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Salesforce sacrifices 4,000 support jobs on the altar of AI

3 months 3 weeks ago
Benioff boasts bots now handle half of customer chats as doubts over reliability linger

Updated  Speaking ahead of Labor Day – celebrated in the US to recognize the nation's labor movement – Salesforce CEO and co-founder Marc Benioff said the company had slashed 4,000 customer support roles through the application of AI agents.…

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Marvell’s Custom XPU Pipeline Is A Declaration Of AI Independence

3 months 3 weeks ago

There is no question that one of the smartest things that chip designer, packager, and manufacturing process manager Marvell Technology did was to shell out $650 million in May 2019 to buy Avera Semiconductor. …

Marvell’s Custom XPU Pipeline Is A Declaration Of AI Independence was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.

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America is in a Serious Jobs Slump

3 months 3 weeks ago
For the first time in more than four years, there are fewer open jobs in the U.S. than there are job seekers. CNN: "This is a turning point for the labor market," Heather Long, chief economist at Navy Federal Credit Union, wrote Wednesday. "It's yet another crack." The number of job openings fell to an estimated 7.18 million at the end of July, according to Bureau of Labor Statistics data released Wednesday. Job openings not only are at their lowest level in 10 months, but they're also below the number of unemployed workers (at 7.2 million) for the first time since April 2021.

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