Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff dismisses concerns of a “SaaS-pocalypse”, saying companies like Anthropic use “a lot of SaaS because it just got better with agents”
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Sources: Monzo CEO TS Anil, who announced his exit and handover to ex-Googler Diana Layfield in October, was pushed out by the board over an IPO timing clash
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How legacy carmakers fell behind Tesla and Chinese EV brands in software, as a Toyota Woven engineer says the company's new Arene platform is “full of bugs”
Financial Times : X: @scobleizer X: Robert Scoble / @scobleizer : @Techmeme I had a front row seat on how they fell behind. Mercedes Benz had everything Tesla had. Its executives killed everything du...
OpenAI backtracks and says its nonprofit will remain in control of its business operations, after a “constructive dialogue” with civic leaders and DE and CA AGs
so it's making a change Aaron McDade / Yahoo Finance : OpenAI Scraps For-Profit Plans New York Times : The Stakes for OpenAI's Plan B The Irish Times : OpenAI ditches plan to convert to for-profit bus...
Filings review: Builder.ai, which raised $450M from Microsoft and others, used an auditor with links to founder Sachin Duggal; Duggal resigned as CEO last month
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A look at changes in the UK's CMA after its chair was forced to resign and the agency tries to reconcile its enhanced powers with government's pro-growth focus
Financial Times : Bluesky: @wavesblog . X: @justin_cash_1 Bluesky: Simonetta Vezzoso / @wavesblog : “The former Amazon executive has had direct experience of the CMA's mergers process during the tech...
Pat Gelsinger's retirement opens the door for Intel to consider fresh deal options, including splitting factory and product-design divisions and selling Altera
Like many, we woke to the news yesterday that Intel's CEO Pat Gelsinger is retiring. Financial Times : Intel's next boss faces a leap into the unknown Craig Hale / TechRadar : Pat Gelsinger retires as...
Since the OpenAI board dispute, Microsoft diversified AI investments and partnerships, built its own models, and hired aggressively for its consumer AI efforts
Financial Times : X: @bgurley , @hetanshah , @hkanji , and @rwang07 X: Bill Gurley / @bgurley : This is a very long and interesting article. Must read I would say. It says Microsoft invested $13B in ...
A profile of Shein's executive chair Donald Tang, who has become the public face of the company as he leads its expansion overseas and prepares for a London IPO
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Source: Microsoft pushed OpenAI to prioritize commercial products after the attempted coup against Sam Altman in November 2023, amplifying tensions at OpenAI
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