GTC DC '25 Pregame - Chapter 5: AI for Robotics and Manufacturing
The episode explores how AI is bridging the gap between digital intelligence and physical action in robotics and manufacturing, highlighting NVIDIA’s role in enabling real‑time perception, simulation, and generative design for production lines. Industry pioneers discuss the integration of large language and vision models at the edge, the use of digital twins to accelerate deployment, and safety‑first approaches for collaborative robots. They also illustrate how AI‑driven automation is turning data‑derived insights into scalable, on‑demand manufacturing output. Overall, the conversation underscores a rapid convergence of software and hardware that is reshaping the factory floor.
Public Speaking: Your Fastest Path to Career Growth
If you want to win clients, grow in your career, or strengthen your brand more easily, master public speaking. You don’t need to be a strong public speaker to ensure others see your value, but it is the QUICKEST way to...
GTC DC '25 Pregame - Chapter 4: AI for Science
In this 34‑minute pre‑game episode, NVIDIA’s GTC DC team explores how artificial intelligence is reshaping scientific research, highlighting its role as a core discovery tool in labs worldwide. They discuss concrete examples of AI accelerating breakthroughs in fields such as...
GTC DC '25 Pregame - Chapter 3: AI Infrastructure Ecosystem
In this 34‑minute pre‑game episode, NVIDIA’s GTC DC series spotlights the AI infrastructure ecosystem, featuring leaders from energy, data‑center, and power‑system sectors who explain how the physical backbone—servers, cooling, electricity, and partner networks—enables today’s AI breakthroughs. The discussion highlights emerging...
Datadog CEO Discusses $100M ARR Milestone Pre‑IPO
Ahead of SaaStr AI London on Dec 1-2 (See you there!) we're taking a look back at some of our favorite sessions from our European events. It was so great when Olivier Pomel, founder CEO of Datadog, joined us as...
GTC DC '25 Pregame - Chapter 1: State of AI Innovation
The episode surveys the current landscape of AI innovation, highlighting how emerging models, research breakthroughs, and open‑source collaborations are reshaping the field. Investors and startup founders discuss where the next durable wave of AI growth will originate, emphasizing sectors such...
GTC DC '25 Pregame - Chapter 2: Agentic AI for Every Industry
The episode explores how agentic AI—intelligent systems that can plan, reason, and act—is transitioning from research labs to practical applications across diverse industries. Experts discuss real‑world use cases such as autonomous manufacturing optimization, AI‑driven drug discovery, and dynamic supply‑chain management,...
Agentforce 360 Wins Pearson’s Teacher’s Pet Award
Agentforce 360 just became teacher’s pet at @pearson 🍎 https://t.co/XzbtkbN8Nl
👾 Anthropic Chose Boring Over Viral, and It’s Paying Off
Anthropic deliberately shuns consumer‑focused, viral AI demos in favor of building safe, reliable solutions for heavily regulated enterprises such as banks, hospitals, and Fortune 500 firms. By positioning itself as an unconflicted partner, offering safety‑first models like Claude Code, and scaling through...
AI SRE Companion Automates Alert Investigation, Cuts Firefighting
Deeptrace (@deeptraceai) is an AI SRE and debugging companion that automatically investigates every production alert and surfaces a clear root cause, so your engineers spend less time firefighting and more time building. https://t.co/CAQGUInYRE Congrats on the launch, @srinth32 & @andys_lee!
Google Will Peel Back a New Era of AI Images with Nano Banana 2
Google previewed Nano Banana 2, the next iteration of its AI image generator, inside the Gemini app. The model introduces a multi‑step workflow that plans an image, detects errors, and iteratively corrects them, delivering sharper angles, more accurate colors and editable text...
Lovable Says It’s Nearing 8 Million Users as the Year-Old AI Coding Startup Eyes More Corporate Employees
Lovable, the Stockholm‑based AI coding platform founded a year ago, is approaching 8 million users, up from 2.3 million in July, and reports 100,000 new products built daily. The company, which raised $228 million—including a $200 million Series round that valued it at $1.8 billion—hit...
SMB Sales Provide More Deals, Faster Growth, Longer Tenure
So there’s a lot of angst on social media (esp LinkedIn) about CROs and VPs of Sales getting fired. But let give tell you a tip: maybe go SMB. What do I mean? I see so many of the top sales...
⚡ Inside GitHub’s AI Revolution: Jared Palmer Reveals Agent HQ & The Future of Coding Agents
In this episode, Jared Palmer—GitHub’s SVP and Microsoft’s VP of CoreAI—discusses the rapid evolution of coding agents, the launch of Agent HQ as a collaborative hub, and the breakthrough Next.js coding agent v0 that emerged from tight platform constraints. He...
