Shashi Bellamkonda

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Small Biz Breakdown - Bill Gates vs The Tech Bros for Path Forward for AI https://t.co/8D1oeeLNCi

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Workday's FY27 Q2: A $2.6 Billion Quarter, a $600 Million AI Question https://t.co/Tvrv6yFvS3

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Your AI Agent Just Sent an Email You Never Approved. Now What?

This week, two AI agents made headlines for very different reasons, and the contrast reveals the most important question in agentic AI right now: Who hits send?

Instinct, a buzzy AI assistant valued at $2.5B after raising $350M, sent an email on behalf of a user without her approval. She disconnected her account the same day.

Meanwhile, Grok Bot (xAI's new AI agent in early beta) is designed to do the opposite: it stops and hands control back before touching a password, a 2FA code, or a CAPTCHA.

Here's what CIOs and tech leaders need to know:

- INSTINCT connects to your email, calendar, screen, location, and audio by default. Its terms grant a perpetual, irrevocable license to store and train on whatever the agent touches.

- XAI's Grok Bot pauses at sensitive moments (passwords, 2FA codes, CAPTCHAs) and returns control to the human.

- Currently they can't produce a full audit log of what its agent did on your behalf.

Investors are pricing AI agents on capability in a demo. A CIO signing a real contract needs proof, after the fact, of what the agent did.

Before giving an autonomous agent access to a corporate inbox, ask the vendor: "Show me the log of what it did last week." If that log does not exist today, treat the next six months of usage as unrecorded.

Would you trust an AI agent with your inbox if it cannot show you a record of what it did? What guardrails does your organization require before deploying agentic AI?

Share your thoughts in the comments below.

Pausing before a sensitive action is a design choice. A record of what happened afterward is how you verify that choice held. In the race to ship AI agents, governance is not a feature. It is the product.

Full blog post: https://t.co/5YQKFGOR0E

#AIAgents #AgenticAI #AIGovernance #GrokBot #Instinct #CIO #EnterpriseAI #AITrust #DataPrivacy #ArtificialIntelligence #TechLeadership #ResponsibleAI

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XPeng Prices Its Humanoid Robot Margin Above Its Cars https://t.co/dqeTpaw6KI

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Big news: Gemini Omni 1.1 Flash has landed #1 in the Text-to-Video Arena and #2 in the Image-to-Video Arena!

For Text-to-Video the latest 1.1 model is +20pts above FLUX 3 Video at #3 (1495 pts).

For Image-to-Video the release is a strong +25pt improvement from Gemini Omni Flash at #5, and is only behind MiniMax-H3 in the #1 spot (1494 pts). See more details in the thread.

Congrats to the @Google team on this release!

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1 in 4 US unicorn founders earned their degree abroad.

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PPN Network Hosts on the new show - Last Call https://t.co/7kWAEif1EK

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PPN Network Hosts on the new show - Last Call https://t.co/7kWAEif1EK

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Amazon Buys DuckLabs. DuckDB Stays Open. The Committers Report to AWS https://t.co/miEEO6poYL

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@menakadoshi That was a tasty story!

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Salesforce Adds Claude to Agentforce as ARR Tops $1.5 Billion https://t.co/9IfDYApmKj

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@gregcangialosi Thank you

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Beautiful colors of nature The Kousa Dogwood

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Talking Headless, Live with Ashley Chabot & Jon Reed hosted by Shashi Bellamkonda https://t.co/DjBUoWNq9u

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Talking Headless, Live with Ashley Chabot & Jon Reed hosted by Shashi Bellamkonda https://t.co/DjBUoWNq9u

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Will be live here in 20 minutes hosting the Talking Headless show. Topic is Analyst Relations and Technology Analysts. Join us!

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I don't understand this AI joke - Why did the turtle break up with the giraffe?They never saw eye to eye.

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Parallels Bets the Mac's Own Chip Can Run AI Inside the VM
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