The Surprising Way AI Expands Markets Instead of Capturing Them
Nathaniel Whittemore argues that AI doesn’t simply seize existing markets but expands them by reshaping cost structures, client expectations, and enabling new challenger firms, using consulting as a vivid case study. He highlights 13 consulting‑derived lessons that show AI’s transformative impact, from collapsing delivery costs to the rise of “Agent Labs” and AI‑enhanced coding. The author’s perspective blends industry observation with forward‑looking analysis, emphasizing that AI’s real disruption lies in creating fresh opportunities rather than displacing incumbents.
ChatGPT Can Now Read ALL Your Company Data
In this episode Jaiden Schafer explains OpenAI’s new company‑knowledge integration that lets ChatGPT securely connect to an organization’s internal data and workflows, effectively allowing the model to “read” all company information. The update promises faster answer retrieval, task automation, and...
Redesign Your Business Around AI, Not Just Augment It
Founder: I’ve got 35 AI agents now. They're making me 100x more productive! Me: And you’re still on Zoom calls all day??? [Founder nods.] Me: Then you’re missing the whole point of AI. Founder: What do you mean? Me: You’re trying to bend AI to...
Dedicated Knowledge Team Cuts 88% Tickets Under One Minute
Broadcom has established an entire knowledge workflow to maintain agent intelligence at scale. With this knowledge team process and a few 3P products in place, 88% of Broadcom's IT tickets are solved in under one minute. I think other businesses can...
AI-Powered Search Engines Rely on “Less Popular” Sources, Researchers Find
Researchers from Ruhr University and the Max Planck Institute compared Google’s AI Overviews, Gemini‑2.5‑Flash, GPT‑4o and GPT‑4o with Search Tool to traditional Google organic results and found that AI‑powered searches cite far less popular domains, often falling outside the top 1,000 or...
Mantle Automates Grunt Work, Letting Companies Focus on Building
Mantle (https://t.co/acxDq4HklH) is the operating system for every company. Tell Mantle about the grunt work you do and it does it for you in the background, exactly how you would, directly in your stack. Let Mantle do the boring stuff for...
Poolside's 2GW AI Factory Redefines Vertical Integration
some thoughts on @poolsideai's project horizon announcement last week: building a 2gw ai factory "This level of vertical integration - from model and agent development through to power generation and deployment - gives poolside a durable advantage as AI systems become...
New Corporate Espionage Claims Emerge, Centered on Two Highly Valued 401(k) Admin Startups
Human Interest, a $1.4 billion‑valued 401(k) admin startup, sued rival Guideline in Utah federal court alleging that three Sterri brothers, two of whom were junior sales reps at Human Interest and one a Guideline employee, stole confidential lead data, partnership information...
Public SaaS Stagnates; Private AI Unicorns Lead Growth
As the world follows every whisper & rumor from AI, what has happened to public SaaS? The answer is not much! All the fun is in the private markets. Multiples haven’t moved outside of a narrow band since the post-Covid crash in...
MiniMax-M2 Is the New King of Open Source LLMs (Especially for Agentic Tool Calling)
MiniMax-M2, the latest open‑source LLM from Chinese startup MiniMax, has claimed the top spot among open‑weight models on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index and posted near‑proprietary scores on agentic tool‑calling benchmarks (τ²‑Bench 77.2, BrowseComp 44.0, FinSearchComp‑global 65.5). Built on a...
From Symbolic AI to Agents: Seven Stages of Evolution
🎯 Scaling Ascent Peak: The Seven Summits of Artificial Intelligence In my latest article, I chart the evolution of AI—from the early days of symbolic logic to today’s autonomous agents, and what lies beyond. This journey is more than a history...
AI Gives Basketball Scouts 10× Insights in 10% Time
PlayVision (@playvisionai) is the AI Moneyball for Sports: the future for scouting, recruiting, and playing the game. After scouting for Cal Athletics, the team built PlayVision to automatically analyze film for basketball teams, giving them 10x more insights— in 10% of...
