Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff: This isn’t our first SaaSpocalypse
Salesforce reported a solid year-end earnings and then pulled out all the stops to ward off more talk of the death of its business to AI.
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Gushwork bets on AI search for customer leads — and early results are emerging
Gushwork has raised $9 million in a seed round led by SIG and Lightspeed. The startup has seen early customer traction from AI search tools like ChatGPT.
Anthropic acquires computer-use AI startup Vercept after Meta poached one of its founders
Seattle-based Vercept developed complex agentic tools, including a computer-use agent that could complete tasks inside applications like a person with a laptop would.
Nvidia has another record quarter amid record capex spends
“The demand for tokens in the world has gone completely exponential,” Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang said about the company’s earnings.
The White House wants AI companies to cover rate hikes. Most have already said they would.
Many of hyperscalers have already made public commitments in to cover electricity cost increases.
Trump claims he’ll make data centers pay for their own power supply
President Donald Trump tried to quell Americans’ concerns about rising electricity costs during his State of the Union speech by claiming that he’s negotiated a “rate payer protection pledge” with major tech companies, which would see them build out or pay for new electricity generation for their data centers. Leaders from Amazon, Google, Meta, Microsoft, […]
Alphabet-owned robotics software company Intrinsic joins Google
Nearly five years after graduating into an independent Alphabet company, Intrinsic is moving under Google’s domain.
Google and Samsung just launched the AI features Apple couldn’t with Siri
Google just announced that Gemini will soon be able to take care of some multi-step tasks on your phone, like ordering food or hailing a car, starting first with the Pixel 10, Pixel 10 Pro, and the just-announced Samsung Galaxy S26 phones. It all sounds a bit like features Apple announced for Siri way back […]
The public opposition to AI infrastructure is heating up
Public backlash over the data center boom is leading to a variety of draconian policies — including bans on new construction.