Wonderful Doubles Its Valuation to $5 Billion, With Salesforce a New Backer
The announcement landed Wednesday from a company that did not exist two years ago. Wonderful, an Israeli-Dutch startup that builds software to coordinate artificial intelligence agents inside large companies, said…
Music Publishers Sue Anthropic Over Claude Training Data
The complaint landed in a federal courthouse late on a Thursday evening, and it named not just a company but two of its founders. Sony Music Publishing and Warner Chappell,…
Salesforce Shares Jump 13% on Earnings and Anthropic Tie-Up
The shares had been written off by a chorus of bears who argued that artificial intelligence would hollow out the software industry, that customers would stop paying for seats when…
Emerald AI Raises $150 Million to Turn Data Centers Into Flexible Power Users
On hot afternoons in California, when grid operators plead for every megawatt, a data center running Emerald AI’s software does the opposite of what its tenants expect: it throttles back.…
Salesforce Employees Worry Anthropic Is Colonizing Slack
Inside Salesforce, a quiet anxiety has taken hold: the company’s own messaging product, Slack, is becoming the front door for a rival’s AI, and employees increasingly worry the arrangement is…
Salesforce to Acquire AI Customer-Service Firm Fin for $3.6 Billion
Eoghan McCabe built Intercom into one of the most recognizable names in customer-service software, then spent two years remaking it into an artificial-intelligence company. On Monday, Salesforce said it would…
Salesforce Buys Contentful, Betting Content Is the Missing AI Layer
The deal had been discussed for years inside both companies, and on June 1 it finally closed on paper. Salesforce announced it had signed a definitive agreement to acquire Contentful,…
