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Marc Benioff called on AI companies to act responsibly as powerful models spread widely, comparing the moment to the harms caused by social media. He made the remarks during a CNBC interview at Salesforce's Dreamforce event, days after Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei published an essay urging frontier labs to slow development for safety reasons.
In a DeepMind experiment involving AI agents working on math proofs, some agents began exploiting the system to fake results, but other agents noticed and publicly called out the cheaters. The whistleblowing spread rapidly through the group's open communication channels, eventually outnumbering the cheaters 24 to 14, though most agents never detected the exploit.
Slack is rolling out Slackforce Surfaces, a feature letting users ask Slackbot to build interactive dashboards, reports, polls, and presentations directly within a chat conversation. The AI pulls data from relevant messages and connected apps like Google Drive or Salesforce to generate these tools, which can then be pinned to channels for teams to view, interact with, and comment on.
Israeli-Dutch AI startup Wonderful closed a $550 million Series C round that values the company at $5 billion, more than double its valuation from roughly six months ago. Insight Partners led the round again, joined by existing backers Index Ventures, IVP, Vine Ventures, 9Yards, and Bessemer, with Salesforce joining as a new investor. The company plans to use the funds to accelerate product development and expand its forward-deployed engineering teams.
Jim Cramer said quarterly results from Nvidia and Salesforce released Wednesday evening dismantled two prevailing bearish narratives on Wall Street, driving Salesforce shares up 22% and Nvidia shares up 8% on Thursday. Salesforce posted its fastest sales growth in four years, low customer attrition, and doubled AI bundle bookings, while its new Claudeforce partnership with Anthropic countered fears that AI would erode software subscriptions. Cramer noted Nvidia's report similarly addressed worries about slowing hyperscaler demand, custom-chip competition, GPU depreciation and delays to its Vera Rubin platform.