Tech Billionaire Tries to Ease Fears of Hawaii Takeover by Donating $150 Million to Hospitals

Photo: Stefan Wermuth/Bloomberg (Getty Images) Last week, it was revealed that Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff had been buying up lots of land in Hawaii at an accelerating clip. Benioff, who is worth billions and billions of dollars, has procured approximately $100 million in land parcels throughout the Big Island via a series of nondescript LLCs. … Read more

Best Salesforce training package deal: 91% off

TL;DR: The 2024 Salesforce Platform App Builder Certification Training Bundle is on sale for £11.83, saving you 91% on list price. If you don’t know what Salesforce is, chances are, someone in your office probably does. With over 150,000 companies worldwide, Salesforce remains the leading platform for customer relationship management. Organisations rely on it for … Read more

Salesforce top AI ethics leader ‘optimistic’ on path to US regulation

There are several different pieces of legislation going through the U.S. Congress that focus on AI-related areas. But there is still no official regulation that focuses specifically on AI. Pol Cartie | Sopa Images | Lightrocket | Getty Images BARCELONA, Spain — A top executive at Salesforce says she is “optimistic” that U.S. Congress will … Read more

Salesforce (CRM) Q4 earnings report 2024

Marc Benioff, co-founder and CEO of Salesforce, speaks on a panel session at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, on Jan. 18, 2024. Stefan Wermuth | Bloomberg | Getty Images Salesforce shares slid as much as 6% in extended trading on Wednesday after the business software maker issued a light revenue forecast for the … Read more

AI Is Fundamentally a “Labor Replacing Tool”

Welcome to AI This Week, Gizmodo’s weekly deep dive on what’s been happening in artificial intelligence. Why is Everyone Suing AI Companies? | Future Tech For months, I’ve been harping on a particular point, which is that artificial intelligence tools—as they’re currently being deployed—are mostly good at one thing: Replacing human employees. The “AI revolution” … Read more

This Salesforce App builder certification training is only $15 right now

Get this app builder certification training for $15.  StackSocial Salesforce is a wide-ranging and commonly used CRM that supports and streamlines operations for a wide variety of businesses. Building apps for Salesforce and becoming an expert on development within the platform can both save you costs on your existing business needs and make you more … Read more

Salesforce escaped from the jaws of activists to find stability in 2023

The company began the year with a ton of turmoil This year did not start off great for Salesforce, with an unusual level of turbulence and uncertainty surrounding the company. But as the year comes to a close, Salesforce finds itself in surprisingly good shape financially: Its stock is up over 96% year-to-date. Earlier this … Read more

Salesforce Ventures and Female Founders Fund back Kenyan climate-tech Amini in $4M seed round

Amini, a Kenya-based climate-tech startup bridging the environmental data gap in Africa, has raised $4 million seed funding in a round led by Salesforce Ventures and the Female Founders Fund. Climate-tech VC Satgana also participated alongside other investors, including Pale Blue Dot and Superorganism, who had previously backed the startup in its $2 million pre-seed … Read more

Salesforce (CRM) Q3 earnings report 2024

Marc Benioff, CEO of Salesforce, participates in a conversation on AI and the Future at the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) Leaders’ Week in San Francisco, California, on November 16, 2023.  Andrew Caballero-Reynolds | AFP | Getty Images Salesforce shares rose 7% in extended trading on Wednesday after the cloud software vendor reported fiscal third-quarter earnings … Read more

The Week When AI Got High on Its Own Supply

Photo: Justin Sullivan (Getty Images) Whatever you believe about the future of AI, there’s probably a cult out there for you. Ideological factions have been drawing lines for years and they each seem to bring pseudoreligious trappings with them. If you believe AI will inevitably kill everyone on the planet you might want to join … Read more