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How to Use AI for Marketing, the Non-Obvious Way

IN THIS ISSUE: A review of the book, “The Non-Obvious Guide to Using AI for Marketing” by David Berkowitz, a clear, practical resource for marketers trying to make sense of AI without getting lost in jargon or hype. Plus, why did Salesforce pay $8 billion for Informatica? Short answer: It’s the data. The Prompt Over a […]

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Inside ServiceNow University’s Big Idea: Reskilling Through Play, Not Pressure

ServiceNow has evolved into a mission-critical platform that’s now deeply integrated into the daily operations of most enterprises. In 2023, the company claimed that 85 percent of Fortune 500 companies were customers. Now, as adoption accelerates, there’s a growing need for skilled experts who can design, implement, and maintain ServiceNow environments. It’s essentially why the […]

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Microsoft’s Project Amelie Is an Experiment in ‘AI Developing AI’

Microsoft Build featured a flurry of product announcements. But beyond the official launches, the company also offered a glimpse into its frontier projects—experimental inventions that may never be released to the public but serve to showcase the ideas Microsoft is exploring. One such effort is codenamed Project Amelie, an AI agent capable of building machine […]

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Microsoft Pushes AI to the Edge

IN THIS ISSUE: Microsoft pushes AI innovation to the edge. Will OpenAI crack the AI hardware market, a space where many have stumbled, after acquiring Sir Jony Ive’s AI startup for nearly $6.5 billion? Plus, catch up on this week’s key headlines you might have missed, including what was announced at Google I/O and the […]

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This AI-Powered App Turns Family Memories Into Personal Podcasts

What if AI could help you preserve your grandfather’s stories, or even create a podcast out of them? That’s the promise of Linda AI, a new startup turning memories into shareable audio shows with a conversational AI as your guide. Users can use the platform to have a professional interviewer-like bot probe a subject with […]

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Microsoft Adds Model Tuning to M365 Copilot to Build Domain-Specific AI

Microsoft is adding a new feature to its Microsoft 365 (M365) Copilot assistant that transforms it into a domain expert. Announced at Microsoft Build 2025, the feature is called Copilot Tuning and is a low-code service allowing developers to train models on an organization’s own data without needing the assistance of data scientists. Imagine a […]

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Microsoft Opens Teams to Smarter AI Agents With A2A Protocol and New Developer Tools

Microsoft is opening the door to more intelligent, autonomous AI agents in Teams. At its 2025 Build conference, the company announced a new developer toolkit that will make it easier to build and deploy agents directly within meetings on the platform, for both private and group use. The update includes support for Google’s Agent2Agent (A2A) […]

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The New GitHub Copilot Agent Doesn’t Just Help You Code—it Codes for You

GitHub’s coding assistant has leveled up, shifting from an in-editor assistant to an autonomous agent capable of implementing tasks or issues. This is an escalation in the vibe coming space and takes place four years after GitHub Copilot was first introduced. Internally dubbed Project Padawan, the new GitHub Copilot coding agent brings deeper integration of […]

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Microsoft Brings Grok 3, Local AI, and Multi-Agent Tools to Azure AI Foundry

Microsoft’s platform for building and deploying AI apps and agents is getting an update. Announced at this year’s Build conference, Azure AI Foundry (née Azure AI Studio) has new tools to simplify agent development, automate model selection, enhance monitoring, and support on-device AI. It’s all aimed at helping companies scale their generative AI solutions with […]

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Microsoft’s NLWeb Project Turns Websites into Conversational Interfaces for AI Agents

Microsoft is reimagining how people interact with autonomous agents through a new open project called NLWeb. Designed to bring natural language interfaces to websites, it transforms ordinary web pages into conversational agents, enabling users to interact directly with the site’s content. The company is betting on this to be as impactful on the agentic web […]