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Salesforce launches Headless 360 to turn its entire platform into infrastructure for AI agents

Salesforce launches Headless 360 to turn its entire platform into infrastructure for AI agents

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Salesforce on Wednesday unveiled the most ambitious architectural transformation in its 27-year history, introducing “Headless 360” — a sweeping initiative that exposes every capability in its platform as an API, MCP tool, or CLI command so AI agents can operate the entire system without ever opening a browser. The announcement, made at the company’s annual TDX developer conference in San Francisco, ships more than 100 new tools and skills immediately available to developers. It marks a decisive response to the existential question hanging over enterprise software: In a world where AI agents can reason, plan, and execute, does a company still need a CRM with a graphical interface? Salesforce’s answer: No — and that’s exactly the point. “We made a decision two and a half years ago: Rebuild Salesforce for agents,” the company said in its announcement. “Instead of burying capabilities behind a UI, expose them so the entire platform will be programmable and accessible from anywhere.” The timing is anything but coincidental. Salesforce finds itself navigating one of the most turbulent periods in enterprise …

Are we getting what we paid for? How to turn AI momentum into measurable value

Are we getting what we paid for? How to turn AI momentum into measurable value

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Enterprise AI is entering a new phase — one where the central question is no longer what can be built, but how to make the most of our AI investment. At VentureBeat’s latest AI Impact Tour session, Brian Gracely, director of portfolio strategy at Red Hat, described the operational reality inside large organizations: AI sprawl, rising inference costs, and limited visibility into what those investments are actually returning. It’s the “Day 2” moment — when pilots give way to production, and cost, governance, and sustainability become harder than building the system in the first place. “We’ve seen customers who say, ‘I have 50,000 licenses of Copilot. I don’t really know what people are getting out of that. But I do know that I’m paying for the most expensive computing in the world, because it’s GPUs,’” Gracely said. “‘How am I going to get that under control?’” Why enterprise AI costs are now a board-level problem For much of the past two years, cost was not the primary concern for organizations evaluating generative AI. The experimental …

Mini lightning bolts help chemists turn methane into clean-burning fuel

Mini lightning bolts help chemists turn methane into clean-burning fuel

Published by Jenni Sidey

Tiny bolts of plasma, flickering inside a submerged glass tube, may have opened a new route for turning methane into liquid fuel. Chemists from Northwestern University have developed a way to convert methane directly into methanol in a single step, using electricity, water and a copper oxide catalyst instead of the punishing heat and pressure used in conventional production. The process relies on pulses of high voltage that create miniature lightning-like discharges inside a porous glass reactor. These discharges set off reactions that are otherwise hard to start. Methanol matters because it sits at the center of modern industry. It is used to make plastics, paints and adhesives. It is also drawing interest as a cleaner-burning fuel for ships and industrial boilers. Global production already exceeds 110 million metric tons a year. However, the path to making it is energy-hungry and carbon-intensive. That is why methane-to-methanol conversion has long been treated as one of chemistry’s hardest practical problems. Methane is abundant and cheap, but it is stubbornly stable. Once methanol forms, it has the opposite …

4 Android apps I keep on a spare phone to turn it into a useful home gadget

4 Android apps I keep on a spare phone to turn it into a useful home gadget

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There’s a drawer, bin, or shelf in your home with the old tech products you rarely use but can’t justify throwing away. If you’re anything like me, it might include a handful of spare Android phones. They come in handy if a flagship phone is lost or breaks, giving you a backup until your primary device is repaired or replaced. However, if you wait to make use of your spare Android phone until a need arises, it could rot away in a junk drawer forever. That’s why I proactively put my extra Android devices to use as a smart home helper. With a few free apps, you can turn your Android phone into a smart home controller, home security camera, media server player, or digital toolbox. It quickly becomes an indispensable companion that can be mounted at your bedside table or on your desk, replacing a dedicated smart screen. This is how I did it — and how you can too. Related 5 things my old Android phone does better than any dedicated gadget Dedicated …

