2025 marks a turning point for generative AI as the ecosystem diversifies beyond a handful of cloud‑only giants. OpenAI launched GPT‑5, GPT‑5.1, Atlas, Sora 2 and open‑weight models, while enterprises report over‑50% ticket‑resolution gains using the new models. China’s open‑source wave, led by DeepSeek, Qwen and Baidu’s ERNIE, now rivals U.S. offerings in download volume and capability. Meanwhile, compact models from Google’s Gemma 3 and Liquid AI, plus Meta’s partnership with Midjourney, expand AI’s reach to edge devices and mainstream creative tools.
I get annoyed that AI voice transcription is either “copy the exact words I use” or “I am assigning you a task”. So now I use a code word to serve as an embedded agent task. It’s like a way...

In the international M&A/private equity markets, US buyers/investors tend to be the most aggressive in terms of valuation (specifically for software & internet companies). The primary reason is that TAM in the US represents a much larger opportunity compared to...

A new BearingPoint survey finds half of global executives say their workforce is already 10‑19% over capacity, and 45% anticipate a 30‑50% surplus within three years. The study highlights back‑office, customer service, and entry‑level finance and HR roles as most...
🧠 17 Essential Prompt Engineering Techniques for Getting Better Results with ChatGPT As generative AI becomes a core component of professional workflows, the ability to craft effective prompts is now a strategic skill. This infographic highlights 17 powerful prompt engineering...
Are you thinking about which processes can benefit from Agentic AI? Have you heard of Scribe? If not, well, you should... Scribe just raised $75 million ($1.3 billion valuation) to support it's release of a new platform to help agentic...

AI is reshaping go‑to‑market (GTM) playbooks, allowing startups to generate more messaging and leads with fewer resources. Executives at Google Cloud and OpenAI stress that AI augments, not replaces, core marketing fundamentals such as customer insight and creative strategy. The...
There is something unusual about the quiet at the end of the year if you know how to use it. It sharpens your perception and brings forward the things you set aside while moving quickly. Your attention settles on what...
Last week, a founder with 500K LinkedIn followers reached out to me. $6K MRR SaaS that won't budge, and he asked how to incentivize feedback. Me: “Bro, if nobody will take your tool seriously enough to give you feedback, then you're...

Washington is edging toward its first comprehensive AI regulatory framework, sparking a clash between federal ambitions and a wave of state legislation. Dozens of states have already passed more than 100 AI‑related laws targeting deepfakes, transparency, and safety, while industry...
The biggest mistake you can make as a founder when you hire your first VP of Sales is stepping out of sales I see this again, and again It only works with the very best VPs of Sales Every other first VP of...
Every major shift in consumer tech has a moment when it suddenly becomes accessible to millions. Michael Mignano (@mignano) helped spark one of those moments with Anchor, making podcast creation something anyone could do with a tap. Now at Lightspeed,...

Microsoft Teams recently enabled a guest chat feature that lets any user start a conversation with an external email address, even if the recipient does not use Teams. The feature is turned on by default for many small‑business licenses and...
I built a custom GPT to help you pressure-test and refine your 2026 business strategy. Crafting a sound growth strategy is hard, and takes time, but you don’t need a 2-day offsite or a pricey consultant to start sharpening your...
Most people assume I “run” all my businesses. But the truth is I barely run any of them. Here’s the actual timeline of businesses I’ve started: 2001 - Swimming pool installation 2012 - Professional speaking 2014 - Consulting/coaching agency 2017...
In this episode, Professor Hannah Fry talks with John Jumper, the lead scientist behind AlphaFold, about how the protein‑folding breakthrough has become a grand scientific challenge with Nobel‑prize potential. They explore the technical innovations that enabled accurate structure prediction, the...

Neuroscientists at Princeton discovered that the prefrontal cortex reuses discrete neural patterns—dubbed “cognitive Legos”—across different tasks, enabling flexible learning. Experiments with rhesus macaques performing three visual categorization tasks revealed recurring activity blocks for shared components like color discrimination or eye‑movement...
Stuart Faught has been acquired 18 times on @acquiredotcom. No plans to build a unicorn. Just trying to escape a corporate job that felt like Office Space. One tiny product at a time. Dentists. Orthodontists. HVAC. Med spas. Home care. Build vertical SaaS....

UiPath, founded by Daniel Dines, hit its first $175 million ARR after a four‑year sprint from a modest $1 million base, illustrating a textbook hypergrowth trajectory in B2B SaaS. The company’s breakthrough came from a $10,000 pivot that turned a niche screen‑reading...
Everyone’s out here upgrading their setups today. New laptops, new GPUs, new toys. But the truth is simple: the real leverage isn’t the machine. It’s whether you actually know how to build and deploy AI on it. So if you’re upgrading...
OpenAI announced that free users of its Sora video generator are now limited to six generations per day, citing GPU overload. Google responded similarly, cutting the free image generation limit for its newly launched Nano Banana Pro to two images...
Let's gooo 🎉 Black Friday is here! Here's your chance to get access to 5 founder essentials. ⭐ FeedHive (AI SMM tool) ⭐ Aidbase (AI support tool) ⭐ LinkDrip (Link tracking tool) ⭐ TinyKiwi (Design tool) ⭐ SignupGate (Fraud prevention tool) You could go with the industry-leading tools...

Omri Kohl, CEO of Pyramid Analytics, warns that AI alone won’t solve enterprise data challenges; a unified, governed semantic layer is required to merge BI and AI. He champions "decision intelligence"—a user‑centric approach that starts with the decision and works...


