Salesforce has inked a contract with the VA to help the agency modernize health care delivery and provide a “more timely and consistent experience.”
A new UN-backed commission will bring top tech executives and heads of state to the same table to forge global rules for AI , per an announcement shared exclusively with Axios. Why it matters: As global AI regulation grows more splintered , this initiative is an attempt to connect the executives building advanced AI with a group of global politicians. Driving the news: The United Nations and its International Telecommunication Union are convening the AI for Good Global Commission, which will hold its first meeting on July 8 in Geneva, Switzerland. - Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff and Rwandan President Paul Kagame will co-chair the commission. - Other members include ITU Secretary-General Doreen Bogdan-Martin, Estonian President Alar Karis,…
It was a historic, even jarring, scene that captures a once-unimaginable geopolitical ordering . The world's most powerful heads of state gathered in the French Alps this week for the annual G7 summit, with the CEOs of America's dominant AI companies seated and treated like heads of nation-states themselves. Why it matters: This is the future many leaders and AI CEOs envision — heads of state and the masters of tech in constant discussion, and sometimes conflict, over who controls AI, its rules, and its application to governing and world security. Think of Anthropic vs. Trump as merely a small test run of this dynamic, with governments battling private companies over their products' threat to U.S. or global security. - AI CEOs sat…
President Trump and top administration officials discussed a U.S.-led effort to coordinate global AI standards Wednesday at a meeting with the CEOs of leading AI companies at the G7 summit in France. Why it matters: U.S. AI policy decisions increasingly determine who around the world can access the most advanced AI models. Driving the news: Trump, along with Secretary of State Marco Rubio, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent and Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick, participated in a "working lunch" on AI and the digital age with other world leaders. - OpenAI's Sam Altman, Google's Demis Hassabis and Anthropic's Dario Amodei were among the participants. - Meta's Alexandr Wang, Mistral AI's Arthur Mensch, Cohere's Aidan Gomez and Salesforce's…