Pharmacist Tells Her Sister In College To Turn Down A Job Offer Over Salary

Pharmacist Tells Her Sister In College To Turn Down A Job Offer Over Salary

Published by Jenni Sidey

A college degree doesn’t exactly provide the return on investment it once did, thanks to our difficult job market. Still, one woman had high hopes for her sister’s first job post-grad and was unhappy with the job offer she received.  Finding an acceptable job after college graduation is not so easy these days, especially if you’re looking for something that pays well and has a positive work culture. In fact, according to The Washington Post, recent graduates are more likely to be unemployed than other workers.  The woman advised her sister not to take the job offer because she believed the pay was too low. Pharmacist and entrepreneur Dr. Najifa Choudhury wrote in her TikTok bio that she is “sharing ways for you to become wealthier and healthier.” It only makes sense that she would want her sister to do the same. However, there are conflicting views online about whether she gave her sister the right advice. In a video on the app, Choudhury shared “the low job offer [her] sister just got.” She explained that her sister …

UK weather maps turn icy white for -3C chill as 24 areas to be blanketed | Weather | News

UK weather maps turn icy white for -3C chill as 24 areas to be blanketed | Weather | News

Published by Sam Flores

UK weather maps have turned icy white as Britain is said to be blanketed in snow in just days.. Data from WXCharts.com indicates a bitter cold blast sweeping across the north of the UK on Friday, April 24. Maps show temperatures could drop as low as -3C in northern England – and a chilly 1-C in the south. That weekend, up to 5cm of snow could fall in Scotland and even in some areas of northern England. By Sunday, April 26, though, the snow is unlikely to stick around. The forecast shows a particular wet period on the way, with heavy showers covering most of the UK. The Met Office weather forecast covering the period from April 18 to April 27 states: “A few showers around at the start of the period, mainly affecting the northwest where it will also be windy for a time. “For many though the weekend should be fine and dry with spells of warm sunshine, but still some chilly nights. Into the following week fronts associated with another Atlantic low …

Street Smarts: Waymo and Waze Turn Driver Data Into Pothole Repairs

Street Smarts: Waymo and Waze Turn Driver Data Into Pothole Repairs

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Hitting potholes while driving is never fun. They can cause headaches, car accidents and damage to your vehicle, culminating in a frustrating commute. Waymo, the robotaxi company, and Waze, the free, community-driven GPS navigation app, have come together to do something about potholes. On Thursday, the two companies announced a joint venture to target potholes that need patching. The new data-sharing pilot program will collect information on troublesome road conditions and communicate the necessary fixes to the city.  Waymo operates in 11 cities, and the pilot program will begin in five major markets: Austin, Texas; Atlanta; Los Angeles; Phoenix and the San Francisco Bay Area, with plans to expand to more cities in the future. So far, Waymo says it has tracked 500 potholes in the Bay Area alone. “As Waymo’s autonomous fleet travels across San Jose, we appreciate the collaboration with Waymo and Waze as we explore how technology can help identify issues like potholes faster so we can respond more efficiently,” San Jose Mayor Matt Mahan said in an emailed statement. Departments of …

Volunteers turn a fan’s recordings of 10,000 concerts into an online treasure trove

Volunteers turn a fan’s recordings of 10,000 concerts into an online treasure trove

Published by Daniella Wilson

Get the inside track from Roisin O’Connor with our free weekly music newsletter Now Hear This Get our free music newsletter Now Hear This Get our free music newsletter Now Hear This On July 8, 1989, a young music fan named Aadam Jacobs, with a compact Sony cassette recorder in his pocket, went to see an up-and-coming rock band from Washington for their debut show in Chicago. After a blast of guitar feedback, 20-year-old Kurt Cobain politely announced to the crowd at the small club called Dreamerz: “Hello, we’re Nirvana. We’re from Seattle.” With that, the band, then a quartet, launched into the riff-heavy first song, “School.” Jacobs surreptitiously recorded the performance, documenting the fledgling band in raw, fiery form more than two years before Nirvana’s global breakthrough with the album “Nevermind.” Jacobs went on to record more than 10,000 concerts, with increasingly sophisticated equipment, over four decades in Chicago and other cities. Now a group of devoted volunteers in the U.S. and Europe is methodically cataloging, digitizing and uploading them one by one. The …

Inter Alia review: A triumphant, freewheeling turn by Rosamund Pike

Inter Alia review: A triumphant, freewheeling turn by Rosamund Pike

Published by Sam Flores

Like Prima Facie, Inter Alia deals with the fact that the system remains rigged against women, particularly the legal system, where convictions for rape and sexual assault are rare and victim-blaming common. And as with the earlier play, the price of Miller’s insider information is the occasional impenetrable thicket of legalese. She and Martin are adroit, though, at sudden shifts of mood, from comedy into something stark. Source link