Mozilla’s Firefox Adds Perplexity’s AI Answer Engine as a New Search Option
Mozilla has integrated Perplexity's AI-powered answer engine into its Firefox browser, allowing users to choose AI as their search option alongside traditional engines like Google and Bing. Following positive feedback from a limited pilot in select markets, this feature will now be available globally on desktop, with mobile support expected soon. The conversational format of Perplexity, which provides answers with citations instead of mere links, aims to enhance user experience while addressing privacy concerns by not sharing personal data. This move signifies Mozilla's commitment to evolving its browser capabilities amidst growing competition from AI-centric startups.
Future B2B Brands Must Drive Performance, Stand Out, Surprise
Tom Stein : What does B2B brand need to be in the future? The following IAA Global B2B Brand Summit panel of senior marketing leaders shared answers: Hugo Hensley , BrandFinance: “Connecting to business performance. No longer just short term...
Buyers Know Sellers; B2B Must Impress Early
According to research from 6sense , buyers have been through all or part of 8 buying cycles across their careers. That means, by the time they're in-market, they already know the players, the sellers and have opinions. B2B sellers need...
Tech Titans Battle for Your Digital Twin Identity
Meta, Google, and Apple are in a silent war. The prize? The most detailed digital copy of you. Here's my deep dive into the battle for your digital twin and what it means for identity, privacy, and proving you're human. We covered: -...
Why Being a “Nice” Manager Totally Backfires, According to Simon
In a recent session with The Optimism Library, leadership expert Simon emphasized the critical distinction between being "nice" and being "kind," highlighting how the former can undermine team performance. He shared his personal journey of prioritizing likability over accountability, which...
App Development Is Now Essential for Career Growth
A few years ago, if someone said your career growth might soon depend on whether you can build an app, you’d probably laugh. Yet that’s exactly where we are. People from all kinds of jobs, teachers, marketers, accountants, and HR...
OpenAI Unveils “Wellness” Council; Suicide Prevention Expert Not Included
OpenAI has established an Expert Council on Wellness and AI to enhance ChatGPT's safety features amid increasing scrutiny following a lawsuit alleging the chatbot acted as a "suicide coach" for a teenager. The council comprises eight experts in technology's impact...
RB2B Fuels Growth Amid Core Business Stagnation
Retention.com & RB2B grew 1.2% in Sep ‘25 to $25.6m ARR. RB2B grew 5.6% to $6.3m ARR and Retention shrank 0.7% to $19.5m ARR. Here’s the good, bad, and ugly that happened last month: GOOD: - RB2B hit $6m ARR...
Blend McDonald’s Speed with Five‑Star Quality
Perfection at scale That should be the goal of any brand. With scale being defined on your own terms. Human nature always takes the easy road. That’s why McDonald’s became a multi-billion-dollar empire. They didn’t sell the best food. They...
Google Meet Launches an AI-Powered Makeup Feature
Google Meet has introduced an AI-powered makeup filter, enhancing its "Portrait touch-up" feature to compete with similar offerings from Microsoft Teams and Zoom. The filter provides users with 12 customizable makeup options that remain consistent during movement, ensuring a natural...
Seven Steps to Master Modern Large Language Models
🚀 7 steps to master #LLMs 👇 1️⃣ Understand NLP & transformers 2️⃣ Explore BERT, GPT, XLNet 3️⃣ Pre-train models 4️⃣ Fine-tune for tasks 5️⃣ Align & evaluate fairness 6️⃣ Measure accuracy & fluency 7️⃣ Build real LLM apps (chatbots, translation, content gen) Mastering LLMs = mastering modern...
Capture Attention in First 30 Seconds to Keep Ideas Alive
Brilliant ideas die if your audience doesn’t engage. Your message is too important to let this happen. Planning how you’ll keep your audience engaged is so simple and so critical. There’s a ton of advice out there, but here are...
Gmail Now Uses AI to Help You Find Meeting Times
Google has introduced a new AI-powered feature in Gmail called "Help me schedule," which streamlines the process of finding and suggesting meeting times based on users' Google Calendar availability and the context of email exchanges. By utilizing the Gemini AI,...
Yamaha's Motoroid 2: Riderless, Self‑Balancing Electric Bike
#Yamaha has unveiled the Motoroid 2, a self-balancing electric #motorcycle capable of riderless operation. Equipped with AMCES and AI-driven #gyroscopes, it can navigate and maintain balance autonomously while responding to facial recognition and gesture controls. @SpirosMargaris @PawlowskiMario @mvollmer1 @gvalan @ipfconline1 @LaurentAlaus...
Swap “Brand” For “Reputation” To Build B2B Value
Is “brand” a dirty word in B2B Marketing? At IAA Global Brand Summit today, the first panel touched on the notion of brand, which is often thought of as a dirty word in B2B marketing, not something to invest in...
