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AWS Makes Quick’s Desktop App Generally Available
Amazon Web Services has released a new way for enterprise customers to use its Quick AI assistant. On Thursday, the company announced that a desktop version is now generally available, offering another way to use it beyond the browser. This app also gives the AI more context by pulling in work-related information stored on the […]
Salesforce Unveils ‘Trusted Enterprise AI Harness’ to Give AI Agents Business Context
Salesforce built its business on human users, but over the past couple of years, it’s been building for the digital ones. Since launching Agentforce in 2024, the company has invested in helping customers become what it calls “agentic enterprises”—firms where autonomous agents work alongside human employees. On Thursday, Salesforce introduced the latest step in its […]
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 […]
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 […]
Introducing OnCue: A Live Newsroom for Your Own Site
One piece of entrepreneurial advice I picked up in Silicon Valley has stuck with me: Build something that solves a problem you have. It’s an idea that became my guiding principle as I set out on what I’ve been calling my “summer of building”—a run of months spent turning app concepts into working tools. It’s […]
OpenClaw Won. Big Tech Is Now Playing Its Game.
The definition of an AI agent has evolved rapidly since the term first entered the zeitgeist. The earliest versions were chatbots with better manners: systems that answered questions, drafted text, and waited for the next prompt. Tool use and function calling took them a step further, allowing models to query databases or call APIs, but […]
Web IQ Is Microsoft Rebuilding Search Around the Machines
Search engines learned what a good result looked like by observing how people behaved. A click followed by a long page stay signaled satisfaction, while a quick bounce back to the search results signaled a miss. Microsoft built its Bing search engine on those patterns. But in the AI era, there’s a type of user […]
Asana Launches Agentic Work Management Platform, Pitching Itself as the ‘Easy Button’ for AI-Driven Enterprises
Asana has spent over 18 years telling companies how to manage work. Now, it wants to tell them how to manage AI. On Thursday, the company unveiled its Agentic Work Management Platform, a system designed to align humans and agents around the same plan, context, and governance. Asana calls it the “most significant product evolution” […]
Glean Reaches $300 Million ARR, Citing Surging Enterprise Demand
Glean has reached $300 million in annual recurring revenue (ARR), the company said Thursday, an amount that tripled in just 15 months. It attributes the growth to stronger enterprise data context, broader departmental deployment, and higher-than-average user engagement. This milestone signals that Glean is holding its ground, even as enterprise software vendors like Slack, Dropbox, […]