AWS outage: Amazon says recovery is underway Tech A swathe of apps and online services went down on Monday morning, including Zoom, Slack and Coinbase. This follows a global Amazon Web Services (AWS) outage, with knock on effects hitting millions of users of thousands of apps and websites. Amazon has said that services are “seeing significant signs of recovery”, with Lloyds Bank saying [...]
Salesforce cosies up to OpenAI and Anthropic amid sluggish sales Tech Software giant Salesforce is doubling down on its partnerships with AI heavyweights OpenAI and Anthropic to bolster its flagship AI platform, ‘agentforce 360’, as uptake remains modest. At this week’s Dreamforce conference, chief executive and co-founder Marc Benioff announced: “We’re so thrilled to have our relationship with OpenAI”. “You guys are becoming a critical part [...]
What WeTransfer’s terms of service backtrack tells us about AI, data, and digital trust Tech Earlier this week, Dutch file-sharing platform WeTransfer found itself in the crosshairs of an increasingly familiar story: AI ambition colliding with user trust. A subtle but potent tweak to its ‘terms of service’ – a clause suggesting user files might be used to “improve performance of machine learning models” -triggered feelings of unease through its [...]
Slack to offer users a ChatGPT AI tool which will write messages for them ‘in seconds’ March 7, 2023 Slack customers will get “new superpowers” after the app unveiled a ChatGPT AI tool aimed at boosting millions’ of its users productivity. The messenger service’s owner Salesforce has teamed up with ChatGPT’s developer OpenAI, a Slack customer, to offer the artificial intelligence chatbot to the system for the first time. ChatGPT is an AI chatbot [...]