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Sources: Salesforce's Slack tells customers in China, Hong Kong, Macau, and Taiwan that they must migrate their accounts to partner Alibaba before February (The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/briefings/salesforces-slack-stop-…

Salesforce’s Slack to Stop Direct Service in China, Farm Out to Alibaba
Salesforce’s Slack has told customers in mainland China, Hong Kong, Macau and Taiwan that they must migrate their accounts to partner Alibaba Group before February, if they want to continue with instant-messaging service, according to a Slack customer in mainland China and an Alibaba Cloud employee. The move is in response to a privacy and data security law that came into effect this year in

Salesforce bringt Agentforce Sales als App in ChatGPT
Salesforce koppelt sein KI-gestütztes CRM mit ChatGPT. Vertriebsmitarbeitende sollen über den Chatbot künftig Kundendaten auswerten und Abschlüsse voranbringen.
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The Kentucky Supreme Court ruled Thursday that a measure establishing
public funding for charter schools is unconstitutional,
affirming that state funds “are for common schools and for nothing else.”
The 2022 measure was enacted by the state’s Republican-dominated legislature over Democrat Gov. Andy Beshear’s veto.
It was struck down the next year by a lower court.
The state’s high court ruled the “Constitution as it stands is clear that it does not permit funnel…

Kentucky Supreme Court rules charter school funding unconstitutional
The Kentucky Supreme Court has ruled that a measure establishing public funding for charter schools is unconstitutional. The high court ruled that state funds “are for common schools and for nothing else.” The Republican-backed measure was struck down by a lower court in 2023. In an opinion released Thursday, the Kentucky Supreme Court wrote that the Constitution "does not permit funneling public education funds outside the common public school system.” In 2024, Kentucky voters rejected a…

Poland’s Ministry Of Health Pledges Plant-Based Meals For Schools And Nurseries https://plantbasednews.org/lifestyle/food/poland-plant-based-meals-schools-nurseries/

Poland's Ministry Of Health Pledges Plant-Based Meals For Schools And Nurseries
Poland is expected to introduce plant-based meals in schools and nurseries after it pledged to update its draft nutrition guidance

Sony just killed Bluepoint games, a studio that worked marvelously. Stupid industry.
https://www.theverge.com/games/881578/sony-close-bluepoint-games-studio-remaster-remake-demons-souls-shadow-colossus-god-of-war…

Sony is closing the studio behind the Demon’s Souls and Shadow of the Colossus remakes
Sony is shutting down Bluepoint Games, the PlayStation studio behind well-received remakes like Shadow of the Colossus and Demon’s Souls. Sony purchased it in 2021.

SkillsBench: Benchmarking How Well Agent #Skills Work Across Diverse Tasks
#LLM …

Reach makes its national UK newspapers' ABC print sales circulation figures private, joining News UK, Telegraph Media Group, and The Guardian (Charlotte Tobitt/Press Gazette)
https://pressgazette.co.uk/publishers/nationals/reach-prin…

Most national newspaper sales figures now secret as Reach takes auditing private
Print circulation figures for Reach national newspapers the Mirror, Express and Star titles will no longer be made public.

We're in deep trouble when joke memes have to be explained with a fact check.
https://www.newsweek.com/fact-check-mamdani-arabic-numerals-new-york-schools-11079540

The US Senate confirms Trump pick Michael Selig as chairman of the CFTC, as lawmakers consider legislation to give the agency more control over digital assets (Lydia Beyoud/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

Senate Confirms Selig as Chief of CFTC and Hill to Run the FDIC
The US Senate on Thursday night confirmed Michael Selig as chairman of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission and Travis Hill as chairman of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp., installing permanent chiefs of two agencies that play critical roles overseeing financial markets and banks.

Sources: internal Google data shows Gemini API calls surged from 35B in March 2025 to 85B in August 2025; Google says Gemini Enterprise hit 8M subscribers (Erin Woo/The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/googles-gemini-sees-skyrocketi…

Google’s Gemini Sees Skyrocketing Business Sales
Google’s improvements to its Gemini AI models are boosting the company’s top line. Over the past year, Google’s business selling access to its Gemini AI models has skyrocketed, reflecting the improving quality of those models, according to three people with knowledge of Gemini’s sales. That’s ...