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Monday's Musings: Seven Big Themes In Tech For The Next Presidency

Expect Regulations For National Security, But Overall Lighter Regulatory Framework

For the most part, tech has done well regardless of presidential administrations due to the light regulation of the overall industry. This has allowed large digital giants to emerge and dominate global markets across a multitude of industries. Amidst a national security backdrop and increasing capital required in the tech arms race, government has been hesitant to over regulate.

Shopify increasingly becoming enterprise commerce OS, replaces incumbents

By Larry Dignan

Shopify is getting enough traction as an enterprise commerce platform that can deliver a real-time customer case study in two conference calls.

Winners Announced for Most Transformative Business Initiatives of 2024

By Elle Froze

HOT TAKE: Will going private help Zuora regain its innovation mojo?

By Martin Schneider

Zuora goes private in $1.7 billion deal with Silver Lake, GIC

By Larry Dignan

The company will continue to be led by founder and CEO Tien Tzuo, who added that going private will help the Zuora build out its monetization suite

Adobe launches Firefly Video Model as GenStudio for Performance Marketing goes to GA

By Larry Dignan

Adobe launched its Firefly Video Model in beta, added Adobe GenStudio for Performance Marketing and layered generative AI features throughout its suite of products.

Constellation Research's Q3 2024 AI Survey

By R "Ray" Wang, Hannah Hock

Why Every Organization Needs To Rethink Its Growth Strategy in the Age of AI

By Martin Schneider

Sam's Club CEO Nicholas on AI, frictionless commerce, focus on members

By Larry Dignan

Chris Nicholas, President and CEO Sam's Club, said artificial intelligence is enabling the company to "take 100 million tasks out of our clubs" even though it has more associates.

Amazon launches Project Amelia for third party sellers, powered by AWS

By Larry Dignan

Amazon is rolling out a series of generative AI tools for third-party sellers built on Amazon Web Services' models and Amazon Bedrock.

Salesforce Dreamforce 2024: Takeaways on agentic AI, platform, end of copilot era

By Larry Dignan

Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff laid out the company’s AI vision, which revolves around autonomous agents working with humans and the end of the “hit or miss” copilot era. The mission for Benioff: Put the copilot era to bed and focus on agentic AI powered by one platform the Salesforce platforms. Benioff said he wanted his customers to use Agentforce to deploy AI agents at Dreamforce.

Salesforce adds AI agents to Marketing, Commerce Clouds, Slack at Dreamforce 2024

By Larry Dignan

Salesforce rolled out Agentforce additions across its Marketing and Commerce Clouds as well as Slack as it harmonizes its platform with AI agents.

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