Salesforce Launches $500M AI Initiative in Saudi Arabia
Honored to launch Salesforce in Saudi Arabia today—with $500M, world-class AI, and a deep commitment to supporting Vision 2030. The future isn’t just arriving in the Kingdom… it’s accelerating. Shukran & Aloha! 🌍🤝✨❤️🇺🇸🇸🇦 https://t.co/IQVRGE1tjG https://t.co/9DJE699eFq
Gemini 3 Unveiled
Google just released Gemini 3, its most intelligent AI model yet. I caught up with Demis Hassabis, CEO of Google DeepMind, to ask about: -Gemini 3 and Google’s AI strategy -Google's new Antigravity tool -Medical-grade AI Here's what he said:
Gemini 3 Pro Delivers More Intelligence per Token
The most interesting thing testing Gemini 3 Pro has been how *efficient* it is from tokens to tool calls The intelligence per token of models is increasingly rapidly even as prices fall, its quite something
Salesforce Launches $500M AI Venture in Saudi Arabia
Honored to launch Salesforce in Saudi Arabia today—with $500M, world-class AI, and a deep commitment to supporting Vision 2030. The future isn’t just arriving in the Kingdom… it’s accelerating. Shukran & Aloha! 🌍🤝✨❤️🇺🇸🇸🇦 https://t.co/IQVRGE1tjG
Gemini 3 Hits 31.1% on ARC‑AGI‑2 Benchmark
Gemini 3 scores 31.1% on ARC-AGI-2. Impressive progress.
Gemini 3 Launches as World’s Most Intelligent Multimodal Model
Today we’re taking a big step on the path toward AGI and releasing Gemini 3— our most intelligent model yet. With Gemini 3, you can bring any idea to life. It is state-of-the-art in reasoning, the best model in the...
From $200 Developer Tool to Enterprise AI Scale
AI adoption often starts with a single developer spending $200/mo—but the real play is getting embedded and expanding to enterprise. Matt Blumberg breaks down the PLG → enterprise motion on Episode 218 of The SaaS CFO Podcast 👉 https://t.co/o4rtC8sd0B #SaaS #AI https://t.co/Oa2WXObU5a
Brand Health Drives Performance: Measure Beyond Short‑Term Metrics
My big passion with Storybook is about giving strategic shape to brand. One of the big reasons that I believe brand gets underinvested is because the way our measurement has been set up favors short-term direct response efforts and causes...
Waymo Expands to Five New Cities, Scaling Fivefold Annually
Waymo is adding 5 new cities: Miami, Dallas, Houston, Orlando. Waymo has been growing about 5x per year since it started scaling its service in 2023.
Boost B2B Marketing Innovation Through Creative Teams
Who else is at MarketingProfs #MPB2B Forum in Boston? Check out my session tomorrow morning on driving B2B Marketing Innovation by fostering a more creative team. Can’t make it? No worries. Sign up for my free newsletter and stay up...
20 Years of Revealing What Users Actually Do
Crazy Egg turns twenty this month. The part that stayed constant is simple. We set out to show what users actually do on a web page, and that view changed how people built. We’ve been working on something that brings that feeling...
Google Defies Doubters, Leads AI with Video Data
You are an AI OG if you can remember the days when everyone said Google was doomed and would never lead in AI. They aren’t saying that anymore. And who has the most video data to build world models, which will run...
Slow Growth? Check Your Pricing Before Marketing
That slow growth you're experiencing? It might not be a marketing problem. When we troubleshoot growth with SaaS companies, pricing is often one of the first things we look at. At DemandMaven, we start by talking to customers then running...
Seeking Updates and Projects Using OpenAI's Agent Builder
I have heard nothing about Agent Builder since OpenAI Dev Day. Any building with it? What are you building? Feel free to DM instead.
Google Poised to Pop AI Capex Bubble
it's in google's strategic interest to burst the ai capex bubble, i think sundar knows this and will act accordingly
AI Floods Content, Makes Original Thought the New Scarcity
50% of the internet's content is now AI-generated. After 3 hrs deep in Graphite's full data science report, I can tell you: What you're celebrating as an opportunity is actually a warning sign. Graphite 's data science team analyzed 65,000...
