A Bigger Shift Toward Human-Centered Automation When Somerset Council recently announced its trial of artificial intelligence (AI) to help draft special education reports, it made headlines for all the right reasons—and raised all the right questions. At Vengo AI, we’ve long advocated for smart, human-first automation. And what Somerset is…
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Ask Your AI Agent This. You Might Be Surprised.
When AI Has One Job I Asked My Vengo AI Agent: “If You Had One Goal This Week, What Would It Be?”Its answer? Crystal clear: Close more leads. Period. Sometimes, I like to mess around and ask my Vengo AI agent random questions—just to see what it “says.” Last week,…
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TikTok Is Using AI to Sell You Stuff
AI-Generated Influence Is Here—And Vengo AI Saw It Coming When TikTok introduced its AI-powered ad tool “Symphony,” it sent a clear message: influencer-style content is no longer limited to real humans. Advertisers can now generate full videos—complete with avatars, voiceovers, and product demonstrations—without ever hiring a creator. It’s fast, it’s…
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What Do Doughnuts and AI Have in Common?
You’re making coffee. Glazing doughnuts. Handing off orders to a line of hungry fans. Meanwhile, someone just landed on your website—wanting to book you for a birthday party next weekend. And no one’s there to respond. Sound familiar? Photo by: Vengo AI & Premier Baking Co. 🍩 Meet Premier Baking…
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Federal Overreach? The Battle Over Who Regulates AI in America
Regulating AI—or Silencing the States? As the United States races to establish a competitive edge in artificial intelligence, a controversial provision buried in a federal budget package has sparked intense debate. The proposal: a 10-year moratorium on state-level AI legislation. Supporters of the provision, passed by the House under the…
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Congress Is Gagging the States on AI—and Big Tech Is Loving It
AI Needs Guardrails—Not a Freeway With No Speed Limits Last week, the Senate advanced a version of President Trump’s sweeping budget package with a controversial addition: a 10-year moratorium on state-level AI regulation, cleverly tied to broadband infrastructure funding. In plain English? States must keep their hands off AI governance—or…
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The Moment AI Outpaced Human Intelligence
Where AI Is Already Smarter Than Humans Artificial intelligence is no longer a futuristic concept—it’s a present-day reality. Once limited to narrow tasks, AI systems are now surpassing human capabilities in areas we once considered uniquely ours: language, strategy, diagnosis, and even emotional intelligence. And this isn’t just speculation. The…
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When Your First Impression Is a Wall: How One Rude Receptionist Made the Case for AI
What a single phone call taught me about business, bottlenecks—and why your sales team might need an upgrade Have you ever been so stunned by a customer service interaction that you hang up the phone and think, Wow. This is exactly why artificial intelligence exists? That happened to me last…
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Founder Spotlight: How Kristin LaSalle and Vengo AI Are Using Conversational AI to Humanize Sales and Scale Connection
In today’s edition of Founder Spotlight, we’re highlighting Kristin LaSalle, Co-Founder and Chief Marketing Officer of Vengo AI and Spinnr. Vengo AI is a conversational AI platform helping businesses capture leads and automate customer engagement through chat, voice, and video avatar agents. Spinnr is a social video app designed to…
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Kurzweil’s New Robot Startup Could Reshape the Way We Work—And It’s Closer Than You Think
Imagine a robot that not only follows instructions but learns from its environment, corrects mistakes, orders replacement parts on its own, and improves overnight. That’s not sci-fi anymore. It’s happening—thanks to Ray Kurzweil. The mind behind innovations like speech recognition and futurist classics like The Singularity Is Near is back…