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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 […]
How California is Trying to Regulate Artificial Intelligence
Believe it or not, this “The AI Economy” issue is not about Salesforce. Instead, we’ll look at how California lawmakers are trying to legislate AI and if there’s been any progress. Plus, the week’s roundup of AI news you may have missed. The Prompt If there’s something most people will agree on, it is that […]
AI Takes Center Stage: The Message Salesforce Must Deliver at Dreamforce
Welcome to a special edition of “The AI Economy.” Over the next few days, I’ll devote this newsletter to Salesforce’s annual customer conference. New issues will feature an analysis of the company’s AI announcements that might reshape how organizations think about how they use the technology. The Prompt Thousands are set to descend on San […]
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 […]
The Five Types of AI Personas You’ll Find at Work
How do corporate workers feel about artificial intelligence? While studies have shown that developers embrace the technology, companies are slow to adopt it; what about full-time desk workers? Research published by Slack looks at employee sentiment regarding AI and reveals five types of personalities companies need to be aware of when looking to adopt AI […]
AI Platform MindStudio Releases Self-Hosted Offering for the Enterprise
MindStudio, the enterprise-centric AI app development platform, has launched a new product called MindStudio for Enterprise, designed for companies that want more control over their infrastructure. This offering allows developers to take all the features available through the hosted SaaS platform and deploy them directly on the company’s on-premise or private cloud servers. In doing […]
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 […]
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 […]
AWS’s Responsible AI Lead Explains How to Use AI Ethically
Are we, as individuals and working professionals, aware of the risks and implications of using artificial intelligence? What should we consider when implementing AI across our organization? For this week’s issue of “The AI Economy,” I interviewed Diya Wynn, who heads up Amazon Web Services’ Responsible AI team. She shares details about her role within […]
How LinkedIn Built Its Premium AI-Powered Experience
Artificial intelligence (AI) is baked into most, if not all, of the social networks we use today. Some use cases are evident, especially for consumer-facing platforms such as Facebook. But what about those sites tailored more towards business and working professionals? I’m looking at you, LinkedIn! A professional social network doesn’t need an image-generation tool, […]