Good morning ☀️, leader of the next generation.

We will talk about agents. AI agents.

They will change the way how we do business, how we interract and even how we do our everyday lives.

Agents will build business.

Agents will organize your day.

Agents will fill up your fridge.

I will let that sit in here for a while, so we can imagine and build the future together one agent at a time...

⚡ WHAT'S AT STAKE TODAY ⚡

1. ⚡🤖 Salesforce announces an AI-heavy makeover for Slack, with 30 new features
2. 🚀💰 Exclusive: Runway launches $10M fund, Builders program to support early-stage AI startups
3. 🏠🤖 With its new app store, Ring bets on AI to go beyond home security
4. 🚗💰 Nomadic raises $8.4 million to wrangle the data pouring off autonomous vehicles
5. 🤖📈 Anthropic is having a month
6. 🔒⚠️ Mercor says it was hit by cyberattack tied to compromise of open-source LiteLLM project
7. 🚀💸 OpenAI, not yet public, raises $3B from retail investors in monster $122B fund raise
8. 💔📉 Yupp shuts down after raising $33M from a16z crypto's Chris Dixon
9. 🔊🍕 Alexa+ gets new food ordering experiences with Uber Eats and Grubhub

Salesforce transforms Slack with 30 AI features and enhanced Slackbot

Salesforce announces an AI-heavy makeover for Slack, with 30 new features

Salesforce is doubling down on its AI transformation with a major overhaul of Slack, introducing 30 new artificial intelligence features that promise to revolutionize workplace productivity. The announcement, made at a San Francisco gathering on Tuesday, positions the workplace communication platform as far more than just a messaging tool.

The centerpiece of this transformation is a dramatically enhanced Slackbot, which builds on January updates that first gave the AI agent capabilities to draft emails, schedule meetings, and analyze inbox contents. The new features, rolling out over the coming months, represent Salesforce's ambitious vision to make Slack an integral part of enterprise business processes.

The most groundbreaking addition is "reusable AI-skills" – customizable tasks that users can define once and apply across multiple scenarios. While Slackbot comes with a built-in library of these skills, organizations can create tailored versions to match their specific workflows. This functionality dramatically reduces manual work by allowing employees to trigger complex processes with simple commands.

For example, an employee can simply type "create a budget" for an upcoming event, prompting Slackbot to automatically gather relevant information from company Slack channels and connected applications. The AI then compiles an actionable plan and schedules a meeting with appropriate team members based on their roles – all without human intervention.

A significant technical advancement is Slackbot's new role as an MCP (Model Context Protocol) client, enabling seamless integration with external services and tools. This includes direct connection to Agentforce, Salesforce's AI agent development platform launched in 2024. Through this integration, Slackbot can intelligently route tasks and questions to the most appropriate systems within an organization's technology stack.

According to Rob Seaman, Slack's interim CEO and former chief product officer, the enhanced Slackbot now offers sophisticated meeting support. It can transcribe and summarize meetings automatically, allowing distracted participants to request personalized recaps including their specific action items. This feature addresses a common workplace challenge of maintaining focus during lengthy meetings.

Perhaps most notably, the AI agent now operates beyond Slack's traditional boundaries, monitoring desktop activities including deals, conversations, calendar events, and user habits. Using this contextual information, Slackbot proactively suggests actions and drafts follow-ups for critical tasks. Salesforce emphasizes that privacy protections are built into this expanded monitoring capability, with users maintaining control over permissions.

This comprehensive upgrade reflects Salesforce's strategic vision to transform Slack from its origins as an enterprise communication tool into a versatile business platform. By integrating extensive AI capabilities, the company aims to make Slack indispensable to core business operations rather than just team communication.

CEO Marc Benioff highlighted the success of Slack since Salesforce's acquisition five years ago, describing it as an "incredible journey" that delivered "two and a half times revenue growth." He noted that approximately one million businesses now operate on Slack, calling it "a huge growth story."

The timing of this AI-heavy makeover aligns with the broader enterprise software industry's race to integrate artificial intelligence capabilities. Salesforce's approach with Slack demonstrates how traditional workplace tools are evolving into intelligent assistants capable of handling complex business tasks autonomously.

As these features become available in the coming months, organizations will be able to leverage AI not just for communication but for comprehensive workflow management, potentially reshaping how teams collaborate and execute business processes in the modern workplace.

Runway expands beyond AI video with new fund and program

Exclusive: Runway launches $10M fund, Builders program to support early-stage AI startups

AI video-generation leader Runway has launched a $10 million venture fund to invest in early-stage AI, media, and world simulation startups. The company, valued at $5.3 billion, will write checks up to $500,000 for pre-seed and seed companies.

Alongside the fund, Runway introduced a Builders program offering 500,000 API credits to startups using its Characters technology—real-time video agents powered by general world models. The initiative aims to create an ecosystem around "video intelligence" and explore new applications beyond creative tooling in industries like telemedicine, education, and gaming.

🎙 New Episode: Architecting the Future with Jonathan Foltz

We’re living in one of the most important timelines in human history.
The real question is:

What is the cost of not participating?

In this episode, I sit down with Jonathan Foltz — 30-time exited founder, visionary entrepreneur, and creator of The Collective, a global community designed to help leaders navigate the intersection of technology, consciousness, and exponential change.

Jonathan isn’t just building companies — he’s building people, ecosystems, and the future itself.

Through The Collective, he brings together:

• Conscious leaders
• Technologists
• Visionaries
• Builders of what’s next

To create transformation that’s not just scalable — but meaningful.

We break down:

• 🔥 The concept of AI Disparity and why it matters now
• 🔥 Why most people are already falling behind (and don’t realize it)
• 🔥 The importance of community in an AI-driven world
• 🔥 How to architect your future instead of reacting to it
• 🔥 Why the cost of inaction has never been higher

This isn’t just a conversation — it’s a wake-up call.

If you’re building, thinking, or leading in today’s world…
you can’t afford to sit this one out.

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⚡ Let’s Make AI Actually Useful:
What Would Move the Needle in *Your* Industry?

AI has potential — but generic advice rarely helps.

What would be genuinely valuable for AI to do in your industry right now?

• Automate a painful workflow?
• Improve decision-making?
• Replace a manual process that wastes time?
• Help your team upskill faster?

Tell us what you’d want AI to handle — or where you feel stuck.

We’re using these insights to curate **industry-specific trainings, live webinars, and practical guidance** you can actually apply.