Rapid Growth, Not Just Features, Defines an AI Native
How to know if you are an “AI Native” start-up: 🚀 You are growing much, much faster than last year Otherwise, you just have AI Features
LLM Clones: Spot Identical Models for Cash
LLMs often sound oddly alike. @The_GridAI turned that idea into a fun little challenge with 10,000 $ (!!!) in rewards for the top 3 players. The rules: Two replies pop up, you tell if it is the same model. 🧵↓ https://t.co/ftbGvKu3Wx
Master 4 Core SaaS Skills to Scale Solo
Are you a technical founder wondering if you need a co-founder? Like so many things, I think “it depends”. In episode 807, I explore: - A new mental model around the 4 Core SaaS Skills every startup will need -...
B2B Neglects Deep Customer Research Compared to B2C
customer research in B2B vs. B2C: B2B: - UX product research B2C: - focus groups - surveys - 1:1 interviews - at home ethnographies - shopper research at the store - website heatmap - social media monitoring - 3rd party...
AI Data Centers Boom in Water‑Stressed U.S. Regions
@AndyMasley @Leonardonclt @dinabass “More than 160 new AI data centers have sprung up across the US in the past three years in places with high competition for scarce water resources, according to a Bloomberg News analysis…That’s a 70% increase from...
Google’s SEO Response to Cloudflare 5xx Outage
A Cloudflare outage is causing 5xx errors for many sites. Here’s how Google handles short server spikes and what to watch in SEO reports. https://t.co/F55PAfwISx via @MattGSouthern, @sejournal
Key Marketing Metrics for the AI‑Agent Era
The Marketing Metrics That Will Matter Most in the Age of AI Agents When AI agents become part of the decision making chain, marketing metrics shift. This article covers which metrics matter most when you’re marketing to machines and humans...
AI Success No Longer Requires Academic Publications
Many people still believe you need to publish research to succeed in AI. That might’ve been true a few years ago, but things have changed 👇 I’ve done research during my Master’s and PhD. Most of my work never made it to...
Cut Cloud Costs 90% by Switching to Bare Metal
I'm leaving the cloud 👋 +80% of my SaaS portfolio now runs on bare metal. Why? I have at least 3 major reasons. One of them is, obviously, cost. This year, I've been able to reduce my monthly cloud bill...
Reducing Churn Drives Biggest ARR Growth for SaaS
Churn isn't a Customer Success problem. It’s a *business* problem. And it might be why you miss the 2026 plan. Just look at the 3-year ARR impact of different growth initiatives^ for a typical $10M ARR SaaS co: - Increase...
New Pricing Models Demand Advanced Billing Solutions
Have you noticed all the LI posts and conversations on how pricing models are evolving? The reality is that subscription pricing based on seats (users) is a hallmark of traditional SaaS... ...and new pricing models like Usage-Based, Outcome-Based, Value-Based, Hybrid...
Business Model Shift Ends Advisor Role, Not Performance
Today was a tough founder decision. We simplified our sales motion at ProductLed, which meant the Advisor role we'd been testing came to an end. And with that shift, Matthew Baker is now back on the market. Matthew stepped into...
Clear First Touchpoints Drive Automatic Customer Retention
Retention starts at the first touchpoint: • Deliver it quickly • Promise the right thing • Set the next step clearly When expectations are clear, retention feels automatic.
PMF Isn't Enough Without Fit Across Offer, Channel, Delivery
Founders say “we’ve got PMF.” But do you have: • Offer-audience fit? • Channel-message fit? • Delivery-expectation fit? If any one’s off, scale breaks.
Infinite AGI Returns Myth Inflates Tech Investment Tenfold
The notion that AGI would have infinite returns has been used to justify investment far above expected returns (by 10x-100x) for technology that is neither AGI nor on the path to AGI
BM25 Scores Relevance Using TF, IDF, and Length
Explaining BM25 in one post. BM25: How relevant is this document to this query? 3 parts: > IDF: how rare a query token is across all documents. >TF: how frequent query token is across all documents. > Length normalization: how long is current doc compared...
Beautiful UI Is the New SaaS Baseline
Make Your SaaS UI/UX Beautiful ✨ The first step to building a successful SaaS business isn’t marketing...it’s beauty. Build a product so intuitive, clean and obviously useful that people fall in love the moment they touch it. Solve a Real...
