Computerworld February 28, 2025
On one side of the Pacific, Salesforce has implemented a hiring freeze for engineers, on the other, Alibaba is hiring 1,500 engineering interns to work on AI.
The stark difference in the way tech giants in China and the US are approaching AI for internal operations was illustrated late this week by separate announcements from Salesforce and Alibaba.
During an earnings call on Thursday, Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff indicated that, as a result of AI, the company would not be hiring human engineers this year.
“I think that the big message I have for a lot of CEOs that I meet with is, ‘hey, we’re the last generation of CEOs to only manage humans’,” he said. “I think every CEO...
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