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Amazon CEO Andy Jassy claims controversial RTO mandate is not a “backdoor layoff” strategy – but it’s a tactic that some execs admit to
Amazon CEO Andy Jassy has pushed back on claims that the company’s controversial return to office (RTO) mandate was a thinly veiled attempt to encourage layoffs. Speaking at an all-hands meeting on 5 November, Jassy denied accusations that his recently announced RTO strategy was a “backdoor layoff”, insisting the move was motivated by improving the organization’s culture. “A number of…
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“I have yet to find anyone who’s had a transformational experience with Microsoft Copilot”: Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff hits out at Microsoft’s AI assistant once again – and he isn’t holding back
Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff has fired yet more shots at Microsoft Copilot on social media, accusing the tool of being poor quality and doubling down on a previous comparison with Microsoft Clippy. Benioff first described the tool as a disappointment in a post to X, criticizing it for its supposed poor functionality, lack of accuracy, operating insecurely, and failing to…
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“There are other companies around”: AWS CEO Matt Garman says employees pushing back on RTO mandates should quit
Don’t want to return to the office? Amazon has a simple answer for employees refusing RTO mandates: quit. Matt Garman, chief executive of the tech giant’s cloud division, Amazon Web Services (AWS), told staff at a meeting that they should look elsewhere for work if they didn’t think they could work in the office anymore. Amazon is one of a…
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Want to call yourself a real tech company? Mark Zuckerberg says get a technical CEO
Mark Zuckerberg believes tech companies need technical expertise at a leadership level if they’re to truly live up to expectations, according to a live airing of the Acquired podcast. The Meta CEO spoke about the question of product and technology, saying that businesses need to get the balance between them right and do both well. “I think you can define…
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Salesforce CEO Calls Copilot the New Microsoft Clippy – Doesn’t Work or Deliver Value
Microsoft recently upgraded Copilot with a fresh UI and added several new features including Copilot Voice, Copilot Vision, and Copilot Daily. On the enterprise side, Microsoft introduced Copilot Agents and Copilot Pages, among other things, to improve productivity for business users. However, Marc Benioff, the CEO of Salesforce says that Copilot is the new Microsoft Clippy and it doesn’t work…
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Anthropic CEO says AI will help us live longer and cure disease — here’s how
It’s hard not to have an opinion on AI these days, as those two tiny letters that once felt like science fiction are coming for jobs, but also opening up new possibilities — including finding new viruses. It’s perhaps no surprise that the CEO of one of the world’s largest AI companies is pretty positive on things, though. Anthropic CEO…
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UK govt appoints Microsoft CEO to chair industrial strategy council as it looks to attract tech investment
Microsoft’s UK CEO Clare Barclay will chair the government’s new Industrial Strategy Advisory Council as part of a sharpened focus on UK tech investment. Announced jointly by Business and Trade Secretary Jonathan Reynolds and UK Chancellor Rachel Reeves, the council will look to deliver a modern industrial strategy focused on eight key areas. Digital and technologies are one of these…
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Snowflake CEO: “Many vendors sell you parts of a car and tell you to build it yourself. At Snowflake we have a different philosophy. We want to give you the car.”
Easy, efficient, and trusted. These were the three keywords that played out on the screen and on the stage at Snowflake’s World Tour London event at the Excel earlier this week. Sridhar Ramaswamy, the company’s CEO, took to the stage for the opening keynote to reiterate how Snowflake – together with partners – is helping customers navigate myriad new and…
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NetApp CEO: The tech industry “needs to do a better job” on AI sustainability
The tech industry needs to do more to address growing AI sustainability concerns, according to NetApp CEO George Kurian. Speaking to ITPro at the firm’s NetApp Insight conference in Las Vegas, Kurian outlined his thoughts on the environmental impact of how businesses are implementing the technology. When asked how leaders are balancing sustainability targets with increasing pressure to adopt power-intensive…
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Salesforce CEO wants to “break the hypnosis coming from vendors” on AI
Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff wants enterprises to ignore the culture of AI “hypnosis” created by major industry vendors over the last two years. During a briefing with assembled media at Dreamforce 2024, Benioff hit out at Microsoft in particular, suggesting that it, along with industry competitors, have over-hyped the capabilities of AI assistants, or ‘copilots’. Following a scathing comparison between…
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