
Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff: This isn’t our first SaaSpocalypse
Salesforce reported a solid year-end earnings and then pulled out all the stops to ward off more talk of the death of its business to AI.

Salesforce reported a solid year-end earnings and then pulled out all the stops to ward off more talk of the death of its business to AI.

David Luan will leave company this week to ‘cook up something new’

Chatbots are being blamed for the deaths of young people. Can they ever be safe?

Self-driving group valued at $8.6bn as it gears up to launch robotaxi service in London this year

While the first couple months of the year brought a steady stream of market entries from companies in sectors such as construction tech, space tech and biotech, new offerings from SaaS companies, long an IPO market staple, are notably absent.

Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff’s recent joke about ICE illustrates a frustration facing many HR pros: reining in outspoken leaders amid a deeply divided workforce.
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Immigration changes, like the new weighted selection for the H-1B work visa lottery, will continue to make headlines and require U.S. employers to unpack, understand and navigate the implications.
The post Immigration shakeup: What recent changes mean for hiring foreign talent appeared first on HR Executive.

Leave management is becoming an increasingly thorny topic for HR, driving widespread compliance anxiety.
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Telecom networks may soon begin adjusting themselves in real time, as operators test systems that allow AI agents to manage traffic and service quality. AI may soon be making operational decisions. This week, Nokia and AWS presented a new network slicing system that uses AI agents to monitor network conditions and adjust resources automatically. The […]
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In this tutorial, we implement an end-to-end Practical Byzantine Fault Tolerance (PBFT) simulator using asyncio. We model a realistic distributed network with asynchronous message passing, configurable delays, and Byzantine nodes that intentionally deviate from the protocol. By explicitly implementing the pre-prepare, prepare, and commit phases, we explore how PBFT achieves consensus under adversarial conditions while […]
The post A Coding Implementation to Simulate Practical Byzantine Fault Tolerance with Asyncio, Malicious Nodes, and Latency Analysis appeared first on MarkTechPost.

While the tech folks obsesses over the latest Llama checkpoints, a much grittier battle is being fought in the basements of data centers. As AI models scale to trillions of parameters, the clusters required to train them have become some of the most complex—and fragile—machines on the planet. Meta AI Research team just released GCM […]
The post Meta AI Open Sources GCM for Better GPU Cluster Monitoring to Ensure High Performance AI Training and Hardware Reliability appeared first on MarkTechPost.

The generative AI race has long been a game of ‘bigger is better.’ But as the industry hits the limits of power consumption and memory bottlenecks, the conversation is shifting from raw parameter counts to architectural efficiency. Liquid AI team is leading this charge with the release of LFM2-24B-A2B, a 24-billion parameter model that redefines […]
The post Liquid AI’s New LFM2-24B-A2B Hybrid Architecture Blends Attention with Convolutions to Solve the Scaling Bottlenecks of Modern LLMs appeared first on MarkTechPost.

If you’ve ever wanted to bounce ideas off your favorite historical figure, Ailias gives you the chance.

When Irish filmmaker Ruairi Robinson began uploading a series of short clips created with Seedance 2.0 – TikTok developer ByteDance’s newest video generation model – it was hard to deny that the footage was much more impressive than what we’ve seen from other gen AI outfits. The clips’ star (a digital duplicate of Tom Cruise) […]

Uber CEO Dara Khosrowshahi said the company’s employees have gone all in on AI, going so far as to build a chatbot of him that they use to practice their pitches.

Spanish startup Multiverse Computing has released a new version of its HyperNova 60B model on Hugging Face that, it says, bests Mistral’s model.

The startup was founded by former Google TPU engineers in 2023.

ChatGPT and rivals are testing whether India’s massive AI user boom can translate into paying customers as free offers wind down.

Shares in US chipmaker surge as deal paves way for social media giant to take a stake in the group

Oh, give my props to the writer. Price’s at an all-time low in the future

AI start-up’s Dario Amodei summoned to Washington after trying to limit military use of its technology

S&P software index ended the day up 1.8% but remains down nearly 24% this year

If your crypto payroll configuration relies on manual logs, you have a gap in your armor. Close that before the audit cycle hits full speed.
The post Crypto payroll’s new era: Moving from liability to strategic asset appeared first on HR Executive.

Amazon cuts jobs. Walmart upskills. As two retail giants top the F500, HR leaders get a case study in divergent AI workforce strategy.
The post Amazon and Walmart compete for top revenue spot with diverging workforce AI strategies appeared first on HR Executive.

Companies are expanding globally to solve talent shortages. But without better internal mobility, they’re scaling the same broken system.
The post Why companies are hiring abroad instead of fixing talent pipelines at home appeared first on HR Executive.
Product designers are trying to prepare for the possibility that more employers will drop traditional group plans.
The post Dental insurers brace for rise of cash-for-coverage employer health plans appeared first on HR Executive.

In a world where disruption is constant, adaptability must be ordinary. And that is a transformation worth leading.
The post Routinizing change: how to make continuous transformation a leadership discipline appeared first on HR Executive.

Wednesday, March 11, 2026 at 3:00 pm ET
Join this session to discover the five essentials of HR excellence in an AI-centered world, including personalization and ethics.
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Basware has introduced a AI agents in its invoice lifecycle management platform to extend the existing InvoiceAI abilities of the platform. The company positions the agents as a step towards what it calls “Agentic Finance,” a model in which AI systems undertake finance tasks under preset controls. Jason Kurtz, chief executive officer of Basware said: […]
The post Basware’s AI agents: From invoicing to ‘100% automated’ appeared first on AI News.

Agentic finance AI improves business efficiency and ROI only when deployed with strict governance and clear return on investment targets. A recent FT Longitude survey of 200 finance leaders across the US, UK, France, and Germany showed 61 percent have deployed AI agents merely as experiments. Meanwhile, one in four executives admit they do not […]
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Disconnected clouds aim to improve AI data governance as businesses rethink their infrastructure under tighter regulatory expectations. Ensuring operational continuity in isolated environments has become increasingly vital for businesses. Facilities lacking continuous internet access face unique constraints where external dependencies become unacceptable. Microsoft recently expanded its capabilities to allow regulated industries and public sectors to […]
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Anthropic has detailed three “industrial-scale” AI model distillation campaigns by overseas labs designed to extract abilities from Claude. These competitors generated over 16 million exchanges using approximately 24,000 deceptive accounts. Their goal was to acquire proprietary logic to improve their competing platforms. The extraction technique, known as distillation, involves training a weaker system on the […]
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The development of large language models (LLMs) has been defined by the pursuit of raw scale. While increasing parameter counts into the trillions initially drove performance gains, it also introduced significant infrastructure overhead and diminishing marginal utility. The release of the Qwen 3.5 Medium Model Series signals a shift in Alibaba’s Qwen approach, prioritizing architectural […]
The post Alibaba Qwen Team Releases Qwen 3.5 Medium Model Series: A Production Powerhouse Proving that Smaller AI Models are Smarter appeared first on MarkTechPost.

OpenAI appoints Arvind KC as Chief People Officer to help scale the company, strengthen its culture, and lead how work evolves in the age of AI.