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AI for Good Global Commission Launch: Leaders Unite

Initiative brings together leaders from government, business and international organizations to advance practical pathways to unlocking AI’s potential

Dubai, 6 July 2026 — Rwanda’s President Paul Kagame, Salesforce Chair and CEO Marc Benioff, and ITU Secretary-General Doreen Bogdan-Martin today announced the launch of the AI for Good Global Commission. 

The Commission brings together more than 40 Founding Members — including Heads of State and Government, industry CEOs and top executives, and Heads of UN agencies — to help define practical pathways to strengthen trust, expand access and unlock AI’s potential to solve real-world challenges at the speed the technology demands. 

The newly formed Commission occupies a unique position in the global AI landscape. By connecting leaders who build technology, deploy it at scale, shape policy and represent communities, the Commission seeks to help forge responsible AI solutions across sectors and borders while ensuring the participation of developing countries.

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New Data: Gen Z Embraces AI for Social Media Spending

Dubai, UAE—April 3, 2025.Gen Z is fueling a social shopping explosion, with 39% now having purchased and 76% having discovered products on social media platforms, according to Salesforce’s latest Connected Shoppers Report. 

Why it matters: The future of retail hinges on capturing the market for Gen Z, a demographic group born between the mid-to-late 1990s and early 2010s that is expected to command up to $9 trillion in global spending power by 2034 – more than any other generation. Social media shopping — a fragmented landscape comprised of dozens or even hundreds of platforms like TikTok, Instagram, and YouTube — is a key battleground. Retailers need a deeply unified commerce platform that combines AI capabilities, a centralized data foundation, and seamless application interoperability to manage these increasingly complex shopping journeys.

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Salesforce Delivers Next-Generation AI Models to Power Agentforce

Salesforce AI Research releases xGen-Sales and xLAM AI models to bring humans and autonomous agents together with data and actions

Silvio Savarese - Salesforce

UAE, 16 September 2024 – Salesforce (NYSE: CRM), announced new AI models, including xGen-Sales, a proprietary model trained and designed to power autonomous sales tasks with Agentforce, and xLAM, a new family of Large Action Models designed to handle complex tasks and generate actionable outputs. Together, these models developed by Salesforce AI Research will allow Salesforce customers to quickly set up and deploy autonomous AI agents that take action, driving unprecedented scale.

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