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Good morning, tech enthusiasts. The AI world is consolidating at breakneck speed—Nvidia is reportedly buying Hugging Face, and OpenAI just cut off Cursor. Meanwhile, Microsoft had a rough day, and a startup wants to replace half of synthetic fertilizer with engineered microbes.

In today's briefing

  • 1.Nvidia buys Hugging Face in $12.9B AI infrastructure play
  • 2.OpenAI cuts off Cursor after hack postmortem
  • 3.Microsoft 365 outage takes down Teams and OneDrive
  • 4.Engineered microbes could replace half of synthetic fertilizer
  • 5.SaaStr's Claude-force proves AI agents can run a SaaS
  • ⚡Quick hits on other news
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🚀SaaStr's 'Claudeforce' experiment: Running Salesforce headless with 20+ AI agents boosts revenue 47%

The Rundown: SaaStr reveals it ran its entire business on a headless Salesforce setup powered by 20+ AI agents, delivering 47% year-over-year revenue growth.

The details:

  • ●SaaStr stopped using the Salesforce UI and instead relied on 20+ AI agents, in what it calls 'Claudeforce'.
  • ●The AI-first approach contributed to 47% YoY revenue growth.
  • ●Owner.com also rebuilt its entire platform with AI and accelerated past $100M ARR.
  • ●The newsletter urges founders to fire underperforming sales reps immediately rather than waiting for deals to close.
Why it matters: This is a living case study for founders who think AI agents are still vaporware. SaaStr isn't a tech giant—it's a media/community business—and it replaced a CRM's UI with AI agents to massive effect. The deeper lesson: you can rewire core processes with AI today, not someday. Start by identifying the most manual, workflow-heavy part of your go-to-market and test an agent-first redesign. If it works, the efficiency gains will compound quickly.

📰 Source: SaaStr

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Everything else in the news today

Meta agreed to a $12bn state settlement over teen safety, with an extra $5bn if Snap, YouTube, and TikTok join the terms.→
Tailscale expanded from a VPN into a full connectivity platform, with its Aperture AI gateway reaching general availability.→
VMware is expected to continue declining under Broadcom's strategy, according to industry analysts.→
Google made its OneDrive-to-Workspace migration tool generally available.→
Claude Code usage limits are changing — AlphaSignal reports a 17% drop in usage but calls it a net positive for users.→
Bill Gates named Claude Code as a revolutionary AI demo, alongside the GUI and ChatGPT.→
McKesson confirmed a major data breach affecting customer data.→
Elon Musk is planning to build gas turbines for data centers to address AI power needs.→
Sony and Warner sued Anthropic over alleged use of copyrighted songs in AI training data.→
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