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🚀 Introducing Claude x Zapier MCP! Now Claude can work with 8,000+ apps and 30,000+ pre-built actions through Zapier—no custom integrations needed. The Model Context Protocol creates a secure bridge so Claude doesn’t just understand what you want, but actually takes action. ⚡”” / X https://x.com/zapier/status/1918007000363122829
Zapier just gave your AI the keys their new MCP lets agents trigger 30,000+ actions across 8,000 apps with real access, not hacks. https://x.com/ProductHunt/status/1920550567153397977
Deep Think in 2.5 Pro has landed. 🤯 It’s a new enhanced reasoning mode using our research in parallel thinking techniques – meaning it explores multiple hypotheses before responding. This enables it to handle incredibly complex math and coding problems more effectively. https://x.com/GoogleDeepMind/status/1924881598102839373
@demishassabis Our ultimate vision for the @GeminiApp is to transform it into a universal AI assistant — an AI that’s personal, powerful and proactive and one of our key milestones on the road to artificial general intelligence (AGI). https://x.com/Google/status/1924882592236540085
Claude’s new MCP integration is INSANE! Connect PayPal, Gmail, and 7,000+ apps directly in chat. Top 5 things this update enables: • Financial tracking with PayPal transaction data • Daily briefings with calendar, email & weather • Research reports delivered to your https://x.com/JulianGoldieSEO/status/1919285937730617821
@GeminiApp Today, AI Overviews have more than 1.5 billion users every month. That means Google Search is bringing generative AI to more people than any other product in the world. https://x.com/Google/status/1924874920871526830
OpenAI goes public with its acquisition of the Jony Ive device startup, which we first scooped here: https://x.com/steph_palazzolo/status/1925237718994350466
1️⃣ It’s better at multitasking & can tackle up to 10 tasks simultaneously 2️⃣ It’s using Teach and Repeat — you can show it a task once and & it learns a plan for future tasks 3️⃣ Its computer use capabilities are coming to the Gemini API this summer #GoogleIO”” / X https://x.com/Google/status/1924876543479714026
hotel bookings natively on perplexity are quietly growing. it’s one of the under-the-radar features we have right now that has a massive potential to disrupt the ad industry. google’s second biggest adword category i think.”” / X https://x.com/AravSrinivas/status/1923124236618469735
Sam and Jony introduce io | OpenAI https://openai.com/sam-and-jony/
3/ With project mariner, you can: – Automate the process of listing products across various e-commerce sites. – Schedule multiple appointments (e.g., doctor, dentist, car service) concurrently”” / X https://x.com/AtomSilverman/status/1924960901142323588
We’re partnering with @Dell to accelerate secure, agentic enterprise AI solutions. Dell will be the first provider to offer our secure agents platform, Cohere North, to enterprises on-premises, which is crucial for regulated industries handling sensitive data 🧵 https://x.com/cohere/status/1924512634373865950
We’re partnering with @SAP to bring enterprise-ready agentic AI to businesses worldwide! Our models will be embedded into SAP Business Suite, offering secure and scalable AI capabilities. With Cohere’s cutting-edge models also available on SAP AI Core, enterprises can leverage https://x.com/cohere/status/1924858543716630644
We’re introducing thought summaries in 2.5 Flash and Pro via the Gemini API and @GoogleCloud’s #VertexAI. These organize the model’s thoughts into a clear format with headers and key information about its actions to give more transparency. https://x.com/GoogleDeepMind/status/1924879655762632816
You can now crawl entire websites and extract LLM-ready data with a single tool. Crawl4AI is an open-source repo built for AI agents, RAG, and data pipelines. It supports both browser-based and HTTP crawling, with real-time Markdown generation from any site. https://x.com/LiorOnAI/status/1925930945137254629
I wish these skeptical AI articles would actually grapple with the growing body of research that AI can really do original research & perform key unstructured tasks across the spectrum of high-end white collar employment. AI criticism is important, but it should be clear-eyed.”” / X https://x.com/emollick/status/1923417536072241529
Anthropic CEO, Dario Amodei: the first billion-dollar company with a single human employee could emerge by 2026 https://x.com/slow_developer/status/1925632756639256577
