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AI in Tech Isn’t So Much About Laying Off Humans.  It’s About AI Backfills
BlogOct 28, 2025

AI in Tech Isn’t So Much About Laying Off Humans. It’s About AI Backfills

Jason Lemkin explains that SaaStr has replaced departing employees with AI agents as a routine backfill, not as a cost‑cutting layoff, and now runs over 20 agents covering sales, marketing, support, RevOps and operations. He notes that AI agents require...

By SaaStr
Build Reliable AI Products, Not Just Flashy Demos
SocialOct 28, 2025

Build Reliable AI Products, Not Just Flashy Demos

.@Jacob_Heller is the co-founder & CEO of Casetext, the AI legal startup behind CoCounsel, which was acquired by Thomson Reuters for $650 million. In his talk at AI Startup School, he shared how his team did it—from picking the right idea...

By YCombinator
Stelo Now Available on Google Cloud Marketplace
NewsOct 28, 2025

Stelo Now Available on Google Cloud Marketplace

Stelo announced that its Data Replicator product is now listed on the Google Cloud Marketplace, enabling organizations to purchase and deploy the solution directly from their existing Google Cloud accounts. The offering simplifies enterprise data mirroring and streaming by eliminating...

By MarTech Series
Workato Launches Enterprise MCP for SaaS Platforms
NewsOct 28, 2025

Workato Launches Enterprise MCP for SaaS Platforms

Workato announced the Enterprise MCP, a new offering that lets SaaS platforms make their products agent‑ready without rewriting code, turning existing workflows, integrations and APIs into multi‑step skills callable by LLM‑based agents such as ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini and Cursor. The...

By MarTech Series
LocWorld54 Shows Why Localization Can Be the Next Strategic Powerhouse — And What’s Holding It Back
NewsOct 28, 2025

LocWorld54 Shows Why Localization Can Be the Next Strategic Powerhouse — And What’s Holding It Back

At LocWorld54 in Monterey, localization leaders argued that the function is moving from a cost center to a strategic AI powerhouse, showcasing sessions on making large language models reason like linguists, SPA‑RAG for targeted generation, and operationalizing enterprise‑scale AI translation....

By Forrester Generative AI
OpenAI Completed Its For-Profit Restructuring — and Struck a New Deal with Microsoft
NewsOct 28, 2025

OpenAI Completed Its For-Profit Restructuring — and Struck a New Deal with Microsoft

OpenAI has finalized its for‑profit restructuring, converting its for‑profit arm into a public benefit corporation (OpenAI Group PBC) while the nonprofit OpenAI Foundation retains an equity stake valued at roughly $130 billion and continues oversight. The restructuring is paired with a...

By The Verge AI
Introducing Later EdgeAI, the Industry’s Most Advanced Predictive Intelligence Solution
NewsOct 28, 2025

Introducing Later EdgeAI, the Industry’s Most Advanced Predictive Intelligence Solution

Later, the enterprise influencer‑marketing platform, unveiled Later EdgeAI, an AI‑native engine trained on more than a decade of data covering 16 million creators, 136 billion annual impressions, over 1 billion Linkin.bio transactions and $2 billion in verified influencer‑driven purchases. The solution predicts campaign performance, identifies...

By MarTech Series
Agentic AI & MCP Power Next‑Gen Enterprise Growth
SocialOct 28, 2025

Agentic AI & MCP Power Next‑Gen Enterprise Growth

🚀 The Future of Enterprise Transformation Starts Now 🔍 Harnessing Agentic AI and Model Context Protocol (MCP) for Sustainable Growth 🔹 Businesses are entering a new era driven by autonomy, security, and intelligent adaptability. 🔹 Agentic AI and MCP are redefining...

By Giuliano Liguori
The Download: Microsoft’s Stance on Erotic AI, and an AI Hype Mystery
NewsOct 28, 2025

The Download: Microsoft’s Stance on Erotic AI, and an AI Hype Mystery

Microsoft AI chief Mustafa Suleyman said the company will never build a sex robot and warned that chatbots that appear human risk misleading users, even as Microsoft unveiled new expressive and helpful features for its Copilot assistant. At the same time,...

By MIT Technology Review
Customer Sentiment — and Risk — Are Hidden in the Emails in Your CRM
NewsOct 28, 2025

Customer Sentiment — and Risk — Are Hidden in the Emails in Your CRM

The article explains how generative AI can be applied to inbound email data stored in CRMs to extract sentiment, intent, and risk signals, shifting focus from traditional outbound metrics like opens and clicks to conversational insights. By leveraging NLP and...

