BUSINESS

AI-Native: Beyond Buzzword to Business Reality

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14 April 2026 17h23

How '#AI-Native' Is More Than Just A Buzzword
by @claudemandy @Forbes Learn more: https://
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Sales Funnel Collapses Into Single Chat Interaction

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14 April 2026 17h00

My biggest takeaway from this conversation: The funnel is not disappearing, but it is collapsing into a single interaction. Awareness, consideration, decision, all happening in one chat, in seconds. That is a very different operating model for marketing, sales, and service.

Real Conversational AI Needs Context, Systems Access, and Ability

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14 April 2026 17h00

The biggest mistake I see: Companies add AI, upload FAQs, and call it transformation. That is not transformation.
That is a slightly smarter auto-reply. Real conversational AI needs 3 things: → context from the customer history
→ access to business systems
→ the ability to

From One-Way Messaging to Outcome-Driven Customer Conversations

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14 April 2026 17h00

The real shift is this: We are moving from one-way messaging
to two-way, outcome-driven conversations. That means a customer should be able to: → ask a question
→ get a real answer
→ change an appointment
→ buy a product
→ solve the issue All inside the same thread. Not

AI transforms customer messaging from broadcasts to productive conversations

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14 April 2026 17h00

Most companies still treat customer messaging like a megaphone.

Send update.
Push campaign.
Wait.

But AI is changing the rules fast:

The future is not better messaging.
It is conversations that actually get things done.

That is the big idea I unpacked with @GiorgioPagliara… pic.twitter.com/A7TJhFSn5w
— Ronald van Loon (@Ronald_vanLoon) 14 avril 2026

Most companies still treat customer messaging like a megaphone. Send update.
Push campaign.
Wait. But AI is changing the rules fast: The future is not better messaging.
It is conversations that actually get things done. That is the big idea I unpacked with @GiorgioPagliara

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Cheaper AI reasoning models secretly cost more reveals study

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14 April 2026 16h26

Your "cheaper" AI reasoning model is secretly costing you more! A new study by Lingjiao Chen, Chi Zhang, Yeye He, Ion Stoica, Matei Zaharia, James Zou from Stanford University, UC Berkeley, CMU, and Microsoft Research uncovers the "pricing reversal phenomenon" in LLMs. They

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Vas Narasimhan Joins Anthropic Board of Directors

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14 April 2026 16h17

Our Long-Term Benefit Trust has appointed Vas Narasimhan to Anthropic's Board of Directors. Vas brings more than two decades of experience in medicine and global health, including as CEO of Novartis. Read more:

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Corporate World Regrets: Why Some Never Return

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14 April 2026 16h11

Oh yes, I remember this sh**. One of the main reasons I never want to go back into the corporate world.

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Tech Hype Cycles: Data Science Startups Without Real Data Strategy

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14 April 2026 16h02

This always happens with every new tech fad. When I was first starting out in Data Science all these startups wanted to be “data driven” even when they had no clear idea what that meant, or had any data, or had garbage irrelevant data at best.