Ethan B. Holland

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ChatGPT / Instacart / Stripe integration for agentic commerce:”” / X https://x.com/gdb/status/1998135014161334431

Claude Code and Slack | Claude https://claude.com/blog/claude-code-and-slack

Claude Code is coming to Slack, and that’s a bigger deal than it sounds | TechCrunch https://techcrunch.com/2025/12/08/claude-code-is-coming-to-slack-and-thats-a-bigger-deal-than-it-sounds/

Summarizing 2025 in AI in a tweet 1) No sign of a slowdown in exponential pace of gains 2) Jaggedness remains the main issue of AI 3) Early days for deployment, but many companies reporting positive ROI 4) GenAI became an industry, with industry-level impacts 5) AI is still weird https://x.com/emollick/status/1997371953267585509

Shopify Editions | Winter ’26 https://www.shopify.com/editions/winter2026#shopify-simgym-app

Shopify merchants can now sell products through AI chatbots | BetaKit https://betakit.com/shopify-merchants-can-now-sell-products-through-ai-chatbots/

We’re rolling out Product Network: merchants can now sell each other’s products with zero integration work. LLMs analyze storefronts and buyer behavior, find products that fit naturally, and place them right on the page. Crucially, shoppers buy *without* ever leaving your site. https://x.com/MParakhin/status/1998789844794012049

Trump signs executive order seeking to block state laws on AI https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news/trump-signs-executive-order-seeking-ban-state-laws-ai-rcna248741

Broadcom reveals its mystery $10 billion customer is Anthropic https://www.cnbc.com/2025/12/11/broadcom-reveals-its-mystery-10-billion-customer-is-anthropic.html

I did not expect that the PowerPoint killer would be something called Nano Banana Pro, but that is where its heading It makes the major efforts by all the other AI companies, including Microsoft, to crack PowerPoint by using python seem like a dead end ImageGen is all you need? https://x.com/emollick/status/1998520025951752278

Denise Dresser is joining OpenAI as Chief Revenue Officer. Previously CEO of Slack, she brings deep enterprise and customer experience as she leads our global revenue strategy and support for customers at scale. https://x.com/OpenAI/status/1998462761756434856

Instacart and OpenAI partner on AI shopping experiences | OpenAI https://openai.com/index/instacart-partnership/

OpenAI Hires Slack CEO as New Chief Revenue Officer | WIRED https://www.wired.com/story/slack-ceo-denise-dresser-joins-openai-chief-revenue-officer/

Disney has signed a deal with OpenAI & invested $1 billion into the company Sora will now be able to AI generate videos based on animated, masked & creature characters from Disney, Marvel, Pixar & Star Wars Curated selections of AI generated videos will be released on Disney+ https://x.com/DiscussingFilm/status/1999121515678208153

Disney investing $1 billion in OpenAI, will allow characters on Sora https://www.cnbc.com/2025/12/11/disney-openai-sora-characters-video.html

https://t.co/HngrXph6kU “”The Walt Disney Company and OpenAI reach landmark agreement to bring beloved characters from across Disney’s brands to Sora”” https://x.com/TheRealAdamG/status/1999118075879129140

The Walt Disney Company and OpenAI Reach Agreement to Bring Disney Characters to Sora | The Walt Disney Company https://thewaltdisneycompany.com/news/disney-openai-sora-agreement/

we’re partnering with @Disney to bring 200+ characters from disney, pixar, marvel, and star wars to sora and image generation we are also excited to welcome disney as an investor, and deploy openai models and products alongside the disney team https://x.com/bradlightcap/status/1999177616860020788

Voice Assist | AI Voice Agent | AI Phone Answering for Business https://www.callrail.com/voice-assist

Voice Assist in Action | Try Our AI Voice Assistant | CallRail https://www.callrail.com/voice-assist-in-action

Horses https://andyljones.com/posts/horses.html

Accenture and Anthropic launch multi-year partnership to move enterprises from AI pilots to production \ Anthropic https://www.anthropic.com/news/anthropic-accenture-partnership

We’re expanding our partnership with @Accenture to help enterprises move from AI pilots to production. The Accenture Anthropic Business Group will include 30,000 professionals trained on Claude, and a product to help CIOs scale Claude Code. Read more: https://x.com/AnthropicAI/status/1998412600015769609

McDonald’s pulls AI-generated Christmas advert following backlash https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/czdgrnvp082o

Meta’s multibillion dollar AI strategy overhaul creates culture clash https://www.cnbc.com/2025/12/09/meta-avocado-ai-strategy-issues.html

Microsoft Deepens Its Commitment to Canada with Landmark $19B AI Investment – Microsoft On the Issues https://blogs.microsoft.com/on-the-issues/2025/12/09/microsoft-deepens-its-commitment-to-canada-with-landmark-19b-ai-investment/

the-state-of-enterprise-ai_2025-report.pdf https://cdn.openai.com/pdf/7ef17d82-96bf-4dd1-9df2-228f7f377a29/the-state-of-enterprise-ai_2025-report.pdf

We just launched a specialized agent for document splitting 📑✂️ This is like semantic chunking on steroids, across complex document packets. A lot of documents are stapled together collections of mini “sub-documents”. Each document packet can contain a bunch of subdocs of one https://x.com/jerryjliu0/status/1998534596586299669

Amazon, Microsoft pledge mega AI investments in India https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c3w79pgn8peo

2025: The State of Generative AI in the Enterprise | Menlo Ventures https://menlovc.com/perspective/2025-the-state-of-generative-ai-in-the-enterprise/

Business AI adoption flatlines – by Ara Kharazian https://econlab.substack.com/p/business-ai-adoption-flatlines-december-2025

Essential AI https://essential.ai/research/rnj-1

I’m Shawn, founder of http://Memories.ai, former researcher at Meta and CS PhD at University of Cambridge.