By MarTech
Governing the Machine Book Launch – Miriam Vogel, Paul Dongha, and Ray Eitel-Porter
PodcastOct 28, 2025

Governing the Machine Book Launch – Miriam Vogel, Paul Dongha, and Ray Eitel-Porter

The post announces a special episode of the *In AI We Trust?* podcast where EqualAI CEO Miriam Vogel and co‑authors Paul Dongha and Ray Eitel‑Porter launch their new book *Governing the Machine*, outlining their motivation and the book’s core lessons...

By In AI We Trust?
Intuit Learned to Build AI Agents for Finance the Hard Way: Trust Lost in Buckets, Earned Back in Spoonfuls
NewsOct 28, 2025

Intuit Learned to Build AI Agents for Finance the Hard Way: Trust Lost in Buckets, Earned Back in Spoonfuls

Intuit unveiled Intuit Intelligence, an AI orchestration layer for QuickBooks that deploys specialized agents for tasks like tax compliance and payroll, querying verified financial data from native, third‑party and user‑uploaded sources instead of generating text. The system embeds explainability UI...

By VentureBeat AI
Rethinking Marketing’s Relationship with Data
NewsOct 28, 2025

Rethinking Marketing’s Relationship with Data

Veteran marketer Jay Mandel argues that the data‑driven marketing model has become a hollow machine built on "dirty" data, fabricated metrics and extractive consent practices. He illustrates how survey apps and major platforms collect and sell granular user information, fueling...

By MarTech
AI Research Agents Deliver Deep, Cited Analyses Faster
SocialOct 28, 2025

AI Research Agents Deliver Deep, Cited Analyses Faster

Ever tried using ChatGPT or Gemini for research, only to hit a wall when you need real multi-step analysis or technical synthesis? That’s why I tried OpenAI’s $200/Month plan for their research agent! After wasting hours piecing together reports and technical...

By Louis Bouchard
Adobe Launches AI Assistants for Express and Photoshop
NewsOct 28, 2025

Adobe Launches AI Assistants for Express and Photoshop

Adobe unveiled AI assistants for its Creative Cloud apps Express and Photoshop, with Express offering a toggleable mode that generates images and designs from text prompts, and Photoshop’s closed‑beta sidebar assistant capable of understanding layers, auto‑selecting objects, creating masks and...

By TechCrunch AI
Principal IT Consultants Joins EasyDMARC’s MSP Program to Enhance Email Security and Deliverability for Clients
NewsOct 28, 2025

Principal IT Consultants Joins EasyDMARC’s MSP Program to Enhance Email Security and Deliverability for Clients

EasyDMARC announced a strategic partnership with Principal IT Consultants, a US‑based managed service provider, to integrate its cloud‑native email security and deliverability platform into Principal’s MSP program. The collaboration will enable Principal’s clients to implement DMARC, SPF and DKIM controls,...

By MarTech Series
Adobe Firefly Image 5 Brings Support for Layers, Will Let Creators Make Custom Models
NewsOct 28, 2025

Adobe Firefly Image 5 Brings Support for Layers, Will Let Creators Make Custom Models

Adobe unveiled Firefly Image 5, boosting native generation resolution to 4 megapixels and improving human rendering, while introducing layered and prompt‑based editing that lets users modify objects without losing detail. The update adds a closed‑beta feature for creators to build custom image...

By TechCrunch AI
Adobe’s New AI Audio Tools Can Add Soundtracks and Voice-Overs to Videos
NewsOct 28, 2025

Adobe’s New AI Audio Tools Can Add Soundtracks and Voice-Overs to Videos

Adobe unveiled two new generative‑AI audio tools, Generate Soundtrack and Generate Speech, in public beta on its Firefly platform. Generate Soundtrack analyzes an uploaded video and produces up to four instrumental clips—each up to five minutes—aligned to the footage, with...

By The Verge AI
TrustRadius Goes Beyond the Buzzword with New AI Report Examining Real-World B2B Search and Buying Trends
NewsOct 28, 2025

TrustRadius Goes Beyond the Buzzword with New AI Report Examining Real-World B2B Search and Buying Trends

TrustRadius, an HG Insights company, released the report "From Buzzword to Backbone: How AI Is Redefining B2B Search and Buying," based on a survey of its buyer community. The study found that 95% of respondents use AI at least weekly,...