Anthropic raises Series E at $61.5B post-money valuation \ Anthropic https://www.anthropic.com/news/anthropic-raises-series-e-at-usd61-5b-post-money-valuation
SDK – Anthropic https://docs.anthropic.com/en/docs/claude-code/sdk
Implementing An Airbnb and Excel MCP Server In this tutorial, we’ll build an MCP server that integrates Airbnb and Excel, and connect it with Cursor IDE. Using natural language, you’ll be able to fetch Airbnb listings for a specific date range and location, and automatically https://x.com/Marktechpost/status/1918543230779703762
AI’s ability to make tasks not just cheaper, but also faster, is underrated in its importance in creating business value. For the task of writing code, AI is a game-changer. It takes so much less effort — and is so much cheaper — to write software with AI assistance than”” / X https://x.com/AndrewYNg/status/1923045958511886549
They went from nearly killing their startup over a weekend to being in talks with OpenAI for a $3 billion acquisition. How @windsurf_ai turned a moment of existential panic into one of AI’s most remarkable success stories. One weekend in 2022, the founders of Exafunction https://x.com/fdaudens/status/1923458065937883509
📢We’re excited to share that we’ve raised $100M in seed funding to support LMArena and continue our research on reliable AI. Led by @a16z and UC Investments (@UofCalifornia), we’re proud to have the support of those that believe in both the science and the mission. We’re https://x.com/lmarena_ai/status/1925241333310189804
Chinese Startup Trials First AI Doctor Clinic in Saudi Arabia – Bloomberg https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-05-15/chinese-startup-trials-first-ai-doctor-clinic-in-saudi-arabia?embedded-checkout=true
Great column by @htaneja & @FareedZakaria in @theinformation: « America’s historical technological leadership wasn’t built on protectionism and closed systems—it was fueled by creating a dynamic marketplace of optionality, including open platforms the world could build upon. Yet https://x.com/ClementDelangue/status/1924578324392587385
This will likely produce a business ~100x bigger than Apple’s market cap (or more) What’s clear now is we’re in the right decade for humanoid robotics – this will feel like the future jumped ahead by 50 years”” / X https://x.com/adcock_brett/status/1923406193743081596
Evidence from an ongoing nationally representative survey of US workers that there has been a very large, very recent surge in AI use at work, going from around 30% of workers in December to over 40% in March/April 2025. Big expansion of use of both Gemini & ChatGPT. https://x.com/emollick/status/1925132760810692901
Perplexity partners with PayPal for in-chat AI shopping https://www.cnbc.com/2025/05/14/perplexity-partners-with-paypal-for-in-chat-ai-shopping.html
The most obvious, lowest risk way to use AI (and to get a sense of how good it is) is to ask it for second opinions in your area of expertise. This works across most fields. And I’d go further: increasingly, not using AI as a second opinion is going to lead to worse outcomes.”” / X https://x.com/emollick/status/1924152902907494870
(4) Evaluation Driven Development for Agentic Systems. https://www.newsletter.swirlai.com/p/evaluation-driven-development-for
3 new products going out today! First: AI MEETING NOTES 🎙️✨ Syncs with @NotionCalendar, or works on any @NotionHQ page (just type /meet). – No more typing notes! – No creepy bots – State-of-the-art AI summaries w/ templates – Ask questions anytime – Transcriptions that https://x.com/ivanhzhao/status/1922312312486297857
At @AgentOpsAI we found $2.7m in revenue in a customers CRM How? By building an AI agent that analyzes our customer’s CRM + finds opportunities to engage with EXISTING customers. Comment @AgentOpsAI for early access https://x.com/AtomSilverman/status/1924521025666220232
Everybody is doing AI agents these days. Here’s a great example of an application that gets it right: @genspark_ai AI Sheets lets you literally talk to your spreadsheets. Upload your files, ask any data analysis question, and it automatically analyzes everything, pulls the info, https://x.com/fchollet/status/1924509605050327475
Spreadsheets haven’t changed much in decades. Until now. Here is an AI Agent that can take your data and run a complete data analysis on it. It can generate charts, summaries, and reports. You only need to know what questions to ask. Check out this video. I created it. https://x.com/svpino/status/1923092831532613864
