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Salesforce’s Agentforce Goes Live, Turning Up the Heat in the AI Agent Fight With Microsoft
Get ready for a proliferation of autonomous agents. Salesforce’s Agentforce platform is now generally available, publicly launching more than a month after its introduction. With it, the company is ushering in the democratization of sophisticated AI bots, providing a solution in which anyone can quickly develop AI agents that connect with their enterprise data and […]
Celebrities and Artists Slam AI Training, Calling It a ‘Major Threat’ to Livelihoods
IN THIS ISSUE: Those in the arts, media, and entertainment industries are among the more vocal regarding AI, behaving as doomsayers and calling for more protection for their work. Plus, iPhone users will finally get AI on their devices when the first set of Apple Intelligence features are released next week; OpenAI may soon release […]
The 90-Day Generative AI Blueprint
As we continue to see innovations around artificial intelligence accelerate, I continue to hear about how confused executives are when discussing how to use the technology. Multiple studies illustrate this point, which Salesforce chief executive Marc Benioff further emphasized during his Dreamforce keynote last month. Organizations recognize AI as being transformative and fear being left […]
Augie Launches Highlighter, an AI Tool That Captures the Best Moments from Long-Form Videos
Aug X Studios, creators of the AI-powered video platform Augie, have introduced Highlighter, a tool designed to help users effortlessly capture viral-worthy soundbites. Upload a long-form video and provide a prompt for what you’re looking for. Highlighter takes care of the rest—automatically extracting the most shareable moments for social media. This is the newest feature […]
Salesforce Gives the Gift of Free AI Trailhead Courses Through 2025
This is my final dispatch from Dreamforce 2024. The conference did live up to the hype Salesforce chief executive Marc Benioff promised: We’d all be talking about artificial intelligence. For this issue of “The AI Economy,” read about how Salesforce is preparing non-technical workers to adapt to this third wave of AI. Although Agentforce requires […]
AI is Reshaping How We Learn to Code—And How to Build ‘The AI Team’ at Work
Welcome back to “The AI Economy.” I took some time away from the newsletter during the summer. During the hiatus, I spent some time and got addicted to photographing velodrome racing at a nearby track to help recharge my creative mind. And now I’m back to share the latest AI news with you! For this week’s […]
GitHub: Developers Have Embraced AI, but Companies Are Slow to Catch Up
Software developers in the workplace have embraced artificial intelligence as an integral part of helping them do their jobs. A new study from GitHub reveals that 97 percent of engineers are using AI coding tools at some point. However, the companies they work for have been much slower in adopting AI tools and technologies—40 percent […]
Deal or No Deal, Publishers Are Pushing Back Over AI Platform’s Content Use
It’s a short week in the U.S. with the Fourth of July holiday, but that hasn’t stopped AI news from being made. For today’s issue of “The AI Economy,” I examine the relationship between AI providers and publishers. Some companies have opted to license the content. However, some tech firms have decided to pursue a […]
5 Ways AI Is Impacting Higher Education
Venture capitalist Mary Meeker is perhaps best known for her annual Internet Trends report, which has been published for over two decades. The industry has closely watched and admired her insights into tech. This week, her team at Bond Capital released a new report examining the relationship between artificial intelligence and higher education. Though not […]
Apple’s AI Strategy: Personal, Private and Made ‘for the Rest of Us’
The news AI watchers have been waiting for has arrived: Apple has revealed its technology strategy. But while its rivals have taken to the spotlight to unveil model after model and how they’re baking it into every one of their products, the iPhone maker seems to be taking a different approach, positioning it as “AI […]