An AI demo can look brilliant in five minutes. Then customers start using the product. They push it into workflows you didn’t anticipate. They expect it to work reliably. And they quickly find out whether it solves a big enough problem to become part of how they work — or becomes another AI experiment they tried and abandoned.
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What happens after the AI launch?
Most conversations about enterprise AI focus on what companies could do with it. Anthropic Head of Applied AI Cat de Jong starts somewhere more interesting: what happens after deployment.
De Jong works directly with enterprises putting Claude into critical workflows. At Disrupt, she’ll explore where deployments succeed, where they stall, and what separates organizations extracting real value from those still running pilots 18 months later.
If you’re selling AI into the enterprise, those patterns matter. De Jong’s experience offers a firsthand look at what changes when AI moves from experimentation into critical workflows and why some organizations get to production while others don’t.
Anthropic can see patterns across enterprise deployments. Gamma Co-Founder and CEO Grant Lee brings another perspective to the conversation: what it looks like from inside a company building an AI product and getting people to actually use it.
Gamma has grown its AI-powered platform from an alternative to traditional presentation software into a broader visual communication tool. TechCrunch reported in March that the company was approaching 100 million users as it expanded its AI tools into marketing assets and other forms of visual content.
That kind of adoption gives Lee a useful vantage point on the questions at the center of this session: What makes an AI product useful enough for customers to keep coming back? What changes once people start using it in ways you didn’t anticipate? And how do you turn powerful AI capabilities into a product that solves a problem people actually have?
Building an AI product is one thing. Getting people to make it part of how they work is another. Secure your pass to Disrupt and hear what Gamma has learned along the way.
What happens when AI becomes part of the workflow?
Clay Co-Founder and CEO Kareem Amin brings the perspective of a founder building AI into the way companies find and reach customers. Clay provides infrastructure to pull in data, run agentic workflows, and launch GTM plays.
In January, TechCrunch reported that Clay was one of the launch apps integrated into Claude when Anthropic introduced interactive workplace tools inside the Claude interface, so his perspective is particularly relevant to the conversation.
That puts Amin close to the questions this session will explore: where AI is genuinely useful, how it fits into existing workflows, and what happens once customers start depending on it.
Together, de Jong, Lee, and Amin bring different views of that transition. Anthropic can identify patterns across enterprise deployments, while Gamma and Clay can pressure-test those patterns against what they’re seeing as customers put AI products to work.
Hear what it takes for an AI product to go beyond the demo at Disrupt 2026
An impressive demo can show what AI makes possible. The harder test comes when customers start depending on it. At Disrupt, Anthropic brings a view across enterprise deployments, while Gamma and Clay bring the founder perspective on building AI products people actually use.
Former President Goodluck Jonathan received former Kano governor and ex-APC national chairman, Abdullahi Ganduje, at his residence in Abuja.
Ganduje paid a courtesy visit to Jonathan, with a video of the meeting shared online on Wednesday. The meeting comes amid political moves ahead of the 2027 elections.
Days ago, Jonathan expressed confidence in APC candidates contesting the Bayelsa East election ahead of the 2027 polls.
He spoke at his residence in Yenagoa when a delegation led by former Deputy Governor, Rear Admiral Gboribiogha John Jonah, visited him.
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The delegation included NDDC MD, Samuel Ogbuku, and Bayelsa APC Chairman, Warman Weri Ogoriba. The visit was to introduce the APC candidates to Jonathan, a leader from Bayelsa East.
Six kidnapped victims have been rescued by troops of Sector 2, Operation Enduring Peace (OPEP), during separate encounters with suspected terrorists in Wase Local Government Area of Plateau State.
The troops recorded the success at about noon on Tuesday, October 6, 2026, when those deployed at Kukawa responded to information about the movement of suspected terrorists towards Wanka Village in Wase LGA.
Security analyst Zagazola Makama, in posts on X on Wednesday, stated that the troops’ swift intervention forced the terrorists to flee on motorcycles.
He explained that, during an exploitation of the area, the troops rescued two kidnapped victims who had been abandoned by the fleeing terrorists.
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Makama said, “The victims were identified as 14-year-old Muhammed Jibo and 12-year-old Muhammed Yahaya.”
He explained that the victims told the troops that they had been kidnapped on September 6, 2026, while on their way to meet their father at a farm in Dadin Kowa Village, Kanam Local Government Area.
In a separate operation, he said that at about 11 am the same day, troops deployed at Yuli on a fighting patrol made contact with suspected terrorists on the outskirts of Yuli Village in Wase LGA.
He said that during the encounter, the terrorists abandoned four kidnapped victims and fled into the forest.
Makama said, “The rescued victims were identified as Yakubu Yahaya, 25; Yahuza Dapji, 22; Yahaya Jibo, 20; and Sani Abubakar, 18, all from Dadin Kowa Village in Kanam LGA.”
The security analyst explained that the four victims were handed over to the Village Head of Yuli for further necessary action.