ElasticScale, a Dutch AWS‑infrastructure specialist for SaaS firms, launched in November 2024 and quickly adopted events as its primary go‑to‑market engine. The company discovered that 95% of its target CEOs and CTOs are unaware their AWS spend is four times higher...

Palantir posted a 63% revenue jump and a 248% profit surge in Q3, showing durable growth despite sky‑high AI‑era valuations. The FDA convened its first public hearing on regulating AI‑driven therapy chatbots, highlighting safety concerns as mental‑health bots proliferate. OpenAI...

The Scattered Lapsus$ Hunters gang has expanded its phishing campaign to target Zendesk users, registering more than 40 typosquatted domains that mimic legitimate Zendesk URLs. Researchers at ReliaQuest identified these domains, all registered through NiceNic and protected by Cloudflare‑masked nameservers....
One-shotting applications is the new vibe coding. I am soon going to start back up my YouTube channel, so this was a good chance to try @Medo_CodeFree, a new application building agentic platform from @Baidu_Inc. Here on X I've built lists of...
Honor introduced the Choice Bee AI Projector Air, a compact 1080p projector that supports stylus input and gesture controls, effectively turning any wall into an interactive whiteboard. Priced at roughly CNY 599 (about $85), it offers 280 lumens, Wi‑Fi 6, Bluetooth 5.0, HDMI 2.0...
Can you raise a pre-seed round without a product? 👀 On Episode 220 of The SaaS CFO Podcast, Duncan Barrigan (Founder @ Lunos) shares how credibility + experience can secure early funding before the MVP exists. Watch here 👉 https://t.co/r7Q1ZbKANk #AI https://t.co/zmUJnPTNoU

Zoho’s AI Privacy Equation report finds that 93% of Indian organisations have adopted artificial intelligence, with 71% strengthening privacy measures and 61% establishing ethics committees. Over two‑thirds of firms allocate more than 20% of their IT spend to privacy, and...
At #WDAYRisingEMEA in Barcelona, I spoke with the NatWest Group team to explore how they are transforming colleague experience with Workday and AI. #WorkdayPartner #Sponsored NatWest is a 300-year-old bank with 19 million customers, and it is reshaping the future...
While the marketing game is changing, AI hasn't been the catalyst. The shift has been happening for years, we've just been slow to pick up on it. https://t.co/O3aLOHIuXF via @sejournal
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Perplexity AI has added a virtual‑try‑on feature to its shopping suite, rolling it out to all Pro and Max subscribers. Users upload a selfie or full‑body photo, and the system generates a digital avatar that can model individual clothing items...

AppSumo Black Friday bundle is LIVE featuring @boltdotnew @reclaimai and more. Selling out fast 🏃♂️ 🤘 https://t.co/RcYslb4vOz
each ai assisted tool has its own advantage. im finding opus 4.5 much better at understanding and writing generic backend code. gemini3 is good at frontend. my goto was openai codex but now it seems like as soon as things...

->28th November -> Learned about few things today including:- >standardization >normalization >hyperparameter tuning and GridSearchCV https://t.co/WAa6yGJnu3
This is so ridiculously over-the-top! An OS sim with dragable windows, a pinball game that's really playable, and the bonkers sales globe already showing more than 32,000 orders per minute running through Rails. Shopify's BFCM celebration is next level. ...
A study published in The Lancet Digital Health found that the accuracy of all eight AI algorithms in detecting diabetic eye disease that may require clinical intervention ranged from 83.7% to 98.7%. https://t.co/yb8DFqhsTh #AI #Health #TheLancet
AI now exceeds human performance in most technical tasks — but humans still lead in multimodal reasoning 🧠 The next frontier isn’t about replacing humans, but amplifying how we think across data, images & language. Source: Stanford AI Index 2025 #AI #Innovation #FutureOfWork...
10 new creatives won’t solve your problems. You need 1 entirely new insight. • What haven’t you said yet? • What promise haven’t you framed? • What truth haven’t you made obvious? Start there.

step 2 After splitting into frames, we convert each one to grayscale. this is common in OpenCV because most analysis is based on shapes and intensity, and grayscale makes that process much simpler. https://t.co/vY51Y4Dnxx
Most ad accounts are far from “stuck.” They’re safe. You’ve probably: • Optimized yourself into mediocrity. • Not tested an uncomfortable message in 6 months. Take a swing and see what happens.
🚀 New episode! Chatted with Duncan Barrigan, CEO of Lunos, on how AI is transforming B2B receivables. 🔹 AI workers automate messy AR 🔹 Fundraising = resilience 🔹 Fast onboarding, fast value Watch here: https://t.co/r7Q1ZbKANk #SaaS #AI #Lunos https://t.co/l6ugM78FiL
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/99Xzl56kij #AI #FutureOfWork #IoT #IBM https://t.co/g17V4Zr4cm
OpenAI is upping the ante massively https://t.co/MmMAdIEzRd via @ft https://t.co/n21IjkYDvo
If you are a founder or an investor you MUST try @boardyai. It is the most disruptive thing I've tried this year. If I was at @ycombinator I'd be very worried and working hard to get one of the same up...
The Great API Alliance: How Startups Are Building the AI-Ready Economy https://t.co/9w1SbVGPHI via @TheAIJournal1 #AI #IoT #CES2026 #5G https://t.co/hYRJOhOnOO
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