Amazon layoffs: robotics team hit in latest cuts
Amazon's robotics team is among the latest to face layoffs, with the company citing efficiency gains from AI and cultural revisions for broader corporate cuts.
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Salesforce relaunches Slackbot as an AI agent capable of searching enterprise data, drafting documents, and taking actions.
Why it matters
This move signifies Salesforce's aggressive push into the 'agentic AI' space, aiming to position Slack as a central hub for AI-powered productivity. By transforming Slackbot into a capable AI agent, Salesforce is directly competing with Microsoft and Google in the workplace AI market, seeking to enhance its product suite and demonstrate the value of AI to investors.
Salesforce made its Slack assistant, Slackbot, much smarter. It can now understand your company's information, write things for you, and do tasks, making work easier.
Amazon's robotics team is among the latest to face layoffs, with the company citing efficiency gains from AI and cultural revisions for broader corporate cuts.
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