Will AI trigger a wave of mass unemployment? AWS CEO Matt Garman doesn't think so. Pushing back against industry doomsayers, Garman argues that while routine tasks will be automated, AI will ultimately create massive value, demand for higher-level systems engineering, and entirely new categories of work.

After leading AI strategy at PwC for nearly two years, Matt Wood is heading back to AWS. In his newly created role as Chief AI and Technology Officer, Wood will work directly with enterprise customers to help them realize the full value of AWS's rapidly expanding artificial intelligence ecosystem.

In what security experts are calling a textbook example of poor security hygiene, a CISA contractor left highly privileged AWS GovCloud keys and internal passwords exposed on a public GitHub repository. Shockingly, the administrator explicitly bypassed GitHub's automated secret detection tools, leaving the sensitive government data completely unprotected.

Stuck with an AI bill for tens of thousands of dollars? You're not alone by a long shot. AWS and Google Cloud users are reporting skyrocketing costs as compromised API keys and flawed automatic billing mechanisms leave developers on the hook for massive unauthorized AI usage.

Salesforce expects to spend approximately $300 million on AI tokens from Anthropic this year. According to CEO Marc Benioff (photo), the majority of that budget will go toward AI-assisted software development. At the same time, Salesforce is working on new programming functionality within Slack. https://www.techzine.eu/news/devops/141412/salesforce-sets-aside-300m-for-ai-development-with-anthropic/

Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff said on the All-In podcast that his company is on track to spend $300 million on tokens from Anthropic this year, with coding as the primary use case. "These coding agents are awesome. Anthropic is awesome," Benioff said on the podcast, published Friday. "I am going to probably use $300 million of Anthropic this year at Salesforce. Coding. Everything's going to be cheaper to make." https://finance.yahoo.com/sectors/technology/articles/marc-benioff-