Salesforce Makes $3.6B Play for AI Customer Service

Salesforce is making another major bet on AI agents. The company announced Monday that it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire AI customer service company Fin, formerly known as Intercom, for approximately $3.6 billion. Salesforce plans to integrate Fin into Agentforce, its flagship AI agent platform, as competition intensifies among enterprise software vendors racing…

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Cardano van Rossem hard fork reaches mainnet governance

Cardano has moved closer to its next network upgrade after the van Rossem hard fork initiation governance action was submitted on mainnet. Summary Cardano’s van Rossem hard fork action reached mainnet governance for Protocol Version 11 review now. The intra-era upgrade adds features while preparing Cardano’s Dijkstra era and future Leios mainnet rollout. The hard…

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Qualcomm wants to be the chip inside whatever replaces your smartphone, and it just announced two products toward that end

Qualcomm CEO Cristiano Amon said Tuesday that the company is working on over 40 different AI wearable devices — including jewelry, earbuds with cameras, pins, and watches — a sign of how aggressively the chipmaker is betting that the next major computing platform won’t be a phone. To power that vision, Qualcomm is announcing two…

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