In September, Salesforce said it will charge companies for each successful call a registered AI agent makes to its systems. That covers calls through MCP, a common standard that lets AI tools plug into other software, as well as direct ones. Salesforce ha... See more
Companies have spent the past few years teaching staff to use AI tools. The next step is harder: preparing them to manage AI agents, which carry out a series of actions on their own rather than answering a question. Someone directing an agent must give cl... See more
Slack users no longer need a data team to build a dashboard. They describe what they need in plain language, and Slackbot builds a dashboard, report, executive deck or interactive page, which Slack calls a Surface. Slack added Surfaces in a July 29 update... See more
Spielberg telling a story about aliens based on a deeply silly foundation, but somehow I became invested in Richard Dreyfuss and his obsession with the mountain. My memory is that nothing much happened for a long time and it was entertaining. The ending i... See more
The thread held everything: product decisions, completed work and agreed next steps. Then it grew too large to work in, and Matt Maunder, founder and principal of Valent Advisory, had to open a new one and reconstruct what he and his ChatGPT assistant had... See more
