{"id":95292,"date":"2025-05-05T15:33:32","date_gmt":"2025-05-05T19:33:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/?p=95292"},"modified":"2025-05-05T18:14:32","modified_gmt":"2025-05-05T22:14:32","slug":"find-and-buy-with-ai-other-items-re-ai-in-general","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/2025\/05\/05\/find-and-buy-with-ai-other-items-re-ai-in-general\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Find and buy with AI&#8221; + other items re: AI in general"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><span style=\"color: #800000;\"><em>DC: I&#8217;m not necessarily recommending this, but the next two items point out how the use of agents continues to move forward:<\/em><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.businesswire.com\/news\/home\/20250430574512\/en\/The-Future-is-Here-Visa-Announces-New-Era-of-Commerce-Featuring-AI\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>The Future is Here: Visa Announces New Era of Commerce Featuring AI<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Global leader brings its trusted brand and powerful network to enable payments with new technologies<\/li>\n<li>Launches new innovations and partnerships to drive flexibility, security and acceptance<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">SAN FRANCISCO&#8211;(BUSINESS WIRE)&#8211;The future of commerce is on display at the Visa Global Product Drop with powerful AI-enabled advancements allowing consumers to find and buy with AI plus the introduction of new strategic partnerships and product innovations.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800000;\"><em><strong>Also related\/see:<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.businesswire.com\/news\/home\/20250430580204\/en\/Find-and-Buy-with-AI-Visa-Unveils-New-Era-of-Commerce\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Find and Buy with AI: Visa Unveils New Era of Commerce<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0&#8212; from businesswire.com<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Collaborates with Anthropic, IBM, Microsoft, Mistral AI, OpenAI, Perplexity, Samsung, Stripe and more<\/li>\n<li>Will make shopping experiences more personal, more secure and more convenient as they become powered by AI<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">Introduced [on April 30th] at the Visa Global Product Drop, Visa Intelligent Commerce enables AI to find and buy. It is a groundbreaking new initiative that opens Visa\u2019s payment network to the developers and engineers building the foundational AI agents transforming commerce.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/aiwithallie.beehiiv.com\/p\/ai-agents-are-the-new-buyers\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>AI agents are the new buyers. How can you market to them?<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0&#8212; from aiwithallie.beehiiv.com by Allie Miller<br \/>\n<em>You\u2019re optimizing for people. But the next buyers are bots.<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">In today\u2019s newsletter, I\u2019m unpacking why your next major buyers won\u2019t be people at all. They\u2019ll be AI agents, and your brand might already be invisible to them. We\u2019ll dig into why traditional marketing strategies are breaking down in the age of autonomous AI shoppers, what \u201cAI optimization\u201d (AIO) really means, and the practical steps you can take right now to make sure your business stays visible and competitive as the new digital gatekeepers take over more digital tasks.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\"><strong>AI platforms and AI agents\u2014the digital assistants that browse and actually do things powered by models like GPT-4o, Claude 3.7 Sonnet, and Gemini 2.5 Pro\u2014are increasingly becoming the gatekeepers between your business and potential customers.<br \/>\n&#8230;<br \/>\n\u201cAI is the new front door to your business for millions of consumers.\u201d<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>The 40-Point (ish) AI Agent Marketing Playbook\u00a0<\/strong><br \/>\nHere\u2019s the longer list. I went ahead and broke these into four categories so you can more easily assign owners:\u00a0Content,\u00a0Structure &amp; Design,\u00a0Technical &amp; Dev, and\u00a0AI Strategy &amp; Testing. I look forward to seeing how this space, and by extension my advice, changes in the coming months.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2025\/04\/29\/microsoft-ceo-says-up-to-30-of-the-companys-code-was-written-by-ai\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Microsoft CEO says up to 30% of the company\u2019s code was written by AI<\/strong><\/a> &#8212; from techcrunch.com by Maxwell Zeff<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">During a fireside chat with Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg at Meta\u2019s LlamaCon conference on Tuesday, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella said that 20% to 30% of code inside the company\u2019s repositories was \u201cwritten by software\u201d \u2014 meaning AI.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/a16z.com\/100-gen-ai-apps-4\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>The Top 100Gen AI Consumer Apps<\/strong><\/a> &#8212; from a16z.com<\/p>\n<div class=\"wp-content tombstone-disable\">\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">In just six months, the consumer AI landscape has been redrawn. Some products surged, others stalled, and a few unexpected players rewrote the leaderboard overnight.\u00a0Deepseek\u00a0rocketed from obscurity to a leading ChatGPT challenger. AI video models advanced from experimental to fairly dependable (at least for short clips!). And so-called \u201cvibe coding\u201d is changing who can\u00a0<em>create<\/em>\u00a0with AI, not just who can use it. The competition is tighter, the stakes are higher, and the winners aren\u2019t just launching, they\u2019re sticking.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">We turned to the data to answer: Which AI apps are people actively using? What\u2019s actually making money, beyond being popular? And which tools are moving beyond curiosity-driven dabbling to become daily staples?