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In today's edition: What's Shaping the Future of Data?
🤖Top 20 Artificial Intelligence Platforms for 2026
🧩Under the Hood: Universal Commerce Protocol (UCP)
🧠Agent-native Architectures
🔁 Anthropic’s Ralph Wiggum Plugin
🩺 Google pulls AI overviews for Health searches
💡 AI Tutorial:Turn any UI into a landing page with Gemini 3 Pro
🤖 AI Tools and Data Tools to checkout
Tips for maximizing productivity with coding agents, including how to structure problems, guide multi-file changes, and ensure agents iterate effectively on code until tests pass.
How much could AI save your support team?
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Gladly’s ROI calculator shows exactly what this looks like for your business: how many tickets AI could resolve, how much that costs, and what that means for your bottom line. Real numbers. Your data.
In 2025 as new updates and improvements take over the field of AI, the ranking of these AI platforms will have to shift. We look at the 20 best artificial intelligence platforms for 2026, and why we think they deserve to be on the list.
The Universal Commerce Protocol (UCP) is an open-source standard that enables seamless commerce journeys between customer surfaces, businesses, and payment providers. It works with existing retail infrastructure and is compatible with the Agents Payments Protocol. The UCP provides businesses with flexible ways to integrate via APIs, Agent2Agent, and the Model Context Protocol. It was developed by Google in collaboration with industry leaders.
Claude Code demonstrated that large language models with access to bash and file tools can accomplish complex multi-step tasks autonomously by operating in a loop until an objective is achieved. Good coding agents are really good general-purpose agents. The Claude Code software development kit makes this accessible.
Ralph Wiggum Plugin gains attention as a Claude Code plugin that runs self-referential AI development loops. The plugin implements a technique described by Geoffrey Huntley and operates natively inside Claude Code without external orchestration. The most notable aspect is a Stop hook that blocks exit and forces repeated execution in a single session.
Q4 is the perfect window to turn this year’s numbers into a clear, actionable forecast aligned with your goals. Set your business up for a stronger 2026 with BELAY’s new guide.
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AI News:
A new Stanford HAI analysis shows Chinese institutions overtook U.S. peers in open-weight AI during 2025. Alibaba’s Qwen surpassed Meta’s Llama as the most downloaded model family, and most new fine-tuned models now build on Chinese bases. Export controls pushed Chinese labs to focus on efficient architectures and permissive licenses, narrowing performance gaps with top closed systems.
What investment is rudimentary for billionaires but ‘revolutionary’ for 70,571+ investors entering 2026?
Imagine this. You open your phone to an alert. It says, “you spent $236,000,000 more this month than you did last month.”
If you were the top bidder at Sotheby’s fall auctions, it could be reality.
Sounds crazy, right? But when the ultra-wealthy spend staggering amounts on blue-chip art, it’s not just for decoration.
The scarcity of these treasured artworks has helped drive their prices, in exceptional cases, to thin-air heights, without moving in lockstep with other asset classes.
The contemporary and post war segments have even outpaced the S&P 500 overall since 1995.*
Now, over 70,000 people have invested $1.2 billion+ across 500 iconic artworks featuring Banksy, Basquiat, Picasso, and more.
How? You don’t need Medici money to invest in multimillion dollar artworks with Masterworks.
Thousands of members have gotten annualized net returns like 14.6%, 17.6%, and 17.8% from 26 sales to date.
*Based on Masterworks data. Past performance is not indicative of future returns. Important Reg A disclosures: masterworks.com/cd
Google removed AI Overviews from some medical queries after reports of misleading health info. Google pulled AI Overviews from certain liver test searches after a Guardian investigation. Variations of the same queries sometimes still triggered AI summaries or AI Mode prompts. Health groups welcomed the change but warned broader risks remain.
Google has unveiled a new set of tools for retailers to help them roll out AI agents. The new retail AI agents can help shoppers find their desired items and provide customer support. They are designed to address the challenges retailers face in building their own AI agents. Major retailers, including Lowe's and Kroger, are already using Google's tools.
Anthropic released HIPAA-ready tools for providers, payers, and consumers. Claude Pro and Max subscribers can link Apple Health or Android Health Connect so Claude can summarize medical history and prep questions for doctor visits.
Walmart and Google announced shoppers will soon be able to discover and buy products from Walmart and Sam’s Club through Gemini. Walmart’s incoming CEO and Google’s CEO revealed the deal at NRF’s Big Show.
The best HR advice comes from those in the trenches. That’s what this is: real-world HR insights delivered in a newsletter from Hebba Youssef, a Chief People Officer who’s been there. Practical, real strategies with a dash of humor. Because HR shouldn’t be thankless—and you shouldn’t be alone in it.
AI Tutorial
🚀 Turn any UI into a landing page with Gemini 3 Pro
In this tutorial, you will learn how to use Gemini 3 Pro to study any UI design from video and turn it into a fully working landing page, complete with animations, interactions, and polished layouts that don't look AI-generated.
Step-by-step:
Find UI inspiration on Dribbble, Behance, or any live SaaS site, then download a screen recording of the scrolling page (not just a static screenshot)
Upload it to Gemini 3 Pro and prompt: "Study this video and write a prompt describing the UI—layout, colors, etc, then turn it into instructions for a dev"
Ask Gemini to convert the analysis into markdown format for a clean handover document, then copy the full prompt into a new Gemini chat
Adapt the prompt to your product and add: "Create a high-fidelity interactive landing page based on this design spec and show me a live preview"
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SellerPic is an AI SaaS platform purpose-built for e-commerce sellers
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Screenloop is the ultimate Talent Operations Platform, seamlessly integrating a next-gen ATS
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