The unusual, unexpected, and human side of B2B technology
LocaliQ's Dash AI handles 80% of B2B personalization work autonomously — and the unintended consequence is marketers are finally free to be human again.
Enterprise customers are cutting licenses by 80% because autonomous AI now does the work. The $2 trillion B2B software model just broke.
OPLOG just announced it's ditching broad logistics to build systems that let AI agents buy from AI agents — no humans required. The future of B2B might not include you.
Shark Beauty—yes, the vacuum people—just launched a wet-to-dry styling tool that could reshape how salons train staff and serve clients.
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.