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Salesforce Expands Headless 360 Platform

Salesforce announced a major expansion of its Headless 360 initiative, introducing new Model Context Protocol (MCP) servers, a Data 360 MCP Server exposing nearly 200 Data 360 APIs, Slack integrations, developer tools, over 100 reusable Agent Skills, and headless experiences across its major clouds. The changes aim to make Salesforce business capabilities discoverable and invocable by authorized AI agents while preserving existing identity, permissions, workflows, and governance. The company highlighted customer use cases (Engine’s EVA support agent) and partner integrations with Slack and more than 20 partner applications, positioning Headless 360 as the architectural foundation for an "agentic" enterprise that lets AI agents act securely across enterprise systems.

Meta and Nvidia push open-weight AI models

Meta and Nvidia released open-weight AI models in August 2026 as part of a broader U.S. effort to compete with leading Chinese AI labs. Meta published Muse Glimmer and said it would open weights for Muse Spark 1.2; Nvidia released Nemotron 3.5 Lightning and described its Nemotron family as “truly open source,” publishing related training datasets, techniques, and model weights. More than 20 U.S. tech companies had recently urged policymakers to avoid premature restrictions on open-weight models. Industry figures — including Box CEO Aaron Levie and analysts at Forrester and D.A. Davidson — said the moves restore U.S. presence in the open-source foundation-model ecosystem but noted challenges winning developer trust after prior proprietary shifts.

Make People Care About Your Startup

This guide explains how founders can use founder-led communications to attract attention and build loyal followings. It defines three founder archetypes—Problem, Insight, and Vision—and explains how each archetype should shape goals, voice, messaging pillars, channels, and success conditions. The piece emphasizes knowing and communicating the origin story (“why I started this company”), recommends channel choices and content formats per archetype, lists common mistakes, and provides prompts to help founders generate authentic, repeatable stories. The article appears on Lenny’s newsletter and includes examples of founders and company blogs to illustrate each communications style.