By MarTech Series
You Can Tell Adobe Express’s New AI Assistant to Edit Your Designs for You
NewsOct 28, 2025

You Can Tell Adobe Express’s New AI Assistant to Edit Your Designs for You

Adobe has launched a public beta of an AI Assistant for its Express design platform, offering a chatbot‑style interface that lets users create or edit visuals through natural‑language prompts. The tool can handle vague requests like “make this pop,” specific...

By The Verge AI
Photoshop and Premiere Pro’s New AI Tools Can Instantly Edit More of Your Work
NewsOct 28, 2025

Photoshop and Premiere Pro’s New AI Tools Can Instantly Edit More of Your Work

Adobe unveiled a suite of generative‑AI upgrades at its Max event, letting Photoshop’s Generative Fill run on third‑party models such as Google’s Gemini 2.5 Flash and Black Forest Labs’ Flux.1 Kontext alongside Adobe’s own Firefly. The company also introduced a web‑based AI Assistant for...

By The Verge AI
The Brutal Truth About Series B: Only 1 in 3 Deals Even Double Investors’ Money, Per Latest Carta Data
BlogOct 28, 2025

The Brutal Truth About Series B: Only 1 in 3 Deals Even Double Investors’ Money, Per Latest Carta Data

Carta’s analysis of 547 U.S. startups that raised primary Series B rounds in 2018 shows that only about one‑third of those investments doubled investors’ money, while 66% delivered two‑times or less – including 38.6% that are now worth the same or...

By SaaStr
“We Will Never Build a Sex Robot,” Says Mustafa Suleyman
NewsOct 28, 2025

“We Will Never Build a Sex Robot,” Says Mustafa Suleyman

Microsoft AI chief Mustafa Suleyman warned against building "seemingly conscious" AI while unveiling new Copilot features aimed at keeping users grounded in reality. The updates include a group‑chat mode, a "Real Talk" setting that reduces sycophancy, expanded memory for personal...

By MIT Technology Review
#176: ChatGPT Atlas, ChatGPT Atlas Security Issues, Letter to Pause Superintelligence, Amazon’s Plan to Automate 600,000 Jobs & New Data...
PodcastOct 28, 2025

#176: ChatGPT Atlas, ChatGPT Atlas Security Issues, Letter to Pause Superintelligence, Amazon’s Plan to Automate 600,000 Jobs & New Data...

The post introduces The Artificial Intelligence Show, a weekly podcast that distills AI news, analysis, and actionable insights for professionals and businesses. Hosted by Paul Roetzer and Mike Kaput, the show blends timely updates, listener Q&A, and deep‑dive storytelling, aiming...

By The Artificial Intelligence Show
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PodcastOct 28, 202535 min

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In this solo episode, Rob Walling tackles listener questions about product positioning, debating vertical, orthogonal, and horizontal strategies for bootstrapped SaaS founders, and examines whether AI now makes inventing a new category viable. He stresses evaluating how much a product...

By Startups For the Rest of Us
Get Started: Performance Marketing Plays that WORK
PodcastOct 28, 202559 min

Get Started: Performance Marketing Plays that WORK

In this episode, host Matt Sciannella and guest Ky Shaw break down proven performance‑marketing tactics for B2B pipeline generation, from high‑intent offers and direct‑response LinkedIn ads to calculators and incentivized demos, while tying them to a broader go‑to‑market framework that...

By Stacking Growth (The B2B Go-to-Market Podcast)
198. Jakob Lilholm, Co-Founder & CEO, Formalize - The S-Curve Bet: How to Time Product #2 Before Product #1 Peaks?
PodcastOct 28, 202549 min

198. Jakob Lilholm, Co-Founder & CEO, Formalize - The S-Curve Bet: How to Time Product #2 Before Product #1 Peaks?

In the episode, Jakob Lilholm, CEO of Formalize, explains how the company timed its transition from a single‑point whistleblowing tool to a multi‑product GRC platform by leveraging EU regulatory trends and an S‑curve model to launch product 2 before product 1 peaked....

By The SaaSiest Podcast
An AI Adoption Riddle
NewsOct 28, 2025

An AI Adoption Riddle

The author investigated whether companies are scaling back AI spending after recent setbacks, such as the underwhelming GPT‑5 launch and a report that 95% of generative AI pilots are failing. Despite widespread media narratives of an AI bubble, no firm...

