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Salesforce gives Slackbot 30 new AI powers, and a strategy that looks a lot like Microsoft’s

In short: Salesforce unveiled more than 30 new AI capabilities for Slackbot on 31 March 2026, the most sweeping overhaul of the platform since its $27.7 billion acquisition in 2021. The update transforms Slackbot from a conversational assistant into an agentic system that can transcribe meetings across any video platform, monitor users’ desktop activity, execute tasks […]

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Meta freezes AI data work after breach puts training secrets at risk

In short: Meta has suspended its collaboration with Mercor, a $10 billion AI data startup, after a supply chain attack exposed what may be the AI industry’s most closely guarded secrets: not just personal data, but the training methodologies that power the world’s leading large language models. The breach, carried out via a poisoned version of […]

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Nvidia’s $2 billion Marvell bet is not an investment. It is a toll booth.

Nvidia has invested $2 billion in Marvell Technology and folded the chipmaker into its NVLink Fusion ecosystem, creating a partnership that covers custom AI accelerators, silicon photonics, and 5G/6G infrastructure. The deal ensures that every custom chip Marvell designs for hyperscalers like Amazon, Google, and Microsoft still generates Nvidia revenue through mandatory platform components, turning […]

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Musk wants a million data centre satellites. Bezos wants 51,600. Scientists want to know why.

The pitch is seductive in its simplicity: AI needs more power than terrestrial grids can supply, so move the data centres into orbit, where the sun never sets and the electricity is free. SpaceX, Blue Origin, and a growing constellation of startups are now racing to make that vision real. The problem, according to the […]

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Anthropic just paid $400 million for a startup with fewer than 10 people

Anthropic has acquired Coefficient Bio, a stealth biotech AI startup founded barely eight months ago, in an all-stock deal worth just over $400 million. The acquisition brings a team of fewer than 10 people, nearly all former Genentech computational biology researchers, into Anthropic’s healthcare and life sciences division, and it signals something larger than a […]

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OpenAI is hiring ad-tech firms to make ChatGPT ads talk back to you

Six weeks was all it took. On 9 February, OpenAI switched on advertisements inside ChatGPT for free-tier users in the United States. By late March, the company disclosed that the pilot had crossed $100 million in annualised revenue, drawn more than 600 advertisers, and reached fewer than a fifth of eligible users. Now OpenAI is […]

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Judge throws out Musk’s advertising boycott lawsuit against X’s former sponsors

A US federal judge has dismissed Elon Musk’s antitrust lawsuit against advertisers who pulled their spending from X, ruling that the company failed to state a valid legal claim and barring it from ever refiling the case. US District Judge Jane Boyle, presiding in Dallas, dismissed the suit with prejudice on Thursday and denied X […]

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Xero partners with Anthropic to put small business finances inside Claude

Xero, the New Zealand-founded accounting platform used by 4.6 million subscribers worldwide, announced on Wednesday a multi-year partnership with Anthropic that will embed Claude directly into its product and, more unusually, bring Xero’s financial data into Claude.ai itself. The deal means small business owners will be able to ask Claude questions about their cash flow, […]

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Google’s new compression algorithm cut memory stocks within hours of publication

Google published a research blog post on Tuesday about a new compression algorithm for AI models. Within hours, memory stocks were falling. Micron dropped 3 per cent, Western Digital lost 4.7 per cent, and SanDisk fell 5.7 per cent, as investors recalculated how much physical memory the AI industry might actually need. The algorithm is […]

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Pepper acquires YC-backed Alima to bring AI to food distribution’s messy product catalogues

Pepper, a New York-based technology platform for independent food distributors, has acquired Alima, a Y Combinator-backed startup that built ordering and procurement software for small food distributors in Latin America. The deal, announced on Tuesday with no disclosed financial terms, brings Alima’s two cofounders into Pepper’s leadership team and extends the company’s push into AI-driven […]

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