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Salesforce is renaming its AIForce agent platform to SIForce, chief executive Marc Benioff said on Friday, as Katherine Li reported for Business Insider. The era of Super Intelligence is here. AIForce is officially SIForce, Benioffwrote on X. The change covers the agent platform only, not the companys name. Following the presidents lead Benioff is the [] This story continues at The Next Web

Fintech start-up Ramp has raised about $1.85bn at a valuation of roughly $60bn, Rebecca Torrence reported for Bloomberg, citing people familiar with the matter. Dragoneer Investment Group and Thrive Capital led the round, and Founders Fund also wrote a large cheque, the people said. The $60bn figure is before the new money is counted. $16bn [] This story continues at The Next Web

A memo from US law firm Quinn Emanuel sets out how the debt behind the AI data centre boom could turn into a wave of lawsuits. Liz Hoffman reported that it was doing the rounds again this week for Semafor. The 20-page client alert was first published inMarch. It is unusual because it names specific [] This story continues at The Next Web

Chipmaker Cirrus Logic made a surprise offer for Synaptics last month, trying to break up its agreed sale to Onsemi, Liana Baker and Yiqin Shen reported forBloomberg. Cirrus Logic is the Party A named in an updated Synaptics filing on Thursday, people familiar with the matter told Bloomberg. It is unclear whether Cirrus is still [] This story continues at The Next Web

A former contractor charged alongside Super Micro Computers co-founder has pleaded guilty to helping smuggle AI servers to China, Bob Van Voris reported for Bloomberg. Ting-Wei Willy Sun entered his plea in a Manhattan federal court on Thursday, as part of a deal with prosecutors. US authorities have described him as a fixer. A $2.5bn [] This story continues at The Next Web

Europes venture-backed companies could be worth more than its industrial base within five years, Dealroom founder and chief executive Yoram Wijngaarde said. He spoke at Wave by Vento in Turin on Thursday. I think that the VC-backed ecosystem is going to overtake our industrial base in terms of total value created within the next five [] This story continues at The Next Web

Legora co-founder and chief executive Max Junestrand says calls for European sovereignty in software are an excuse for companies that are not bold enough to go global. He spoke at Wave by Vento in Turin on Thursday. I think sovereignty in enterprise applications, or sovereignty in consumer apps, or sovereignty at the software layer is [] This story continues at The Next Web

Greg Joswiak, Apples senior vice president of worldwide marketing, posted a teaser video on X on Thursday. It shows the old rainbow Apple logo, embroidered, and sets a launch for Tuesday 13 October. Welcome home. October 13, Joswiak wrote. Apple invited the press to an Apple Experience in Tribeca, New York, at 9am Eastern time, [] This story continues at The Next Web

Heathrow Airport has extended its partnership with Adobe and will rebuild its main website on Adobes AI customer experience software, the two companies announced on 8 October. The new site will run onAdobe CX Enterprise. The system uses AI agents, software that can carry out tasks on its own, to manage how a business attracts [] This story continues at The Next Web

HubSpot is eliminating about 660 roles, 7% of its workforce, in a restructuring its chief executive calls an AI strategy shift while insisting it is not driven by AI efficiencies. Its SEC filing concedes the timetable depends on local consultation law, which in Ireland means a statutory 30-day minimum and criminal penalties for ignoring it. [] This story continues at The Next Web

San Franciscos board of supervisors unanimously passed a 45-day moratorium on new data centres, extendable to 22 months, halting a Bayview expansion and a 49.5 MW Dogpatch project. Europe paused first and for a different reason, the grid, and now finds it cannot build the capacity the Commission wants. San Francisco has paused new data [] This story continues at The Next Web

Miro co-founder and chief executive Andrey Khusid says adding AI to existing teams and processes will not deliver its full productivity gains. Companies need to redesign how work happens from the ground up, he said. He spoke at Wave by Vento in Turin on Wednesday. One of the big challenges is how not to put [] This story continues at The Next Web

Microsoft will add .msix and .msixbundle to Outlooks blocked attachment list in early November, closing an email route for a packaging format its own threat researchers watched four criminal groups abuse in 2023. Renaming the extension still gets a package through, and the change lands as a default policy edit in every Exchange Online tenant, [] This story continues at The Next Web

How nine AR automation platforms compare on collections automation and cash application, and which one keeps its AI inside auditable controls Allianz Research puts average global DSO at around 59 days, while roughly $10 trillion sits in unpaid invoices globally. Cash that sits in receivables is cash a company cant deploy, which is why late [] This story continues at The Next Web

Bending Spoons co-founder and chief executive Luca Ferrari says access to capital is no longer the main obstacle for European founders. Strong companies can now raise at scale in Europe, he said on Wednesday. He was speaking on a panel at Wave by Vento in Turin. I think if you have a great project and [] This story continues at The Next Web