LexisNexis CEO Says the AI Law Era Is Already Here
LexisNexis CEO Sean Fitzpatrick announced that the company’s new AI platform, Protégé, is moving beyond research to generate draft legal documents, promising higher accuracy by grounding output in its 160 billion‑document corpus and a built‑in citator to prevent hallucinated citations. The...
AI Automation Boosts Value of Handcrafted, Human-Made Experiences
FROM THE LIVE SHOW: “Even if a robot can cook better than Thomas Keller, you’ll still want to eat at the French Laundry, because you know Thomas Keller made the meal.” As AI floods the web with generated content, Runway (@runwayco)...
The Human Side of AI Branding
On the Duct Tape Marketing Podcast, brand strategist Mark Kingsley argued that AI is reshaping branding by amplifying both strengths and shortcomings: it can scale ethical, human-centered brand behavior or accelerate commoditization if firms merely chase algorithms. Kingsley—author of Brands...
AI Agents Boost Productivity, Especially for Non‑technical Teams
My biggest takeaways from Dhanji Prasanna, CTO of @Blocks: 1. Block’s internal AI agent "Goose" is saving employees on average 8 to 10 hours per week. The company built an open-source tool called Goose that handles tasks from organizing files to...
True Tech Expertise Requires Hands‑on Tesla FSD Experience
Good morning. Totally agree with @YunTaTsai1 below where he says robotics researchers shouldn't call themselves experts if they haven't had direct experience with @Tesla's FSD 14. In fact I'd go further. You can't call yourself a technology expert if you...
Anthropic Rolls Out Claude AI for Finance, Integrates with Excel to Rival Microsoft Copilot
Anthropic unveiled Claude for Excel, embedding its AI assistant directly into Microsoft Excel and linking it to live market data through new partnerships with Aiera, Third Bridge, Chronograph, Egnyte, LSEG and Moody's, complementing earlier integrations with S&P Capital IQ, FactSet...
Taiwan’s LionFans Unveils Upgraded AI-Powered SmartSync System, Delivering 22% ROI Growth for Asia-Pacific Clients
LionFans, a Taiwan‑based social‑media marketing technology firm, unveiled an upgraded version of its proprietary SmartSync platform that incorporates advanced AI‑driven analytics. The new SmartSync system is designed to help brands across the Asia‑Pacific region optimize campaign performance and boost marketing...
AI Tools Now Learn From Creators, Fueling a Creative Loop
For a decade, creation meant learning the tools. Now the tools are beginning to learn from the creators. As @billpeeb, who leads Sora at OpenAI, put it: “Seventy percent of our users are creating content even to this day, a week and a...
Experts Warn Microsoft Copilot Studio Agents Are Being Hijacked to Steal OAuth Tokens
Datadog Security Labs identified a new phishing method called CoPhish that hijacks Microsoft Copilot Studio agents (called Topics) to present fake login or consent flows, tricking users into granting OAuth permissions and handing attackers tokens that provide access to email,...
Syndio Launches Syndi: The AI Solution That Wins Talent Without Breaking Budgets or Sacrificing Fairness
Syndio unveiled Syndi, an AI‑native decision‑intelligence platform that embeds pay recommendations directly into the tools where managers work, aiming to help firms attract top talent while controlling compensation costs and preserving internal equity. The solution draws on Syndio’s fairness algorithms...
Pinterest Experiments with New AI-Powered Personalized Boards
Pinterest announced a rollout of AI‑powered upgrades to its boards, starting in the U.S. and Canada and expanding globally in the coming months. The new "Styled for you" collage lets users mix and match saved fashion pins to create personalized...
