📰 Top AI+B2B News - Sat, Nov 8 saastr.ai/news Top Stories: 1. Salesforce Signs Definitive Agreement to Acquire Spindle AI 2. 1Password Surpasses $400M ARR and Expands Executive Team 3. 'Vibe Coding' Named Word of the Year By Collins Dictionary Top SaaStr Articles: 1. When Competitors Come Calling: 6 Questions That Will Help 2. SaaStr AI App of the Week: Dust – Build Custom AI Agents 3. The Top AI Agent Sessions at SaaStr AI London: Learn How to Read more: saastr.ai/news

Can AI actually empower your team instead of replacing it? 💡 In this session from San Diego, @BryanECano, Head of Marketing at True Classic, shares how AI tools are boosting team efficiency, cutting costs, and unlocking creativity at scale. Catch the full replay on our YouTube channel now!

Someone shared a fascinating visual of an AI agent moving through a real codebase - reviewing structures, making decisions, and committing changes. It’s a reminder that software development is quietly entering a new phase. Not automation in the traditional sense, but systems that can understand context, navigate complexity, and contribute meaningfully. We’re still early, but the trajectory is unmistakable: coding is becoming more collaborative between humans and intelligent agents than ever before.

If something could kill Jupyter notebooks, this would be it. @Zerve_AI is a web-based IDE built for data scientists, not software engineers. It writes, orchestrates, and builds entire workflows from plain English. hubs.la/Q03Rxxkb0 #LovableForData #Data

INDUSTRIES NOT MARKETS - The investing mistake we keep making is looking at categories like AI Code like markets (with one winner) instead of industries with a dozen - As these categories evolve expect to see horizontal winners at every part of the stack and then vertical winners that are specialized - Evidence: Codex, Cursor, Replit etc are all working and winning - The same trend is true is many AI categories - i.e. legal where Harvey seems like a horizontally dominant player while Eve, Crosby and others are running away in their specialized verticals

RIP operations team. AI agents now live inside Gmail, Discord, Slack or HubSpot... reading emails, filing tickets, answering questions & triggering workflows. You don’t need to code anything. Here’s how to build & deploy one in 5 mins: 🧵

Verdent AI has reached the frontier of coding benchmarks With 76.1% on SWE-bench Verified in single attempts, Verdent set a new standard for coding performance. The gap keeps getting bigger. here's what makes it different: @verdent_ai

🚨BREAKING: The first voice AI that laughs naturally just launched. Cartesia's Sonic 3 is the most expressive TTS model ever released.  It laughs, speaks 42 languages, and responds in under 100ms. It's production-ready with API access today. Here's what it can do (with examples):

She predicted: • The Deep Learning revolution (2012) • AI's blindness to the physical world (2018) • The shift to world models (2024) Now Fei-Fei Li revealed the 5 next AI waves reshaping every physical industry. Here's what you should know (& how to position yourself): 🧵

At ADIPEC 2025, global leaders called for pragmatic energy policies and collaboration. Discussions highlighted how AI, infrastructure, and partnership can shape a balanced path toward sustainable progress. More info > adipec.com @ADIPECOfficial Partner. #ADIPEC

Do I need AI for my business? The pattern is clear: for the first five years, new technology is often seen as a "toy" that can be ignored. But by 2027, it will be crucial. Those who effectively use it will thrive, while others will face disruption. By 2032, businesses that haven't adapted will be out of the game. Act now or risk being left behind.

Some UK entry-level professional service jobs are converging with the minimum wage. "A growing number of HR firms are now having to “closely monitor” salary sacrifice schemes ... from pushing staff below the legal threshold for wages per hour."

Anthropic recently said that AI could eliminate 50% of entry-level jobs. Most people simply brushed it off. Then a British TV show proved it by replacing their entire host with AI, and nobody noticed. Here’s what that says about where AI is really headed:

🚨BREAKING: Miro is redefining how engineering teams plan, align, and deliver. A full engineering workspace for mapping systems, planning sprints, and aligning product, design, and code. Here's how teams are using it to work 3X faster:

i once shipped a client project in 17 hours. they thought it’d take weeks. the trick wasn’t brute force. it was knowing how to use AI the right way. 80% of the code came from smart prompting. the last 20% was custom logic and UI work. time saved = trust earned. trust earned = future deals. basic math if you think about it.

Cartesia just dethroned ElevenLabs For the first time, an AI can clone ONE voice that works across 42 languages. Built by Stanford Lab researchers and backed by $100M from NVIDIA. Here's everything you need to know:

The voice AI company that raised $100M from companies like NVIDIA just dropped Sonic-3. • it has latency 190ms first byte (fastest in production) • can laugh, show sadness & happiness • has 42 languages in one voice • handles acronyms, dates, phone numbers correctly • can clone anyone’s voice • you can adjust the speed & volume in real time.

How to turn a $99 product with a subscription into a great offer Look at Manukora Product: -Manuka honey $99 -Free guide ($0 cost) -21-day challenge ($0 cost) -Wooden spoon ($0.50 cost) -Stick sachets ($2-3 cost) = "$25 in free value" Total invested: less than $5 Conversion boost: massive Customers don't calculate the actual cost They just see they're getting more for their money Basic value stacking but it still works

I wouldn’t be surprised if an AI winter is coming. There’s a cycle of overhype and underdelivery that’s leaving many cynical about the technology. It goes something like this: 1) company X hypes up their unprecedented AI product 2) launch video is wildly impressive & looks unprecedented 3) customer Y—all excited—signs up for company X 4) the product is a gpt wrapper, it was all hype, customer Y wildly disappointed 5) customer Y extrapolates and assumes this is what all of AI is While AI skepticism is partly justified, just remember with every disruptive technology there’s great shit, there’s bad shit, and those who stay the course will find there way to the true magic.

When it comes to text-based content, companies are increasingly relying on AI. Just look at the data below from 500 companies. We are approaching a point where companies are choosing AI to create content over humans. Keep in mind that the majority of companies use humans to modify their AI content. It showcases how organizations are becoming more efficient through the use of AI.