Xbox Rewards Doubles Points During Your Birthday Week
Microsoft launched an Xbox Rewards "birthday bonus" feature this week with extra perks during the week of your birthday 🎂 "Get 2x Rewards points on every game or add-on purchased in the Store during your birthday week." https://t.co/VP0oXBc9eq
Teams Are Approaching AI Search All Wrong
My newsletter this week was about how most teams are thinking about AI search completely backwards 👇🏻👇🏻 https://t.co/fa01veZ9mR
Google Photos Tests Collapsible Collections Redesign
Google Photos is testing a big redesign for the Collections tab A tidier layout with collapsible sections appears to be in the works. ✅ Check details with more screenshots - https://t.co/9quadQ7rrf https://t.co/3BVUTJZMdr
Anthropic Co‑founder Predicts AI Future on Planet Money
Listen to my interview from the @planetmoney book tour. The episode also features the Anthropic co-founder's predictions for our AI future. https://t.co/jb7CXrTTA8
Freeing Mental Bandwidth: AI Boosts Creativity, Not Laziness
"The ability to do things where we don’t have to think might inspire our most creative pursuits." How AI Can Save You Time—But Should It? Rethinking Monotony, Creativity, and Motivation https://t.co/DBLd6BKJfz https://t.co/IYJ5R2rqe8
Product Superiority Won’t Overcome B2B Switching Friction
To the dismay of many a tech founder, product superiority is often not the most important factor in a buying decision. Especially if it’s a decision to switch off of a status quo vendor. Buyers in B2B are usually much...
First Price Rarely Best—Always Compare for Savings
My husband and I just got Fi collars for our dogs and I have to tell you about my price comparison journey because it's so on brand. Fi's website: $189.99 with a subscription. Amazon: 6-month membership. Then I checked Costco on...
CEOs Can't Identify Revenue Drivers—Get a GTM Audit
Most CEOs can't answer one question: is your GTM actually working? I talk to CEOs and revenue leaders every day who are past $5M, $20M, even $50M+ ARR. They've hired salespeople. Fired CMOs. Launched campaigns. Tried agencies. But when I...
AI-Driven Integrated HR: Prioritizing Human Capability
Zoom Out for an Integrated View: Stakeholder HR through Human Capability with AI @dave_ulrich https://t.co/YJEAFofHOZ #HCM #HRM #HumanResources #HRTech #CHRO #FutureofHR
SEO Content Is Increasingly Fake and Generic
If we are being honest about what's happening in SEO and broader content marketing in general. There are very few people producing original, differentiated, first-hand experience based content. It's all fake. It's all ghost written. It's all just being done...
Progress MS-34 Rolls to Baikonur Pad for Saturday Launch
A Soyuz-2-1a rocket with the Progress MS-34 cargo ship reached the launch pad at Site 31 in Baikonur this morning, in preparation for a liftoff on the night from Saturday to Sunday and a two-day trip to the ISS: https://t.co/RJw3e4HJ5Y...
Pixel Watch Fall Detection Soon Requires Google Sign‑In
Pixel Watch Fall Detection will soon require a Google account sign-in There should be a multi-day grace period before Google disables access. ✅ Details - https://t.co/5focu4FOIQ https://t.co/pv3h1mNasR
AI‑enhanced Phishing Leads Q1 Initial‑access Attacks
Phishing — sometimes with AI’s help — topped initial-access methods in Q1, Cisco says | Cybersecurity Dive https://t.co/nJv4RA7sVV
From Reactive AI to Outcome‑Driving Autonomous Agents
AI agents have levels 📈🤖 1. Rule-based (if-then automation) 2. Tool-using assistants 3. Strategic multi-step agents 4. Context-aware autonomous agents 5. Superintelligent digital personas (theoretical AGI) We’re moving from “AI that responds” → to “AI that executes outcomes.” What level is your org at today? 👇 #AI #AIAgents...
Cerebras Funding Fueled by OpenAI and AWS Hardware Demand
Why does Cerebras need so much money? Because OpenAI, and maybe AWS, needs so much iron. $CRBS $AMZN https://t.co/DMFuVEjgBo
Google Pivots to AI Agents for Autonomous Enterprise Workflows
Google is putting AI agents at the center of its enterprise strategy. With moves like rebranding its platform and expanding agent capabilities, the focus is shifting toward tools that can act, not just assist. The direction is clear. Enterprise AI is moving...
