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 …
Microsoft has nominated Stripe co-founder and president John Collison to its board, the company disclosed on Wednesday in its annual proxy statement. The same filing asks shareholders to approve a $90.6m pay package for chief executive Satya Nadella, d…
Anthropic pointed its Claude models at 25 widely used open-source projects and set them a different task: not finding individual bugs, but finding code that attackers can reach when they should not be able to. Claude flagged 493 such issues. One of the…
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 …
“Our company has more layers, more handoffs and more overhead than we need, so we are addressing this issue.” Kroger chief executive Greg Foran wrote this in a memo to staff on Monday, 12 October. The US supermarket chain will cut about 3,000 corporate…
“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…
UiPath’s marketing team has stopped paying outside firms to pull together its advertising data. The head of its paid media team built an AI agent on UiPath’s own platform instead, chief marketing officer Michael Atalla told TNW. It collects the data, a…
Anthropic will give its frontier Claude models, engineers and threat research to the companies that guard critical infrastructure. That means power grids, water utilities and transport networks. The Critical Infrastructure Defense Program is the first …
Goldman Sachs is entering a third phase of AI adoption, in which the goal moves from saving money to making it, the bank’s chief information officer Marco Argenti said. He spoke with Bloomberg anchor Tom Mackenzie at Wave by Vento in Turin on Friday, i…
Established software companies have to rebuild their products around AI, not add it as one more feature, SAP’s chief AI strategy officer Sean Kask said. He spoke at Wave by Vento in Turin on Thursday. “Like the famous quip that every company is becomin…