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Tesla, Sunrun, and Renew Home Build a 16 GW Virtual Power Plant to Feed AI Data Centers
A trio of energy companies is betting that aggregated home batteries and smart thermostats are the fastest path to solving AI's power crisis, as traditional grid expansion falls years behind demand.
Pokee AIJune 24, 2026
The US Government's First AI Kill Switch Hits Anthropic Subscribers
An export control directive, reportedly triggered by a competitor's tip over a trivially low jailbreak standard, shut down Fable 5 globally for six of its promised thirteen free days, and paying subscribers now face the bill.
Pokee AIJune 23, 2026
Sakana AI Ships Fugu, an Orchestration Model That Claims Fable 5 Performance Without the Export Ban
Tokyo-based Sakana AI launches Fugu and Fugu Ultra to general availability, betting that a model trained to coordinate GPT-5.5, Gemini, and Opus can deliver frontier-tier results on the exact day Anthropic's best model is still offline worldwide.
Pokee AIJune 22, 2026
Transformer Co-Inventor Shazeer Joins OpenAI, Erasing Google's $2.7B Bet
Noam Shazeer, the architect of the transformer itself, left Google DeepMind on June 18 for OpenAI's new Lead for Architecture Research role, less than two years after Google paid $2.7 billion to secure him.
Pokee AIJune 22, 2026
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Pokee vs Manus AI: AI Agent Platforms Compared (2026)
Manus AI is a general-purpose AI agent platform that gained significant attention in early 2026 for its impressive autonomous task completion capabilities. In 2026, Manus was acquired by Meta, bringing enterprise resources and scale to the platform.
Pokee AI TeamMay 16, 2026
7 Best Zapier Alternatives with AI in 2026
Zapier is the most popular workflow automation tool for a reason -- 9,000+ app connections and a dead-simple interface. But in 2026, "connect App A to App B" is table stakes. The best automation tools now use AI to reason about your data, make decisions, and handle the messy, unstructured work that trigger-action workflows cannot touch.
Pokee AI TeamMay 16, 2026
How to Automate Your Sales Pipeline with AI in 2026: Complete Guide
Sales teams lose 28% of their week on administrative tasks -- updating CRMs, writing follow-up emails, tracking deal progress, and building reports. That is over 11 hours per rep per week spent on tasks that do not directly generate revenue. AI pipeline automation changes this.
Pokee AI TeamMay 16, 2026
How to Use WhatsApp with Pokee AI
Pokee AI's WhatsApp integration lets you spin up a WhatsApp bot that auto-replies to your messages with full access to every Pokee skill — Gmail, Slack, Notion, Shopify, and the rest. Instead of opening the Pokee web app, just message your bot. The bot keeps conversation history, supports group chats, and stays online so you can chat from anywhere.
Pokee AI TeamMay 5, 2026
Integrations
Bring Pokee into the tools your team already uses.
How to Use WhatsApp with Pokee AI
Pokee AI's WhatsApp integration lets you spin up a WhatsApp bot that auto-replies to your messages with full access to every Pokee skill — Gmail, Slack, Notion, Shopify, and the rest. Instead of opening the Pokee web app, just message your bot. The bot keeps conversation history, supports group chats, and stays online so you can chat from anywhere.
Pokee AI TeamMay 5, 2026
How to Use Discord with Pokee AI
Pokee AI's Discord integration lets you spin up a Discord bot that auto-replies to your messages with full access to every Pokee skill — Gmail, Slack, Notion, Shopify, and the rest. Instead of opening the Pokee web app, just message your bot. The bot keeps conversation history, supports server channels, and stays online so you can chat from anywhere.
Pokee AI TeamMay 5, 2026
How to Use Telegram with Pokee AI
Pokee AI's Telegram integration lets you spin up a Telegram bot that auto-replies to your messages with full access to every Pokee skill — Gmail, Slack, Notion, and the rest. Instead of opening the Pokee web app, just message your bot. The bot keeps conversation history, supports group chats, and stays online so you can chat from anywhere.
Pokee AI TeamMay 5, 2026
How to Use SendGrid with Pokee AI
SendGrid is one of 90+ native integrations in Pokee AI. Connect your SendGrid account and manage email through natural language -- no flowcharts, no code, no middleware.
Pokee AI TeamApril 12, 2026
Comparisons
How Pokee stacks up against other agent platforms.
