The U.S. Manhattan Project for AGI 🍭

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• AI For Stressed-Out Call Center Agents

• Meta's New AI Team Is Going B2B

• The U.S. Wants a Manhattan Project for AGI

• Everything Else You Need To Know

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AI-Powered Defense Tech Funding Hits Record-Breaking Highs
Defense tech startups raised $3 billion in 2024, breaking records, despite fewer deals. Heavyweights like Anduril and Helsing are driving innovation, as global tensions and new policy shifts fuel a surge in defense investment…

Salesforce Is Beta-Testing Smarter AI Agents
Salesforce’s new Agentforce Testing Center is here (in beta) to help companies test, tweak, and gain deeper insights into their AI Agents. This playground for AI developers lets companies test their bots' reasoning, interaction accuracy, and scalability without breaking live systems…

Turn Your Conversations Into Insights
This all-in-one speech platform is revolutionizing conversation intelligence, from client interviews to focus groups. VoiceHub is helping teams of all sizes work 120x faster with industry-leading security and privacy…

“Can I please get your first and last name?”
Will AI Fix Stressed-Out Call Center Agents?

Call center life is tough, but AI might be the superhero agents have been waiting for.

New tools like Cisco’s Webex AI Agent can automatically manage breaks, schedule shifts, and even guide agents to lower-stress channels—all in real time. This kind of automation doesn’t just help agents; it’s a win-win for customers too, with faster resolutions and less cranky employees on the other end of the line.

Companies that embrace this tech see reduced turnover, higher customer satisfaction, and empowered employees. Turns out, happy agents really do equal happy customers—and businesses owners.

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Let’s get down to business
Meta's New AI Team Is Going B2B

Meta is officially entering the AI-for-business arena with a new division led by former Salesforce AI CEO Clara Shih. This is Meta’s first big step toward offering AI-driven business services, putting them in competition with other players like Microsoft, Google, and OpenAI.

Meta already has 200 million businesses on its platforms, and with the growing popularity of its native AI tools, Meta already has a really solid foundation. The new unit plans to help companies integrate AI (like their Llama models) into different products like AR/VR, possibly reshaping major industries like logistics, advertising, and retail.

Do you think Meta will disrupt the enterprise AI space?

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Race to AGI
The U.S. Wants a Manhattan Project for AGI

Many are worried about the looming nuclear crisis, but the U.S. Congress is gearing up for a Manhattan Project of the AI variety.

In an effort to outpace China's rapid AI advancements, a new report suggests massive investments in Artificial General Intelligence (AGI), prioritizing defense-level resources and funding. The efforts will also include tighter regulations on Chinese involvement in U.S. tech sectors, from biotech to IoT.

With China leveraging their huge data ecosystems and a broad AI talent pool, the U.S. has to turn it up a notch.

Toolbox
5 Trending AI Tools

Particl: Are you discounting too little? Too much? Starting sales too early? Too late? Particl put together a new tool to help you manage Black Friday stress.

Windsurf IDE: The first agentic IDE. The Windsurf Editor is where the work of developers and AI truly flow together, allowing for a coding experience that feels like literal magic.

Bounti: The only AI go-to-market tool to both enable your sales teams and increase their engagement rates. Start for free today, and get up and running in minutes not months.

Make.com: Build with the simplest no-code automation workflow solution for automating repetitive tasks in your business. Make's Core plan offers 10,000 operations for $9/month—2x cheaper tan Zapier, offering 10x more operations.

SommeAI: An AI-powered content creation tool designed for context management. It enables you to build and manage contextual data, such as text snippets related to your topic, target audience, or product, to ensure that your outputs are more relevant and accurate.

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Everything Else You Need To Know 📈

Why Cobot's Proxie Skips Humanoids for Smart Wheels: This rolling bot moves carts, responds to voice commands, and solves warehouse pain points without breaking the bank, proving that practical innovation often beats flashy humanoid concepts that often overpromise and underdeliver.

Amazon’s AI Alexa is fashionably late—like, 10 seconds late: Amazon’s big AI upgrade for Alexa is stuck in slow mode. Latency and integration issues are dragging down Alexa's performance, and older Echo devices might get left behind.

A Refreshingly Candid Interview with Gary Shapiro: Head of Consumer Technology Association, and author of Pivot or Die, Gary Shapiro, unpacks the big shifts in tech, from the focus on AI and sustainability to the energy demands of industry trends like electric vehicles and quantum computing.

Nvidia and Rockwell’s New AI Collaboration Efforts: Nvidia and Rockwell team up to revolutionize industrial automation. Their partnership integrates AI-driven simulations and digital twins, optimizing manufacturing, boosting sustainability, and empowering workforces to adapt to smarter, autonomous systems.

ChatGPT 4o Supposedly Got a “Creative Writing” Updated: According to a recent tweet by OpenAI, ChatGPT 4o should be able to handle creative writing a little bit better… We’re excited to delve in

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