Hiring AI‑Tool Tester & Writer for Growing Platform
We're hiring someone to get paid to play with AI tools all day. (Not kidding!) The Rundown is growing fast (2M+ readers), and we're looking for another writer who's obsessed with AI to join us. Your job: > Test every new AI tool that...
How Composability Is Finally Bringing Data and Marketing Teams Together
Adam Greco argues that composable, warehouse‑native architectures finally unite data and marketing teams by giving them a single source of truth, aligning metrics and terminology. This shared data foundation speeds campaign launches, reduces integration costs, and lets marketing leverage existing...
Managing Cloud Employees Requires Strategic Hiring and Training
1. The entire Gabe Larsen episode on The Transaction was epic 2. Are you tracking your ECE? (employee to cloud employee ratio) 3. The change management required for supporting cloud employee is not trivial. You have to decide what they...
Study Finds AI Models Store Memories and Logic in Different Neural Regions
Researchers at Goodfire.ai demonstrated that memorization and logical reasoning in large language models occupy distinct neural pathways. By surgically pruning low‑curvature weight components, they eliminated 97% of verbatim recall while preserving 95‑106% of reasoning performance on benchmarks such as BoolQ...
Apple's Rumored 'Health+' Subscription Tier with AI Features Is Doomed to Repeat Garmin's Failure
Apple is preparing to launch a paid Health+ tier that will bundle AI‑driven nutrition and medical advice into the Health app, accessible on iPhone and iPad rather than the Watch. The move mirrors Garmin’s recent Connect+ subscription, which sparked user...
The Non-Sponsor’s Playbook: Making the Most of Milano Cortina 2026
Michelle Abdow’s post shows how brands that can’t afford official Olympic sponsorship can still tap the Milano Cortina 2026 buzz by aligning with universal themes such as perseverance, teamwork and personal triumph, and by weaving those ideas into employer‑branding, cause‑related and performance‑focused...
Siri Shortcuts Now Works with Samsung SmartThings Routines
Samsung’s latest SmartThings update adds Siri Shortcuts support, letting iPhone, HomePod and other Apple devices trigger SmartThings routines via voice. Users can now ask Siri to run automations such as a “Good morning” routine that adjusts lights, starts the coffee...
Can AI Help Nonprofits Do More with Less?
A 2025 Candid report found that 65% of U.S. nonprofits are interested in AI, though most are only at a beginner level, and a Bonterra survey shows over half of its partner nonprofits have already deployed AI, especially small organizations...
Storybook: The Future of Strategic Brand Tracking
I'm incredibly bullish about making Storybook the leader in brand tracking, and that means being more direct about its value. Building the platform has been a genuine labor of love, and it has developed into what I believe to be...
Paramount Plus Is Getting a Price Hike in Early 2026
Paramount Plus will raise its U.S. subscription fees on Jan. 15, 2026, moving the ad‑supported Essential plan from $7.99 to $8.99 and the ad‑free Premium plan from $12.99 to $13.99. The hike follows a series of annual price increases and comes after the...
Here’s How to Get ChatGPT to Finally Understand You
PromptBuilder is marketing a lifetime AI prompt‑engineering tool for $199, a steep discount from its regular $1,764 price. The software lets users select templates, input brand‑specific details and automatically generate optimized prompts that work across ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, DALL‑E and...
AI B2B Sales Teams Halved, Efficiency Soars
AI B2B companies do need sales teams. Almost all of them. The question is just … how large of a sales team? It’s a question no one fully questioned until recently. But now founders & CEOs are asking: - is...
A Better Way of Thinking About the AI Bubble
Russell Brandom argues that the AI "bubble" is less about a sudden crash and more about a massive, mismatched bet between fast‑moving AI software and the slow‑to‑build data‑center supply chain. He notes that billions of dollars are already pledged—Oracle’s $18 billion...
AI Now Handles Multi-Day Projects Without Human Supervision
Ran into a CEO in the park and showed them something that changed how they're thinking about the future of AI. I think you might want to hear this. Claude Sonnet 4.5 completed a 30-hour coding task with zero human...
Are Customers Ready for AI Agents?
At last week’s keynotes, several people asked me about AI agents and whether customers want or are ready for them? Eventually, YES! What AI agents can do is ASTONISHING compared to even nine months ago. But you may not know...
What Should the Government’s Role in AI Be?
The episode examines the evolving debate over government involvement in AI, sparked by OpenAI’s recent "backstop" comments and its AI Progress and Recommendations report. It breaks down arguments for and against bailouts, industrial policy, and compute subsidies, featuring perspectives from...
Google AI Studio Scores 8/10 for Free, Seamless Integration
Google AI Studio Build Mode Review - I give it an 8/10. - comparable to other AI app builders in quality, but free to use (they must be losing money on this, no?) - turns simple/broad ideas into working micro apps in...