Gold Rush Or Fool’s Gold? How To Evaluate Security Tools’ Generative AI Claims
Forrester released a new research report, *Panning For Gold: How To Evaluate Generative AI Capabilities In Security Tools*, outlining three dimensions—utility, trust, and cost—to assess AI‑driven security products. The report emphasizes trust, detailing methods such as crowdsourced QA, golden datasets,...
OpenText Unveils New Solutions for Guidewire to Power AI and Cloud-Ready Insurance Workflows
OpenText announced its OpenText Content Cloud solutions for Guidewire at the Guidewire Connections event, targeting insurers seeking faster cloud migration and AI‑enabled workflow automation. The suite integrates with Guidewire InsuranceSuite to provide secure, cloud‑native storage and intelligent retrieval of policy...
If You Can’t Afford a Vacation, an AI App Will Sell You Pictures of One
AI‑driven "manifestation" apps are letting low‑income users generate personalized fake vacation photos as a form of digital escapism, with products like Meta designer Laurent Del Rey’s Endless Summer creating fictional travel scenes from three user‑supplied selfies. The trend was highlighted by former...
‘Clinical-Grade AI’: A New Buzzy AI Word that Means Absolutely Nothing
Lyra Health unveiled a so‑called “clinical‑grade” AI chatbot aimed at helping users manage burnout, sleep issues and stress, but the phrase has no FDA or legal definition and the company says it falls outside medical‑device regulation. Industry analysts and legal...
Guidehouse Launches The Managed Services Guide
Guidehouse released The Managed Services Guide, a flagship report outlining a new ‘intelligent operations’ model that combines AI, automation and specialized human expertise to reshape managed services delivery. The report highlights specific shifts—greater automation of routine tasks, AI-driven decisioning, and...
2027 AI Path: Align Now or Lose Humanity
🚨 From Agent-1 to Superintelligence: The AI 2027 Scenario The AI 2027 Report outlines one of the most thought-provoking trajectories for artificial intelligence: a rapid evolution from simple assistants (Agent-1) to autonomous, adversarially misaligned systems (Agent-4) and ultimately to Agent-5 —...
Remote Growth Marketer Needed for 2M+ AI Audience
🚨 I AM HIRING. Growth Marketer and 100% remote. You’ll own email and funnels for a 2M+ audience in AI advising and education. This is a rare opportunity - you don’t want to miss it. If you live for tests, journeys, conversion, apply...
The AI Oversight Gap Is Marketing’s Next Governance Test
Marketing’s rapid adoption of unvetted AI tools has created a major governance gap that is driving costly data breaches and operational disruption, with IBM finding 13% of organizations suffered AI‑related breaches and 97% of those lacked proper access controls. The...
Debunking Myths: Research-Backed Secrets of High-Performing Teams
Secrets of High-Performing Teams: Insights from Harvard Business Review https://t.co/AQeNmCtG2T via @bestcorpevents #Leadership often focuses on myths about high performance. This post exposes some of those myths and provides research-based guidance. #EQ #futureofwork https://t.co/U3ZsASMymI
Ask “Now What” For Instant AI ROI
If your friends or coworkers are still struggling with prompting or figuring out what AI can do for them, just tell them to type: Now what. Simple, powerful, easy to use, immediate ROI. Claude 4.5 and GPT-5 are powerful enough reasoning models to...
RingCentral Named a Leader in the 2025 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Unified Communications as a Service Report for Eleventh Year...
RingCentral was named a Leader in Gartner’s 2025 Magic Quadrant for Unified Communications as a Service for the eleventh consecutive year, underscoring its sustained market position. In Gartner’s Critical Capabilities for UCaaS report, RingCentral ranked #1 in two of six...
Great Product Doesn’t Guarantee Business
The biggest myth in tech is that great product automatically builds a great business.
AI Marketing Startup Hits $1.15M ARR, 997% Growth
AI startups are printing cash. Live on @acquiredotcom: AI platform helping marketers maximize every dollar. Automating research, creative testing and scaling campaigns. > $1.15M ARR > $798K TTM revenue > $678K TTM profit > 997% YoY growth Full listing: https://t.co/jNAVKv3ABY https://t.co/GOthuI0JQl
Martech, Adtech and Sales Tech: Are They Converging — and Should They?
