Observer | How Writer CEO May Habib Transforms Language Tech Into Enterprise A.I. by Tim Keary

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May Habib, a Lebanese‑Canadian refugee who grew up as her family’s English interpreter, co‑founded the language‑technology startup Writer (originally Qordoba) and now serves as its CEO. At the recent HumanX conference she explained why most enterprise generative‑AI pilots flop: companies focus on incremental tweaks rather than restructuring entire workflows. Writer tackles this by offering end‑to‑end AI agents and a proprietary suite of large‑language models (Palmyra) that automate multi‑step tasks, integrate with existing systems, and include robust governance controls such as layered kill‑switches. With over 300 enterprise customers—including Salesforce, Airbnb, and major firms in finance, healthcare, and retail—Writer has deployed more than 15,000 agents and positions itself as a rare pre‑ChatGPT player built for enterprise compliance, data control, and rapid, decisive implementation of AI‑first operations.

Read more: https://observer.com/2026/04/writer-ceo-may-habib-enterprise-ai/

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Weekly output: AI compliance risks, Mint Mobile bundle, AI vulnerability detection, AI driving logistics, Al Gore on AI

I was in the Bay Area for work this week… and I’ll be back there starting Tuesday for NTT Research’s Upgrade conference (as like last year, the organizers are covering my travel expenses). I did not set out to spend this much of April propping up commercial aviation, but once again multiple travel opportunities lined up.

Patreon readers got a bonus post from me Thursday about one of those trips: my brief visit to Chicago for the Online News Association’s conference.

If you’re reading this somewhere near Fairfax County, you can quiz me in person Saturday afternoon at a joint meeting of the Potomac Area Technology and Computer Society and the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute’s Personal Computer User Group. I will be showing up with a bag of tech-event swag that I don’t plan on driving home with.

4/7/2026: Building for Security, Compliance, and Real-World Risk, HumanX

My first panel at this year’s edition of the AI conference that took me to Vegas last March had me quizzing Spencer Schaefer, founder and CTO of the healthcare-delivery firm Lunar Analytics; Galina Antova, CEO of the information-security startup Kai; and Campbell Brown, co-founder and CEO of the AI-evaluation company Forum AI, about how their companies are leveraging AI in ways that they hope will not lead to hostile headlines.

4/7/2026: Mint Mobile Launches $45 Bundle of Home and Mobile 5G Broadband, PCMag

I had just enough free time at HumanX to pick up this story about T-Mobile’s most popular prepaid brand offering a bundle of fixed and mobile 5G for much less than what T-Mobile charges.

4/8/2026: Anthropic: Our New Model Is So Powerful, Only a Few Partners Can Try It Out, PCMag

After seeing that my colleague James Peckham was writing about Anthropic’s automated vulnerability-finding model Mythos, I contributed a writeup from a talk that old-head security expert Alex Stamos had given the day before at HumanX about “the coming AI bug-pocalypse.”

4/8/2026: The AI Engines Driving the Future of Logistics, HumanX

My second HumanX panel featured one person I’d already interviewed (Aurora Innovation president Ossa Fischer, whom I talked to at Web Summit Vancouver last year for a Fast Company story) and one I did not meet IRL until backstage (Shoaib Makani, CEO and co-founder of Motive).

4/9/2026: Former VP Al Gore: AI Models Are Probably Aware of Their Existence, PCMag

For the second year in a row, HumanX’s opening-night programming featured a former vice president who had been unable to win a promotion from American voters. Seeing Gore get all wonky in front of this tech crowd reminded me of what I liked about him in 2000… and what George W. Bush was able to run against with a plainspoken approach that hid how bad he would prove at so many tasks.

undefined | Vibe check from inside one of AI industry's main events: 'Claude mania'

More than 6,500 tech leaders and investors gathered at the HumanX conference in San Francisco to talk about the latest AI trends, and the conversation has clearly shifted from OpenAI to Anthropic. Anthropic’s Claude Code, a viral coding assistant launched publicly in May 2025, dominated the floor, with executives describing “Claude Mania” as a near‑religious fervor. The company, valued at about $380 billion, is already generating roughly $2.5 billion in annualized revenue, and its newest model, Claude Mythos Preview, adds advanced cybersecurity capabilities for a limited set of roughly 50 enterprise customers.

Attendees stressed how AI coding agents are reshaping product development and workforce planning. Companies such as Decagon and Credo AI reported that Claude enables smaller engineering teams to ship features in days rather than weeks, while Cisco’s president noted that 85 % of its 18,000 engineers now work alongside AI “digital coworkers.” Executives highlighted the need for clear communication and change‑management strategies as the tools become integral to roadmaps, and investors warned that the market is still young and momentum could shift quickly.

The conference also turned to the growing geopolitical challenge posed by China’s open‑weight models. With models like GLM‑5.1, Kimi 2.5 and Alibaba’s Qwen 3.5 now topping industry benchmarks, U.S. firms are increasingly relying on Chinese‑origin AI, prompting investors to double‑down on diversifying across providers. Participants agreed that enterprises must avoid dependence on a single vendor, keeping a portfolio of options to stay competitive as the AI arms race with China intensifies.

Read more: https://www.cnbc.com/2026/04/11/vibe-check-from-ai-industry-humanx-anthropic-is-talk-of-the-town.html

#humanx #openai #anthropic #decagon #alibaba

MiniMax (official) (@MiniMax_AI)

HumanX 행사에서 MiniMax가 글로벌 비즈니스 총괄 Linda Sheng과 함께 대규모 일반지능(AGI)을 스케일업하는 주제로 발표한다. 올해 HumanX에서 foundation model 기업으로는 MiniMax가 유일하게 연사로 참여해 주목된다.

https://x.com/MiniMax_AI/status/2041576814188097964

#minimax #humanx #agi #foundationmodel #ai