Salesforce has announced a hiring freeze for engineers, signaling a shift towards AI by CEO Marc Benioff, who remarks that future CEOs will manage both humans and AI agents. Conversely, Alibaba is on a growth path, offering 3,000 internships focused on AI, indicating a vigorous recruitment strategy to enhance their AI capabilities. The article highlights differing tech labor perspectives between the US and China, noting that while China boasts a larger pool of software developers, the US faces challenges with a shrinking workforce in tech.
"I think that the big message I have for a lot of CEOs that I meet with is, 'hey, we're the last generation of CEOs to only manage humans'."
"If artificial general intelligence (AGI) is achieved, the AI-relevant industry will very likely become the world's largest industry, having the potential to be the 'electricity of the future.'"
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