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Salesforce today announced two autonomous agents geared to help sales teams scale their operations and hone their negotiation skills. Slated for general availability in October, Einstein Sales Development Rep (SDR) Agent and Einstein Sales Coach Agent will be available through Sales Cloud, with pricing yet to be announced. Both agents are built on Salesforce’s Einstein 1 Agentforce Platform, a forthcoming low-code/no-code platform for building autonomous AI agents that Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff is expected to detail in his Dreamforce 2024 keynote in September. SDR Agent supports sellers by a...
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AMD is acquiring server maker ZT Systems to strengthen its data center technology as it steps up its challenge to Nvidia in the competitive AI chip market. The acquisition is important because AI’s growing demands need large clusters of connected chips for processing power. By buying ZT Systems, AMD strengthens its ability to build these high-performance systems, boosting its competitiveness against rivals such as Nvidia.
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Microsoft und andere Anbieter liefern zahlreiche nützliche Tools für die Kommandozeile, die aber nicht immer leicht zu bedienen sind. Grafische Oberflächen (GUI, Graphical User Interface) bieten dagegen meist einen eher intuitiven Weg der Nutzung. Statt ein Programm von Grund auf neu zu entwickeln, verwenden Programmierer manchmal Kommandozeilentools (CLI, Command Line Interface) oder Programmbibliotheken des Systems im Hintergrund. Die eingestellten Optionen werden dabei an das jeweilige Tool übergeben, die Rückgabewerte ausgelesen und im Fenster dargestellt. Wenn ein Programm Funktionen nich...
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SAP is an enterprise software vendor based in Walldorf, Germany. Its cloud and on-premises enterprise resource planning (ERP) software, including S/4HANA, helps organizations manage their business operations and customer relations. The German multinational also offers a vast array of software solutions tailored to specific facets of the enterprise, including data management, analytics, and supply chain management, as well as solutions aimed at specific industry verticals. AI is an area of increasing emphasis for SAP, which has a market cap of $243 billion, making it the 16th largest technology...
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Generative AI has been hyped so much over the past two years that observers see an inevitable course correction ahead — one that should prompt CIOs to rethink their gen AI strategies. But while whispers of a gen AI bubble grow louder, a full burst may not be in the offing, as many AI experts see investment continuing even after some IT leaders, among others, push back on the technology’s hype. That possible bubble, however, could deflate a bit. Analyst firm Gartner’s well-known hype cycle sees gen AI already past the peak of inflated expectations and headed into the trough of disillusionment. ...
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SAP is stepping up its efforts to embed AI functions and applications across its offerings to better serve its customers’ everyday business. Unfortunately, according to recent studies, many companies are struggling to make the most of AI in service of their business missions — even as ERP, SAP’s core market, might just be generative AI’s killer enterprise app. Gartner analysts recently predicted that at least 30 percent of generative AI projects will be abandoned after the proof of concept (PoC) by the end of 2025. The reasons: poor data quality, inadequate risk controls, escalating costs, and...
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The proposed $35-billion merger of chip design software giants Synopsys and Ansys is facing increased scrutiny from global regulators, with the UK’s Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) the latest to launch an investigation. The CMA has initiated an early-stage inquiry into the acquisition proposal, signaling potential regulatory hurdles ahead for the massive deal. “The Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) is considering whether it is or may be the case that this transaction if carried into effect, will result in the creation of a relevant merger situation under the merger provisions of ...
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OpenAI founder John Schulman has joined the list of departing OpenAI executives, making the move to Anthropic. But Schulman — and OpenAI CEO Sam Altman — went out of their way to be cordial and pleasant about the move, at least publicly. “This choice stems from my desire to deepen my focus on AI alignment, and to start a new chapter of my career where I can return to hands-on technical work,” Schulman said in a statement on X. “I’ve decided to pursue this goal at Anthropic, where I believe I can gain new perspectives and do research alongside people deeply engaged with the topics I’m most inte...
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Artificial intelligence is increasingly being shoved into everything, but AI chatbots in particular have exploded in popularity lately. Companies like OpenAI and Microsoft are pushing the likes of ChatGPT and Copilot to provide you with answers to all of your questions, while companies like Amazon use AI chatbots to guide you through the shopping experience in hopes of scoring sales. But how are people actually using AI chatbots? A new report by The Washington Post aims to answer that question. The newspaper analyzed research data from nearly 200,000 English-language conversations from the Wil...
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In the wake of the widespread outage caused by a defective update to CrowdStrike’s Falcon cybersecurity platform, Delta Airlines is among the first enterprises to come forward to demand compensation from CrowdStrike and Microsoft for the enormous losses caused by the interruption of its flights during the failure. Delta, which was the airline most impacted by the outage, estimates damages to be around $500 million. Delta CEO Ed Bastian told CNBC that the airline canceled over 5,000 flights due to the outage, adding that the company’s IT organization had to manually reset 40,000 servers. That “...
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