Give New CMOs 30 Days, Avoid Costly Mistakes
Most CMO “failures” are decided before they even start. Your new CMO asked for 30 days to understand the system before launching. You said no. Board expectations were already set. The quarter felt behind. Speed was the priority. So they...
Choosing Autonomous Rides for Safer, Cheaper Travel
For my health and safety, I always choose the nonhuman driver option when available for taxi/uber service. It's already safer and will soon be much cheaper. Anybody else feel this way?
Massive Wave of Security Patches Hits All Devices
Brace yourself for a flood of patches in all of your tech gadgets https://t.co/xXZthlRWg1 via @FastCompany #cybersecurity
Manual SEO Wins Over AI-Generated Content Flood
There are many sites scaling like crazy for AI Search with "commodity content". Tons of it generated via AI to target every possible question or prompt users have. Again, manual actions will rule the day while Google builds a system...
AI Success Requires Skills, Context, Not Just Chatbots
"Stop being afraid of AI." #sponsored That's from Muralidhar Krishnaprasad (MK) President and CTO, Product Engineering at Salesforce . At #TDX26 , I sat down with MK to talk about what it actually takes to get out of pilot purgatory...
AI Draft Strategies Remain a Laughable NFL Fantasy
If Every NFL Team Used AI Before the Draft, Why Is It a Punchline? https://t.co/ICjJ6zbdbQ via @sportico @JacobFeldman4
AI Adoption High, Excitement and Trust Low
There's a gap between how AI is being used—and how it's being talked about. Half of people say they're using AI. Yet only 35% of people are excited by the technology, and only 21% trust it. How long can this paradox...
From Simple to Sophisticated: Modern Branch Prediction Explained
Digital Design & Comp. Arch: L17: Branch Prediction (Spring 2026) https://t.co/WMytQ3VuVV We will start with simple branch prediction techniques and build up to the more sophisticated techniques used in almost all modern high-performance processors. @SAFARI_ETH_CMU @CSatETH
Search Bars Still Matter in an AI-Driven Future
NEW ODD LOTS: @tracyalloway and I talk Google’s VP of search Liz Reid about the future of the good old fashioned search bar in an AI-dominated world https://t.co/XvWg2rZbDG
From Community to Sponsor: Small Steps Yield Big Milestones
This one felt a bit surreal. For the first time, @towards_AI was sponsoring an event. And seeing our logo there… was honestly wild. A few years ago, this was just content, courses, and a community we were building step by step. Now we are...
Casio Remixes Pair Perfectly with Custom Linux Distros
These Casio remixes from Ura Watches go perfectly with a well-riced Linux distro 🤩 https://t.co/RYNfVtfNoI https://t.co/je0EuKvPfd
OpenAI Introduces Fast Answers for Instant Queries
Fast Answers, and yep, they are fast. Just tried it out. See screenshot below -> OpenAI rolls out "Fast Answers" in ChatGPT "We’re rolling out Fast answers, a quicker way to get responses to common information-seeking questions in ChatGPT, like...
Google Tests AI-Generated Podcast‑style Audio Search Results
Whoa, this is creepy. Google is testing a new AI-powered audio section in search results that sounds just like a podcast. Can't imagine publishers will be too happy to stumble across this, even when their content is cited (along with many...
Survive Google: AI for Drafts, Humans Edit Final
Most Google updates are clapping AI-generated sites. The survivors had one thing in common: they used AI for research/briefs/drafts and humans for final editing. Do with that what you will.
Distinguish Commodity From Non‑commodity Content for SEO Success
Google's @dannysullivan on commodity vs non-commodity content https://t.co/lOelMIgQtP via @marthavanberkel and @gaganghotra_ and others https://t.co/No6L14MbCX
Microsoft Makes Copilot Agent Mode Default in Word, Excel, PowerPoint
Microsoft is launching "vibe working" in Word, Excel, and PowerPoint this week. The new Copilot Agent Mode can make edits in documents, and is now default for Microsoft 365 Copilot and Premium subscribers. Details here 👇 https://t.co/wwEsbZFVLd
Google Search Rankings Poised for Increased Volatility
Google Search ranking volatility may be at the verge of heating up - are any of you seeing anything? https://t.co/mzifiUoT1o https://t.co/9TZ6JRmhTG
OpenDataLoader PDF: Trending Parser Boosts RAG Pipelines
Someone just open-sourced a PDF parser that converts documents to Markdown, JSON, and HTML — and it's currently the #1 trending repository on GitHub. It's called OpenDataLoader PDF. Here's why data scientists building RAG pipelines should pay attention.
