Developers Can Now Add Live Google Maps Data to Gemini-Powered AI App Outputs
Google has launched 'Grounding with Google Maps' for its Gemini API, letting developers embed live Google Maps data—covering over 250 million places—into Gemini-powered AI responses to provide factual, location-specific details like hours, reviews and venue photos. The feature is available in Google AI Studio and via the generateContent method, supports multiple Gemini 2.x models, and returns structured metadata and a Maps widget; pricing starts at $25 per 1,000 grounded prompts. The integration aims to supercharge local-search, delivery, travel and real-estate apps by combining geospatial accuracy with generative reasoning, though latency, cost and geographic restrictions (e.g., China, Iran) are key implementation considerations. For firms building location-aware experiences, the capability materially raises the bar for contextual relevance while creating a new cost-performance tradeoff to manage.
Domain‑Specific AI Agents Accelerate Enterprise Adoption
Having talked to hundreds of IT leaders over the last year alone, it’s clear we have a capability overhang where the current AI models are already very good at solving many problems that haven’t been adopted yet. The biggest hurdles generally...
AI Agents Get Self‑Driving Safety Testing with Scorecard
Exclusive first look: I sat down with Darius Ani, @dariusemrani, CEO of Scorecard, a company that’s bringing self-driving car safety logic to the world of AI agents. Darius shared how his experience as an engineer at @Waymo inspired a system...
Senate Republicans Deepfaked Chuck Schumer, and X Hasn’t Taken It Down
Senate Republicans posted a deepfaked video of Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer on their X account and the platform has not removed it, despite policies banning deceptively shared synthetic or manipulated media likely to cause harm. X’s rules explicitly prohibit...
Today's Top 10 SaaS Cloud Multiples Revealed
This week in enterprise software: Top 10 #SaaS #Cloud multiples as of today's market close
Choose the Right Location for Your AI Agents
It’s 9:30 AM. Do you know where your agent is? As we enter the era of agentic AI, this is an increasingly important question. ChatGPT launched the consumer use of AI, compressing all of human knowledge into a single model....
This Week in AI Engineering
This week’s AI engineering roundup highlights three developments reshaping developer workflows and compute economics: OpenAI launched Agent Builder, a no-code drag-and-drop tool that lets non-developers assemble multi-agent workflows alongside ChatKit, Evals and reinforcement fine-tuning; NVIDIA unveiled the DGX Spark, a...
Know Your Agent’s Real‑Time Location at 9:30 AM
It’s 9:30 AM. Do you know where your agent is? As we enter the era of agentic AI, this is an increasingly important question. ChatGPT launched the consumer use of AI, compressing all of human knowledge into a single model....
Google Unveils Wave of AI Tools and Updates
It’s been an unbelie-veo-ble week of launches! Here’s everything that happened: — We launched Veo 3.1 with a suite of new features to give you more creative control of your video generations. — We brought Nano Banana into new surfaces like @Google...
Ep. 179 - The Smart SaaS Funding Path No One Talks About
In this episode, Ken Lempit talks with Melanie Nabar, Vice President of Volition Capital, about growth‑equity financing as a middle‑ground alternative to traditional venture or private‑equity routes for B2B SaaS companies. Nabar explains how growth equity can provide capital for...
Mastering Replit Fluency Enables Apps Built in Mind
I think after 100+ days and with 9 apps vibe coded into production with @Replit used over 500,000 times we're just getting going. 🧠And … I think key to that is that I'm now "Replit Fluent". What does that mean? It's...
B2B Influencer Fees Need Tiered Pricing, Not Flat Rates
Dear CMO: Thanks again for offering me $800 to write 10 X and LinkedIn posts for you as a “B2B Influencer”! I do think these programs make sense. (If and until algos kill them.) Every B2B marketer seems to think...
Meta Unveils New Parental Controls For Its AI Companions
Meta announced new parental controls for its AI companions, adding PG‑13 moderation, parent-accessible chat summaries, the ability to restrict teens to specific avatars or block avatar interactions entirely (while retaining access to the AI assistant). The move follows an August...
Veo 3.1 Empowers Creators with Richer Audio and Video Control
Meet Veo 3.1 👋 With Veo 3.1, you can generate videos with richer audio, better narrative control, and enhanced realism. This new update also comes with a suite of additional features built for creative control. Including the ability to: — Extend your videos...
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LIVE OFFICE HOURS -- FREE GTM ADVICE. Zoom in the comments...
Teachers Get an F on AI-Generated Lesson Plans
A study analyzing 311 AI-generated civics lesson plans (2,230 activities) from ChatGPT, Gemini and Copilot found the tools largely produce rote, “recite-and-recall” instruction: 90% of activities targeted lower-order thinking and just 6% included multicultural content. The plans tended to omit...
