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Why Flipboard Looks to the Fediverse for Its Next Big Evolution
Eight years ago, I sat down with Mike McCue to talk about Flipboard. When we spoke at the company’s Palo Alto, Calif. offices, he shared that the company had found its stride and that this would be the...
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Salesforce Unveils Agentforce 2.0, Bringing AI Agents to Slack and...
As AI agents take center stage in 2024, Salesforce is fully leaning into the trend. In October, the cloud computing company launched Agentforce, a platform that lets anyone quickly build advanced AI...
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CES 2025: Now With More AI
IN THIS ISSUE: Welcome to the final newsletter of 2024. Thank you for subscribing to and reading “The AI Economy.” Next month marks one year since I launched this publication, and I appreciate the...
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Luma Labs Releases Ray2, Its Large-Scale Video Generative Model to Paid...
Luma Labs, the creator of the popular Dream Machine generative AI platform, has launched Ray2, its new model the company boasts can produce videos using text and images in under ten seconds. The...
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Ai2’s ScholarQA Launches to Help Researchers Answer Complex Questions Across...
Artificial intelligence company Ai2 has released a tool to streamline the literature review process for researchers. With Ai2 ScholarQA, users can use AI to parse multiple documents simultaneously to...
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Hands-On with Surf: Flipboard’s New App Makes Discovering Content in the...
It’s safe to say that the social media landscape has transformed dramatically. While Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, and LinkedIn once reigned supreme, recent industry turmoil has given rise to new...
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Google Launches NotebookLM Plus for Google One AI Premium Subscribers
As promised, Google is making the premium features of its NotebookLM app more widely accessible. Starting today, NotebookLM Plus is a part of the Google One AI Premium plan, joining Gemini Advanced,...
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Ai2’s Tulu 3 405B Pushes Open-Weight AI Forward, Challenging DeepSeek, OpenAI...
The nonprofit formerly known as the Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence has released a much more considerable variation of its Tulu 3 model. In addition to the 8 billion and 70 billion...
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IT Leaders Bet on AI Agents to Ease Growing Workloads, But Integration...
Companies are embracing the artificial intelligence revolution, turning to AI agents to help them scale for the future. That’s good news for enterprise agentic platform providers like Salesforce,...
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Zendesk Acquires Local Measure to Strengthen AI Voice Capabilities, Expand...
Customer experience platform Zendesk has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Australia-based Contact Center as a Service (CCaaS) firm Local Measure. Citing pending regulatory approval, the...
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Salesforce’s Next Big Challenge: Convincing Developers to Build AI Agents
Marc Benioff believes we’re in the era of digital labor, an opportunity Salesforce’s charismatic chief executive concedes his company is still trying to grasp. “We can see a new world opening when we...
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Salesforce Unveils AgentExchange, a Built-In Marketplace for Agentforce
Twenty years ago, Salesforce introduced AppExchange, a cloud-based marketplace for business applications. It was designed to strengthen the platform and provide CRM administrators and developers with a...
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Microsoft Introduces AI-Powered Sales Agents for Microsoft 365 Copilot
Microsoft has a message for Salesforce: Hold my beer. The same week that Salesforce unveiled more enhancements to its Agentforce platform, Microsoft introduced two AI-powered sales agents for Microsoft...
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Salesforce Expands Agentforce to Bring ‘Proactive’ AI Agents to Any App or...
Salesforce is updating its agentic development platform, infusing AI agents with new autonomous capabilities. With the release of Agentforce 2dx, created bots are moving away from the confines of a...
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Salesforce Bets Big on Agentblazers: Training One Million Builders for the AI...
As Salesforce further promotes its vision of an agentic workforce, it must equip the next generation of builders with the necessary knowledge to unleash these AI bots. To accomplish this, the...
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Adobe: Generative AI Reshaping Consumer Behavior, Driving Massive Traffic...
Generative AI is transforming consumers’ shopping, travel, and financial patterns. New data from Adobe reveals the impact chatbots have on online purchase behavior. The company found that between...
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Adobe Steps Into Its Orchestration Era With New AI Agents for Sales and...
Adobe is the latest tech giant to embrace AI-powered agents for the enterprise. This week, the company introduced the Adobe Experience Platform Agent Orchestrator, a new service designed to build,...
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Intercom Expands Fin Agent with Multimodal AI, Adding Voice, Image Support,...
Intercom is doubling down on AI-driven customer support with a significant expansion of its Fin agent. The customer service tech provider is adding multimodal capabilities to its chatbot that go beyond...
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Searchquake: How Gen AI and Agents Are Reshaping SEO
IN THIS ISSUE: Dive into the changing world of search to better understand how artificial intelligence is disrupting where websites get their traffic from. Google’s dominance isn’t at risk…yet. But...
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Microsoft’s First CTO Says AI Is ‘Three to Five Miracles’ Away From...
Nathan Myhrvold had a front-row seat to the rise of modern computing that few can match. As Microsoft’s first CTO, he helped shape its technology strategy during its formative years from 1986 to 2000,...
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