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• Salesforce+ Event Agentforce 2-0
• Marc Benioff, Salesforce Founder: Why Salesforce Isn't Hiring Software Engineers | E1236 - YouTube
• (1) Marcelo P. Lima on X: "Watch Nadella describe SaaS apps as nothing more than a CRUD database with some business logic, but once the business logic moves to AI agents, SaaS is over: https://t.co/oWwHS1o2V1" / X
• (1) Chamath Palihapitiya on X: "What I Read This Week… U.S. AI companies are facing electrical grid constraints as their computing needs outstrip existing power and data center capacity. What's going on? Training large AI models requires massive computing power – for example, training GPT-4 reportedly used" / X
• The Future of AI Agents: Top Predictions for 2025
• Sierra - The Conversational AI Platform
• AI Is Marc Benioff’s Friend—and Foe — The Information
• How TikTok Is Shaking up E-Commerce in the US With Shopping Product - Business Insider

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• Comedian John Mulaney roasts SF techies at Dreamforce
• SF's Dreamforce conference has a warning about potential widespread layoffs
• (1) Amir Efrati on X: "😀 @Benioff wants to know more about Klarna CEO @klarnaseb's plans to stop using Salesforce & Workday and is not taking the public barbs lying down. from: https://t.co/1KeWvjoHz7 https://t.co/xjihbi7GnL" / X
• Salesforce’s New AI Strategy Acknowledges That AI Will Take Jobs
• (1) Patrick Moorhead on X: "Fascinated at the AI enterprise SaaS pricing models: -Salesforce: AI extra charge -Microsoft: AI extra charge -Google: AI extra charge -Adobe: AI extra change -Oracle Fusion: AI included -NetSuite: AI included -Zoho: AI included Oracle, NetSuite, Google, Zoho, Microsoft have" / X
• (1) Patrick Moorhead on X: "My early thoughts so far on the @Benioff keynote today at #DF24. 1/ Agent Force: this is the “next new thing” and the star of the show. These agents look like what you could have expected chatbots and Einstein to do in 2016. It’s all about driving efficiency, revenue and https://t.co/8yGgIAMczB" / X
• (1) Patrick Moorhead on X: "Wow @Benioff is in rare form in the post keynote QA. Thrown many expletives against its bigger rival: -science projects -spilling enterprise data everywhere -expensive -not solving real problems -mean people -their solution hallucinates -same pitch for 25 years -they’re DiY https://t.co/UdyZuijRLV" / X
• (1) ⭐️⭐️⭐️ Diego Rossi Haterz/Loverz Club on X: "Dreamforce Keynote so far has been 44 minutes of trying to convince us their new AI is more than a chatbot, and 6 minutes of Mark Benioff talking about his favorite Disneyland rides" / X
• AI can allow new kind of software developer • The Register
• Dreamforce '24: Top 10 Announcements You Need to Know | Salesforce Ben
• Dreamforce '24 / Winter '25 New Feature Integration Status
• Breaking News: Salesforce Acquire Zoomin for $450M | Salesforce Ben
• Dozens of Fortune 100 companies have unwittingly hired North Korean IT workers, according to report
• Salesforce Closing Hillsboro, Oregon, Office Amid RTO Push - Business Insider
• Zoom (ZM) to Reduce Stock-Based Compensation for Workers - Bloomberg