Season Finale: Join AI Chat Series Before Nov 15
ill end the first season of ai chit chat series soon. if you want to be a part of it or if you want me ask someone to be a guest, let me know asap :) im fully booked till...
Flat Streaming Market Reveals Fierce Share Battles
The best ways to see market share dynamics play out is often not by looking at rapidly growing categories but incredibly flat ones. One fascinating example is the streaming category in the United States, whose brand search data maps very...
AI Turns Everyone Into a Product Builder
Dylan Field says we're all product builders now. Figma CEO shared new data showing how AI is merging roles like designer, engineer, and PM: • 72% of workers say AI tools are expanding their roles • 56% of non-designers now complete...
AI Success Lies in Resegmenting, Not Creating New Categories
Most AI products aren’t creating new categories. They’re resegmenting existing ones. Understanding the difference shapes everything about how you build, market, and scale. Resegmentation means taking a job people already understand and making it faster, clearer, or more accessible. Category creation means...
ROSE Metric Reveals Your SaaS Luxury of Time
One of the slides I shared at SaaStock Europe. If you are struggling with profitability or scaling, the ROSE Metric is a key indicator of whether you can build a sustainable tech company. I talk about the "luxury of time"...
Founders Lose Half Week to Tasks AI Can Automate
Every founder I mentor is wasting 30–50% of their week on tasks AI could already do. Here’s the AI system I recommend to buy that time back👇
From 2009 Investment to 2700‑Attendee ClioCon: Persistence Pays
So awesome to see Jack Newton deliver another incredible ClioCon keynote – this time in front of 2700 attendees! Watching Jack and Clio grow continues to be one of the absolute highlights of my career. Clio was one of Pawel...
Founders Can Reclaim 30‑50% of Time with AI
Every founder I mentor is wasting 30–50% of their week on tasks AI could already do. Here’s the AI system I recommend to buy that time back👇 Most people are still underestimating AI. The founders, marketers, and leaders who win...
Scalable AI Agents Need Observability and Orchestration
LIVE FROM DREAMFORCE: Nancy Xu (@nancycxu), VP of @Salesforce AI, on scaling agents and the next frontier of AI scaffolding. “During peak tax season, customers like 1-800 Accountant handled millions of tax queries and achieved a 90% deflection rate. That predictability...
Verbalized Sampling Ends Prompt Engineering, Solves Mode Collapse
💥 Stanford just killed Prompt Engineering — and that’s a good thing. A single paper just changed how we understand alignment, diversity, and creativity in AI forever. --- 🔥 RIP Prompt Engineering ☠️ A groundbreaking new Stanford paper just made it obsolete — with...
Align Brand and Demand: Balance Logic, Campaign Mindset, KPIs
Three reminders about brand and demand in B2B: and vs or, campaign mentality and the importance of KPIs and narratives together.
HuggingChat Omni Unites 100+ Models for Optimal Answers
The main breakthrough of GPT-5 was to route your messages between a couple of different models to give you the best, cheapest & fastest answer possible. This is cool but imagine if you could do this not only for a couple...
Collaboration Turns Agentic AI Into Real Business Impact
When it comes to the potential of agentic AI, the technology is already here. What will define its future is how we apply it to achieve real impact. As our Chief Product Officer, Graham Sheldon , writes in his new...
Secure AI Agents with Trust‑first, Least‑privilege Approach
How do you secure AI agents that work autonomously? At #Dreamforce, I spoke with Marla Hay, SVP at @Salesforce, about securing the agentic future with new #Agentforce security and compliance capabilities. Key insights: 🔐Salesforce’s Trust Layer protects from day one 🎯 Apply least privilege...
Real‑time Data Streaming Unlocks Adaptive Generative AI
The full potential of generative AI is unlocked when it can act on data the moment it’s created. That’s been one of the biggest challenges for intelligent agents, until now. At Current New Orleans, we’ll sit down with Rachel Lo...
Lunar Solar Acquires Sharma Brands, Boosting Client Capabilities
I'm beyond excited to share that @lunarsolargroup has acquired @SharmaBrands! As of October 1st, my team and I have joined forces with @piersonkrass and the Lunar crew. 🎉🤝 Over the past few years, Sharma Brands has had the privilege of launching...
Customers' AI Agents Redefine the Marketing Landscape
Sharing a draft illustration of 3 different "domains" of AI agents in marketing to solicit feedback. The 3 different domains: 1. AI agents for marketers, used internally. 2. AI agents for customers externally, but run by marketers internally. 3. AI agents operating on behalf...
