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• 4. 🛡️ Protect your identity with Incogni
• 5. 🤝 The Human & AI De Brief with Marie-Lou
• 6. ✍️ Today’s Policy Corner
• 7. 🗞️ The News Bulletin
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TOGETHER WITH LIGHTFIELD
The salesperson you don't have to train.
Your first sales hire will cost you $120,000 and six months. By the time they understand your customers, you could have closed ten deals yourself.
Lightfield gives you a different kind of hire. An agent that already knows your customers — because it lives inside an agentic CRM that captures every word they ever said to you. It finds the companies you should be selling to. It books the meetings. It writes the follow-ups while you're in the next call.
Your company is AI native. Your CRM should be too.
Latest in AI
Claude now lives in your Slack
🚨 Our Report
Anthropic has launched Claude Tag, a new service that embeds an "always-on" AI assistant directly into Slack channels, where it acts as a persistent teammate that learns from ongoing conversations and can complete multi-step tasks autonomously. The feature, now in beta for Claude Enterprise and Claude Team customers, lets users tag @Claude to assign work, get insights, or allow it to proactively jump into conversations when it detects relevant discussions.
🔓 Key Points
Claude Tag builds on existing Slack integrations by adding persistent memory and organizational context—meaning every team member in a channel shares one Claude identity that remembers past work, learns from ongoing threads, and can access approved channels across the company to gather facts.
Admins control which tools, channels, and data Claude can access, with each Claude identity scoped to specific channels (e.g., a legal Claude can't access engineering conversations), and the system can work in "ambient mode," proactively contributing to discussions or flagging forgotten tasks without being tagged.
When assigned a task, Claude Tag breaks it into stages, works through them using available tools, and posts updates in Slack threads—creating a public workflow that mimics collaboration with a human colleague, but with far broader organizational knowledge.
🔐 Relevance
For enterprise teams, this represents a shift from on-demand AI assistance to continuous, contextual collaboration. The ability to maintain memory across conversations and access cross-functional data could reduce duplicate work and context-switching, but it also raises questions about scope creep and information access controls. Companies deploying this will need clear policies on what Claude can see, when it can speak, and how teams verify its autonomous contributions.
THE BUSINESS BRIEFING: OPERATIONS & IT (powered by Upscaile)
KnowBe4 (global cybersecurity leader, 70,000+ customers) faced runaway AWS costs and performance bottlenecks as it scaled from thousands to millions of daily requests. Manual optimization couldn't keep up—releases shipped every 20 minutes across 3,000+ ECS services and 2,500+ Lambda functions, while engineers spent hours tuning memory and CPU instead of building product.
Tool used: Sedai — autonomous cloud optimization that learns real app behavior to right-size compute in production without human intervention.
Result: $1.2M saved (27% compute cost reduction). One Lambda function dropped from 18.5 seconds to 80 milliseconds (99.5% faster). 98% of services now run autonomously with 1,100+ optimizations in first 90 days.
The lesson: KnowBe4's phased rollout (low-risk services first, then flagship products) proved autonomy was safe before scaling. Skipping validation creates risk. Proving it in production builds trust.
Steal this: Pick your three highest-traffic AWS services this week. Run CloudWatch metrics on CPU and memory utilization. If anything sits below 40% or spikes above 85%, you're burning cash or risking outages—both are automatable.
TOGETHER WITH INCOGNI
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Your phone number, address, DOB, even your SSN can show up in a Google search. Marketers buy it, scammers exploit it, and in the worst cases, it ends up for sale on the dark web.
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THE HUMAN & AI DE BRIEF
I can do twice as much with AI. Should I expect twice as much from my team?
Someone in your organization discovers that with AI, what used to take a day now takes two hours. The first reaction isn’t relief. It’s a faster, instinctive thought: should I be doing more now?
That question sounds like management. It’s a values audit — and most of us are running it on autopilot.
THE POLICY CORNER
Canada's new Safe Social Media Act (Bill C-34) targets platforms, chatbots, and online services with strict child safety and content moderation requirements.
Introduced June 10, 2026, Bill C-34 applies to social media platforms, AI chatbot services, and certain online services operating in Canada. Covered operators must verify users under 16 (social media), prevent chatbots from impersonating humans or professionals, implement crisis intervention for self-harm content, publish digital safety plans, and take down child sexual abuse material or nonconsensual intimate images within 24 hours. A new regulator, the Digital Safety Commission, will enforce compliance.
Deadline: Not yet in effect. Awaiting second and third readings in Parliament, then regulations defining user thresholds and specific requirements.
Your move: Map whether your service could qualify as "regulated" once user thresholds are set. Start reviewing content moderation processes, age-verification capabilities, and chatbot safeguards now—compliance planning timelines will be tight once final regulations drop.
AI News
🔌 Claude back online after hour-long outage: Anthropic's major service disruption at 10:19 a.m. ET affected Sonnet and Opus models across claude.ai, Console, Code, and API. FULL STORY
📞 Verint launches agentic AI for contact centers: New Workforce, Desktop, and Quality Intelligence capabilities automate staffing, capture agent activity across systems, and score 100% of interactions—moving beyond traditional sample-based QA. FULL STORY
🌍 EU joins US-led AI supply chain alliance: Brussels entered Pax Silica alongside Netherlands, Germany, and Greece at Washington summit, adding European weight to 24-country bloc securing AI chips, minerals, and infrastructure against China's influence. FULL STORY
📈 90% of enterprise CIOs report positive AI ROI: AWS CEO Matt Garman reports dramatic shift from experimentation to value delivery, citing customer visibility driving Amazon's $200B infrastructure commitment and faster adoption than cloud's 20-year trajectory. FULL STORY
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The Money: AI compute supply chain locks in
Capital is moving upstream. Within days, a top-tier VC firm raised $3B to double down on AI startups across stages, and a leading memory chipmaker struck a supply and investment deal with an IPO-bound frontier lab valued at $965B. For executives, this signals one thing: the battle is shifting from models to guaranteed access to the hardware stack that runs them.
Deals to know:
Menlo Ventures (Fundraise, $3B) — Two new funds to back AI startups from seed to growth, anchored by early conviction in Anthropic and broader model-layer exposure. Investors: Limited partners across Menlo Ventures XVII and Menlo Inflection IV
Micron x Anthropic (Strategic supply + Series H investment, undisclosed) — Multi-layer agreement to supply high-bandwidth memory and storage for AI workloads, alongside participation in Anthropic's latest $65B round at a $965B valuation. Investors: Micron Technology
Signal: Serious capital is converging on the same thesis. AI's next bottleneck is reliable access to memory, storage, and infrastructure depth, and the winners are securing supply before scarcity prices it higher.
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