Martech, adtech and sales tech are rapidly converging as vendors and customers unite data and capabilities across the full revenue funnel, driven by CDPs and data clean rooms, RevOps models, privacy-driven first‑party strategies and AI‑powered orchestration. Major platform moves—Salesforce, Adobe...
B2B Must Offer Instant Value, Not Delayed Features
Today your B2B product has to deliver immediate "WTF" value now. Not "interesting." Not "I'll think about it." Holy Cr*p, Almost Instant Value. The old playbook of annual releases, 12-month enterprise rollouts, and quarterly webinars? Dead. 🧵Here's what's replacing it...
ChatGPT Enhances Sensitive-Response Safety, Updates Model Spec
Today we shared an update about recent improvements to how ChatGPT responds in sensitive moments. We also published an update to the Model Spec to make some of our longstanding safety goals explicit. This is ongoing work and we’ll continue...
Smarsh Named a Leader in the 2025 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Digital Communications Governance and Archiving Solutions
Smarsh was named a Leader for the second consecutive year in Gartner’s 2025 Magic Quadrant for Digital Communications Governance and Archiving, signaling sustained market recognition. The company highlighted advances to its AI-driven platform, including a new Intelligent Agent, Microsoft Copilot...
Customer Sales Feel Better than Investor Pitches
Selling to customers is so much nicer than selling to investors.
Strategy Starts With Aspiration, Field, and True Advantage
Strategy isn't just a trendy term—it's about making a series of courageous, coordinated decisions. In our newest Playing to Win: Practitioners Insight, @RogerLMartin and I explore why effective strategy begins with a distinct aspiration, a strategic playing field, and a...
Litera Democratizes AI for Legal Professionals in Its Core Products, Giving Millions of Lawyers No-Cost Access to Advanced Agentic AI...
Litera announced it will provide no-cost access to its agentic AI, Lito, to millions of legal professionals by integrating the tool into its core products and partnerships, including AI drafting tools, contract-review platform Kira, and content platform NetDocuments. The move...
RPO Shows Future Revenue—Track, Grow, Storytelling
RPO reveals your future revenue. 📈 Track it. Grow it. Use it to tell a stronger story. New SaaS Metrics School episode is live 👇 https://t.co/gchRtmCwJr #SaaS #SaaSMetrics https://t.co/IIQl3eHxfb
AI Video Creation Becomes Instant and Interactive
"Instant, interactive AI video." Boom!
Four Evidence-Based Strategies to Boost Team Collaboration
4 Research-Backed Ways to Help Your Team Collaborate Better - https://t.co/YlbvnyydFJ - https://t.co/1oObzNjeuR by Jay Van Basel and Laura Kriska
Play Health Redefines Perimenopause Care with Data-Driven Tracking
Play Health (@playhealthco) is setting a new standard for perimenopause care through comprehensive in-app tracking combined with hormone testing to provide data-driven insights that support faster care and improved outcomes. https://t.co/Sff2rkedc7 Congrats on the launch, @a_mazzocchi and Ian!
SEO Evolves Into Search Everywhere Optimization Across Platforms
SEO isn’t just about search anymore. It’s now Search Everywhere Optimization, YouTube, Reddit, LLMs, you name it. The future belongs to marketers who optimize across every platform. https://t.co/uQm5kyuki6
Skip Process‑obsessed VP of Sales Before $10M ARR
Before $10m ARR, Do not hire a VP of Sales that mainly talks about process You are too early for them
Discussing AI Report and 2025 Biotech Trends in NYC
It was such a pleasure to spend a Saturday morning with @RecursionChris recording this pod in NYC to talk about the @stateofaireport and biotech in 2025🦎 👀