IBM to Acquire Confluent to Create Smart Data Platform for Enterprise Generative AI https://newsroom.ibm.com/2025-12-08-ibm-to-acquire-confluent-to-create-smart-data-platform-for-enterprise-generative-ai

Is It a Bubble? https://www.oaktreecapital.com/insights/memo/is-it-a-bubble

Partnership with Deutsche Telekom to bring AI to millions of customers and businesses across Europe: https://x.com/gdb/status/1998456382165864767

Report: How People Use AI at Work – DEJAN https://dejan.ai/blog/report-ai-workplace/

Robert Conquest had 3 famous laws of politics. The first: “”Everyone is conservative about what they know best.”” In the same vein: “”Everyone thinks that the median job is far easier to automate than their own job.”””” / X https://x.com/dwarkesh_sp/status/1996407966615085439

SkyPilot v0.11.0 is out! 🚀 uv pip install -U skypilot The best SkyPilot version ever for enterprise-ready AI infrastructure at large scale: many thousands of GPUs, many hundreds of MLEs! Check out the blog: https://x.com/skypilot_org/status/1999167910179463678

Split documents into distinct sections automatically with our new LlamaSplit API 📄✂️ We’re excited to introduce LlamaSplit (now in beta), which uses AI to automatically separate bundled documents into clear, targeted sections based on categories you define – no more manual https://x.com/llama_index/status/1998516266907394185

Today we hit $100M ARR at @clay. It took us six years to go from $0-1m, then two years to go from $1-100m. I’m going to walk you through the 6 biggest GTM bets that got us here. $100M ARR may be the headline, but I’m most proud of how we accomplished it: we’ve never churned https://x.com/vxanand/status/1998037723458810129

Today we start rolling out Sidekick Pulse. We run the largest HSTU model in the world together with the heaviest LLMs overnight, analyze the customer’s entire business, find ways to improve it, and notify them of changes needed. You should see the things it discovers… https://x.com/MParakhin/status/1998788090324988244

Today we started rolling out SimGym — a system that creates “digital customers” that behave like real ones. They browse your site, complete tasks, and reveal optimization opportunities. You can even run A/B tests with *zero* live traffic! Spent a year developing it. https://x.com/MParakhin/status/1998786503779234276

Unconventional AI confirms its massive $475M seed round | TechCrunch https://techcrunch.com/2025/12/09/unconventional-ai-confirms-its-massive-475m-seed-round/

We’re in an “LLM bubble” not an AI bubble.”” / X https://x.com/hardmaru/status/1997778363625488502

So after all these hours talking about AI, in these last five minutes I am going to talk about: Horses. Engines, steam engines, were invented in 1700. And what followed was 200 years of steady improvement, with engines getting 20% better a decade. For the first 120 years of https://x.com/andy_l_jones/status/1998060552565002721

Linus’s views on AI: – “AI is clearly a bubble, but it will change how most skilled jobs get done.” – “Vibe coding is great for getting into programming, but it’s a horrible thing to maintain.” – “I’m a huge believer in AI. I’m not a huge believer in the things around AI. I find https://x.com/Yuchenj_UW/status/1998090820897947843

Juuuust a bit outside https://x.com/buccocapital/status/1999303168568754348

Super excited for Google Workspace Studio, I’ve been playing with the early versions for months and it is super useful to connect Docs, Gmail, etc with Gemini https://x.com/OfficialLoganK/status/1996396853764805032

Announcing GDPval-AA — our leaderboard and evaluation harness for comparing models on OpenAI’s GDPval dataset of real-world knowledge work tasks Earlier today, we announced our agentic harness called Stirrup, which we built to run GDPval tasks on any language model. We’re https://x.com/ArtificialAnlys/status/1998841566627246173

The standard pricing is $1.75 / 1M input tokens and $14 / 1M output tokens, with a 90% discount on cached prompts. We offer this model for Priority Processing and Flex Processing customers, and you can run it in the background using the Batch API for a discount.”” / X https://x.com/OpenAIDevs/status/1999184812389859689

Just released a report on OpenAI for enterprise — accelerating and deepening adoption, with interesting findings on productivity gains: https://x.com/gdb/status/1998222726537056391

Some highlights from #Disney CEO Bob Iger and #OpenAI CEO Sam Altman’s interview with CNBC: -The deal is a three-year license, with exclusivity for the first year. -Disney will set (and evolve) the guardrails for how its 200 characters will be used in video creation. -Iger https://x.com/dannybennett/status/1999150474688143750

Introducing our latest breakthrough in AI search and retrieval: Rerank 4! It’s the most advanced set of reranking models on the market, with best-in-class performance across search relevance, speed, deployment flexibility, multilingual support, and domain-specific understanding. https://x.com/cohere/status/1999162791966745079

Introducing Rerank 4: Cohere’s most powerful reranker yet https://cohere.com/blog/rerank-4

Amp, Inc. – Amp https://ampcode.com/news/amp-inc?