Slack chats and internal data from failed startups are finding a second life in AI training
Developers are buying emails, documents, and code to train AI on real-world workflows and decision-making
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Microsoft agrees to unbundle Teams from Office in landmark EU settlement
Redmond has also agreed to cut prices for Office packages without Teams
Salesforce hikes Slack prices, adds AI tools for all paid users
What the Bot: Salesforce has decided to increase prices for certain paid Slack plans. The company is attempting to justify the change by stating that all customers will now have access to more AI features. And if you don't want or need AI, well, you'll likely end up paying more anyway.
Microsoft and EU set to end Teams antitrust clash on friendly terms
Software giant looks to dodge hefty fines by unbundling Teams from Office
Microsoft proposes new Office and Teams pricing to avoid massive EU fine
The European Commission could accept the offer and go after Apple and Google next
Slack has been siphoning user data to train AI models without asking permission
Smarter collaboration, but at what cost?
Slack gets a new AI search function that will dig out the important bits from your chat history
It'll search through your messy message history so you don't have to
Real-time, AI monitoring at work: Major brands are snooping on employee conversations
Be "Aware" of what you post to Teams or Slack
The average employee loses a day per week to emails, according to Slack study
"Email is the cockroach of the internet - it simply won't die"
Slack pressured to prioritize privacy amid end-to-end encryption protests
Without E2EE, Slack is putting people's lives at risk
Most workers don't want to be back in the office, could quit over lack of flexibility
Employee sentiment has dropped to a record low
PSA: Discord and Slack links are being used by hackers to distribute malware
Think twice about clicking on links
Salesforce acquires Slack for a whopping $27.7 billion
Cloud-computing CRM giant says the move will help create an "operating system for the new way to work"
Slack has fixed a major vulnerability in its desktop app
The now-fixed bug in Slack's desktop app could have caused huge problems for users worldwide
Slack files antitrust complaint against Microsoft in the EU
Slack: Microsoft is "reverting to its past behavior" with Teams
Slack Connect lets up to 20 businesses collaborate on a single channel
Slack wants more companies to shift away from email
Slack and Amazon partner to take on Microsoft Teams and Zoom
Multi-year agreement will see Amazon roll out Slack to all of its AWS employees
Slack thinks Microsoft Teams is not its competition, but wait...
More than two-thirds of Office 365 'users have said no thank you' to Teams
Work-from-home software firms are struggling to meet demand due to the COVID-19 outbreak
Microsoft Teams, Zoom, and Slack have seen outages
Slack secures 350,000 users as it becomes IBM's official communications app
The enterprise giant had been using it in a limited capacity
Slack stock falls after Microsoft boasts 20 million Teams users
Slack thinks the app's user base is smaller than Microsoft claims
Slack to allow admins better control over access and data
Admins have greater control than ever