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� � � � � � You Might Like � � � � � � � � � AI Copilots Are 'Redefining' Sales And Service Jobs, Says Salesforce AI's CEO - Forbes    While few people thought much of artificial intelligence until about a year ago, when ChatGPT exploded into the world's consciousness, Clara Shih says she's been thinking about it since college. As an undergrad at Stanford, she took an intro to AI class. As founder of Hearsay Systems, a social media-based software platform, she developed AI to identify sales leads and automate compliance. Now, as CEO of Salesforce AI, the 41-year-old executive, part of 2023's Future of Work 50, oversees the artificial intelligence strategy of one of the world's largest tech companies, integrating it across products like Slack and Tableau. In the process, that's already starting to redefine the jobs and day-to-day work of sales and customer service reps at the 150,000 companies that use Salesforce's software. "A salesperson today spends some ridiculous [amount] of their day on admin tasks or non-selling activities," she says, such as researching customers, preparing presentations and writing emails to prospective clients. "These are very onerous, frustrating tasks." Continued here How a Top Mutual Fund Executive Made Millions for Himself Trading the Same Stocks His Giant Fund Was Trading - ProPublica    A massive trove of tax information obtained by ProPublica, covering thousands of America’s wealthiest individuals, reveals what’s inside the billionaires’ bag of tricks for minimizing their personal tax bills — sometimes to nothing. In late 2015, Dodge & Cox, one of the nation’s largest mutual fund managers, began buying large quantities of shares of a cloud-computing company called VMware. Over three quarters, Dodge & Cox amassed almost $700 million in shares. That was good news for anyone who already owned shares of VMware, since big purchases tend to push a stock price upward. One such shareholder was David Hoeft, a member of the Dodge & Cox committee that made the decision to buy the shares and an advocate for investing in technology companies. Hoeft, who has spent 30 years at Dodge & Cox, is now the company’s chief investment officer. Continued here Don't like ads? Go ad-free with TradeBriefs Premium Gustavo Petro, Colombia's left-wing president, is floundering - The Economist    Mr Petro is deeply unpopular. His approval rating has crashed from close to 60% in August 2022 to half that in October this year. This is not uncommon for Colombian presidents, who tend to poll below 50% for most of their terms. “The thing to notice is how rapid and sharp the fall was,” says Andrés Mejía Vergnaud, a political consultant. The president got off to a good start, forming a moderate coalition government filled with seasoned ministers. They sailed through a tax reform in record time. They negotiated with ranchers to redistribute land to the rural poor and created a peace plan to end the internal conflict which has racked the country for decades. Allies, though wary of his more radical bills, agreed to back more moderate versions. But that was not enough for Mr Petro. In April, when centrist ministers opposed a health-care reform, which would have handed control of health-care funding from private providers to the state, he dissolved the coalition and fired a third of his cabinet. He then turned dogmatic and packed the new cabinet with left-wingers. He has tried to rule by emergency decree, but the constitutional court can reverse his acts. As a result the government’s legislative agenda is moribund. A dozen ambitious reforms are stuck in Congress, infuriating Mr Petro. He has taken to organising mass rallies where he denounces what he calls the “soft coup” against him. Continued here China: Human Rights Watch accuses Beijing of closing and destroying mosques - BBC News    China is closing, destroying and repurposing mosques, Human Rights Watch (HRW) has alleged in a new report. The crackdown is part of a "systematic effort" to curb the practice of Islam in China, HRW said. There are about 20 million Muslims in China, which is officially atheist but says it allows religious freedom. Continued here

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