The rise of Marc Benioff, the CEO of Salesforce and owner of Time Magazine
Salesforce's Marc Benioff, who was inspired to create the firm by swimming with dolphins in Hawaii, is still at the helm after 25 years.
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Amazon's cloud CEO departs with dour views on his tenure, amid growing competition and AI woes
Under Selipsky, AWS saw slow growth rates, job cuts, and increasing competition in generative AI.
5G and 6G are among 'the most strategic sectors' in the AI age, a national security advisor says
Anne Neuberger, the deputy national security advisor for cyber and emerging tech, says US telecom infrastructure needs competitive technology.
Adam Selipsky is out at AWS
Amazon Web Services CEO Adam Selipsky is stepping down, and Matt Garman is set to take over as of June.
Microsoft plans to end its salary freeze for some employees
Microsoft plans to restart performance-based raises for some employees after freezing salaries.
Cybersecurity professionals say generative AI can be exploited in cyberattacks — but it can also be a powerful defense
Explore how generative AI is reshaping cybersecurity in 5G networks, aiding in faster threat detection and network management.
RSA CEO Rohit Ghai says emergent 5G technology increases the need to protect critical networks
Explore the intersection of 5G technology and cybersecurity with insights from RSA CEO Rohit Ghai.
New FTC transcript reveals juicy details on how Jeff Bezos and other top Amazon execs used disappearing messages
A recently released FTC transcript offers an unusually detailed look at a tense meeting between Bezos and the agency over how he used the Signal app.
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Leaked memo: Amazon requires cloud events to spend up to 80% of their time talking about generative AI
Generative AI-related content is supposed to make up 80% of AWS Global Summit agendas, in response to increased interest in AI.
The life and career of Larry Ellison, Oracle's CTO and cofounder, who went from college dropout to the world's fifth-richest person
Meet Larry Ellison, Oracle's CTO and cofounder who's amassed a multibillion-dollar fortune and has spent his wealth yacht racing and buying islands.
Musk makes his second trip to China in less than a year to hurry along self-driving tech rollout, reports say
Musk plans to fast-track Tesla's autonomous driving technology in China amid declining shares and rising competition, reports say.
Amazon has suspended new US green-card applications for foreign workers, leaked memo shows
The tech giant has put the green-card process on hold until the end of 2024, when it may reactivate the program depending on labor-market conditions.
Microsoft is blocking employee access to Perplexity AI, one of its largest Azure OpenAI customers
Microsoft blocks employee access to Perplexity AI, a major Azure OpenAI customer.
Microsoft has a target to amass 1.8 million AI chips by the end of the year, internal document shows
Projections in the internal document suggest that Microsoft plans to triple the number of GPUs it has in 2024.
Leaked presentation reveals Microsoft's astounding plan to ramp up data-center capacity for the AI boom
The company wants to quickly double, and then triple, its data-center capacity, according to the confidential presentation.
Former Amazon VP raises $100 million for his warehouse robotics startup as robotics startups see a major rebound
The new funding round for Collaborative Robotics was led by General Catalyst and boosts the startup's valuation to more than $500 million.
Wall Street is obsessed with the growing Salesforce rival HubSpot, whether or not Google makes an offer to buy it
It's unlikely that Google parent Alphabet will buy HubSpot due to antitrust scrutiny. Wall Street is bullish on the cloud software company regardless.
Leaked memo: Microsoft made cuts to its Teams chat org to focus on Copilot AI tools
Microsoft restructured employees to focus on its Copilot AI products, reducing personnel on its Teams chat app.
Leaked emails from inside Walmart Global Tech reveal over a dozen 'major incidents' this quarter
Walmart's global technology platform experiences revenue-impacting outages at a frequent rate, leaving the retailer vulnerable to data breaches.
Microsoft customers complain Copilot doesn't work as well as ChatGPT. Microsoft says they're not using it right.
The company considers the issue to be partly an education problem and thinks users need to write better prompts.
Here's how the project to develop one tractor might revolutionize the farming and automotive industries in the UK
The UK government is investing billions into sustainable manufacturing, and the world's first methane-powered tractor is part of the strategy.
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Migrate to Innovate
Solutions from Microsoft are enabling businesses to modernize their applications, allowing them to focus on future growth and innovation.
Here's how the UK's aerospace businesses are taking off with the help of government funding
Small businesses across the aerospace industry are taking off, thanks in part to funding from the UK government.
Microsoft's hiring of Inflection staff came amid a lack of consumer-AI vision and board concerns about OpenAI, insiders say
The company's consumer-AI strategy also needed a boost and more of a visionary leader, insiders said.
Official Amazon HR document reveals a spike in employees put on PIPs during a time of record layoffs
The document shows Amazon put more staff into its Focus and Pivot programs from spring 2022 through early 2023. That's when record layoffs happened.
