Marc Benioff says “AI is doing 30% to 50% of the work at Salesforce”, like software engineering and customer service, and its AI product has hit ~93% accuracy
This ratio sounds hard to fathom but if true I expect shareholders will push to see increased business results or layoffs as they have 30%-50% more employees than they need. Brutus / @itsillegaltobeme...
Researchers say hate speech and misinformation on Twitter are up; CEO Linda Yaccarino says that's “incorrect” and touts improvements, like ad placement controls
Coupled with $13 billion of debt, the company is in more than a shaky position. … Twitter: @twitterbusiness : To our partners, we want to address a recent Bloomberg article which claims that harmful c...
A look at Sony-owned Crunchyroll, which has 100M+ registered members, including 11M paid subscribers, as the anime streaming service looks to India for growth
Exciting news for Crunchyroll! The Japanese anime industry has become a staggering $20 billion market … Brian Eley : Two months to get this across the finish line! — https://www.bloomberg.com/... T...
A look at BloombergGPT, an LLM announced on March 30 and trained on general purpose datasets and Bloomberg's archives of news, filings, financial docs, and more
> What if ChatGPT was trained on decades of financial news and data? That's what @Bloomberg has done with BloombergGPT — the sort of domain-specific AI I can imagine lots of publishers building. https...
A look at business email compromise scams involving US real estate, and the small Secret Service team that helped recover $244M+ in stolen BEC funds since 2019
For weeks, the Secret Service agent had been trying to identify the scammers moving millions of stolen dollars through banks around the New York tri-state area. Tweets: @amyokruk , @secretservice , @j...
A look at the proliferation of “dark stores”, mini-warehouses in urban retail spaces used by fast grocery delivery companies, and their impact on community life
Mini-warehouses dubbed “dark stores” are quietly taking over urban retail space. Tweets: @ron_miller , @jeffspeckfaicp , @bpolitics , @rebeccaspang , @galeabrewer , @hkanji , and @hypervisible Tweets:...
Sources: US investigators say hardware and firmware of Supermicro servers were tampered with as late as 2018, via chips with backdoors sending data to China
It has been two and a half years since … John Gruber / Daring Fireball : Bloomberg, at Long Last, Follows up on ‘The Big Hack’, and It's Nothing but a Pile of Sophistic Horseshit Thom Holwerda / OSnew...
Sources: Palantir is preparing to register an S-1 filing confidentially, with plans to go public in the coming weeks and start trading as early as fall
Palantir Technologies Inc., the secretive big-data firm, plans to file to go public in the coming weeks and could start trading as early as the fall … Tweets: @william_fitz , @mdudas , @wolfmetric , @...
Alphabet's Wing becomes the first drone operator to get FAA approval as an air carrier, plans to launch a delivery trial in Virginia this year
a crucial step towards getting the first ever unmanned package delivery operation up and running in Blacksburg. We've come a long way since the first burrito delivery by drone at @Virginia_Tech in 201...