025 keynote is now online! https://t.co/q9FDsk9mBP.
Launch of Readsail: Curated AI Learning Platform
If your company wants to help employees stay up to date with AI, I've teamed up with @natolambert and others to launch @readsail. It's essentially a platform that makes it easy to manage ongoing AI learning and brings you a...
Brand, Not Hacks, Is 2025's True Marketing Moat
People talk about endless growth hacks, but is the REAL marketing moat in 2025 Brand? 🎥 Search "Leveling Up with Eric Siu" on YouTube for more contents like this https://t.co/u5dOhYSmqT
AI Workforce Cuts Pre‑Construction Design Time by 30%
Structured AI (@getstructuredai) is an AI workforce for pre-construction design engineering. They save engineers 30% of their time by automating documentation and validating designs directly inside the software teams already use. Congrats on the launch, @stingrayzz22, @Green181024 and @brandonstarxel!
Essential Fundraising Tips for Early Growth Founders
Fundraising Best Practices Every Early Growth-Stage Founder Should Know https://t.co/fofyIRkCgZ via @TTCapPartners #startups #VC #PE https://t.co/rdE5P1NOqY
AI Will Redefine Managers and Jobs, Says ServiceNow SVP
I spoke with Josh Kahn, SVP at @ServiceNow, about future AI interfaces, the role of mid-managers, and AI-driven job transformation. Here’s everything he said 🧵 #ServiceNowPartner
Strategic Delegation Boosts Decision Quality and Empowerment
Research: How to Delegate Decision-Making Strategically - https://t.co/sUHr5cm4R7 - https://t.co/1oObzNjeuR by Hayley Blunden and Mary Steffel
FactoryAI CLI Setup Guide Arriving Soon
getting setup with @FactoryAI's CLI i hear you - more how-to's/guides are coming https://t.co/gRvIl7hmzY
Nail Your ICP, Then Growth Compounds Through Service
Once you nail the ICP. Then the growth flows. Once the growth flows, the next question becomes simple... "What else can we do for our customer?" Then you get even more compounding growth. Saleem from Lavu explains how 👇 https://t.co/ngKhNZ044m
AI-Driven Broker Automates Insurance Paperwork and Support
Fernstone is an AI-powered insurance brokerage for businesses. Their platform handles the back and forth with carriers, autonomously files paperwork, and instantly responds to customer requests. Congrats on the launch, @lukebbutton, @James_R_Chen, and @BryantLe18! https://t.co/iuDWVaTy8N
Founders Must Preserve Their Core Story Amid Metrics
Every company starts with a story that’s truer than the product. Over time, the product gets attention, the story gets diluted, and the truth that built it gets buried under metrics. The founder’s real job is to keep digging it...
Google VP Outlines Creator Priorities for AI Search AEO/GEO
Google's VP of Product answered a question about AEO/GEO for AI Search, addressing what creators should consider. https://t.co/wk1IOfH8uj via @martinibuster, @sejournal
