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On Monday, a group of 650 Salesforce employees called on CEO Marc Benioff to "re-examine" the company's relationship with US Customs and Border Protection in light of the agency's role in separating children and parents at the border. "Given the inhumane separation of children from their parents currently taking place at the border, we believe that our core value of Equality is at stake and that Salesforce should re-examine our contractual relationship with CBP and speak out against its practices," states the employee letter, which was obtained by Buzzfeed. Last week, employees at Amazon and Microsoft released similar letters, calling on their CEOs to end relationships with policing agencies at the border. The protests come about a month after an employee protest at Google resulted in the company deciding to not renew its contract providing the Pentagon with artificial intelligence to analyze drone footage. Salesforce, a cloud computing company based in San Francisco, is best known for its customer relationship software.

Under the direction of CEO Marc Benioff, Salesforce's annual Dreamforce conference is increasingly becoming San Francisco's dominant tech industry confab. Customer relationship management company Salesforce announced Monday an artificial intelligence partnership with IBM aimed at boosting the range of predictive analytics it can provide clients. Salesforce Einstein, an AI platform that debuted last year that mines data to help salespeople close leads, will combine with IBM Watson to provide data-based insights for businesses. For example, an insurance company running Salesforce could use real-time weather updates from Watson to warn customers about impending bad weather. Or Watson's retail industry data could combine with Einstein's customer-habit information to create targeted campaigns for shoppers.

Under the direction of CEO Marc Benioff, Salesforce's annual Dreamforce conference is increasingly becoming San Francisco's dominant tech industry confab. SAN FRANCISCO -- Looks like Einstein is getting a little help from Watson. Customer relationship management company Salesforce announced Monday an artificial intelligence partnership with IBM aimed at boosting the range of predictive analytics it can provide clients. Salesforce Einstein, an AI platform that debuted last year that mines data to help salespeople close leads, will combine with IBM Watson to provide data-based insights for businesses. For example, an insurance company running Salesforce could use real-time weather updates from Watson to warn customers about impending bad weather.

Salesforce just bought another startup in the machine learning space, an area the cloud software maker has been doubling down on recently. The startup is called MetaMind, a startup that specializes in artificial intelligence using natural language and image recognition technology. It's raised 8 million so far from Khosla Ventures and Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff. The announcement was made through a blog post on MetaMind's website. The financial details of the deal were not disclosed.