PinnedInDigitizing PolarisbyVirginia Backaitis·Jul 11, 2023Mark Zuckerberg’s brainchild rattles Elon Musk’s Twitter empireIn a remarkable feat, Threads, the microblogging platform launched by Meta Platforms, has achieved over 100 million sign-ups within a week…A response icon1A response icon1
InDigitizing PolarisbyVirginia Backaitis·1d agoDo You Need a Deployment Company to Get Your Money’s Worth From AI?Show me the money.
InDigitizing PolarisbyVirginia Backaitis·Jun 26The 72 Hours That Flipped the AI IndustryThree years ago, you would have laughed if I had told you that OpenAI wouldn’t be the biggest AI company in 2026. After all, ChatGPT…
Virginia Backaitis·Jun 23An Algorithm Rejected Them in Seconds.A federal judge in San Francisco handed Workday a loss today. The case is Mobley v. Workday, and it’s been grinding through court since…
Virginia Backaitis·Jun 23The AI Applicant Screening Software Made the Rejection. Now a Judge Says It Can Be Sued For It.If you’re hiring in 2026, stop trusting the applicant screening tool and start reading actual resumes. Why? Yesterday, Judge Rita Lin of…
InDigitizing PolarisbyVirginia Backaitis·Jun 17Beyond the ‘Agentic’ Buzz: Databricks Attempts to Collapse the Data StackDatabricks’ CEO, Ali Ghodsi, told a slightly embarrassing story this week. Back in 2024, when Databricks launched its open source model…
InDigitizing PolarisbyVirginia Backaitis·Jun 16Turnkey Agents or Value Destruction? Inside Salesforce’s Buying SpreeSalesforce is at it again. It’s making acquisitions one after another, moving with a manic energy that feels strangely familiar yet…
InDigitizing PolarisbyVirginia Backaitis·Jun 2Salesforce Buys Contentful. But Does Its Acquisition Playbook Actually Win New Business?Salesforce announced Sunday it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Contentful, the Berlin-founded headless content management…
InDigitizing PolarisbyVirginia Backaitis·May 20Google and Blackstone Just Built Nvidia’s Biggest ProblemThe heat index in New York City this week was enough to make anyone sweat, but for CoreWeave CEO Michael Intrator — a career financier and…
InDigitizing PolarisbyVirginia Backaitis·May 5IBM Says the AI Experiment Is Over. Now Comes the Hard Part.Among all the announcements IBM plans to make at its Think 2026 conference in Boston today, Big Blue is rolling out the most aggressive…
