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Back to EpisodesThe Varosity AI GTM Report — Oct 16: Salesforce Ships Hunter With Three Data Vendors Built In
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Salesforce shipped Hunter, an outbound sales agent that arrives with three prospecting-data vendors already inside Sales Cloud — a structural change to how GTM data gets bought. Also today: 404 Media details how ChatGPT ads can target uploaded prospect lists and the prompts people type; Meta's updated commercial terms, effective October 30, authorize crawling the websites of any business that runs ads or manages Pages; Kuaishou officially launches Kling 4.0 with 30-second single-pass native 4K video, landing right as EU AI Act Article 50 disclosure duties bite; Perplexity open-sources SPACE, the Firecracker sandbox it runs its own agents inside; and DataDome's Q3 report finds AI agent traffic up 41.5% to nearly 25 billion requests, with agentic browser traffic up 4.7x in a single month.
Today's stories:
- Salesforce ships Hunter, with ZoomInfo, Demandbase and Apollo built in — outbound sales agent on Agentforce; GA planned November. destinationCRM · VentureBeat · Apollo
- ChatGPT ads can target your prospect list and people's prompts — raw or hashed emails and phones, Google Advertising IDs; 25,000-entry floor to target. 404 Media investigation · MobileSyrup
- Meta's October 30 terms authorize crawling business and news sites — three legal experts say the language could justify it; Meta disagrees. Nieman Lab · Northeast Times
- Kling 4.0 officially launches — 30 seconds native in one pass, 4K, 10-bit HDR, 15 reference assets, 10 keyframes. GlobeNewswire · Advertising Week coverage · EU AI Act Article 50
- Perplexity open-sources SPACE, its agent sandbox — Apache 2.0, Firecracker microVMs, nine frontier models, zero escapes. AlphaSignal · ExplainX
- DataDome Q3 AI Traffic Report — agent traffic up 41.5% QoQ to ~25B requests; agentic browser traffic up 4.7x in September; Meta's Muse at 29.1M requests in 12 days. DataDome
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