it is amazing and exciting how much software one person is going to be able to create with tools like this. “”you can just do things”” is one of my favorite memes; i didn’t think it would apply to AI itself, and its users, in such an important way so soon.”” / X https://x.com/sama/status/1923399498019021298
Tired of a never-ending code backlog? 🫥 Meet Jules: our AI dev agent that helps you clear your to-do list by multitasking across your codebases – freeing you up to focus on other things. Get caught up on @JulesAgent → https://x.com/GoogleDeepMind/status/1925283511902048537
wow so far DMs in a shockingly even dead heat between “”you made a software engineer and didn’t include unlimited use in the $20 plan? fuck you!”” and “”you made a software engineer and you’re not charging $20k a month for it? what the fuck?”””” / X https://x.com/sama/status/1923403788947275954
Amazon introduces AI-powered audio product summaries for easier shopping https://www.aboutamazon.com/news/retail/amazon-ai-shopping-features-hear-the-highlights
Anthropic was indeed underpriced at 2%. It peaked at 31.6% 3 minutes after the release of Claude 4 Opus However, the dust has settled and betting markets still think that Google has the best model. Do you agree? https://x.com/scaling01/status/1925623699186589698
Anthropic’s hosting a social in NYC in mid-June for quants interested in a career jump. Sign up link below! I was a quant trader for 4y, retired 2y, then Anthropic for 4y. Quant trading and retirement were good; Anthropic has been great 🎉 https://x.com/andy_l_jones/status/1923076725002391750
Chatbot Arena Group Goes From Academic Project to $600 Million Startup – Bloomberg https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-05-21/lmarena-goes-from-academic-project-to-600-million-startup?embedded-checkout=true
🚨MODEL RELEASE! We’re thrilled to announce our powerful, compact xGen-small model family, now available for the research community. 🤗Download xGen-Small model: https://x.com/SFResearch/status/1922329256538849567
If we’re not seeing more economic impact of AI in terms of GDP growth, in my opinion, it’s mostly because gains and controls are concentrated in a few companies (mostly big tech and a couple of big startups) because of the lack of open infrastructure, open science and open-source”” / X https://x.com/ClementDelangue/status/1925984382638014562
Notion launched an “”AI for Work”” suite for its business plan subscribers, offering: —AI meeting notes —Access to different AI models, including GPT-4.1 —Enterprise Search to find answers across different platforms —A research ode to draft docs https://x.com/adcock_brett/status/1924133849610543431
Salesforce released xGen-Small family of small AI models It includes two variants, 4B & 9B params, with the larger one proving competitive on long-context understanding up to 128K tokens Both also deliver strong performance on math + coding benchmarks https://x.com/adcock_brett/status/1924133781704786366
Expanding your AI Horizons, Summer ’25 Edition (2025) – Shopify https://www.shopify.com/blog/expanding-your-ai-horizons-summer-edition-25
Google also announced plans to expand Gemini to more platforms, including smartwatches, cars, and XR headsets. Plus, it debuted ‘AI Futures Fund’ to give startups early access to advanced models, funding, and technical expertise to boost development https://x.com/adcock_brett/status/1924133705913655709
Together AI and Agentica launched DeepCoder-14B-Preview, a code generation model that competes with top reasoning models like OpenAI’s o1 and DeepSeek-R1, but at a fraction of the size. Built on a 14 billion parameter Qwen model, DeepCoder uses a highly optimized reinforcement https://x.com/DeepLearningAI/status/1924570759793369303
Exclusive | OpenAI Texas Data Center Clinches $11.6 Billion of Funding – WSJ https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/openai-data-center-funding-microsoft-75e879b6
The AI layoffs have not begun (with a couple of small exceptions) AI is not (now) a human replacement, so whether AI leads to layoffs is also a choice. I have spoken to plenty of leaders who view AI as an opportunity to grow the firm, using added capabilities to expand, not cut.”” / X https://x.com/emollick/status/1924472646218969286
Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group’s banking unit has hired startup Sakana AI to power its systems with AI “The deal will allow the $1.5 billion startup to turn profitable within a year.” 😃✨ https://x.com/hardmaru/status/1924480171606003841