Typeless Becomes My Trusted Dictation Tool, Now on Product Hunt
I use Typeless daily on my Mac, and it's become the only dictation tool I trust. I tried many others, but none of them stuck. And now @typelessdotcom just launched on Product Hunt 🎉 Pls show them some love for the launch 🫶 https://t.co/4miuD4BGBT
UK AI Trust Gap: 33% Trust, Only 8% Ready
We’re living through a moment where AI confidence is soaring, but the foundations needed to support that confidence are still worryingly uneven. I shared my views with DIGIT last week about new IDC findings, and one insight in particular has...
Empowering Clinicians with Trusted Evidence and Responsible AI
As students navigate information overload in clinical settings, we empower educators and learners with trusted, evidence-based resources and responsible AI. https://t.co/5EVW6ZkJ8P #healthcare #clinicians #Nurses #AI #Elsevier
Prompt Hacks Turn ChatGPT Into $500/Hr Strategist
This guy literally made ChatGPT stop giving him generic advice and it's like having a $500/hr strategist https://t.co/xPZ4dNV2A9
Prepare for 2026: AI, Cybersecurity, ESG, Skills, Growth
5 Business Trends Every Company Must Prepare for in 2026 In 2026, Businesses will face major shifts driven by #AIagents , #AI -enabled products, #cybersecurity pressure, #ESG realignment and a growing focus on #AIskills . Companies that prepare for these...
When AI and Humans Hallucinate Together: Emerging Psychosis Risk
AI-induced #psychosis: the danger of humans and machines hallucinating together! https://t.co/e59cn6rF2k #hallucination #artificial_intelligence #AI
AI-Driven SaaS Funding Surge Fuels M&A Activity
This Week in SaaS: Nov 11–17, 2025 💸 Big SaaS VC Rounds Parallel Web Systems – $100M Series A to fuel AI-search infrastructure & GTM Beacon Biosignals – $86M Series B to accelerate neuro-diagnostics insights Scribe – $75M Series C...
AI “Grok” Chooses Next Startup Interviews
My first reader now is Grok. (It watches my videos and reads my posts and decides whether to distribute them to you). So which startups does Grok want me to interview next? Answer: https://t.co/LPuhKb4Iet Thanks Grok, working on this list!
AI Cost Plummets 300× in One Year
The rate reduction in price per unit of intelligence has been thing I've most consistently underestimated the past couple of years. 300x in a year is nuts!
Databricks Unifies Iceberg V3 and Delta Lake
Super excited to announce Apache Iceberg v3 support in Databricks! This marks the unification of the data plane of Iceberg and Delta Lake inside Databricks. Great job by everyone in the community that made this possible! https://lnkd.in/gvBqW-Hi
Agentforce Instantly Taps Your Salesforce Data for Contextual Emails
“Here’s what I think most people miss about Agentforce: it knows everything your Salesforce knows. That’s the beauty of it. It has all your Salesforce data if you click a button and want it to – and then you can...
AI Agents Unlock Solutions We Couldn’t Scale Before
The vast majority of AI use will be for things we don’t even do today. The real impact of AI agents will be that we can affordably solve problems that we couldn’t solve before, lower the cost of needed services...
Jeff Bezos Co-Leads $6.2B AI Startup Launch
Jeff Bezos Launching $6.2 Billion AI Startup He Will Co-Lead https://t.co/7MFq84cVH0 #startupstories #StartupLife #Startups #AI #artificial_intelligence @altiamkabir @codewithimanshu @Eli_Krumova @JagersbergKnut
Video-Trained World Models Will Accelerate Robot Intelligence
VLA's are like LLMs, but trained off of videos. I call them world models, because I don't like acronyms, but either way, they mean robots are getting smarter fast. The researchers I hung out with last week say that robots...
Reading with LLMs Deepens Understanding, Shifts Writing Focus
I’m starting to get into a habit of reading everything (blogs, articles, book chapters,…) with LLMs. Usually pass 1 is manual, then pass 2 “explain/summarize”, pass 3 Q&A. I usually end up with a better/deeper understanding than if I moved...