AI Will Become Our Proactive AR Sales Assistant
LIVE FROM DREAMFORCE: Silvio Savarese (@silviocinguetta), Chief Scientist at @Salesforce, on the future of human–AI interaction. “Imagine a sales rep preparing for a customer meeting — AI can provide all the right documentation and context beforehand, and real-time insights during the...
Leader in Conversational Automation Drives Minutes‑to‑Meetings
SO proud to be named a Leader in Forrester’s Wave for Conversational Automation Solutions for B2B. To me, it reflects how our customers are turning signals into meetings in minutes — and we’re just getting started. I’ll share a sneak...
AI Shifts Us Toward Complex, High‑Liability Work
Is AI actually freeing us up to actually do the highest value tasks available? Or... Just the ones with the highest amount of complexity, ambiguity, and liability? All too often, I hear people say that AI's core job is removing the drudgery...
AI Becomes Commodity; Strategy and Creativity Win
In a fight between robots, the strategist is king. AI is going to be commoditized. Which means you cannot ultimately win with AI, you can only keep pace with your competitors. Do you agree? As a marketer, I'm excited about...
Dreamforce Highlights Explosive Growth of Agentforce Platform
Dreamforce was unreal! 🌟 Agentforce City was pure 🔥! In just 1 year: ✨ 1.8M+ convos on https://t.co/BrfR5x8Vvh ✨ 12,500+ customers on Agentforce Huge love to Trailblazers like PepsiCo, Equinox, Heathrow, Williams Sonoma & Pandora! Humans + agents = the future! 🚀 #DF25 💙 https://t.co/haQ5unlRCm
Simulon Delivers Superior Real‑time AI Lighting Estimation
I like light probes and I cannot lie. Especially when they’re being hallucinated by AI. Simulon is building a much higher quality version of image-based lighting estimation the Vision Pro or ARCore does in real time.
OpenAI and Sora Enable Perfectly Secure Computer Design
Designing the perfectly secure computer, thanks to OpenAI and Sora: https://t.co/uWqIMhSSj4
All‑in‑One Builder Platform Beats Procore, Costs Less
https://t.co/UlyECkLph4 is the all-in-one platform built for real builders. Keep teams aligned, simplify every workflow, and bring trust back to construction. Better than Procore. Cheaper than a truck. https://t.co/CQWYQmzOja https://t.co/soAZZ949Pv
Browser‑Based Viz Makes Training Progress Easy Anywhere
exceptionally easy install and demo at least. Didn't realize viz ran via browser immediately makes it easy to visualize training progress from a personal computer while processing occurs on a server/workhorse machine true test will be trying this on custom problem and...
Conversational AI Handles Full Email Campaigns End‑to‑End
📧@mailmodo AI is an end-to-end conversational agent for email marketing. Now startups can plan, design, automate, and analyze entire email campaigns in one conversation. https://t.co/RVySuUbWw6 https://t.co/ZtXU78Kbpw
One Yes Can Transform Everything—Ask More
Every “no” costs you nothing. But one “yes” can change everything. So, why aren't you asking more?
AI-Powered Grok Democratizes Exposure for Creators and Startups
No more shouting into the void. Grok is listening. Democratizing X with AI will be great for small-time creators and young startups. Getting noticed is the hardest part of any new venture.
SaaStr Reveals Its Core AI Agents Toolkit
One of the top questions we get is, "What AI Agents Does SaaStr use?" Well, I just vibe'd a pretty good summary here: https://t.co/xe35bwMuu6 Check it out https://t.co/0AVITGkZ6J
Hyper-Growth Inevitably Triggers Churn, Then Sustainable Second Act
I predict this cycle for a lot of the hyper-growers: 1. Hyper-growth 2. Massive churn crisis 3. Fix churn crisis 4. Growth 5. 2nd Act
Energy Costs May Shape Future AI Dominance
Great conversation w @ZachBDell of @basepowerco on Energy markets Surprisingly fast solar adoption Batteries and next-gen distributed grids Do regional energy costs drive future AI dominance? Energy as an input to everything humanity does https://t.co/N7y4oAw9Oc
First Customer Wins Unlock $1M ARR Journey
First customer is always the hardest. Then you find another one and another one. Then next thing you know you're at $1M ARR. But it all starts with the first.
Boost Your Career with IBM’s Free AI Courses
Start learning today and stay competitive. 👉🏻 @IBM 's free AI courses #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #FutureOfWork #Tech https://t.co/spcfIpNOYr https://t.co/j83FAGEPJX