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[ad_1] Transitioning to management might feel like a natural next step in your career. However, Salesforce executive Patrick Stokes cautions that it might not necessarily be the right path for everyone.”I think it’s easy for people to be enamored with the growth of kind of, moving up the ranks, rather than the growth of themselves personally,” the executive vice president of product and industries marketing told Business Insider.Stokes, in a conversation during Salesforce’s Agentforce World Tour in New York City, said whenever people tell him they want to move into management, he asks them why. Usually, people say that “it’s…

[ad_1] CNN  —  An inaccurate AI-produced reading list recently published by two newspapers demonstrates just how easy it still is for publishers to circulate AI slop. The Chicago Sun-Times and the Philadelphia Inquirer last week published a summer reading insert produced by King Features, a Hearst Newspapers subsidiary that provides the pair with licensed content. While the insert included real authors, the recommended books were mostly fake. Ultimately, 404 Media found that a human writer had produced the list using ChatGPT and failed to fact-check it. “I do use AI for background at times but always check out the material…

[ad_1] CNN  —  John Laurinaitis, a former World Wrestling Entertainment executive, has reached a settlement with a former WWE employee who accused him of sexual assault and has agreed to provide evidence in her ongoing lawsuit against embattled former WWE CEO Vince McMahon. Laurinaitis, who was the co-defendant in a lawsuit against McMahon alleging sexual assault, trafficking and physical abuse, has been dismissed from the suit after he reached a confidential settlement with Janel Grant, the plaintiff, and agreed to cooperate and provide evidence in her lawsuit against McMahon. A filing on Wednesday in a US district court in Connecticut…

[ad_1] Unlock the Editor’s Digest for freeRoula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter.A group of large pension funds has demanded that Elon Musk commit to work at least 40 hours a week at Tesla, calling for corporate governance reforms to address a “crisis” at the carmaker. The letter sent to Tesla chair Robyn Denholm on Wednesday was signed by 12 long-term institutional investors including the New York City Comptroller, the American Federation of Teachers, as well as European funds such as Denmark’s AkademikerPension. Together they manage about $950bn in assets.Musk has clashed with…

[ad_1] Microsoft announced on Wednesday that it has started rolling out the beta version of its Copilot for Gaming experience. Beta testers can access the experience in the Xbox app on iOS and Android. The early version of the experience allows the assistant to answer questions about the games you’re interested in, give you links to more information, and answer questions based on your account, play history, achievements, and more. For example, you could ask something like: “What’s my gamerscore and can you give me some tips to raise it?” or “I love horror movies. Any suggestions for what game…

[ad_1] Unlock the White House Watch newsletter for freeYour guide to what Trump’s second term means for Washington, business and the worldThe US has opened the door to Americans purchasing crypto tokens in their retirement accounts, underscoring how Donald Trump is taking a far more tolerant approach to digital assets than his predecessor Joe Biden.The Department of Labor said on Wednesday it had rescinded previous guidance issued in 2022 for retirement plan managers and sponsors to exercise “extreme care before they consider adding a cryptocurrency option to a 401(k) plan’s investment menu,” referring to a widely used employer-sponsored vehicle for…

[ad_1] 2025-05-28T16:00:52Z Share Facebook Email X LinkedIn Copy link lighning bolt icon An icon in the shape of a lightning bolt. Impact Link Save Saved Read in app This story is available exclusively to Business Insider subscribers. Become an Insider and start reading now. Have an account? Log in. Latest Nvidia will release its first-quarter earnings after the closing bell on Wednesday. Shares of the tech giant were up 0.9% year-to-date through Tuesday. There are concerns around how tariffs will impact the business, but Wall Street is still optimistic. Nvidia will report fiscal first-quarter earnings on Wednesday after the closing…

[ad_1] Context, a startup building an AI-powered office suite, on Wednesday announced that it raised $11 million in a seed round led by Lux Capital with participation from Qualcomm Ventures and General Catalyst. The round, which brings the company’s total raised to around $15.75 million, values Context at $70 million. Founder Joseph Semrai, a Thiel Fellow, started working on Context in 2024 after he realized that current digital office suites are not well suited to take advantage of AI models. “[W]e have a bunch of disparate applications that aren’t necessarily built keeping the power of [AI models] in mind,” Semrai…

[ad_1] For accounting departments, no software is more important than the general ledger system. It’s the central hub that summarizes all financial transactions, providing the essential data needed to create accurate financial statements. “The general ledger is the beating heart of the finance function, and so asking a company to remove it is a kind of open-heart surgery,” said Julien Bek, a partner at Sequoia Capital. Until a few years ago, Bek believed that VCs wouldn’t dare to invest in startups building new general ledger software. It’s not only difficult to get customers to switch from their existing accounting software,…

[ad_1] Meta has been working on plans to open physical stores and hire retail workers, Business Insider has learned.The company has an ongoing project to expand its retail footprint, which is not broadly known internally yet, according to an internal communication seen by BI. The communication also said Meta plans to hire retail employees.Meta has only one physical retail space, called Meta Store, which it opened on its campus in Burlingame, California, in 2022. The store lets shoppers test out some of its hardware products, including its Meta Quest VR headsets and Ray-Ban Meta Smart Glasses, much like its rival…