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  1. Issue · Sep 22, 2026

    7,000 Sales Reps Just Stopped Opening Salesforce (opens the original)

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    I’ve been saying for two years that the real AI unlock in sales isn’t a smarter chatbot, it’s getting rid of the fifteen tabs a rep has to juggle just to walk into a call prepared. On September 15, Anthropic proved that’s where this is actually going. They released a beta plugin called Salesforce in Claude, built jointly with Salesforce, and it puts 37 sales skills directly inside Claude: account research, call prep, pipeline review, CRM updates, the whole grind that eats a rep’s morning before

  2. Issue · Aug 9, 2026

    The AI skill that cuts your bill 20x (without touching quality) (opens the original)

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    The One Skill: Model RoutingStop paying flagship prices for coffee-order workLast week OpenAI dropped GPT-5.6 Luna to $0.20 per million input tokens, an 80% cut. Google trimmed Gemini 3.6 Flash costs, with up to 65% savings on long-running agent tasks. Anthropic pushed Claude to a million-token context window.Here is what most teams miss in that headline: the money is not in the price cut. It is in knowing which jobs to send to the cheap model and which to save for the expensive one. That skill

  3. Issue · Aug 9, 2026

    The 80/31 Gap: Why AI Agents Are Everywhere and Working Almost Nowhere (opens the original)

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    Something strange is happening inside your competitors’ companies right now. Nearly every application they touch has an AI agent baked into it, yet most of those companies cannot point to a single agent running a real workflow in production.Gartner reports that roughly 80% of enterprise applications shipped or updated in early 2026 now embed at least one AI agent, up from 33% in 2024. But only about 31% of organizations actually have an agent running in production, according to S&P Global and Mc

  4. Issue · Jul 18, 2026

    Google’s Best AI Model Just Missed Its Third Deadline, and Wall Street Stopped Waiting (opens the original)

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  5. Issue · Jul 18, 2026

    Google Built Up the Biggest AI Launch of the Year. Then It Blinked, and China Was Ready. (opens the original)

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