Meta’s Messaging Move: WhatsApp’s Shift to Per-Message Pricing Signals More Than a Billing Update

As of yesterday—July 1, 2025—Meta’s WhatsApp Business platform just turned a page that has ripple effects far beyond a simple pricing chart update. If you blinked, you may have missed the significance. But those of us who’ve been watching how Meta, and really the entire messaging ecosystem, aligns with AI, automation, and the broader communications … Read more

Zoom Gets Smarter, More Social, Oh, and More Competitive

Zoom just rolled out a major set of upgrades, and if you’re watching the collaboration space closely, this is more than just a routine refresh. It’s a signal: Zoom wants to own more of your workday. The June 30, 2025, updates position Zoom as more than a video meeting app. It’s now a serious platform … Read more

The Future Is Conversational—Twilio, Zoom, and Microsoft Lead the Charge in CPaaS Evolution

If June has shown us anything, it’s that the CPaaS space isn’t just alive—it’s on fire. From Twilio’s SIGNAL in São Paulo to Zoom’s Developer Summit and Microsoft’s continued revamp of Teams, we’re watching the foundations of business communication get rewritten in real time. 📞 Twilio Turns the Page at SIGNAL São Paulo Twilio laid … Read more

Designers In Disguise: PMs and CTOs

Here’s the thing nobody talks about: Product Managers and CTOs are really designers in disguise. This article nails something profound about the impact that extends far beyond the design discipline. The author’s insight about how design impact “spreads across many teams, departments, customer segments, and user personas” is exactly what separates great PMs and CTOs … Read more

Apple’s “Late” Game Is Just the Opening Move

Apple’s approach to innovation often sparks debate, especially in the realm of artificial intelligence. Some view the company as lagging behind more visibly aggressive players like Google and OpenAI. But this perspective overlooks a familiar pattern in Apple’s strategy—one grounded not in being first, but in being ready. The narrative of being “late” is well-worn. … Read more

Why I Let AI Tell My Story (And Why You Should Too)

Here’s something that would have sounded like science fiction five years ago: I just had three AI tools—Claude, Perplexity, and Manus—build comprehensive biographical websites about my work and thinking. Not from scratch. Not from thin air. From five decades of actual data, scattered across the web and buried in my personal files. The result? Three … Read more

The Thought Processing Underground:

How Shadow, Cleft, TimeOs, and Grain Are Redefining Mental Real Estate While Hedy and Granola grab headlines with their meeting-focused wizardry, a different revolution is brewing in the shadows. The real game isn’t just about better meeting notes—it’s about capturing human intelligence the moment it sparks. Four platforms are pioneering distinct approaches to thought processing … Read more

The End of Fake Meeting Engagement:

How AI Thought Processing Is Transforming Business Communication Here’s the brutal truth: most executives have been faking their way through meetings for decades. Half-listening while frantically scribbling notes, missing critical insights while wrestling with whether that action item belongs to Marketing or Finance. The age of meeting theater is over. AI-powered thought processing tools like … Read more

UCaaS, CPaaS, CCaaS, Voice AI and the Next Wave in Communications Tech in 2025

Over the past two decades, I’ve seen innovation cycles that came and went. Some felt fast, others foundational. What we’re witnessing in 2025 clearly falls into the second category. Just like SIP and VoIP once redefined our communications backbone, today, AI is rewriting the rules of the game—permanently. ~How AI is Revolutionizing the Telecom Industry~ … Read more

The AI Trust Era: From Power to Purpose

As we cross into mid-2025, the narrative around artificial intelligence is no longer about sheer processing power or the latest model architecture. We are firmly in the era of AI trust. The new competitive advantage isn’t about how many parameters a model has or how quickly it can parse a billion tokens. It’s about how … Read more