Erica Stone Gilbert

CRM + AI Strategy | Salesforce • Marketo • Adobe RTCDP | Omakase, oysters & takeoff espresso 🛩️

[LayoffHedge @LayoffAI]

COGNIZANT ENTERED ZERO WORKERS IN THIS YEAR'S H-1B LOTTERY. IT STILL FILED 5,769 H-1B LABOR APPLICATIONS.

Both numbers are real. Here is how.

The lottery is the door for new H-1B workers. Cognizant's main US entity entered nobody this year, per USCIS.

But every H-1B job needs a labor filing at the Labor Department. That includes workers already here.

From October to June, Cognizant filed 5,769 of them. Extensions. Transfers. New client sites. Job or wage changes.

They’re already here. And they’re not leaving.

[Salesforce Admins @SalesforceAdmns]

Monday admin forecast: 90% chance of “one quick question.” ☕️

[US Tech Force @USTechForce]

.@VP is calling on America’s best engineers to help solve some of our country’s toughest challenges. Through @USTechForce and @WHFraudTF, we’re recruiting technical talent to strengthen public service, fight fraud, and protect taxpayer dollars.

Answer the call. Apply for Tech Force.

https://t.co/Yg04thBnSg

[Salesforce @salesforce]

We have signed a definitive agreement to acquire Loops, an AI-powered analytics platform.

Loops’s AI goes beyond showing what happened — explaining why it happened and what to do next.

Together, we’ll help customers better understand what drives business performance and move from insight to action.

Learn more: https://t.co/ZfcOkJ1vrx

[Faytuks Network @FaytuksNetwork]

Effective today (Oct 9, 2026), ATF will no longer require NFA approval, registration, or tax stamps to make or transfer short-barreled rifles, short-barreled shotguns, silencers, or AOWs.
Machine guns & destructive devices remain fully regulated under the NFA.
GCA rules (4473, NICS, etc.) and all state/local laws still apply.

[Hany Girgis @SanDiegoKnight]

🚨 TCS JUST SAID TRUMP’S PERM CRACKDOWN WON’T AFFECT ITS BUSINESS.

The company says it filed fewer than 10 PERM applications over the past two years.

And the suspension won’t materially affect its U.S. workforce strategy.

Meanwhile, TCS continues expanding its offshore delivery business, including taking over Best Buy’s India technology center.

If these companies barely use PERM, suspending PERM alone won’t stop outsourcing.

The administration needs to address where American jobs are going, not just who gets green cards.

https://t.co/V6M38D6ZXC

[Erica Stone Gilbert @resplendentlyme]

@SenEricSchmitt We need a crackdown on complete outsourcing to India. Having US workers train their own replacements who are based in India also needs to stop.

[Erica Stone Gilbert @resplendentlyme]

@DHSgov @lucystone1871 We should also add the outsourcing epidemic that’s happening with it. We shouldn’t be training workers in India who are taking our jobs.

[Vice President JD Vance @VP]

Vice President JD Vance breaks down the data:

"If you are working as an H-1B visa in the United States of America, you’re earning $20,000 less than an American citizen hired in the same position. If you were brought in by one of these foreign outsourcing firms, you’re making $48,000 less than an American citizen in a similar position. So I’m sure that everybody here understands the game that is being played. You bring in indentured servants from outside the country, you lay off American workers and, if you’re a corporation, you make a ton of money by under cutting the wages of American workers, replacing them with people who frankly shouldn’t be in the United States of America to begin with."

[James Pettus @PettusWX]

🚨 BREAKING: #Isaias is now officially a Category 1 hurricane with winds of 75mph and a minimum pressure of 982mb.

[Justin Strafuss @MstrHappyJustin]

United said it themselves: "The rumors are true." 😂✈️

Delta fliers, your status gets matched, and you get Starlink Wi-Fi on board right now instead of waiting until 2028. 🛰️

Well played @united.

[Granite Mtn. @gran1te_mtn]

The Killers got in right before the music industry closed the door to white guys who make real music so Brandon Flower’s celebrity status was impeded but he’s an Elvis/Sinatra-tier guy that would have been recognized as such in saner times.

[Emilie Rae Cochrane @EmCochranetv]

President Donald Trump has made it to Neyland Stadium. #Vols

[Matt Ray @matt_ray_]

Air Force One just flew over Neyland Stadium in pre-game

[R A W S A L E R T S @rawsalerts]

🚨 #BREAKING: Scientific study reveals the average employee requires a vacation every 2 months to recover from “work stress”

[Pratham @Prathkum]

Let me explain what just happened.

Anthropic built a biology lab where Claude works alongside real scientists.

They told Claude to search a massive DNA database for interesting reverse transcriptases (enzymes that copy RNA into DNA). Then they let it run: ~950 Claude agents worked in parallel for 21 hours across 200,000+ enzymes.

One agent spotted a repeating DNA pattern next to an enzyme, the same kind of signature that originally led humans to discover CRISPR (the gene-editing tool that lets scientists precisely cut and edit DNA, now used in real medical treatments). It cross-checked the pattern against known systems, searched the literature, confirmed nobody had found it before, then wrote up a full scientific report like a human researcher would.

Anthropic scientists verified it in the lab. They named it ART. Its exact function is still unknown, but early signs suggest it may be programmable, similar to how CRISPR can be aimed at specific DNA.

Why it matters: finding tools like CRISPR used to take human experts months of manual searching. Here, AI did that work and found something real, at a speed no human team could match.

So don't misunderstand it as Claude curing cancer. Claude spotted something new in nature that humans missed.

Still crazy!

[Erica Stone Gilbert @resplendentlyme]

People who pair creative judgment with business and technical fluency will be valuable.

[D&AD @dandad]

“Art school is going to be the new MBA,” says David Lee, Chief Brand & Creative Officer at @Squarespace.

At D&AD Festival 2026, he explored why creativity could become one of the most valuable skills in an AI-driven world.

Watch the full talk now: https://t.co/ZhY4yCq2Hn

[Nashville Business Journal @nashvillebiz]

Paramount had been scouting 400,000 square feet of Nashville office space. https://t.co/MfULM2l8oE

[Rolling Stone @RollingStone]

Chad Gilbert, founding member and lead guitarist for New Found Glory, has died at the age of 45 https://t.co/VCvNJzG9Kn

[Kalshi Finance @Kalshi_Finance]

JUST IN: OpenAI and Anthropic reportedly exaggerated AI security threats to push the government to protect their market position