It's always us-east-1
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Today: How Salesforce hopes to start generating real revenue from AI agents, why the merger of Fivetran and dbt Labs signals the end of an era in data infrastructure, and the latest funding rounds in enterprise tech.
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Today: Fivetran CEO George Fraser's bet that data connectivity is more important than data residency, Microsoft joins the cloud breakup-fee party, and the latest enterprise moves.
"The more significant decision is, 'what is your strategy for centralizing the data?' Because these data platforms do not do that; they are the place that it gets centralized to, but they do not centralize anything."