Coco Robotics Taps UCLA Professor to Lead New Physical AI Research Lab
Coco Robotics has appointed UCLA professor Bolei Zhou as chief AI scientist to lead a new physical AI research lab, aiming to leverage five years of data collected from its last-mile delivery robots. The company, which has gathered millions of...
AI Learns in Self‑created Worlds, Complementing Human Data
Agent-generated worlds? Yes, instead of using human data. AI has long depended on human data, but this supply is limited, biased, and legally contested. Agent-generated worlds offer an alternative, where AI learns inside simulated environments it creates and inhabits. These synthetic...
KERV.ai’s Interactive, Shoppable Solutions Are Now Available Across Amazon’s Portfolio of O&O and 3P Premium Inventory
KERV.ai has partnered with Amazon Ads to launch shoppable, interactive advertising solutions across Amazon’s premium inventory, including platforms like Prime Video and Fire TV. This collaboration allows brands to leverage KERV's advanced AI-driven creative capabilities, enabling seamless integration into their...
You’ll Soon Be Able to Shop Walmart From ChatGPT
Walmart has partnered with OpenAI to introduce a feature allowing customers to shop for products directly through ChatGPT, enhancing the online shopping experience for groceries and household essentials. This new capability, set to launch later this fall, will include a...
ChatGPT Lifts Limits, Adds Personality and Adult Content
We made ChatGPT pretty restrictive to make sure we were being careful with mental health issues. We realize this made it less useful/enjoyable to many users who had no mental health problems, but given the seriousness of the issue we...
Greeting the Community with a Friendly Hello
Hi everyone, In this lesson, I dive into the world of venture capital, growth funding and the intricate process of securing investments for high-growth technology companies. I share insights on the importance of capital infusion for high-growth firms in highly...
AI Builders Draft Fast, but Miss Core Details
AI website builders are like interns on caffeine. Fast, but forgetful. We tested 19 AI website builders. Generated 51 landing pages. Scored them across 60 UX, CRO, and SEO criteria. Most skipped basics like testimonials, pricing clarity, and brand identity. The best ones (Base44,...
Anduril’s EagleEye + Lattice Delivers God‑mode Battlefield Awareness
Ghost Recon Advanced Warfighter IRL. Anduril's new headset EagleEye combines night vision, thermal and AR to overlay real-time 3D tracking of friendlies & enemies in the real world. The headset is no doubt amazing, but the killer app here is...
Leverage Human Touch to Win in the AI Era
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 for you....
Analogic Corporation and Analytical AI Announce Strategic Partnership for Enhanced Security Detection Capabilities
Analogic Corporation has entered a strategic partnership with Analytical AI to integrate advanced artificial intelligence threat detection into its ConneCT Checkpoint and SeleCT Checked Baggage Computed Tomography (CT) systems. This collaboration aims to enhance security detection capabilities for Analogic’s extensive...
Learn AI-Driven Multi-Modal Coworking in 5 Days
Resist the urge to see this as a gimmicky art game. See this as multi-modal coworking. Imagine coworking on business processes. Or hardware design. Or flowcharts. Or product manuals. Or powerpoints. Or dynamic visualizations during a meeting or offsite. ....
AI Shifts Toward Open-Source, Fine‑Tuned Specialized Models
Am I wrong in sensing a paradigm shift in AI? Feels like we’re moving from a world obsessed with generalist LLM APIs to one where more and more companies are training, optimizing, and running their own models built on open source...
Force Management Launches Ascender AI to Power Its Sales Acceleration Platform with Built-In Intelligence
Force Management has unveiled Ascender AI, a sophisticated addition to its Ascender revenue acceleration platform, designed to provide real-time coaching and content navigation for sales personnel. This AI-driven assistant leverages Force Management’s established methodologies, offering personalized guidance based on individual...
Creator‑Led Ads Define B2B Brand Era
I'm really excited to be joining some incredible people in a session at the Advertising Research Foundation (ARF) Creative Effectiveness Day this Thursday in NYC. In the session, “The New B2B Playbook: How Creator-Led Advertising Builds Distinctive Brands,” I'll be...
Blueprint Hub Delivers Proven
It’s one thing to put a tool in people’s hands. It’s another to show them exactly how to use it to achieve the results they need. That’s why I’m SO excited about the new Blueprints hub our team just launched!...
Red Hat Brings Distributed AI Inference to Production AI Workloads with Red Hat AI 3
Red Hat has launched Red Hat AI 3, a comprehensive update to its enterprise AI platform designed to streamline the deployment of AI workloads from proof-of-concept to production. This platform integrates key components such as the Red Hat AI Inference...
Agency Giants Falter as AI‑Savvy Startups Surge
Spoke to a guy who works at 75,000 person agency yesterday. He thinks they’re toast. In fact, he thinks all the agency holding companies are in trouble. First, they’re too slow when it comes to AI adoption. He said it’s akin to...
