Over 60% of employees say AI has been significantly overhyped, including 49% of IT leaders, according to a survey of 2,500 respondents by cloud communications and IT platform GoTo. At the same time, 86% admit they’re not using it to its full potential, including 92% of Baby Boomers. Is AI on the brink of Gartner’s Trough of Disillusionment?
Treasure Data has launched MCP Server powered by the open source connector Model Context Protocol. The Server will allow users to query customer data using natural language through its connection with AI assistants like Claude, GitHub Copilot Chat and Windsurf. The MCP Server bridge allows AI to access data in the Treasure Data platform directly and securely.
If you’ve made an impulse purchase on Instagram late and night and regretted it in the morning you’re not alone, according to WalletHub, even if 54% is not a huge majority of second-thinkers. Eighty percent would spend less if they deleted their social media accounts. Meanwhile, 86% of shoppers aged 18-44 say they miss being able to touch and handle real products (The Harris Poll).
The web search tool Perplexity looks like it’s taking on Google with its latest release, a web browser named Comet. Comet claims to move “from browsing to thinking,” surfacing information and search results in response to natural language queries. Comet is available immediately to Perplexity Max subscribers; others can join a wait list.