Chrome Introduces Gemini: Deep Search and Image Creation
Google Chrome tab with more Gemini; Deep Search and Create Images https://t.co/UfGRueqOWh via @glenngabe https://t.co/Hr7CVr39fr
AI Startup’s Data Practices Spark Legal Risk
A fast-growing AI startup is facing serious legal pressure. Mercor is being sued over alleged data collection and exposure practices, following a breach involving sensitive contractor information. It highlights a critical issue. In AI, data is the foundation, but how it is...
Half‑million UK Medical Records Listed for Sale After Breach
Medical data of 500,000 people in UK put up for sale after data breach - https://t.co/zBa4Kbu9u3 via @FT
Tesla's $2B xAI Stake Isn’t an Acquisition, Hardware Deal Separate
Avant Nivarti Grok: No, this isn't the xAI investment. Tesla's earlier $2B stake in xAI (announced Jan 2026) was for Series E preferred stock with a collaboration framework—not an acquisition of an "AI hardware company." The April 10-Q describes a separate, unnamed...
AI Empowers Disabled Workers, Boosting Their Value
"AI didn’t replace workers with disabilities. It made them better and more valuable." https://t.co/LR2lgFUIUG https://t.co/G9wGWk8zB0
AI Chip Giant Outvalues Entire Global Pharma Industry
NVIDIA is now worth more than the entire Big Pharma combined on the stock market. I shared this image from Reza Zahiri, PhD, MBA, 6 months ago. NVIDIA’s market cap now hit $4.9 trillion ($0.3 trillion more than then), which...
Live: My Take on Today's Space Market
Great to be on @CNBCMorningCall with @MorganLBrennan live from Singapore discussing my take on where the Space market is right now. $VOYG @CNBC https://t.co/uzJSFfSteZ
Build Linked Post Clusters for Authority
Stop publishing random posts. Start building link clusters. Create 5–7 related posts, and link them together. Now you’re not just publishing, you’re building authority.
Science Labs Lag AI Adoption, Upskilling Opportunity Awaits
Much of Science is still untouched by AI (I know it sounds unbelievable) but X doesn't reflect the vast majority of labs. The same reluctance and challenges of AI adoption in Enterprise exists all across the Sciences. The opportunity of upskilling the...
Segment Google Shopping, Boost Revenue 45% and ROAS 40%
Huel increased revenue 45% and ROAS 40% just by segmenting their Google Shopping campaigns instead of using one generic feed. Meanwhile you're dumping all your products into one generic Google Shopping campaign and wondering why your ad spend is bleeding...
Teachers Launch Fun, Subject‑Specific Apps for Classroom Learning
Recently published teacher-made apps: 🍦 Ice Cream Math Shop 🧭 Conflict Compass 🐄 Poo-tential Coordinates ⭐️ Volume Practice 🕰️ Tick Tock Time Machine https://t.co/dgxwf3U4D8
Vantablack Theme Cuts Dell XPS OLED Idle to 2.2W
With the Vantablack theme tweaked for true blacks in Omarchy 3.6, I've gotten the 16" Dell XPS OLED down to an incredible 2.2w idle. A pixel off is a pixel that doesn't gulp power. Gotta love it! https://t.co/QXMmf3zvyt
Gemini Embedding 2 Redefines Search Standards
The Evolution of Digital Meaning: Why Gemini Embedding 2 is the New Standard for Search https://t.co/XnrQXC0pnZ
Tesla Becomes AI Stalwart; $600 Target for 2026
Tesla morphing into a physical AI stalwart during 2026 ..the path is here and it requires more CapEx. Overall good q with the autonomous and Optimus roadmap the focus in 2026 with production now on doorstep. Seeing around corners…Tesla is...
Uniting ECA and SEforALL to Boost Africa's Sustainable Energy
I had a great discussion with my colleague @claverGatete. We discussed how to align @ECA_OFFICIAL and @SEforALLorg efforts to accelerate sustainable energy and socioeconomic development across #Africa. https://t.co/izerSLJDnI
AI Coding Turns Small Teams Into High‑Output Powerhouses
We just kicked off our first AI Coding Bootcamp. And one thing became very clear in week one: This is not a small upgrade to how software gets built. It is a complete shift 👇 We have 42 participants from...