Garrison Lovely / Semafor ·
Leaked Slack messages show OpenAI employees' pushback in June to Greg Brockman's Leading the Future ties, contributing to Brockman reneging on a $25M donation
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Chris Metinko / Axios ·
Salesforce agrees to buy AI customer research startup Listen Labs, reportedly for $2B; Listen Labs had raised a $69M Series B at a $500M valuation in January
The customer research space is especially ripe for AI disruption, as companies look to replace older, manual methods to more quickly find out what customers think.
New York Times ·
Slack message: Greg Brockman has no plans to donate beyond his initial $25M to Leading the Future, saying the PAC has become a "distraction" at OpenAI
Greg Brockman, OpenAI's president and co-founder, said internally that the super PAC, Leading the Future, had become a "distraction" for the A.I. company.
Isabel O'Brien / CNBC ·
Meta launches Muse for Small Business, integrating the AI agent with Asana, Zoom, Intuit, Box, Canva, Slack, and other apps, alongside its own ad accounts
Coming off the successful launch of its Muse AI agent, Meta is now pushing its new artificial intelligence service into the business world.
Kate Rooney / CNBC ·
OpenAI offered to invest ~$100M in Hugging Face before Nvidia's $13B acquisition, but talks fell apart; AMD and Salesforce also held talks
Before Nvidia agreed to pay roughly $13 billion to buy open-source platform Hugging Face this month, OpenAI tried to invest $100 million into the startup …
Brody Ford / Bloomberg ·
During a Salesforce event, Jensen Huang says the AI industry doesn't need any new laws or regulations and market forces will help companies safely innovate
Nvidia Corp. Chief Executive Officer Jensen Huang dismissed the need for new artificial intelligence security regulations on Tuesday …
Sarah Perez / TechCrunch ·
In an internal Slack message Matt Mullenweg claims he is back in control of Automattic; on X, he says this may have been fifth coup attempt against him
Matt Mullenweg has posted a message to Automattic's Slack, claiming he is back in control as CEO of the WordPress.com parent company …
Samantha Cole / 404 Media ·
Slack messages: Automattic CEO Matt Mullenweg says he has been put on paid leave after CFO Mark Davies "conspired" with board members and was voted interim CEO
Mullenweg, co-founder of Wordpress, wrote in a company-wide Slack channel on Wednesday that board members "conspired" …
Business Insider ·
Salesforce has been in talks to buy Listen Labs, an AI-powered customer research platform for $2B; Listen Labs was valued at $500M earlier this year
- Salesforce has been in talks to acquire AI startup Listen Labs for around $2 billion.
Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch ·
Adobe launches Adobe for Slack, making 70+ creative and productivity tools, including Firefly, Express, Photoshop, and Premiere, available via Slackbot prompts
Customers can now use Adobe's apps like Firefly, Adobe Express, Photoshop, Premiere, Acrobat, InDesign, Illustrator, Stock …
Business Insider ·
Memo: Alexandr Wang says Meta is switching from Google Chat to Slack for internal communications as Slack is the "strongest platform available today for agents"
- Meta is migrating to Slack for internal communications, a memo from AI chief Alexandr Wang says.
Bloomberg ·
Salesforce is leading a $160M+ raise for HR software company HiBob at a $3.2B+ valuation, up from $2.66B in 2023; HiBob has raised $700M+ since 2015
Salesforce Inc. is investing in human resources software company HiBob as part of a more than $160 million funding round that values …
The Information ·
OpenAI starts letting some major customers pay only when its AI completes tasks, as Salesforce and other AI providers test outcome-based pricing
OpenAI in recent months has started giving some major customers the option of paying only when its AI completes tasks …
CJ Haddad / CNBC ·
Salesforce stock closed up 22.6% on Thursday, its second-best day ever, after the company reported a beat on Q2 earnings and expanded its Anthropic partnership
Shares of Salesforce jumped 22% Thursday after the company reported a beat on second-quarter earnings and announced …
Michael Nuñez / VentureBeat ·
Salesforce and Anthropic unveil Claudeforce, which brings Salesforce data and workflows into Claude, starting with a plugin featuring 37 prebuilt sales skills
Salesforce and Anthropic announced Tuesday a sweeping expansion of their partnership, called Claudeforce, that pushes …
Jordan Novet / CNBC ·
Salesforce reports Q2 revenue up 11% YoY to $11.35B, vs. $11.32B est., net income up 87% to $3.5B, forecasts Q3 revenue above est.; CRM jumps 13%+ after hours
Salesforce shares soared 12% in extended trading on Wednesday after the cloud software vendor reported results and issued guidance that surpassed Wall Street projections.
Chris Metinko / Axios ·
San Mateo-based Twin1 AI, which creates professional digital twins that integrate with tools like Slack, launches from stealth with a $20M seed
Twin1 AI, a startup that helps professionals create a digital twin, launched from stealth with a $20 million seed round, co-founder Lewis Liu tells Axios Pro.
Jess Weatherbed / The Verge ·
Slack launches Slack Code, adding dedicated, project-specific code channels that let teams collaborate with AI coding agents "like teammates" across all plans
Slack Code provides a dedicated open space for teams to collaborate with AI agents.
Jordan Novet / CNBC ·
Salesforce appoints Miguel Milano, its chief revenue officer, as COO; Chief Operating and Financial Officer Robin Washington will keep her title
Salesforce has appointed an operating chief under CEO Marc Benioff, promoting Miguel Milano to the role.
Julie Bort / TechCrunch ·
AI coding startup 8090 raised a $135M Series A led by Salesforce Ventures; founder Chamath Palihapitiya announces that he will lead the company as CEO
Chamath Palihapitiya, best known for his venture capital firm Social Capital and the All-In podcast, announced Monday that the AI coding startup he founded raised a sizable Series A.
Laura Bratton / The Information ·
Salesforce staff worry Anthropic's Claude Tag could cannibalize Slackbot and give the AI firm more leverage over the enterprise software industry
When Anthropic on Tuesday launched a high-profile AI product for businesses that use Slack, some employees at Salesforce, which owns Slack, were confused.
David Gewirtz / ZDNET ·
Anthropic launches Claude Tag, an agentic AI coworker for Slack that can learn context, give suggestions, and more, in beta for Claude Team and Enterprise tiers
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