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…
Europe has less than 2 gigawatts of AI computing capacity and needs more, former Vodafone chief executive Vittorio Colao said. He spoke at a closed-door press Q&A at Wave by Vento in Turin on Friday, the event’s last day. “Europe missed the big dig…
Europe’s venture-backed companies could be worth more than its industrial base within five years, Dealroom founder and chief executive Yoram Wijngaarde said. He spoke at Wave by Vento in Turin on Thursday. “I think that the VC-backed ecosystem is going…
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…
Legora co-founder and chief executive Max Junestrand says calls for European sovereignty in software are an excuse for companies that are not bold enough to go global. He spoke at Wave by Vento in Turin on Thursday. “I think sovereignty in enterprise a…
AI makes it possible to build a company from anywhere, but founders are still choosing to sit together, Station F director Roxanne Varza and Anthropic’s Aiden Blake said. They spoke on a panel at Wave by Vento in Turin on Thursday. “What’s really inter…
Greg Joswiak, Apple’s senior vice president of worldwide marketing, posted a teaser video on X on Thursday. It shows the old rainbow Apple logo, embroidered, and sets a launch for Tuesday 13 October. “Welcome home. October 13,” Joswiak wrote. Apple inv…
Zendesk will end the year with about $400m of AI revenue, up from about zero two years ago, chief executive Tom Eggemeier told TNW. Most of it comes from AI agents that customers pay for only when they resolve a case. Eggemeier has run Zendesk since la…
Miro co-founder and chief executive Andrey Khusid says adding AI to existing teams and processes will not deliver its full productivity gains. Companies need to redesign how work happens from the ground up, he said. He spoke at Wave by Vento in Turin o…
DoorDash co-founder and chief executive Tony Xu says more AI agents will mean more demand for physical delivery networks, and even for human labour. He spoke on Wednesday at Wave by Vento in Turin, in a session titled “Inside the Making of DoorDash”. A…