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In this week's roundup: Salesforce's intent to acquire Informatica is official - but why now? Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei ramps up the AI jobs debate, and Jon Reed has something to say about that. Event season rolls on (and on) and, as always, your whiffs. bit.ly/4mHT4Gk

I can think of a couple things we missed, but in our defense, SAP issued a massive news guide for this show lol

Pro-AI Subreddit Bans 'Uptick' of Users Who Suffer from AI Delusions 404media.co/pro-ai-subredd… "LLMs [Large language models] today are ego-reinforcing glazing-machines that reinforce unstable and narcissistic personalitie." -> when AI fans post this, you know some folks are

Let's hash out the Salesforce Connections opening keynote x.com/i/broadcasts/1…

If you didn't catch the CRM Playaz Opening Keynote Watch Party for @Salesforce Connections with Brent Leary and Paul Greenberg along with Jon Reed and me, watch the replay here! Bonus: the keynote ended early! youtube.com/watch?v=ge0JMu… #Salesforce #PPN #CRMPlayaz #Diginomic #Valoir

crashing the Marketing Cloud keynote x.com/i/broadcasts/1…

Everyone’s talking AI agents - @Salesforce put theirs to the test. Jon Reed digs into what Agentforce got right (and what’s still hard) in a real-world travel services pilot. Less hype, more execution. #SalesforceConnections2025 diginomica.com/salesforce-con… @Salesforce

AI Therapy Bots Are Conducting 'Illegal Behavior,' Digital Rights Organizations Say 404media.co/ai-therapy-bot… -> confiding feels good, confiding to train AI models not so much

ChatGPT touts conspiracies, pretends to communicate with metaphysical entities — attempts to convince one user that they're Neo tomshardware.com/tech-industry/… ChatGTP told him he "was a Neo-like "Chosen One" destined to break the system." -> the world needs heroes... my Windows 10

Anne Wojcicki to buy back 23andMe and its data for $305 million cnbc.com/2025/06/13/ann… -> bidding on a stockpile of people's DNA is pretty damn surreal

The Meta AI app is a privacy disaster techcrunch.com/2025/06/12/the… "if you log into Meta AI with Instagram, and your Instagram account is public, then so too are your searches about how to meet 'big booty women.'" -> I got scared for a moment then remembered I'm not on Instagram

In this week's highlights from Jon Reed we get his paradoxical take on AI leadership, hear how enterprise leaders are on notice, and how Mary Meeker's monster slide deck drop continues to spark debate and some yucky data brokers dominate the whiffs. bit.ly/3FPuuTt

Nothing beats grabbing a semi-quiet space and making sense of the event flurry via podcast, before flying home... I especially wanted to get Rebecca's view of the planned Informatica acquisition as we hadn't really discussed that during the event.

.IFS Connect 2025 put Industrial AI at the center, but Jon Reed wanted to see the value customers are achieving now. Manuel Gorrin of Nature's Path Organic Foods used IFS to build a sustainability dialogue with business users, via the right KPIs and data platform. bit.ly/3I2gAhi

Enterprise Month in Review - the Mary Meeker + Accenture trend predictions blowout x.com/i/broadcasts/1…

"We’ve made the difficult decision to shut down pocket - Mozilla. Yes, and: 1. dismantle the RSS feeds without notice, 2. charge for the full year ahead, 3. not respond to service emails. and 4. chase the trends instead of creating them. brilliant.

Meta Invents New Way to Humiliate Users With Feed of People's Chats With AI 404media.co/meta-invents-n… -> who says you can't be a self-annointed AI leader and keep things a bit saucy as well? LOL!

40,000 Cameras, From Bird Feeders to Baby Monitors, Exposed to the Internet 404media.co/cameras-expose… Includes pet cams, hospital cams, baby cams... "it doesn’t take elite hacking to access these cameras; in most cases, a regular web browser and a curious mind are all it takes"

Anthropic says most AI models, not just Claude, will resort to blackmail | TechCrunch techcrunch.com/2025/06/20/ant… "most leading AI models will engage in harmful behaviors when given sufficient autonomy and obstacles to their goals." -> b-but the "autonomous future" slide decks are

one of my most ambitious AI pieces of the year......