Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff is outlining the company’s annual V2MOM strategy, and the top priority is a rock-solid data layer. This comes after its $8 billion acquisition of Informatica and ahead of a major push into industry-specific AI agents.
Finding geothermal energy has always been a high-cost gamble. Now, AI is changing the game. A company called Zanskar used machine learning to pinpoint a massive new reservoir, proving the tech can unlock a huge clean energy source.
The European Commission is preparing to launch a probe into Meta’s integration of AI features into WhatsApp, according to a Financial Times report. The investigation would use traditional antitrust laws and follows a similar probe already underway in Italy.
Opera is injecting its Android browser with new AI features like an Ask AI search bar and page context analysis. The company promises data isn’t used for training, but the privacy model still raises questions.
Europe is moving to build its own AI chip factories to compete with the US, targeting a formal bidding process in early 2026. Meanwhile, Meta is making a huge play for the future of AI devices by hiring two of Apple’s most iconic design leaders.
Royal Bank of Canada has put a big, specific number on its AI ambitions. The bank expects its various artificial intelligence projects to generate over $700 million in enterprise value. This figure is net of all their hefty investments in things like GPU clusters and proprietary models.
In a podcast interview, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella revealed he’s spending weekends studying startup culture. He says Microsoft’s massive scale has become a “massive disadvantage” for moving fast in the AI era.
Democratic Senator Mark Warner warns that AI-driven job displacement could cause unemployment among recent college graduates to hit 25% in the next three to five years. He’s pushing for a data collection effort with industry to measure the impact and avoid a crisis of “jobs not being created in the
A leaked memo shows OpenAI is hitting the panic button. With competitors catching up, CEO Sam Altman is putting all side projects on hold to refocus the company on improving ChatGPT’s core experience. It’s a stark shift for the former leader.
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman has declared an internal “code red,” pausing projects to focus on improving ChatGPT’s speed and reliability. This comes as Google’s Gemini hits 650 million users and outpaces it on key benchmarks. The pressure is officially on.
