Today, we’re shipping updates to @Rippling AI that make it easier to deploy data connections, skills, and automations safely across your org. They’re available to every employee, but they’re managed centrally and they’re auditable.

Today, @Rippling is launching IT Helpdesk, an AI agent that automatically resolves the most tedious IT support issues. Like, "can u reset my password plz" And, "I need a Figma license" And, "spilled coffee on my laptop :(" 🧵

Another big launch: Rippling AI Spend Console. Dashboards yes, but also a model router to control spend, and lineage analysis w/ Github data to directly measure engineering ROI. It really works! Our internal results in thread 🧵👇 ... rippling.com/platform/ai/ai-…

New: we ran ~2100 scored runs on open-weight models and lab models and found some big surprises. Grok (@spacexai) was the value leader, and GLM (@Zai_org) is super close to the frontier. I guess this is why the 'labs' are nervous...

We just launched Business Banking* at @Rippling ... it’s going to simplify the daily lives of a lot of people in finance and HR.🧵

I found the SpaceX IPO surprisingly emotional today. It reminded me of why I came to the US as an 18-year-old. Even then, I knew that I wanted to build stuff, and that the place to do it was America. There was no second option in the world. The concept of American exceptionalism is nothing new, but I have come to appreciate the culture that justifies it. SpaceX is yet another case in point. America’s risk-taking culture celebrates wild successes while embracing the legitimacy of hard-earned failure. American culture doesn’t celebrate inherited wealth, nor does it frown upon inherited poverty. It doesn’t seek to create equal outcomes, but rather equal opportunity. It is not immediately obvious that this is unique in the world. Truly unique. I’m Canadian, and I love many aspects of Canadian culture, but Canadian culture does not offer people the same environment in which to take risks. I write this because I was dismayed to see US politicians complaining of the extreme wealth created by the SpaceX IPO. Say what you will about wealth inequality, or a single man’s politics, but don’t tell me that immense wealth creation in America is bad. Do not tell me you’d rather SpaceX not exist, exactly as it does. That you’d rather this company exist in some other country or culture. Thankfully, despite today’s politics, SpaceX could not have been a Chinese company, or a Canadian one, or a French one. It could only ever have been an American one. If nationalism is pride in your birthplace, then it’s merely tribalism, which serves to divide us. But if it’s pride in your culture, a culture that lets people achieve incredible things like this, then under those terms I am a nationalist. I want to protect and enhance our culture of risk-taking, of celebrating wins, and of celebrating failures along the way. I think it is amazing that America created a trillionaire out of a risk-taking immigrant. It is absolutely fucking absurd, of course, but isn’t that the point? SpaceX is not a reason to be pissed off; it’s a reason for every person in the world who wants to build stuff to see themselves as American, no matter where in the world they live. p.s. — this is entirely from my brain, with AI used only for fixing typos and grammar. :^)

We have an uzi of AI output coming from @rippling this year. If you wanna work for me (directly) to tell that story, please DM me. Needs a solid technical foundation, coupled with the X savviness of @HunterBiden.