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Talladega race day. 🏁 @jesselovejr1 is starting P1 in the No. 2 Samsara Chevrolet with @RCRracing. Let's go!
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What happens when code becomes cheap enough that it stops being the moat?
Our CTO John Bicket and CPO @LandJohan explore how AI is reshaping software development, agent workflows, and the future of user interfaces it in the latest episode of Object Stats ⬇️
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The best AI fits into the way people already work. For drivers, that means voice.
Samsara's @brendanodris joined @FreightWaves to discuss how Agent Studio is bringing real-time support, automated coaching, and smarter workflows to fleets.
Watch the full interview: youtube.com/watch?v=UrUAI8E_…
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Samsara Tracking Label is one of @TIME's Best Inventions of 2026.
Recognized in the Logistics category, Tracking Label helps close a major supply chain visibility gap, giving operations teams a better way to track cargo beyond their own fleets.
See why it made the list: time.com/collection/best-inv…
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Samsara's @brendanodris reveals why voice AI agents are already massively outpacing chat agents in real-world operations, where workers can't stop to type prompts:
"The big insight is that voice is the new UI for these agentic workflows. Imagine drivers driving trucks, they can’t use their hands. It doesn’t really make sense to sit and wait behind a prompt in a chat interface."
"Since we’ve launched both, we’ve seen the voice agents just massively accelerate and outpace the chat agents."
"We can meet the customer where they are in the way that’s easiest for them. For us, that’s voice."
@Samsara
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Voice agents are dominating!
I was on @MTSlive with @sophiadew to talk about the @Samsara agents that we have just launched.
youtube.com/watch?v=eWs1nkdn…
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AI is moving into the cab.
In Talking Transports, @Samsara $IOT CEO Sanjit Biswas discusses:
🤖 AI-powered fleet operations
🚛Driver safety
📍Shipment visibility
🛠️Predictive maintenance
📊Connected assets
🎧Listen to Episode 147 of Bloomberg Intelligence’s Talking Transports:
Apple: bit.ly/4bfFTs6
Spotify: bit.ly/4w4koCk
iHeart: bit.ly/4wtYDNa
Bloomberg.com: bit.ly/4vTIPSK
Bloomberg Terminal: bit.ly/4gVoE30
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Samsara's @brendanodris explains why the AI revolution looks different outside the San Francisco bubble, where it's about helping truck drivers get home safely, not booking concert tickets:
"The vehicle is a means to an end. Whether it’s an agent, whether it’s an assistant, whatever the form, that’s just a means to an end."
"For me, it’s about a driver who’s pulled over on the side of a road and they need to know where they should pull in because they’re approaching their limit."
"Whether that’s a voice agent or not, who cares? They have an issue. They need a solution. ‘I’ve got 10 minutes of driving time left. Where do I pull in that’s safe?’ It’s dark. It’s late."
"This isn’t AI for AI’s sake, like book me a concert ticket. This is really, how do I get home at nighttime? Make sure that I’m wearing my seatbelt, no harsh braking, that I’m not using my phone."
"There’s a certain extra privilege that we get that we’re actually getting more people home at nighttime. And that’s a fun thing to work on."
