"Welcome back to our Sunday edition, where we round up some of our top stories and take you inside our newsroom. What would you do to land your dream job? One man was so eager to kick-start his tech career that he lived in his car for three months to take a role at Google. He soon found out he wasn't the only Googler doing it."
"At the Davos conference in January, Marc Benioff asked a crowd of luminaries whether AI was a basic human right. Here is another question: Can it make him money? He gushed about AI agents last year, enthusiasm that helped drive the company's stock to an all-time high in early December. This year, though, Salesforce isn't in the AI darling club. Its shares are down roughly 28%."
Marc Benioff framed AI as a fundamental question and promoted AI agents, contributing to a stock surge before Salesforce shares later fell about 28 percent. Salesforce invested heavily in an Agentforce project as a major bet on AI agents. Internal teams faced constant struggles to deliver on public promises, and employees reported difficulty distinguishing demos, road maps, and production capabilities. Engineers described reconciling marketing claims with technical realities as a full-time effort. Entrepreneurs and small founders are also leveraging AI to compete with incumbents, with founders like Tim DeSoto using AI to scale against larger firms.
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