.@IBM SVP of Software @robdthomas on why they acquired @confluentinc for $11 billion. "In our view, Confluent and the capability they provide is going to be up and to the right when it comes to AI.” “The need for data to support anything that a company wants to do in terms of intelligence and how they operate, that's not gonna change. If anything, that demand is only going to go up.” Full episode: thein.fo/4rOqjKz
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Comet Assistant Usage Patterns: Finance and Education Focus
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Our findings show that professionals use the Comet Assistant to solve specific friction points in their industry. Finance professionals prioritize efficiency with 47% of queries on productivity, while students focus on utility, dedicating 43% to learning and research.
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AI Agents Reshape Learning Work Problem Solving
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AI agents are reshaping how we learn, work, and solve problems. Read the full research paper:
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Agent Adoption Stickiness: Marketing Sales Management Outpace Digital Tech
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Digital technology leads in volume (30% of queries), but fields like Marketing, Sales, and Management show more "stickiness." Once these users adopt an agent, their usage intensity outpaces their adoption numbers as they integrate the assistant into their daily workflow.
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Agent Activity Dominated by Productivity and Learning Work
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More than half of all agent activity focuses on cognitive work. Agent use is dominated by Productivity & Workflow (36% of queries) and Learning & Research (21%). Users rely on the assistant to think through something, synthesize findings, and take action on those learnings.
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Agent Query Patterns: Personal, Professional, and Educational Use Cases
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Most agent queries come from personal use (55%), followed by professional (30%) and educational (16%) contexts. New users often start with low-stakes questions like travel or trivia. Over time, they shift to more complex topics like productivity, learning, and career advice.
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Boom Supersonic Team Achievement Recognition Announcement
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very exciting, congrats to you and the @boomsupersonic team
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AI Agents Disrupting Financial Workflows
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But the real disruption just started. Airwallex is developing AI agents that handle complete financial workflows without human oversight: invoicing, procurement, treasury, policy enforcement, reconciliation. They're not building better finance software. They're building the
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GoFlex App Enables Multi-Currency Client Payments Solution
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@gonomadHQ fixes this with their goflex app
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Solving the big error to scale from zero to 500k customers
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He publicado un episodio en @ivoox
: "Resuelto el “GRAN ERROR” para ir de 0 a 500.000 clientes #podcast