Domo CEO Josh James stepped down in 2022 after being accused of sexual assault, according to police reports and employees. No charges were filed.
Domo CEO Josh James stepped down in 2022 following sexual-assault allegations by a former employee. No charges were filed, and James returned after a year.
LinkedIn cofounder Reid Hoffman and Microsoft's AI chief are backing Abigail Spanberger's 2025 Virginia governor run
The tech heavyweights, along with Shannon Hunt-Scott, have donated a combined total of $500,000 to Spanberger's campaign.
Amazon's secret war on Android: The company has a plan to cure Alexa's addiction to Google's operating system.
Amazon has a multiyear plan to move some Alexa hardware away from Android in a bid to boost efficiency and improve device performance.
Silicon Valley tried to mass produce fancy marshmallows. It got messy, fast.
Inside the incredible rise and insane fall of a premium snack startup
Leaked memos: Broadcom leaders address KKR's plans to acquire a VMware business unit for $4 billion
KKR is set to acquire Broadcom's End-User Computing Division, turning it into a stand-alone company.
Bumble CEO Lidiane Jones poaches top Slack leaders to build a new executive team at the dating app company
Jones, who was CEO of Slack until January 2023, has hired three former leaders at the dating app company.
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Amazon's internal documents warn employees not to use generative AI models for work
It's unclear who owns the information that goes in and comes out of a genAI tool, the company warns in internal guidances.
Uber CEO says the company took its drivers 'for granted'
Uber CEO Dara Khosrowshahi said the company needed to "earn the loyalty" of its drivers.
Amazon, Microsoft, and Google say cloud cost-cutting is waning. Customers say cost controls are still a major barrier.
Amazon, Microsoft, and Google all said this year that cloud optimization is waning as customers ramp up spending on generative AI.
Microsoft is rolling out a Copilot tool to internal teams as it tries to get more developers to use AI, leaked message shows
Microsoft has begun rolling out its AI assistant Copilot for its 365 service internally. The "broad release" internally is in part, to get more developers to use AI.
The Apple exec that Microsoft hired to fulfill its hardware plans has quietly left
Microsoft hired a top Apple engineer in 2020 to work on hardware. The executive is no longer listed in the internal directory.
Leaked email: Salesforce exec suggested workers who didn't hit a training goal could miss out on stock grants and bonuses
Salesforce's chief engineering officer alluded to financial consequences for employees who failed to meet an internal training goal.
Less than 10% of Salesforce employees failed to hit an internal training goal. CEO Marc Benioff is one of them.
Most Salesforce employees achieved "Ranger" status on its internal-training program in 2023. Marc Benioff, Salesforce's CEO, wasn't one of them.
Amazon's CFO declines to say layoffs are over and commits to 'very careful' investments
Amazon's CFO has hinted at potential future layoffs despite recent job cuts.
I went from designing Xbox video games to a software job at Citadel Securities. I was surprised at how my skills transferred over.
A video game designer who is now an engineer at Citadel Securities is surprised by how well his skills transferred to the finance industry.
Roomba maker hit with layoffs as Amazon calls off $1.7 billion cash deal
Amazon blamed "undue and disproportionate regulatory hurdles" for scrapping the 2022 deal to acquire iRobot.
Salesforce communications chief Brad Burns departs for Snowflake
Burns is joining the data-cloud company as it shifts focus from revenue growth to profit.
Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff tells retail workers: AI won't steal your job. It can make you better at it.
Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff and Walmart's US CEO, John Furner, spoke at the National Retail Federation about the impact of generative AI on retail.
DocuSign, Zoom, and Twilio thrived in the pandemic-era stock market. In 2024, they're some of cloud software's most likely M&A targets.
Zoom, Twilio, and DocuSign will likely be targeted for takeovers in 2024.
Amazon is working on a new 'Remarkable Alexa,' but internal politics and technical issues plague the project
Amazon's plan to launch a paid version of Alexa faces technical issues and internal politics.
Amazon employees fear increased 'quiet firing' tactics and a 'brain drain'
Amazon employees believe they're seeing efforts to push more of them out instead of laying them off.
Asia's green path
Sunway Group is investing heavily in sustainability, and its commitment goes back 50 years.
Silicon Valley engineers joked you'd go to LinkedIn to retire. Then came the PIPs and layoffs.
14 current and former LinkedIn employees say the workplace culture shifted from the "golden days" to become performance-review heavy.
Zero knowledge proofs could 'fix the Internet' and make us all trust each other again, former Merck CIO says
This crypto tech is being hailed as the foil of deep fakes, disinformation and fraud.
Hugging Face CEO says he's focused on building a 'sustainable model' for the $4.5 billion open-source-AI startup
Hugging Face CEO Clément Delangue discusses the importance of open science and open-source AI.