By MIT Technology Review
The Role of Video in Engaging Customers – RS Raghavan – Animaker
PodcastOct 28, 202525 min

The Role of Video in Engaging Customers – RS Raghavan – Animaker

In this episode, RS Raghavan, CEO and Co‑Founder of Animaker, explains how his passion for visual storytelling led to an AI‑powered platform that turns text prompts into studio‑quality videos in minutes, dramatically simplifying video creation for marketers, sales teams, and...

By Marketing B2B Technology
Neo Robot Launch Prioritizes Everyday Chores Over Stunts
SocialOct 28, 2025

Neo Robot Launch Prioritizes Everyday Chores Over Stunts

What is @1x_tech up to later today at 11 a.m.? Launching its Neo home robot. Here's @karpathy who I surprised with my Apple Vision Pro on right after he hugged Neo while teleoperating it in one of the demos at its party...

By Robert Scoble
Launching AlertMouse: Superior Real‑Time Web Mention Tracking
SocialOct 28, 2025

Launching AlertMouse: Superior Real‑Time Web Mention Tracking

I've got a new job. Not leaving my old ones, but... alongside my friends @adamdoppelt & Nathan Kriege, we're launching https://alertmouse.com today -- just think "what if Google Alerts was really good at tracking web mentions, instead of completely useless?" We built...

By Rand Fishkin
Predictions 2026: The Race To Trust And Value
NewsOct 28, 2025

Predictions 2026: The Race To Trust And Value

Forrester’s 2026 predictions warn that economic and geopolitical volatility will persist, tempering AI hype and prompting leaders to shift from ambition to pragmatism. The firm advises marketers, CX and tech executives to prioritize trust, operational discipline, and accountable AI governance...

By Forrester Generative AI
ChatGPT Go Launches in Brazil for R$39.99 per Month
SocialOct 28, 2025

ChatGPT Go Launches in Brazil for R$39.99 per Month

1/ Hey Brazil, ChatGPT Go is now available for just R$39,99 per month — a more affordable way to use our advanced AI tool. https://t.co/UcfuEreIhg

By Nick Turley
From Seats to Credits: Next Bubble's Lingering Hangover
SocialOct 28, 2025

From Seats to Credits: Next Bubble's Lingering Hangover

There was a “seats” hangover after the 2021 bubble There will be a “credits” hangover after the 2025 bubble

By Brian Halligan
CAM Ascent Drives 65%+ NPS Surge for Cadden Community Management with Actionable Sentiment Insights
NewsOct 28, 2025

CAM Ascent Drives 65%+ NPS Surge for Cadden Community Management with Actionable Sentiment Insights

CAM Ascent’s data‑driven sentiment analysis and targeted engagement strategies helped Cadden Community Management lift its Net Promoter Score by more than 65%, driving higher board satisfaction and cutting member churn. The partnership delivered actionable sentiment insights that translated into measurable...

By MarTech Series
OpenAI Shifts to Public Benefit Corporation Status
SocialOct 28, 2025

OpenAI Shifts to Public Benefit Corporation Status

OpenAI conversion to PBC https://t.co/3tdPRWR4DU

By Elad Gil
Target Listicle Placements to Win on AEO
SocialOct 28, 2025

Target Listicle Placements to Win on AEO

Want to win on AEO? Focus on listicle placements. Create your own and get featured in others. Use tools like Ahrefs Brand Radar to find & contact listicle editors. 🎥 Search "Leveling Up with Eric Siu" on YouTube for more contents like this....

By Eric Siu
Amazon Marketing Cloud Just Got a Lot More Powerful — Here’s What to Know
NewsOct 28, 2025

Amazon Marketing Cloud Just Got a Lot More Powerful — Here’s What to Know

Amazon Marketing Cloud (AMC) has rolled out new integrations that surface granular, privacy‑safe metrics such as customer lifetime value (LTV), new‑customer acquisition cost (CAC) and new‑customer ROAS, moving beyond the traditional aggregate ROAS measure. The clean‑room platform continues to accept...

By MarTech Series
Apten AI Agent Proactively Engages Leads Across All Channels
SocialOct 28, 2025

Apten AI Agent Proactively Engages Leads Across All Channels

Apten is an omnichannel AI agent that engages leads across text, call, email, and webchat. It's not only able to start a conversation through webchat, but proactively reaches out via SMS/voice/email once the lead goes inactive. https://t.co/N7hPSoVvG8 Congrats on the launch, @dho1357 and...

