In this episode, we break down the wave of frivolous privacy lawsuits hitting Shopify and e-commerce sellers across California, Florida, and Texas, and why even businesses doing everything right are getting hit. I invited trademark and IP attorney Steven Weigler to explain what’s actually driving these claims and the exact best practices to avoid them….
Slack wants to drag AI coding out of the terminal and into the group chat. The Salesforce-owned messaging platform today announced Slack Code, a new product that embeds AI coding agents — including Anthropic’s Claude Code, Cognition’s Devin, GitHub Copilot, and Vercel’s agent — directly into dedicated Slack channels where entire teams can watch, steer,…
August 20, 2026LeeUncategorizedComments Off on One in five enterprises can’t stop a runaway AI agent’s spending in real time
Enterprise AI teams have stopped betting on a single orchestration platform. The median enterprise now runs three at once — not by accident, but because none of them fully trusts a single vendor to run the show, according to VB Pulse data. This is not just to avoid vendor lock-in and retain flexibility (although that’s…
August 20, 2026LeeUncategorizedComments Off on NanoClaw comes to Slack, letting you create persistent AI agent teams and colleagues from a single message
Adding an AI agent to Slack sounds appealing to many enterprises — but, as VentureBeat has experienced ourselves first hand — the reality is often far more complex and clunkier than it first seems. Now NanoCo., the company behind the hit open source, enterprise-friendly, autonomous AI agent harness NanoClaw (a more sandboxed, lower code version…
Recorded live from NRF Nexus, Jason and Scot sit down with Josh Krepon, President of U.S. D2C and Global Digital at Steve Madden. Josh shares his path through Ralph Lauren, Victoria’s Secret, Tory Burch and Cole Haan, and what it takes to operate inside founder-led companies. At Steve Madden, a $3 billion business with an…
Our newest ecommerce growth offer comes with a money-back guarantee and a data advantage built in: visibility into what competitors in the same industry are actually bidding and converting at. In this episode, Taylor Holiday and Joy Sharma, who runs this offer for CTC’s seven-figure clients, break down what’s included: unlimited landing pages and creative…
August 20, 2026LeeUncategorizedComments Off on Serval’s super agent Catalyst creates roving background agents to identify and fix IT issues before they’re ticketed
Serval is making Catalyst, its AI agent for building enterprise automations, generally available Thursday and enabling it by default for customers — allowing teams of AI agents to decide what should be automated and then build the automation itself. Catalyst sits above Serval’s AI-native service management platform as an admin-facing “super agent.” It can inspect…
Subscribe to DTC Newsletter – https://dtcnews.link/signup A brand doing $10 to $15 million a year puts 15 to 20 percent of revenue back into marketing. At $100 to $500 million it drops to roughly 8 to 10 percent. Past a billion it is 2 to 3 percent. Justin Jefferson has a view across 450 brands…
August 19, 2026LeeUncategorizedComments Off on TrueFoundry’s open source AI agent harness TrueForge boasts 30%-75% cheaper task completion than Claude Managed Agents
Another day, another new AI agent harness is released. Only this time, it’s one that aims to solve a growing enterprise problem as AI agents proliferate: enabling greater developer control of agents and tools, while reducing cost. TrueFoundry, a San Francisco B2B machine learning startup co-founded in 2021 by former Meta engineers, has released its…
In this episode of Commerce Famous, Jason Nyhus sits down with Beth Segovia, CEO of TradeCentric, to discuss how B2B commerce is evolving in the age of AI. Beth shares how TradeCentric’s integration platform connects commerce and procurement systems to automate transactions, reduce friction, and protect the contract terms, pricing, and compliance requirements that buyers and suppliers depend on.
The conversation explores why deterministic automation still matters even as agentic commerce emerges, and how AI can enhance workflows like onboarding, self-service, and shopping without compromising accuracy. Beth also shares how customers typically adopt TradeCentric after feeling the pain of manual processes, then expand usage across teams once they see the revenue and efficiency gains.
Jason and Beth dig into the role of agencies and system integrators in helping companies identify the right timing for integration projects and implement proven solutions instead of building from scratch. If you’re interested in the future of B2B commerce, procurement automation, and the practical role of AI in enterprise workflows, this episode is for you.
