Gerald O'Connor

My mission is to empower high growth individuals, teams, and organisations to achieve their objectives as quickly as possible in a healthy way.

[Gerald O'Connor @gerald_oconnor]

The majority of B2B research now happens inside ChatGPT, Perplexity, and Google AI Mode — before a buyer ever talks to a rep. 5:1 ratio. Sales teams that don't show up in AI search don't get evaluated. Your AEO strategy is now a pipeline strategy. https://t.co/x57eto4ECn

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Optro: 80% of enterprises say shadow AI use is moderate-to-pervasive. 82% report a surge in AI-enabled attacks. 85% deployed AI — only 25% have full visibility into what it's doing. The governance gap isn't closing; it's widening. https://t.co/9wiInKMuhc

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Zoom launched ZoomMate June 1: an AI agent that attends your meetings, then files Salesforce updates, Jira tickets, and follow-up docs automatically from conversation context. The meeting-to-action gap is the next thing enterprise AI closes. https://t.co/I9NmlaQWAs

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NVIDIA Nemotron 3 Ultra is now live: 550B parameters, 5x faster inference than comparable open models, 30% lower cost. Available on HuggingFace, OpenRouter, and NVIDIA NIM. The open frontier model just got significantly more competitive with closed APIs. https://t.co/x9Nady9Rrj

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NVIDIA launched Agent Toolkit on June 1: open-source platform with NemoClaw, Nemotron models, and OpenShell. Adobe, Salesforce, SAP, ServiceNow, CrowdStrike, Palantir — all building on it. Enterprise agent infrastructure just got a common layer. https://t.co/XQTYinua2C

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Google upgraded AI Mode globally to Gemini 3.5 Flash + launched Information Agents: background agents monitoring the web for you 24/7. Products built on Google discovery traffic face a structural shift — the funnel just changed. https://t.co/x6GA0VPoqf

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Designer Fund surveyed 900+ designers across 60 countries. 91% say AI has made their work better, not just faster. The inflection point in design isn't coming. It's here. The question is whether your design practice is keeping up. https://t.co/dArsF7ZxfA

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Microsoft's computer-using agents are now GA across all commercial Power Platform geographies — agents that interact with websites and desktop apps through the UI, no API required. Agent-to-agent (A2A) communication is also GA. Legacy automation just lost its biggest excuse. https://t.co/JJ1Kt5WRPw

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OpenAI activated CPA ads in ChatGPT on May 28 — pay only when a user clicks, signs up, or purchases. Requires the new OpenAI conversion pixel. CPM launched at $60 in February, now ~$25. CPC is $3–5. ChatGPT is now a measurable performance marketing channel. Update your attribution models. https://t.co/s11qwPWjdg

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Real examples are in: engineers running $150K/month in token bills; Uber's teams burned through the company's entire 2026 AI budget in 4 months. 80% of Fortune 500 have deployed AI agents. Only 47% have agent-specific policies. The gap between deployment and governance is live in production. https://t.co/yo9jjbXmxE

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Devin's ARR grew from $37M to $492M in 12 months. Cognition closed $1B at $26B — 90% of its own code is now written by Devin. Customers: Mercedes-Benz, NASA, Goldman Sachs, Santander. The autonomous software engineer category just graduated from experiment to enterprise standard. https://t.co/WknUtFNYwq

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@makesyougomm So you are saying even though AI frees up peoples time, giving them time for higher value work, most people wont invest the time well? :(

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Gartner data: AI saves sellers nearly 5 hours per week. 72% of sales orgs fail to reinvest that time in high-value work. The productivity paradox is real — and it's showing up in the numbers. https://t.co/2ggdhTbXj7

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@paulfoleylaw Hey Paul, yes I do work in Asia... Is that significant?

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Designer Fund surveyed 900+ designers across 60 countries. 91% say AI has made their work better, not just faster. The finding that cuts: the inflection point in design isn't coming. It's here. The question is whether your design practice is keeping up. https://t.co/dArsF7ZxfA

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Google AI Mode has crossed 1B users and queries double every quarter. The teams winning AI search visibility are the ones writing precise, CITABLE content — not keyword-optimised content. SEO died quietly at I/O 2026. https://t.co/LpSRRGCCbr

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Freshworks Refresh 2026: the shift from human-assisted to autonomous AI operations means governance isn't optional anymore. The teams that haven't built their AI governance layer are discovering the cost of that gap in production incidents, not planning sessions. https://t.co/JZ7vBcGz7A

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Google launched "Pics" at I/O 2026 — an AI design app for Google Workspace, competing directly with Canva and Anthropic's Claude Design. AI design tools are now a three-player platform war. The tools that ship as the default in your workflow win. https://t.co/jLfTJcJTjJ

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Google AI Mode has 1 billion monthly users. Queries double every quarter. When AI Mode reduces click volume, attribution models built on click-through rates don't hold up in a CFO conversation. Discovered Labs on what marketers should actually change this quarter. https://t.co/QdWgTdMX24

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Klarna launched inside ChatGPT on May 20 with 100M+ products, 400M+ merchant listings, across 13 markets. AI traffic to retail grew 700% during the 2025 holiday season and converts 31% higher. The buyer's journey is moving into the chat window. https://t.co/zOiVaEVisl

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OpenAI shipped Codex Goal Mode as stable on May 22. Assign an objective — Codex plans its own steps, executes, self-corrects across session breaks, and keeps going until it reaches the goal or hits a wall. Agentic coding is no longer experimental. It's the default. https://t.co/AtHMPCBQRM