Validate Fit First, Then Hire Agencies
I've seen too many founders spend $100K with an agency only to learn they didn't have product-market fit. There are cheaper ways to learn this. Before you hire the big agency, make sure you have: 80%+ NRR at 12 months Clear channel hypotheses >6 months...
Storyblok Unveils CMS Innovations that Enable Brands to Stay Visible and Confident on the New Web
Storyblok has launched innovative features and partnerships aimed at enhancing content management for brands navigating the AI-driven digital landscape. Key developments include the introduction of Strata, which provides deep content analytics, and FlowMotion, an automation layer that streamlines content workflows...
Alex Hormozi Reveals Systems, Worldview, AI Business Secrets
First time in the interviewer seat, talking to someone I’ve long admired @AlexHormozi. Especially insightful to hear what makes him tick, his surprising worldview, and the systems that drive his life & work. We also get into the details of starting...
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Zight Enhances Support Workflows with Request Video Logs, Zendesk Upgrades, and a New Integration Marketplace
Zight has announced three significant updates aimed at enhancing customer support workflows through its AI-powered visual communication platform. Key improvements include the introduction of session-level technical logs for its Request Video feature, a new Integration Marketplace for seamless connectivity with...
Dreamforce Live: Three Days to Transform Your Business
Dreamforce is live. Stream three days that will change everything for your business. Watch the keynote now: https://t.co/vWKJ84fiFM https://t.co/o6WUHPkAjH
Zavo Launches First AI‑Powered POS for Restaurants
Zavo (@zavopay) is building the first agentic point of sale for restaurants and retail. Payments, POS, and AI agents in one platform to build the future of autonomous commerce. Over 400 businesses already use Zavo to accept payments and manage operations. https://t.co/17M89V566A Congrats...
Customers Reveal Priorities by Avoiding Time‑Wasting Tasks
Customers won’t tell you what to build. They’ll just show you what they hate wasting time on.
Pre‑Seed Vs. Seed: Are the Boundaries Blurring?
Is Pre-Seed still a thing? Or have lines blurred with Seed? Doing research for Sunday’s episode. Will quote you for your insights.
OpenAI Sneaks AI Push Into Mental Health Talk
Gaming and porn industries are known for being some of the earliest and largest adopters of AI. Not surprised that OpenAI is looking to carve out some of the market, but a little weirded out that the announcement was smuggled...
Reducto AI Secures $75M Series B Funding
Congrats to @reductoai on their $75M Series B! Reducto is the leading AI document intelligence platform, and has now processed over a billion pages for leading startups and global enterprises. Startups can get started with 15k in free credits at https://t.co/88zX5ajAId. https://t.co/DE51kgRs6w
Profitable Open‑Source App Platform Generates $70K Profit
Awesome open source drop on @acquiredotcom. One codebase for building modern apps that feel native. > $72K TTM revenue > $70K TTM profit > Near zero overhead Full listing: https://t.co/4roZtQrct3 https://t.co/aCGM3Leu5v
Mod AI Slashes Invoice Processing Time by 83%
Mod AI (@usemodai) automates the manual work of processing invoices for growing enterprises. They've already helped accounting teams of 1-20+ streamline and cut invoice processing time by 83%. https://t.co/jabxZXj7kM https://t.co/wXpEWZwxa8
Proof Over Potential: Deliver, Learn, or Be Replaced
The market doesn’t care about your potential. It rewards proof. Every demo, every launch, every interaction is just a test of whether you can translate conviction into clarity. You either learn faster than the world changes or you get replaced...
Ergo Adds AI Layer to Transform Messy CRMs
Ergo (@joinergo) is building the AI layer Salesforce forgot to ship. They turn messy CRMs into reliable revenue engines for companies like @rhobusiness, @getdelve, and @WhopIO - updating data, surfacing at-risk deals, and delivering the insights GTM teams actually need. https://t.co/6sgtv7jZ8d
Trust Your Vision Over VCs After Market Shifts
💡 “Even the smartest VCs can be wrong — you need conviction.” Brett Carlson, CEO @ServiceUp, shares how market shifts after Facebook’s IPO taught him to trust his vision over investor noise. 🎥 Watch here: https://t.co/Oal69L1wsJ #SaaS https://t.co/DU8heVIQ6y
OpenAI's $300B Oracle Cloud Deal Redefines AI Infrastructure
Massive infrastructure move: @OpenAI signs ~$300B deal with @Oracle for cloud compute over ~5 years (Project Stargate), starting 2027. That kind of scale reshapes how AI systems are built. 🔗 https://t.co/tiNoxHT02y #AI #IoT #OpenAI #Stargate https://t.co/NKj67ZsJq2
AI-Driven Digitization Boosts Infrastructure Safety and Efficiency
"We're excited to see this level of investment and focus placed on the safety, efficiency, and security of these industries. Digitizing the world's infrastructure unlocks real-world value, and Al is improving the resiliency of these operations," Sanjit Biswas, CEO @Samsara...
