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Tome's founders ditch viral presentation app with 20M users to build AI-native CRM Lightfield

The San Francisco-based company is positioning itself as a fundamental reimagining of how businesses track and manage customer relationships, abandoning the manual data entry that has defined CRMs for decades in favor of a system that automatically captures, organizes, and acts on customer interactions. With more than 100 early customers already using the platform daily — over half spending more than an hour per day in the system — Lightfield is a direct challenge to the legacy business models of Salesforce and HubSpot, both of which generate billions in annual revenue.

Michael Nuñez
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Writer's AI agents can actually do your work—not just chat about it

The platform, called Writer Agent, combines chat-based assistance with autonomous task execution in a single interface. Starting Tuesday, enterprise customers can use natural language to instruct the AI to create presentations, analyze financial data, generate marketing campaigns, or coordinate across multiple business systems like Salesforce, Slack, and Google Workspace—then save those workflows as reusable "Playbooks" that run automatically on schedules.

Michael Nuñez
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Anthropic rolls out Claude AI for finance, integrates with Excel to rival Microsoft Copilot

The San Francisco-based AI startup announced Monday it is releasing Claude for Excel, allowing financial analysts to interact with the AI system directly within their spreadsheets — the quintessential tool of modern finance. Beyond Excel, select Claude models are also being made available in Microsoft Copilot Studio and Researcher agent, expanding the integration across Microsoft's enterprise AI ecosystem. The integration marks a significant escalation in Anthropic's campaign to position itself as the AI platform of choice for banks, asset managers, and insurance companies, markets where precision and regulatory compliance matter far more than creative flair.

Michael Nuñez
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Anthropic’s new Claude can code for 30 hours. Think of it as your AI coworker

The San Francisco-based startup claims its newest model achieves state-of-the-art performance on critical coding benchmarks, scoring 77.2% on SWE-bench Verified — a rigorous software engineering evaluation — compared to GPT-5's performance. More remarkably, Anthropic says Claude Sonnet 4.5 can maintain focus on complex, multi-step tasks for more than 30 hours, a dramatic leap in AI's ability to handle sustained work.

Michael Nuñez
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The $1 trillion AI problem: Why Snowflake, Tableau and BlackRock are giving away their data secrets

The Open Semantic Interchange (OSI) initiative brings together fierce competitors who have concluded that inconsistent data definitions across enterprise systems block AI scalability. The effort includes backing from BlackRock and participation from companies including Alation, Atlan, Blue Yonder, Cube, Hex, Honeydew, Mistral AI, Omni, RelationalAI, Select Star, Sigma, and ThoughtSpot. Together, they will establish the first vendor-neutral specification for semantic metadata — a Rosetta Stone for business data.

Michael Nuñez