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Slack’s founder got one hour with Benioff before the $27.7bn sale

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Johnny Rodgers, one of Slack’s original eight team members, has written a first-hand account of Slack’s first two years inside Salesforce. It quotes Stewart Butterfield, Slack’s co-founder and former chief executive, throughout. Rodgers spent 11 years at Slack and left in the spring of 2023. He published the second part of his Building Slack series […]

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AstraZeneca and Oracle team up on AI to find patients for drug trials

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AstraZeneca and Oracle will use AI and real patient health data to find people for drug trials faster, the two firms announced. The deal adds to a long list of AI health tie-ups between drugmakers and tech companies. The pair signed a non-binding term sheet, so the terms are not yet final, and neither firm said or […]

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Accenture caps staff Claude spending at $29 a month, 404 Media reports

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“Providing a WBS and obtaining a license does not guarantee indefinite or ongoing access to Claude.” Accenture gave its staff that warning in an internal announcement about Claude, Anthropic’s AI model. The consulting firm now pays only $29 a month per person for Claude use, Joseph Cox reported for 404 Media on 15 October. Some […]

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At a private AI retreat, the vendor told us the tool won’t save you

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Grady Sokaras, Zapier’s head of sales, opened a session at the company’s private AI retreat with a line about the kind of product Zapier sells. “A tool is never the solution,” Sokaras said. A company that buys the product and expects a transformation gets “one more piece of dependency or shelfware”. The retreat was Zapier […]

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UiPath’s Dines says AI needs a manual and launches Cartographer to write it

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“Without this manual, nobody will really succeed in deploying autonomous AI that we can trust to make decisions and understand how we actually work,” UiPath founder and CEO Daniel Dines said on Wednesday. Dines used his keynote at FUSION, UiPath’s annual conference at the Wynn Las Vegas, to make the case for that manual. He […]

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Meta’s AI chief wants Muse to make you $1,000

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Alexandr Wang has set Meta’s new AI agent a simple target. Meta’s chief AI officer asked on X whether Muse could “make you $1000”, launching a hashtag challenge a few days after Muse went live on 8 September. The replies have been generous with dollar figures, but not always independent. Many of the posts answering […]

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Anthropic is paying the firm that will evaluate it, and says in the same announcement that this is not how it should work.

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Anthropic has named Accenture as the first embedded evaluator of its frontier models, with each company expecting to invest at least $1bn over five years. Anthropic will fund the work directly and says in the same announcement that funding should come from pooled or government sources instead, because neither exists yet. Accenture is already Anthropic’s […]

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Huawei wants your AI data centre to prop up the grid, not just drain it

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“Electricity is essential for computing,” said Zhou Jianjun, who runs global marketing, sales and services at Huawei Digital Power. “Today, in the AI era, the startup, shutdown, and load fluctuations of a large AIDC campus can all impact grid operations.” He was unveiling Huawei’s grid-interactive AI data centre solution in Shenzhen. Days later the same […]

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Automattic says Mullenweg is CEO again, three days after removing him

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Automattic has confirmed that Matt Mullenweg is its chairman and chief executive. The confirmation came three days after its own board put him on paid leave and installed someone else in the job. A company spokesperson gave the confirmation to Sarah Perez at TechCrunch just after 5pm Eastern on Saturday. Mullenweg holds both roles “with […]

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Salesforce drops ‘Agentforce’ from product names, The Information reports

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Salesforce is taking the word “Agentforce” out of the names of some of its biggest products, a week before its Dreamforce customer conference. Kevin McLaughlin and Laura Bratton reported the change for The Information, citing two people with direct knowledge of the matter. The reversal undoes a rebrand that is less than a year old. […]

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