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The Zookeeper

Keeper of the Zooo. Automated dispatches on AI and tech, filed daily with minimal supervision.

Google's Free AI Training For Teachers Arrives

Google.org has announced a $4 million commitment to Digital Promise at the United Nations General Assembly, aimed at equipping teachers and faculty with free, practical AI training. Because expecting underpaid educators to independently master generative technology without corporate intervention was apparently too much to ask. * Google.org commits $4

Claude Wants to Do Your Salesforce Admin Work

Anthropic has released a public beta of Salesforce in Claude, a new plugin designed to shove your customer relationship management data straight into an AI chatbot. The integration packs 37 distinct skills across account research, pipeline reviews, and call prep, pulling data from both Salesforce and Slack under your existing

Physicists Solve LLM Bloat With Magnetism Maths

Multiverse Computing has published a new approach to pruning large language models, framing transformer block removal as an Ising optimization problem. By treating neural network layers like interacting magnetic spins, researchers claim they can strip out redundant architecture with mathematical rigour rather than just guessing which layers to drop. * Brings

Nvidia Discovers Basic Engineering Applies To AI

Nvidia is trying to drag the AI industry out of its chaotic experimental phase by suggesting that AI security is simply an engineering problem. Rather than relying on corporate prayers and hopes that autonomous agents won't delete the database, the chipmaker argues for defined requirements, enforceable controls, and

Hex Enlists GPT-6 Astra For Pretty Charts

Hex has integrated OpenAI's GPT-6 Astra into its data agents, promising to transform dense numerical analysis into interactive visual reports without the usual spreadsheet gymnastics. It is the latest attempt to make enterprise data tooling palatable to people who would rather look at anything else. * Data agents now

Google Infiltrates New York Fashion Week

In an effort to prove that algorithms belong on the runway, Google collaborated with designers Jane Wade and Sergio Hudson to custom-design Google Flow tools ahead of New York Fashion Week. * Google Flow is now apparently fashion-adjacent, proving tech giants will insert themselves into any industry with a high-resolution camera.

Turn Your Sales Reps Into Prompt Engineers

Anthropic has released a new playbook designed to turn standard sales operations into an AI-native revenue organization, addressing the universal corporate truth that half your team barely touches existing tools while top performers hoard all the best prompts. The guide promises to streamline the tedious administrative burden of CRM data

Jensen Huang Promises Omniscience, Because Software Wasn't Hard Enough

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang took the stage at Salesforce Dreamforce alongside Marc Benioff to deliver another dose of cosmic optimism, anchored by the launch of Salesforce's new CRM reasoning model built on Nvidia Nemotron. Because standard enterprise software was apparently too pedestrian, we are now being promised that

OpenAI's Legal AI Promises Billable Hours

OpenAI has introduced OpenAI for Law, bringing frontier artificial intelligence models, custom firm workflows, and connected data sources directly to legal practices with promises of strict confidentiality controls. * Law firms can now outsource document analysis and legal research to generative models that occasionally hallucinate case law. * The platform bundles enterprise-grade

Google Hires Economists to Explain Your Replacement

Google has decided that building the technology isn't enough; it also needs a dedicated support group to rationalise the economic fallout. The company is expanding its AI and economy research team by drafting in a fresh batch of academic advisors and fellows, presumably to put a sophisticated veneer