An updated version of 2.5 Flash is available in: 🔘 Preview in @Google AI Studio for developers 🔘 Preview in @GoogleCloud’s #VertexAI platform for enterprise 🔘 @GeminiApp for everyone Happy building! https://x.com/GoogleDeepMind/status/1924879659868815738
Google I/O conference: AI upgrades, subscriptions and smart glasses | Reuters https://www.reuters.com/business/google-unveil-ai-upgrades-io-conference-amid-search-challenges-2025-05-20/
this is how the ‘try it on’ feature works. You upload a pic of yourself and it matches whatever clothes you’re shopping for to the pic of you, using AI to calculate how clothes fit and crease etc https://x.com/adrianweckler/status/1924886638880072103
🚀Applications are open for the Llama Startup Program!🚀 We’re thrilled to announce the Llama Startup Program, a new initiative designed to empower early-stage startups to innovate and build generative AI applications with Llama. Why Join the Llama Startup Program? ☑️Cloud https://x.com/AIatMeta/status/1925234408187175339
Introducing the Llama Startup Program https://ai.meta.com/blog/llama-startup-program/
Enterprise Document AI & OCR | Mistral AI https://mistral.ai/solutions/document-ai
o3, show me a photo of the most stereotypical X and LinkedIn feeds as seen on a mobile device. Really lean into it.”” https://x.com/emollick/status/1922866235307356423
Salesforce just dropped BLIP3-o on Hugging Face A Family of Fully Open Unified Multimodal Models-Architecture, Training and Dataset https://x.com/_akhaliq/status/1923001183804764391
An Interview with Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang About Chip Controls, AI Factories, and Enterprise Pragmatism – Stratechery by Ben Thompson https://stratechery.com/2025/an-interview-with-nvidia-ceo-jensen-huang-about-chip-controls-ai-factories-and-enterprise-pragmatism/
SharpaWave, a 22-DOF dexterous hand, by Singapore-based startup Sharpa. ⦿ Features over 1,000 tactile pixels per fingertip and 0.005 N pressure sensitivity. ⦿ Delivers 20 N fingertip strength and more than 4 Hz hand movement speed across all gestures. https://x.com/TheHumanoidHub/status/1925045971312116127
OpenAI, Google and xAI battle for superstar AI talent, shelling out millions | Reuters https://www.reuters.com/business/openai-google-xai-battle-superstar-ai-talent-shelling-out-millions-2025-05-21/
The SignalFire State of Tech Talent Report – 2025 https://www.signalfire.com/blog/signalfire-state-of-talent-report-2025
When I talk to companies, the General Counsel’s office is often the choke point that determines AI success. Many firms still ban AI use for outdated unclear reasons, yet lots of companies in heavily regulated industries are adopting AI universally, so this is a solveable issue. https://x.com/emollick/status/1924319886785778099
Announcing a Multiyear Partnership between Sakana AI and MUFG Bank https://x.com/SakanaAILabs/status/1924442310210678974
Google will let you ‘try on’ clothes with AI | The Verge https://www.theverge.com/news/670346/google-try-on-clothes-ai-shopping-io-2025
Google Meet is getting real-time speech translation | TechCrunch https://techcrunch.com/2025/05/20/google-meet-is-getting-real-time-speech-translation/
Everyone has this👇 technology that we were all was blown away by a year ago, for free. I even screenshotted the problem from the video to use in this demo to test it out.. Yet a weakness is the GPT-4o vision system, which still has trouble with details like where my line was. https://x.com/emollick/status/1924304791636725855
This is a major milestone for Figure and humanoids in general – doing useful work at a real production line for extended periods. Figure recently completed a 20-hour run of back-to-back shifts on the BMW X3 line! They’ve been running 10-hour shifts for several weeks now. https://x.com/TheHumanoidHub/status/1925234858730852805
On Friday, Figure completed a 20-hour run of back-to-back shifts on the BMW X3 production line! We’ve been running 10-hour shifts for several weeks now and as far as we know, Figure and BMW are the first in the world to do this with humanoid robots https://x.com/adcock_brett/status/1925216191733502270
With the retraction of the MIT paper, we now have no clear experimental evidence that LLMs act as a multiplier for high performers (even though that would still seem to make sense). Lots of evidence that low performers get a big performance boost, though, across many studies.”” / X https://x.com/emollick/status/1923571343590633839
