This week, we discuss OpenAI acquiring io, Salesforce buying Informatica, and the future of AI agents. Plus, Coté shares details about a sensitive procedure and ceiling puzzles.
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Don’t ride a bike for a weekYou’ve got to focus on the important thingsWhat’s your NPS score?It all comes back to CSVTHIS IS MY AI. THERE ARE MANY LIKE IT BUT THIS ONE'S MINE.You need an MCP.FactoryCrimp and HopeRundown
Sam & Jony introduce ioSalesforce to acquire data management company Informatica in $8 billion dealAgenticNew capabilities for building agents on the Anthropic APIHighlights from the Claude 4 system promptAnthropic brings web search to free Claude usersSWE Agents Too Cheap To Meter, The Token Data War, and the rise of Tiny TeamsGoogle CEO Sundar Pichai on the next AI platform shiftMCP RegistryAnil Dash thoughts on MCP ServersIf AI Can Play Dungeons & Dragons, It Can Run Your ERPMCP is the RSS of AIRelevant to your Interests
Mistral's new Devstral AI model was designed for coding | TechCrunch“Microsoft has simply given us no other option,” Signal says as it blocks Windows RecallFrom the ExperiencedDevs community on Reddit: My new hobby: watching AI slowly drive Microsoft employees insaneKrebsOnSecurity Hit With Near-Record 6.3 Tbps DDoSMicrosoft Build 2025 Keynote: Everything Revealed, in 14 MinutesOnce worth over $1B, Microsoft-backed Builder.ai is running out of moneyMeta launches program to encourage startups to use its Llama AI modelsDigg founder Kevin Rose offers to buy Pocket from MozillaAWS Breaking ChangesCloud computing is too important to be left to the Big ThreeHow to Lead an All-Hands After Delivering Bad NewsMatt Hicks: CentOS move not popular, but better for open sourceHow tech workers really feel about work right nowExposed: How ransom gang Lockbit negotiates paymentsBehind the Curtain: Top AI CEO foresees white-collar bloodbathU.S. public wants business to move slower on AI: Axios Harris 100 pollMusk’s xAI signs Telegram tie-up as billionaire ‘bromance’ bloomsIn 3.5 years, Notepad.exe has gone from “barely maintained” to “it writes for you”After 15 years, WhatsApp is finally ready for the iPadNonsense
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