@Samsara
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We are LIVE from our new studio - here's what we're talking on MTS about this morning:
- Google launches Gemini 4 Argon
- Meta launches Muse Wonder
- Anthropic warns small AI models are months away from copying themselves across smart TVs, fridges and other home devices
Followed by some great interviews:
- @levie Cofounder and CEO at Box talking about why the compute needed for the agent era is going to be insane
- @tulseedoshi Senior Director and Product Lead for Gemini Models at Google DeepMind talking about launch day for Gemini 4 Argon
- @brendanodris VP of Platform at Samsara talking about today's launch of Agent Studio, which brings AI agents to truck cabs, job sites and maintenance bays
- @RuneKvist Cofounder at AIUC talking about certifying and insuring AI agents before enterprises deploy them
- @xanamini Cofounder and Chief Scientific Officer at Liquid AI talking about his new Cell paper showing that small, specialized models beat frontier models at predicting aging and disease risk
- Taylor Savage Head of Product @FactoryAI talking about building with Factory and its Droids coding agents
- @adamkovac Founder and CEO at Chamber of Progress talking about whether the US and China can actually agree on rules for AI
- @AdamThierer Senior Fellow at R Street Institute talking about his essay on Effective Altruism and the war on computation in Washington
- @XDeGracia Cofounder at Prosper AI talking about the revenue independent specialty practices are losing, and why they need their own AI now that insurers use it
- @harrykargman Founder and CEO at Kargo talking about what happens to ad tech when AI agents do the media buying
- Brad Bogolea Cofounder and CEO at Simbe Robotics talking about running the biggest fleet of shelf-scanning robots in retail as Simbe passes 3,000 units
MUSE WONDER | C AI BANKRUPT | APPLE HOMEVIEW xitter.cf/i/broadcasts/1DxLdZLpy…
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MUSE WONDER | C AI BANKRUPT | APPLE HOMEVIEW xitter.cf/i/broadcasts/1DxLdZLpy…
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Samsara has been named to the 2026 #FortuneFuture120 list for the second consecutive year. We’re building for the future alongside customers operating at incredible scale and complexity. fortune.com/ranking/future/
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.@FastCompany named Samsara Tracking Label one of its Next Big Things in Tech for 2026.
Powered by the Samsara Network, Tracking Label gives operations teams near-real-time visibility into cargo across carriers. fastcompany.com/91612660/tra…
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When designing driver-centric benefit programs, telematics providers often assume that truck drivers prioritize roadside convenience perks above all else. Kelly Soderlund, Head of Insights at Samsara, shares surprising user feedback from the newly launched Samsara Driver Perks platform.
While fleets expected high demand for standard roadside convenience discounts, professional drivers requested lifestyle, health, and entertainment benefits that support their life off the road—including gym memberships, Audible audiobooks, family travel discounts, and even portable grilling gear.
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Here are Monday's biggest analyst calls: Nvidia, SpaceX, Tesla, Apple, Microsoft, Wells Fargo, Samsara & more cnbc.com/2026/10/05/monday-b…
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Karpathy: disappears from X
Ben Affleck: alright, gather round, so you'll want to freeze the base weights first, learning rate 2e-4
Ben Affleck (Hollywood star & Artists Equity CEO) talks about how he fine-tunes open video models by unfreezing weights and trained only the last cinematic layer so a film crew can hit real production standards.
for context, Ben Affleck founded InterPositive in 2022, a 16-person AI shop for film post and Netflix bought it in March 2026 for $587 mn in cash.
He needed that model because public video models were trained on his peers' films, and he did not think that was a real business. So InterPositive raised money, shot its own dataset for 8 months on a controlled stage, and used it only as late-stage training.
Each new film then trains a private model on its own dailies, so the production keeps the footage and the learning. That is the product Netflix paid $587 million for.
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From "Bloomberg Live" YouTube channel, (link in comment)
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Samsara Opens Fleet Data to ChatGPT, Claude and Other AI Tools
Samsara is giving AI assistants a new way to work with real operational data.
Its newly generally available Samsara MCP lets compatible AI clients including ChatGPT, Claude, Copilot and Cursor query Samsara data through the Model Context Protocol. The current catalog includes 44 approved read-only queries covering areas such as vehicles, drivers, safety, compliance, routes and fuel.
The important boundary is what these AI tools cannot do. Access follows the user's existing Samsara permissions, and the current MCP implementation is read-only. It cannot change settings, send messages or make assignments in Samsara.
That makes this less about handing fleet operations over to AI and more about giving AI assistants a standardized interface for retrieving operational context. Samsara also continues to position its REST API for integrations and large-scale data movement, while MCP is aimed at conversational and agent-driven workflows.
The broader significance is the interface: AI assistants can now sit closer to enterprise operational data without automatically receiving authority to change the underlying system.
#AI #MCP
