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Ken Yeung
Adobe Brings Photoshop, Firefly, Express, and Other Pro Tools Into Slack
Adobe is continuing its effort to bring Creative Cloud to where its users are. The company announced on Wednesday that it has brought more than 70 pro-grade tools from its creative and productivity suites, including Firefly, Express, Photoshop, Premiere, Acrobat, InDesign, Illustrator, Stock, Lightroom, and more, into Slack. When users install Adobe for Slack, they […]
Glean Bets the Enterprise AI Fight Will Be Won on Context
An AI agent that doesn’t know your company burns money trying to prove it. That’s the argument Glean is making as it pitches why context is critical to the success of any enterprise AI program. At its annual customer conference, Glean:GO, in San Francisco this past week, that was the only thing the company wanted […]
Ai2’s AutoDiscovery Flags Immunotherapy Potential in a ‘Cold’ Breast Cancer
Last February, the Allen Institute for AI (Ai2) introduced AutoDiscovery, an open-source experimental AI tool that analyzes massive scientific datasets to uncover new lines of inquiry. The non-profit lab applied it in a partnership with the Paul G. Allen Research Center (PARC) at Providence Swedish Cancer Institute, using AutoDiscovery to analyze The Cancer Genome Atlas, […]
Lattice Acquires Pando in Its Latest AI-Native Bet
Lattice announced this week that it has acquired the career development startup and one-time rival Pando, making its second acquisition this year as the HR software industry consolidates talent tools around AI. Pando founder and chief executive Barbra Gago is joining Lattice as chief marketing and strategy officer. However, financial terms were not disclosed, nor […]
Adobe Firefly Graduates Its Audio Tools and Adds a Free Tier to Its AI Assistant
Sound is usually the last thing a creator adds to a project, and the first thing anyone watching it notices. It’s also the point where the work stops. The edit is finished, the pacing is right, and then comes the detour: out to a stock library, through a licensing page, into a subscription in search […]
Travelers Trust AI. The Sites It Recommends Aren’t Ready.
When Jesse Middleton, a venture capitalist at Flybridge Capital, was looking to arrange travel from New York City to Cancun to attend a wedding, he didn’t scour Expedia, Travelocity, Kayak, or even individual airline websites—at least not on his own. Rather, it was handled by an AI agent. He wrote on LinkedIn that it searched […]
Snowflake Will Now Pick Which AI Model Handles Your Task
Snowflake has announced a feature that will soon automatically select the best AI model to handle a customer’s request—and it may not even be one from Anthropic or OpenAI. Dynamic model routing, in Cortex AI as a private preview, is the AI data cloud company’s answer to enterprises that have moved away from the one-model-fits-all […]
Agent Plugins Explained: What the New AI Standard Actually Does
You may think of the agentic world as the Wild West, but over the past two years, technologists have been developing rules of the road. Anthropic’s Model Context Protocol settled how agents access external tools. Google’s Agent2Agent and Cisco-backed AGNTCY took on the question of how agents reach each other. Now, there’s Agent Plugins, a […]
Adobe’s AI Collaborators Turn Outside AI Agents Into Governed Workfront Teammates
At the Adobe Summit last April, the company announced the Workflow Optimization Agent designed to automate “intelligent, connected actions” across workflows. Four months later, the agent—since rebranded as AI Collaborator—is now generally available. Through Adobe Workfront, the company’s work management application, users can delegate work to these virtual teammates similarly to how they might with […]
Why I Built Dossier, the Job Tracker My Spreadsheet Couldn’t Be
Throughout the periods of unemployment I’ve experienced during my professional career, a spreadsheet proved to be vital in managing the job search process. Yet, although setting it up was easy and fairly low-tech, keeping it updated was manual and tedious. Updating a listing for a job I applied for required modifying numerous cells in a […]