Salesforce launches Agentforce 360

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Here’s what’s on the menu today:

• Salesforce’s New AI

• Elon building video games?

• How to use Nano Banana in Google Lens

• Superhero Tools for daily tasks

• Quick AI Toasts: Nvidia’s new supercomputer

Total read time: About 5 minutes, perfect for a quick coffee break.

Salesforce’s Agentforce 360 – The Next Wave of Enterprise AI

Salesforce just dropped Agentforce 360, its latest AI agent platform, at a crucial moment when business AI rivalry is reaching boiling point. The launch comes right before Dreamforce 2025, promising new flexibility and smarter workflows for enterprise teams.

• Agentforce 360 introduces Agent Script, a prompting tool for creating more responsive, context-aware AI agents, launching in beta next month.

• The new Agentforce Builder lets users build, test, and deploy agents, streamlining development in one dashboard.

• Slack gets deeper integration with Agentforce, including personalized Slackbot upgrades and direct access to Sales, IT, and HR tools from within Slack.

• Salesforce plans enterprise search via Slack, adding connectors for Gmail, Outlook, and Dropbox in early 2026.

• The platform taps top reasoning models from Anthropic, OpenAI, and Google Gemini for smarter responses.

• Agentforce boasts 12,000 customers, including Lennar, Adecco, and Pearson, more than any competitor.

• Despite these advances, most enterprise AI pilots still fail pre-production, with ROI elusive for many firms.

Salesforce is betting bigger as the AI arms race accelerates, while Google and Anthropic push their own enterprise solutions.

Personal Take: Agentforce 360 signals that the future is collaborative, contextual, and not just about tools. If Salesforce can crack ROI and business value, enterprise AI is set for its most transformative era yet.

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Musk’s xAI Steps Up AI Video Game Revolution

Elon Musk’s xAI is diving into the next chapter, building “world models” that could change how AI powers video games and real-world robotics. In the AI arms race, xAI joins the likes of Meta and Google, signaling a rapid evolution beyond text-based tools.

• xAI hired top Nvidia scientists to develop advanced “world models” that understand and generate physical environments using video and robot data.

• World models go beyond language models (like ChatGPT), aiming for deep, causal knowledge of physics, objects, and interactions in real-time scenarios.

• Video game development will see AI-generated 3D worlds, making environments dynamic and deeply interactive.

• Musk promises an AI-powered game release by the end of next year, raising the bar for competitors.

• xAI’s new image and video AI model features major upgrades and is now free to use, pushing creativity further.

• Technical challenges remain: realistic simulations need vast, diverse data to mimic the complexities of the real world.

• Industry insiders argue AI alone can’t replace leadership or vision; human touch still matters.

With world models opening doors across robotics and entertainment, xAI’s move could reshape how we interact with virtual and physical worlds.

Personal Take: If Musk’s xAI cracks world models, we’re headed for AI-driven games and robots with mind-blowing realism. I’m really looking forward to a future where the game generates itselfbased on my interests and progress.

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Superhero Tools

NanoBanana: Instantly edit images with simple text prompts; no design skills are needed.

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Edit images with Google Nano Banana in Google Lens

Google’s viral AI art tool Nano Banana is no longer confined to the Gemini app. The company is now bringing its image-generation model to Google Lens and AI Mode Search, fusing creativity and search in a way that could make everyday Googling a lot more visual and a lot more fun.

• The company quietly launched the expansion for Android users in the US and India. Participants in Google's AI Mode Search Lab experiment are already discovering Nano Banana within Lens and AI Mode, allowing them to remix photos or create entirely new ones directly from their camera or search bar.

• With over 500 million images already edited since launch, Nano Banana is fast becoming one of Google’s biggest viral success stories since AutoDraw and Magic Eraser.
  

  How it works:

  • Open Lens in the Google app for Android or iOS.

  • Tap the new Create mode—find the yellow banana!

  • Try a suggested prompt like “make a photo booth pic of me,” or take a picture and describe your edits.

  • Use follow-ups to keep editing, or share with family and friends.

Personal Take: If you had told me five years ago that I’d be “Googling” with a banana emoji to make art in real time, I probably would’ve laughed. Now? I’m just hitting “Create Images” and seeing where the banana takes me.

Quick AI News Bites

• Andrew Tulloch, co-founder of Thinking Machines Lab, has left the company to join Meta, a move that follows Meta’s recent efforts to recruit top AI talent. Tulloch was reportedly offered a huge compensation package by Mark Zuckerberg.

• Google will invest $15 billion to build a massive AI data center hub in India, the biggest Google AI project outside the US. This deal is seen as a huge step in India’s rise as a global tech destination.

• Microsoft has launched its first-ever in-house AI image generator called MAI-Image-1, which creates photorealistic pictures faster than earlier models and has already made it into the top 10 on the LMArena benchmark site. The technology was built with help from professional artists and focuses on better quality images.

• NVIDIA’s DGX Spark “personal AI supercomputer” goes on sale for $4,000, giving researchers and students powerful AI hardware that fits on a desk. Big brands like Acer, ASUS, and Dell will soon offer custom models of it too.

• OpenAI reports a 30% reduction in political bias with the new GPT-5 models after launching a smarter framework for measuring bias in ChatGPT. Their setup uses real prompts and tough topics, showing major progress in responsible AI.

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