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Pokee vs Manus AI: AI Agent Platforms Compared (2026)
Manus AI is a general-purpose AI agent platform that gained significant attention in early 2026 for its impressive autonomous task completion capabilities. In 2026, Manus was acquired by Meta, bringing enterprise resources and scale to the platform.
Pokee AI TeamMay 16, 2026
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Pokee vs Lindy AI: Which AI Agent Platform Wins in 2026?
Lindy AI is an AI assistant platform founded by Flo Crivello. In 2026, Lindy has repositioned heavily around being your "AI assistant via iMessage" -- managing your inbox, calendar, meetings, and follow-ups through text messages. The platform learns your writing style over time and drafts emails in your voice.
Pokee AI TeamMay 16, 2026
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Pokee vs Grok: AI Agent Platform vs X's AI (2026)
Grok by xAI lives inside X (Twitter) with real-time social data access. Pokee AI is a full agent platform with 90+ integrations -- including Twitter -- plus persistent memory, scheduled automation, and enterprise deployment. One is tied to a social network. The other works across your entire stack.
Pokee AI TeamMay 16, 2026
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Pokee vs Google Assistant: AI Agent vs Voice Assistant (2026)
Google Assistant answers questions and controls smart devices. Pokee AI completes complex business workflows across 90+ tools. One tells you the weather. The other runs your operations.
Pokee AI TeamMay 16, 2026
Use Cases
Real workflows running on Pokee in the wild.
How to Automate Your Sales Pipeline with AI in 2026: Complete Guide
Sales teams lose 28% of their week on administrative tasks -- updating CRMs, writing follow-up emails, tracking deal progress, and building reports. That is over 11 hours per rep per week spent on tasks that do not directly generate revenue. AI pipeline automation changes this.
Pokee AI TeamMay 16, 2026
How to Automate Lead Enrichment with AI: Step-by-Step Guide (2026)
Manual lead enrichment is a time sink. Sales teams spend 5-10 hours per week copying data between LinkedIn, CRMs, and spreadsheets, enriching contacts with job titles, company size, funding data, and tech stack information. Most of that work can be automated with AI.
Pokee AI TeamMay 16, 2026
AI for Meeting Prep: Automate Research Before Every Call (2026)
The average sales rep spends 20-30 minutes preparing for each prospect meeting. That is 2-3 hours per day for a rep with 6 calls on the calendar. Most of that time goes to the same routine: check LinkedIn, scan the company website, review past CRM notes, look for recent news, and skim previous email threads. AI can do all of this in under 60 seconds.
Pokee AI TeamMay 16, 2026
AI Agent for Real Estate: Automate Listings, Research & Client Communication
Real estate is a relationship business buried in administrative work. Between market research, CMA reports, listing descriptions, lead follow-ups, and client communication, agents spend more time on paperwork than showing properties. Pokee AI automates the research, reporting, and follow-up work so agents can focus on clients and closing deals.
Pokee AI TeamMay 16, 2026
Insights
Research, opinions, and product updates from the team.
7 Best Zapier Alternatives with AI in 2026
Zapier is the most popular workflow automation tool for a reason -- 9,000+ app connections and a dead-simple interface. But in 2026, "connect App A to App B" is table stakes. The best automation tools now use AI to reason about your data, make decisions, and handle the messy, unstructured work that trigger-action workflows cannot touch.
Pokee AI TeamMay 16, 2026
8 Best Personal AI Assistants in 2026: Complete Comparison
Personal AI assistants now span voice assistants (Siri, Alexa), conversational chatbots (ChatGPT, Claude), research tools (Perplexity), and full agent platforms (Pokee). The right choice depends on whether you need AI that talks about work or AI that does the work.
Pokee AI TeamMay 16, 2026
7 Best Make.com Alternatives for AI Automation in 2026
Make.com (formerly Integromat) is one of the most powerful visual workflow automation tools available. Its scenario builder with branching logic, loops, routers, and error handling is genuinely best-in-class. But in 2026, the automation space has moved toward AI-native platforms, and Make's AI features are still catching up.
Pokee AI TeamMay 16, 2026
6 Best Automation Tools in 2026: AI Agents vs Traditional Platforms
Automation tools connect your apps and run workflows without manual work. In 2026, the category has split into two camps: traditional connector platforms (Zapier, Make, n8n) that use visual flowcharts, and AI agent platforms (Pokee, Lindy, Relevance) that use natural language and reasoning.
Pokee AI TeamMay 16, 2026
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