By YCombinator
One Bad Campaign Doesn't Mean a Channel Fails
SocialOct 28, 2025

One Bad Campaign Doesn't Mean a Channel Fails

The more founders I work with, the more I realize: most teams write off entire marketing channels based on one failed campaign. The channel isn't broken. You're just not looking at the campaign-level data that actually matters. https://t.co/FI8G6RNGXZ

By Asia Orangio
Enterpret Launches the First Agentic Customer Feedback Platform to Unify, Understand, and Act on Scattered Customer Signals
NewsOct 28, 2025

Enterpret Launches the First Agentic Customer Feedback Platform to Unify, Understand, and Act on Scattered Customer Signals

Enterpret unveiled an agentic customer‑feedback platform that automatically pulls data from more than 50 channels, builds a Customer Knowledge Graph and Adaptive Taxonomy, and deploys AI agents to answer natural‑language queries and trigger real‑time actions. The solution replaces manual tagging,...

By MarTech Series
Amazon's 750k Robots Replace Thousands of Warehouse Workers
SocialOct 28, 2025

Amazon's 750k Robots Replace Thousands of Warehouse Workers

🇺🇸 Amazon has more than 750,000 #Robots working in all their #warehouses. Each picking robot in the warehouse can replace 24 #workers #amazon #Robotics #humanoid @mvollmer1 @vinod1975 @helene_wpli @KirkDBorne @jeffkagan https://t.co/ylFLhlV6d7

By Amitav Bhattacharjee
AR + Generative AGI Enables Instant Expert Performance
SocialOct 28, 2025

AR + Generative AGI Enables Instant Expert Performance

Augmented reality + generative AGI means people can suddenly do expert-level work they never trained #AR #MR #XR #VR #GenAGI #GenAI #AugmentedReality #AI @anand_narang @antgrasso @Khulood_Almani @AlbertoEMachado @baski_LA https://t.co/dFrCsWVSh0

By Amitav Bhattacharjee
Is Your CMO Ready to Be a Quantitative Analyst?
NewsOct 28, 2025

Is Your CMO Ready to Be a Quantitative Analyst?

The article argues that today’s chief marketing officers must evolve from creative strategists into quantitative analysts, leveraging predictive software, attribution tools, customer data platforms and BI dashboards to turn marketing into a profit center. It outlines essential skills—statistical fluency, data...

By MarTech Series
B2B Commerce Goes Consumer: Marketers Must Adapt
SocialOct 28, 2025

B2B Commerce Goes Consumer: Marketers Must Adapt

The Consumerization of B2B Commerce: What Marketers Need to Know - B2B Marketing Blog | Webbiquity - https://t.co/wIRyz7GgSA

By Tom Pick
AI Frees Workers to Focus on Creativity, Strategy
SocialOct 28, 2025

AI Frees Workers to Focus on Creativity, Strategy

AI is transforming job roles by letting humans focus on creativity and strategy while automating routine tasks. Ready to shift from creator to curator? Learn more: https://t.co/99Xzl56S7R #AI #FutureOfWork #IoT #IBM https://t.co/HGXLy1QbNZ

By Harold Sinnott
Motive Launches AI Answers: The First Conversational AI for Physical Operations
NewsOct 28, 2025

Motive Launches AI Answers: The First Conversational AI for Physical Operations

Motive, the AI‑driven Integrated Operations Platform, announced the launch of AI Answers, a conversational AI tool designed specifically for physical‑operations teams. The system lets users pose natural‑language queries and instantly pulls answers from complex databases, reports, and sensor feeds, eliminating...

By MarTech Series
Founders Hire Likable VPs, Ignore Product Expertise
SocialOct 28, 2025

Founders Hire Likable VPs, Ignore Product Expertise

The #1 mistake I see founders hiring their first VP of Sales? Hiring someone they like. That talks the talk. But that never understands the product. https://t.co/xqO0h14EFc

By Jason Lemkin
OpenAI Announces Major Leap in AI Capabilities
SocialOct 28, 2025

OpenAI Announces Major Leap in AI Capabilities

OpenAI is upping the ante massively https://t.co/MmMAdIF7GL via @ft https://t.co/olx1X0v4DJ

By Harold Sinnott