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UpdateAI Listened to Every Customer Call, Then Gainsight Bought It
The conversational-intelligence startup spent five years turning customer meetings into signal for post-sales teams. In July 2025 Gainsight acquired it to power Atlas, its agentic-AI bet, and put founder Josh Schachter in charge.
Robots in the Real World: Four CEOs on the Machina Stage
At the Machina conference in Paris, All-In host Jason Calacanis sits down with the leaders of four of the world's top robotics companies—ANYbotics, 1X, Boston Dynamics, and Agility Robotics. Across four rapid-fire interviews, the CEOs explain why four-legged 'dog' robots conquered industrial inspection first, why humanoids are finally doing useful work, how teleoperation and internet-scale video data are training the next generation of machines, and where the real money and the real dangers lie—from explosive oil rigs to weaponized robots coming out of China. The through-line: robots are no longer research demos, they're deployed assets measured by ROI, and 'hard takeoff' where robots build robots may be as little as three years away.
Why Everyone Is Building the HVAC Chatbot
Five AI-native startups and every major field-service platform are racing to build the same product: an AI assistant that sits in a technician's pocket and answers questions about the air conditioner in front of them. The technicians are a proxy. The real contest is whether a thin AI layer on an underserved dataset can survive once the platform that already owns the customer relationship copies the feature for free. HVAC is the smallest, clearest test of a question every vertical AI founder is asking: does depth beat distribution?