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AI Agents Are Multipliers, Not Creators

AI GTM agents don't figure out your go-to-market. They multiply what's already there. If your best rep runs a playbook that closes 10 deals a month, an AI agent runs that same playbook at 100x scale. If your team hasn't figured out what works yet — 10x times zero is still

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We’ve now been running AI SDR agents for 10+ months at SaaStr. We use four different vendors in daily rotation (Artisan, Salesforce AgentForce, Qualified, and Monaco), we’ve sent hundre…

What I find so impressive though is that this malware has been active on GitHub FOR A YEAR. Dawg...

t.me1 août

> get dm > "smelly, is this goop?" (malware) > "i found it on x" > links GitHub > download > look...

ProcessAlpha", "ProcessBeta", etc Not only is this shit slop malware, the author of this malware is larping to themselves as like, some sort of military operation. My brother in Christ, I'm happy you're feeling peppy about your slop malware, but you ARE NOT writing state-sponsored malware.

t.me1 août

I really don't want to throw shade at anyone, but it's super confusing, because we had a giant pi...

uch said, "Okay, cool, one moment" ... then kind of radio silence. I assume DEFCON likes money, so I don't know what happened.

t.me1 août

Hello, So uh, a long time ago I said I was giving away tickets to DEFCON for free. A lot of peop...

shade at anyone, because I myself don't even know what the fuck happened. But, we had the money for tickets to DEFCON. We had sponsorship money. We had all the goop ready to go. However, for reasons I don't understand, certain people, or peoples, or individuals, or whatever, were unable to effectively communicate with us and we weren't able to do the stuff we needed to do to give away free tickets. We ended up refunding the money to the sponsors who gave us money for DEFCON tickets. I don't know, bro. We'll try again next year, I guess

t.me1 août

Visual screenshots in Google Meet meeting notes will soon be generally available, pre-configure a...

In the coming weeks, we’re starting the rollout of visual screenshots for the ‘Take notes for me’ feature in Google Meet. Visual screenshots automatically capture presented content (such as slides, diagrams, and charts) directly into the generated meeting notes document, ensuring critical visual context is preserved alongside spoken summaries and transcripts. | Learn more.

Google Docs Is Rolling Out These Three New Gemini Features

We’re introducing Gemini-powered comment workflows in Google Docs to help you quickly understand and respond to collaborator feedback. These new features enable Gemini to read, summarize, and act on comments throughout your document, saving you time and streamlining collaboration. | Learn more.

Updated options to better view Google Calendar on large monitors

To provide users with more control over their viewing experience, we’re updating information density options for the calendar grid. These updates allow users to customize how calendar events scale on their screens to accommodate various monitor sizes and personal preferences. | Learn more.

Create and import scatter charts with multiple x-series in Google Sheets

Google Sheets now supports creating and editing scatter charts with multiple independent x-series. This update allows users to map separate data series to their own unique x-axis, rather than forcing all series in a single chart to share the same horizontal axis domain. | Learn more.

Use Gemini in Google Forms to quickly create a new quiz

Help me create in Google Forms now supports generating quizzes. With this launch, you can quickly create a quiz by writing a specific prompt for Help me create describing the quiz you want to create. Your prompt can reference Google Drive files like Docs, Slides or PDFs to use as sources for the quiz, should you choose. | Learn more.

Prevent accidental disclosures with new Reply All BCC warnings in Gmail

To help protect your privacy and ensure intentional communication, we are introducing a new caution notification in Gmail. This feature is designed to prevent accidental information disclosure by alerting users when they are about to "Reply All" to a thread where they were originally BCC’ed. | Learn more. The announcements above were published on the Workspace Updates blog over the last week. Please refer to the original blog posts for complete details.