After a year working in AI security and governance, a marketing professional now prioritizes data privacy over tool functionality, asking where data goes and who has access before adopting AI. The exp…
Auctor, an AI-native system for software implementations, emerged from stealth in April 2026 with a $20 million Series A led by Sequoia Capital. The New York-based startup, founded in 2025, unifies th…
JustAI, a San Francisco-based AI-native marketing platform, raised $17.5 million in a Series A round led by Base10 Partners, with participation from Y Combinator and Peak XV Partners. The company will…
Marketers using commoditized AI tools like Claude produce indistinguishable content, so the only way to differentiate is to build a custom system underneath the AI. The author argues that treating AI …
BFJ Digital released a technology briefing on June 23, 2026, documenting a shift in CRM platforms toward formatting data for conversational AI engines like ChatGPT, Gemini, and Perplexity. The briefin…
Ably discovered twelve hidden dashboards built as AI skills after employees lost trust in the official Metabase tool due to hundreds of ungoverned, inconsistent dashboards. The company now treats dash…
AWS launched Graviton5 processors with 192 cores, DDR5-8800 memory, and formally verified VM isolation, powering new M9g and M9gd instances. Meta, Uber, and Snowflake are deploying the chips for agent…
A developer created a color palette repository documenting the similar white, light, and beige accent colors used by major AI providers including Claude, Copilot, Gemini, and Llama, highlighting the i…
Carles Reina, employee #4 at ElevenLabs, built a go-to-market system that drove $500M in revenue. The AI Corner details an 8-agent GTM stack with operator rules, three workflows, and a 30-day rollout …
Velane launches an open-source n8n alternative that lets AI agents build, test, and deploy workflows autonomously via MCP, eliminating manual coding of integrations. The platform supports 800+ tools, …
Exa launched Exa Agent on June 16, transforming its AI-native search API into a research agent endpoint for developers. The product automates structured web research tasks like deep research and entit…
Email marketing teams in 2026 still rely on spreadsheets for reporting, lacking a cohesive strategy according to Email Calculator, a new analytics platform that integrates with 55+ email service provi…
The Model Context Protocol team released Enterprise-Managed Authorization (EMA) as a stable extension on June 18, 2026, replacing per-user OAuth queues with centralized identity provider-based access.…
OpenAI introduced a Record & Replay plugin for Codex on macOS, allowing users to demonstrate tasks visually instead of writing prompts. The AI captures the workflow and converts it into a reusable aut…
Digital agencies are hitting a wall between their 50th and 100th active client as AI tools like ChatGPT absorb tasks that once anchored invoices, squeezing retainers. Thriving agencies are shifting to…
In February 2026, $285 billion vanished from global software stocks after Anthropic's Claude Cowork demo showed AI agents handling complex tasks, triggering the 'SaaSpocalypse' and exposing the vulner…
Dolfyn, an AI-powered call answering service for contractors, claims to recover an average of $3,400 in the first month by capturing missed calls. The service handles calls, captures leads, and automa…
Google CEO Sundar Pichai executed a 10-move restructuring in 18 months after ChatGPT's launch, merging Brain and DeepMind into Google DeepMind and reorganizing the company to deploy AI products. Picha…
Macro, an open-source AI-native system unifying email, chat, tasks, docs, and CRM, launched on Hacker News. Built with Rust and AGPL-licensed, it offers shared memory and modular design for self-hosti…
Chatbot.witarist.com, a B2B tool, lost leads due to offline chat at night. The team implemented auto-replies from documentation and a visitor radar that shows live site activity, significantly improvi…