Salesforce integrates Agentforce AI agents directly into Slack, letting teams interact with AI via DMs or @mentions, deploy ready-made HR, sales, and marketing templates, or build custom agents — all without ever leaving the app.
Google's new TurboQuant AI compression algorithm, which slashes memory requirements by up to 6x, is sending memory stocks tumbling, with SanDisk plunging 5.7%, Western Digital down 4.7%, Seagate sliding 4%, and Micron dropping 3%, as investors fear reduced long-term demand for DRAM and flash memory.
Claude suffers a major outage on March 25, 2026, with nearly 5,000 Downdetector reports flooding in before Anthropic restores service in under 30 minutes, though secondary issues with Cowork and Claude Opus 4.6 briefly emerge before engineers confirm a full recovery.
AI is decimating entry-level coding jobs, with U.S. postings dropping 35% since 2023, as Block slashes nearly half its 8,000-person workforce and experts warn a sweeping wave of white-collar tech layoffs is just beginning.
Google's TurboQuant is revolutionizing AI efficiency, slashing large language model memory usage by over 5x and boosting speed up to 8x with zero accuracy loss, using a data-oblivious quantization algorithm requiring no dataset-specific tuning — maintaining perfect retrieval accuracy across 104,000 tokens in benchmark tests.
Anthropic launches 'auto mode' for Claude Code, a smart permissions system that automatically allows safe operations while blocking dangerous ones like mass file deletion or data exfiltration, rolling out now for Team plan users with Enterprise and API access coming soon.
Ray Data LLM achieves double the AI throughput of vLLM's synchronous engine by using asynchronous execution at both batch and token levels, eliminating pipeline bottlenecks in mixed reasoning workloads, with benchmarks showing performance gains that continue to grow as decode lengths increase.
New research reveals that base large language models possess strong semantic confidence accuracy, but popular techniques like fine-tuning and chain-of-thought reasoning actively destroy this calibration, raising urgent questions about the reliability of widely deployed AI systems.
The US Department of Labor launches 'Make America AI-Ready,' a free AI literacy course delivered entirely via text message, requiring just 10 minutes a day for seven days — accessible to anyone by texting 'READY' to 20202.
Google's Gemini 3 dominates AI benchmarks with 8 million enterprise seats while Anthropic's Claude Code rockets to $1 billion in annual revenue in just six months, as AI specialists like Abridge, World Labs, and Hume AI drive major breakthroughs across healthcare, robotics, and emotional intelligence.