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The ICE Expansion Won't Happen in the Dark
People have a right to know who their neighbors are, especially when it's ICE. On Tuesday, WIRED published details of ICE's planned expansion into more than 150 office spaces across the United States, including 54 specific addresses. ICE has designs on every major US city. It plans to not only occupy existing government spaces but share hallways and elevator bays with medical offices and small businesses. It will be down the street from daycares and within walking distance of churches and treatment centers.
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Salesforce Workers Circulate Open Letter Urging CEO Marc Benioff to Denounce ICE
The letter comes after Benioff joked at a company event on Monday that ICE was monitoring international employees in attendance, sparking immediate backlash. Employees at Salesforce are circulating an internal letter to chief executive Marc Benioff calling on him to denounce recent actions by US Immigration and Customs Enforcement, prohibit the use of Salesforce software by immigration agents, and back federal legislation that would significantly reform the agency. The letter specifically cites the "recent killings of Renee Good and Alex Pretti in Minneapolis" as catalysts, calling them the "devastating indictment of a system that has discarded human decency." It's unclear how many signatories the letter has received so far. The letter, which has not been reported on previously, is being organized amid Salesforce's annual leadership kickoff event this week in Las Vegas.
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Salesforce's CEO backtracks after saying Trump should send troops into San Francisco
Salesforce's CEO backtracks after saying Trump should send troops into San Francisco In tech this week: The CEO of the city's largest private employer apologizes, Amazon Web Services' outage and OpenAI's Sora makes waves What I'm watching this week: South Park's caricature of Peter Thiel and his obsession with the antichrist . Read our reporting on the show's inspiration: Thiel's bizarre off-the-record lectures on the subject. And now, let's get into things. The co-founder and CEO of Salesforce, said last week that Donald Trump should make good on his threats to send the US national guard into San Francisco, despite resistance from local leaders. Even Marc Benioff's own public relations manager was aghast at his remarks, according to the New York Times .
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Salesforce lays off thousands despite strong earnings report
Salesforce has slashed another 4,000 jobs from its customer support workforce as the tech giant doubles down on artificial intelligence, even as the company reports strong financial results. AI agents now reportedly handle about one million customer conversations. In a recent episode of The Logan Bartlett Show, CEO Marc Benioff justified the cuts by saying he "needs less heads" as Salesforce invests heavily in AI across its operations. Earlier this year, Benioff boasted that AI was already doing 30 to 50 percent of the work, which he framed as efficiency gains – a 17 percent cost reduction achieved after shedding 1,000 people in February. On Wednesday, the Slack owner reported revenue topped 10.2bn for the quarter ending July 31, up 10 percent from the same period last year.
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What 1 Million Buys You From Donald Trump
Sign up for the Slatest to get the most insightful analysis, criticism, and advice out there, delivered to your inbox daily. The billionaires of Silicon Valley aren't done playing nice with Donald Trump. They're now showering him with pleasantries, well wishes, and wads of cash. On Wednesday, Meta donated 1 million to Trump's inaugural fund just weeks after founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg flew to Palm Beach, Florida to meet with Trump and Secretary of State nominee Marco Rubio at the president-elect's Mar-a-Lago home. In Save America, a coffee-table book that Trump published in September, Trump wrote that Zuckerberg had plotted against him during the 2020 election and would "spend the rest of his life in prison" if he did it again.
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How We Chose the TIME100 Most Influential People in AI
What is unique about AI is also what is most feared and celebrated--its ability to match some of our own skills, and then to go further, accomplishing what humans cannot. AI's capacity to model itself on human behavior has become its defining feature. Yet behind every advance in machine learning and large language models are, in fact, people--both the often obscured human labor that makes large language models safer to use, and the individuals who make critical decisions on when and how to best use this technology. Reporting on people and influence is what TIME does best. That led us to the TIME100 AI.
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How stakeholder capitalism and AI ethics go hand in hand
At a 2020 meeting of the World Economic Forum in Davos, Salesforce founder Marc Benioff declared that "capitalism as we have known it is dead." In its place now is stakeholder capitalism, a form of capitalism that has been spearheaded by Klaus Schwab, founder of the World Economic Forum, over the past 50 years. As Benioff put it, stakeholder capitalism is "a more fair, a more just, a more equitable, a more sustainable way of doing business that values all stakeholders, as well as all shareholders." Unlike shareholder capitalism, which is measured primarily by the monetary profit generated for a business' shareholders alone, stakeholder capitalism requires that business activity should benefit all stakeholders associated with the business. These stakeholders can include the shareholders, the employees, the customers, the local community, the environment, etc.
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A.I. Apocalypse Yet? How World Leaders at Davos Have Changed Their Thoughts on Robots
The 2019 World Economic Forum is taking place in Davos, Switzerland this week. Artificial intelligence (A.I.) has long fascinated the world's front-line business leaders and policy makers at the annual World Economic Forum (WEF) in Davos, Switzerland. Over the past five years, this budding technology has increasingly taken the central stage at the gathering. At first, A.I. was just an esoteric tech term few people actually understood. But before we knew it, it became embedded in everyday consumer gadgets and emerged as a top priority on the minds of CEOs and policy makers.
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Salesforce may be preparing an Alexa-esque AI assistant for the workplace
Salesforce is hoping to make AI an indispensable part of every business with a range of smart tools and platforms. At its Dreamforce 2019 event in San Francisco this week, the software giant unveiled a host of enterprise-focused services and tools it hopes will spur on AI adoption in companies of all sizes. Salesforce also unveiled its own-brand smart speaker (pictured above) modelled on its Einstein AI mascot, although whether it will go on general sale is still unclear. This growth in business-focused AI is set to be powered by a major expansion to Einstein Voice Assistant, which allows Salesforce users to communicate directly to the platform and get answers instantly. Einstein Voice Assistant is now able to be tailored to any particular industry, allowing for custom-built skills that can cover tasks from checking order history to sentiment tracking.
What Is the Fourth Industrial Revolution?
What exactly is the Fourth Industrial Revolution -- and why should you care? The Fourth Industrial Revolution is a way of describing the blurring of boundaries between the physical, digital, and biological worlds. It's the collective force behind many products and services that are fast becoming indispensable to modern life. Think GPS systems that suggest the fastest route to a destination, voice-activated virtual assistants such as Apple's Siri, personalized Netflix recommendations, and Facebook's ability to recognize your face and tag you in a friend's photo. As a result of this perfect storm of technologies, the Fourth Industrial Revolution is paving the way for transformative changes in the way we live and radically disrupting almost every business sector.
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