Looking to Slice Your Cloud Bill? This New Service Lets You Rent Lenovo Workstations 50% Cheaper than Public Cloud Alternatives
IMSCAD has launched a Workstation‑as‑a‑Service that rents Lenovo ThinkStation P3 Ultra machines, hosted in Equinix data centres, to users needing high‑performance graphics. The dedicated workstations feature up to a 6.0 GHz Gen 9 Intel CPU and Nvidia GPUs with up to 24 GB VRAM, and...
AI Creativity Turns Work Into Playful Future
I have been talking to the guy (and it is a guy who lives in the UK) who is behind @trishacode (his wife is the drummer). He is one of a new crop of creative geniuses using AI to create new...
This Week in SaaS - Nov 4 - 10, 2025
This week’s SaaS roundup spotlights a surge of AI‑focused funding, with notable rounds for Metropolis, Armis, Beacon Software and several others raising between $20M and $500M, underscoring the market’s appetite for AI‑driven infrastructure and go‑to‑market platforms. Major M&A activity includes...
Precision Over Volume: Learn Faster, Scale Smarter
I’m still glowing with gratitude after an incredible week in London for the Turing × SYSTM Growth Summit. I met so many lovely people — finally connected with friends I’d only known online, made new ones altogether, ate incredible food,...
New Funding Raises Expectations, Work Never Stops
PSA for Startups: Every new funding round raises the bar for your outcome. That’s why the news mostly excites investors. They just got a markup or won the deal. For everyone on the team, it’s a reminder that expectations just went...
Gemini for TV Is Coming to Google TV Streamer Starting Today
Google is rolling out Gemini for TV to Google TV Streamer devices starting today, extending the generative‑AI assistant beyond the limited set of smart TVs that received it in September. The update works on any TV with an HDMI port,...
Reliable Partnerships Drive Successful Corporate Events
The only way to ensure everything will come together to deliver an outstanding event is by coordinating the efforts of reliable partners. The Vital Role of Partnerships for Effective Corporate Events https://t.co/wi8heYLcDZ via @bestcorpevents #teambuilding #meetingprofs https://t.co/WyZXurxBb8
Jarmin: Your 24/7 AI Engineer for Production
https://t.co/meeYOYUPva is your 24/7 ML engineer employee that builds and ships production-ready AI features for you. Just talk to Jarmin (@jarmin_ai) like any other employee, and Jarmin handles your AI/ML work from there, from data prep to deployment. https://t.co/sCoHG7wybr
Investing in Tiny AI Chips for Robots, Medical Devices
This company is one you will hear a LOT more about. They make tiny AI computers for robots and medical devices. I just invested after a friend who makes medical devices told me how far ahead it is.
AI Boosts Tech Giants' Grip on Advertising
#AI Is Accelerating Tech Giants’ Dominance of the Ad Market https://t.co/7IqBWb9otY
AI Demo Agent Scales Product Walkthroughs 24/7
Karumi (@karumihq) is an AI demo agent that makes product demos scalable — it talks, clicks, and personalizes every walkthrough, 24/7. https://t.co/8zAlTgMlcq
World Models Soon Control Everything— We’re Ignoring It
World models are soon going to run everything. The world isn’t paying enough attention.
Most B2B Marketers Value Thought Leadership, Yet Neglect Retention
What is the B2B thought leadership disconnect? Our survey of 800 B2B marketers found 97% feel thought leadership is critical for full funnel success, but only 43% extend it post-sale for retention. Find more insights in our new ungated report:...
VCs Tout Elite AI Labs; Founders Use Alibaba's Qwen
venture capitalists: we back the top ai labs and infrastructure companies such as openai anthropic mistral huggingface coreweave cohere xAi ai founders: we use qwen on ali baba cloud
One-Click Access to Any AI Model, Built for You
Every AI model in the world—open source, commercial, audio, image, text—under one-click. Just ask Agent to build with your favorite model and let us worry about the rest.
AI Travel SaaS Hits $345K Revenue, 300% Growth
Big fan of AI plays like this. Vertical AI SaaS built for travel customer experience. > $345k TTM revenue > $265k TTM profit > 300% YoY growth High-margin + Lean ops Check out listing @acquiredotcom: https://t.co/W8PNmLJqTD https://t.co/xuUCVn0BpK
Meet the AI Realist: Optimistic Yet Cautious
What is the official term for someone who is neither an AI Doomer not an AI Boomer? Someone who sees the enormous potential of AI to do good and create abundance, but is also realistic and cautious about the current...
New AI Advances Promise Safe Humanoid Robots Soon
Luckily new AIs are on their way. Active inferencing and cognitive architectures. That will lead to safe humanoids soon.
Slack Shifted Email From Core to Peripheral Collaboration Tool
Slack didn’t kill email. It made it much less relevant and useful for internal company collaboration.