The unusual, unexpected, and human side of B2B technology
Clay, built to scrape LinkedIn for leads, is being repurposed to find integration partners by scanning tech stacks for hidden overlaps—no cold outreach required.
AI agents are starting to handle procurement without human oversight—analyzing inventory, comparing suppliers, and placing orders based purely on speed and price. By 2026, major retailers may not have a person in the loop at all.
Gradient Collects uses 8 robotic sorters and 3 custom supercomputers to process 100,000 trading cards a day. It started because one man's collection was blocking his view of a mountain.
DoubleVerify uncovered a 200-site AI content farm called AutoBait. The fraudsters forgot to hide their LLM instructions in the page source.
Washington is about to become the 14th state to ban mandatory employee microchipping. The twist: no U.S. employer has ever actually required it.
When Google's AI Overviews trapped LinkedIn content as citations instead of click-throughs, the platform didn't complain — it fired its entire SEO structure and bet on influence without visitors.