2+ day, 12+ hour ago   (533+ words) The Trusted Enterprise AI Harness is one of several major announcements coming from Salesforce ahead of its annual Dreamforce conference. Last month, the company debuted Slack Code, a teams-agent collaborative coding feature, and a partnership with Anthropic that embeds Salesforce…...

4+ day, 9+ hour ago   (332+ words) Amazon Web Services is expanding its free student coding program twelvefold. On Tuesday, the company opened Kiro for Students to 121 more universities across 18 countries. It’s a jump from the 11 campuses it started with in the U.S. and Canada. Students at…...

1+ week, 3+ day ago   (464+ words) The AI Economy | Ken Yeung More than 70 Adobe tools are now callable through Slackbot, weeks after the same deal landed in ChatGPT When users install Adobe for Slack, they simply instruct Slackbot on what they want created, and the AI…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (662+ words) Starting The AI Economy, I set out to report on how artificial intelligence is shaping business, technology, work, and society. It has, and faster than almost anyone expected—a new model or capability lands every week, sometimes every other day....

1+ week, 6+ day ago   (499+ words) Context was so top of mind at Glean’s conference that it almost felt as if the company was going to have its Steve Ballmer moment. In fact, the term was uttered 61 times during the briefing, as noted by “Ground Level…...

3+ week, 2+ hour ago   (448+ words) The AI Economy | Ken Yeung HR Software Company Lattice Acquires Performance Startup Pando Pando built competency rubrics to make promotions less of a black box. Its founder is now Lattice's CMO. Lattice announced this week that it has acquired the…...

3+ week, 22+ hour ago   (560+ words) The AI Economy | Ken Yeung Adobe's Firefly Audio Tools Exit Beta Music, speech, and sound effects hit GA, Firefly AI Assistant gets a free tier, and Gemini Omni Flash joins the model roster Sound is usually the last thing a…...

3+ week, 1+ day ago   (235+ words) And the conversion rate gap between AI and non-AI traffic continues to shrink. In May, AI traffic converted 28 percent below non-AI sources. By July, the gap was down to one percent. A visit from an LLM is now worth roughly…...

3+ week, 4+ day ago   (296+ words) Along with dynamic model routing, Snowflake’s catalog of open models will be expanding. The company said it will add support for DeepSeek V4 Flash 0731 and Z.ai’s GLM-5.3. “Companies are investing aggressively in AI, but they are also becoming more rigorous…...

3+ week, 6+ day ago   (485+ words) The Agent Plugins standard is designed to be vendor-neutral, meaning no single company controls it and no particular software is required to use it. It also keeps the format compact, specifying a small plugin.json file at the top level,…...