<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">This is the fourth installment of the Top 100 Gen AI Consumer Apps, our bi-annual ranking of the top 50 AI-first web products (by unique monthly visits, per Similarweb) and top 50 AI-first mobile apps (by monthly active users, per Sensor Tower). Since our\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/a16z.com\/100-gen-ai-apps-3\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">last report<\/a>\u00a0in August 2024,\u00a0<b>17 new companies<\/b>\u00a0have entered the rankings of top AI-first web products.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/wondertools.substack.com\/p\/deepresearch\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Deep Research with AI: 9 Ways to Get Started<\/strong><\/a> &#8212; from wondertools.substack.com by Jeremy Caplan<br \/>\n<em>Practical strategies for thorough, citation-rich AI research<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">The AI search landscape is transforming at breakneck speed. New &#8220;Deep Research&#8221; tools from ChatGPT, Gemini and Perplexity autonomously search and gather information from dozens \u2014 even hundreds \u2014 of sites, then analyze and synthesize it to produce comprehensive reports. While a human might take days or weeks to produce these 30-page citation-backed reports, AI Deep Research reports are ready in minutes.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>What\u2019s in this post<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"list-style-type: none;\">\n<ul>\n<li>Examples of each report type I generated for my research, so you can form your own impressions.<\/li>\n<li>Tips on why &amp; how to use Deep Research and how to craft effective queries.<\/li>\n<li>Comparison of key features and strengths\/limitations of the top platforms<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.marktechpost.com\/2025\/05\/02\/ai-agents-are-here-so-are-the-threats-unit-42-unveils-the-top-10-ai-agent-security-risks\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>AI Agents Are Here\u2014So Are the Threats: Unit 42 Unveils the Top 10 AI Agent Security Risks<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0&#8212; from marktechpost.com<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">As AI agents transition from experimental systems to production-scale applications, their growing autonomy introduces novel security challenges. In a comprehensive new report,\u00a0<em>\u201c<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/unit42.paloaltonetworks.com\/agentic-ai-threats\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">AI Agents Are Here. So Are the Threats<\/a><\/strong>,\u201d<\/em>\u00a0Palo Alto Networks\u2019 Unit 42 reveals how today\u2019s agentic architectures\u2014despite their innovation\u2014are vulnerable to a wide range of attacks, most of which stem not from the frameworks themselves, but from the way agents are designed, deployed, and connected to external tools.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">To evaluate the breadth of these risks, Unit 42 researchers constructed two functionally identical AI agents\u2014one built using\u00a0<a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/crewAIInc\/crewAI\">CrewAI<\/a>\u00a0and the other with\u00a0<a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/microsoft\/autogen\">AutoGen<\/a>. Despite architectural differences, both systems exhibited the same vulnerabilities, confirming that the underlying issues are not framework-specific. Instead, the threats arise from misconfigurations, insecure prompt design, and insufficiently hardened tool integrations\u2014issues that transcend implementation choices.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<hr \/>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.marktechpost.com\/2025\/05\/02\/llms-can-learn-complex-math-from-just-one-example-researchers-from-university-of-washington-microsoft-and-usc-unlock-the-power-of-1-shot-reinforcement-learning-with-verifiable-reward\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>LLMs Can Learn Complex Math from Just One Example:<\/strong><\/a> Researchers from University of Washington, Microsoft, and USC Unlock the Power of 1-Shot Reinforcement Learning with Verifiable Reward &#8212; from marktechpost.com by Sana Hassan<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>DC: I&#8217;m not necessarily recommending this, but the next two items point out how the use of agents continues to move forward: The Future is Here: Visa Announces New Era of Commerce Featuring AI Global leader brings its trusted brand and powerful network to enable payments with new technologies Launches new innovations and partnerships to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[113,329,356,387,86,209,208,112,210,533,35,178,391,180,476,196,20,367,134,299],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-95292","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-21st-century","category-24x7x365-access","category-artificial-intelligence-agents-llms-and-related","category-business","category-change","category-changing-business-models","category-cloud-based-computing-apps","category-corporate-business-world","category-emerging-technologies","category-experimentation","category-game-changing-environment","category-generational-differences","category-human-computer-interaction-hci","category-innovation","category-marketingsocial-marketing","category-productivity-tips-and-tricks","category-strategy","category-vendors","category-web-design-and-production","category-workplace"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95292","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=95292"}],"version-history":[{"count":19,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95292\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":95382,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95292\/revisions\/95382"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=95292"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=95292"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=95292"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}