MAROKO133 Breaking ai: SpaceX Hit With Back to Back Lawsuits From Workers Who Say They Wer

📌 MAROKO133 Breaking ai: SpaceX Hit With Back to Back Lawsuits From Workers Who Sa

SpaceX is facing a one-two punch of personal injury lawsuits after two different workers have sued the Elon Musk-owned company this month over being injured on the job, the San Antonio Express-News reports, adding to the poor safety track record at its Starbase facility in South Texas.

The latest suit, filed in Cameron County on Monday, was leveled against SpaceX and the steel firm W&W Erectors LLC by a subcontractor named Julian Escalante, who was working on one of the launchpads used by Starship — the largest rocket in the world, whose development is under massive pressure for being behind schedule.

According to the suit, Escalante’s right arm got “entangled and pinched” by a metal bucket holding “approximately 200 pounds” of industrial-sized bolts after it tumbled from a pallet.

“As the bucket fell, (Escalante’s) right arm was dragged downward with (the bucket),” the suit said, per the Express-News “The downward force pulled (his) right shoulder, and (he) fell with the bucket as it hit the ground.”

Just as concerning as the accident, which took place in November, was his higher ups’ alleged response to it. When Escalante reported it to his supervisor, the supervisor told him “not to report the injury and instructed him to return to work,” the suit claims, and his foreman, Joe Pedroza, had basically the same advice: “Just don’t tell anyone.”

But Escalante wanted medical care for his injury. His inquiries into where management stood on his request allegedly didn’t fly well with the General Foreman, identified only as “Wero,” who told Escalante to “be a man” and “stop crying,” according to the suit. His lawyers say that SpaceX was negligent in maintaining a safe job site.

A similar lawsuit was filed earlier this month by a worker named Sergio Ortiz, the Express-News reported, who says that in 2024 he was struck by falling debris while working in an elevator shaft at Starbase. According to the suit, the heavy cables used by welding machines called welding leads, which can weigh up to 80 pounds, fell from above and slammed his head.

The suits are the latest to put the safety track record of SpaceX under the microscope. For years, it’s faced suits for accidents and even deaths, including a botched rocket test that left one employee in a permanent coma when a piece of one of Starship’s engines flew off and fractured his skull. A Reuters investigation in 2023 found at least 600 cases of workplace injuries at SpaceX that went unreported.

The company is under intense pressure to perfect Starship, which NASA has selected to perform a lunar landing in its upcoming Artemis III mission — a role that’s now under some doubt.

The company also allegedly has a track record of retaliating against employees. It has faced several lawsuits over sexual harassment, including some that implicated CEO Musk. In a 2024 lawsuit, eight former employees accused the company of illegally firing them after raising concerns over sexual harassment.

It’s not the only Musk-owned venture facing similar legal allegations, either. His automaker Tesla has also been hit with numerous lawsuits over brutal working conditions and workplace accidents, joined by widespread accounts of Musk impulsively firing employees in fits of rage, and allegedly threatening to deport an engineer for raising a critical safety issue.

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📌 MAROKO133 Update ai: Salesforce rolls out new Slackbot AI agent as it battles Mi

Salesforce on Tuesday launched an entirely rebuilt version of Slackbot, the company's workplace assistant, transforming it from a simple notification tool into what executives describe as a fully powered AI agent capable of searching enterprise data, drafting documents, and taking action on behalf of employees.

The new Slackbot, now generally available to Business+ and Enterprise+ customers, is Salesforce's most aggressive move yet to position Slack at the center of the emerging "agentic AI" movement — where software agents work alongside humans to complete complex tasks. The launch comes as Salesforce attempts to convince investors that artificial intelligence will bolster its products rather than render them obsolete.

"Slackbot isn't just another copilot or AI assistant," said Parker Harris, Salesforce co-founder and Slack's chief technology officer, in an exclusive interview with Salesforce. "It's the front door to the agentic enterprise, powered by Salesforce."

From tricycle to Porsche: Salesforce rebuilt Slackbot from the ground up

Harris was blunt about what distinguishes the new Slackbot from its predecessor: "The old Slackbot was, you know, a little tricycle, and the new Slackbot is like, you know, a Porsche."

The original Slackbot, which has existed since Slack's early days, performed basic algorithmic tasks — reminding users to add colleagues to documents, suggesting channel archives, and delivering simple notifications. The new version runs on an entirely different architecture built around a large language model and sophisticated search capabilities that can access Salesforce records, Google Drive files, calendar data, and years of Slack conversations.

"It's two different things," Harris explained. "The old Slackbot was algorithmic and fairly simple. The new Slackbot is brand new — it's based around an LLM and a very robust search engine, and connections to third-party search engines, third-party enterprise data."

Salesforce chose to retain the Slackbot brand despite the fundamental technical overhaul. "People know what Slackbot is, and so we wanted to carry that forward," Harris said.

Why Anthropic's Claude powers the new Slackbot — and which AI models could come next

The new Slackbot runs on Claude, Anthropic's large language model, a choice driven partly by compliance requirements. Slack's commercial service operates under FedRAMP Moderate certification to serve U.S. federal government customers, and Harris said Anthropic was "the only provider that could give us a compliant LLM" when Slack began building the new system.

But that exclusivity won't last. "We are, this year, going to support additional providers," Harris said. "We have a great relationship with Google. Gemini is incredible — performance is great, cost is great. So we're going to use Gemini for some things." He added that OpenAI remains a possibility as well.

Harris echoed Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff's view that large language models are becoming commoditized: "You've heard Marc talk about LLMs are commodities, that they're democratized. I call them CPUs."

On the sensitive question of training data, Harris was unequivocal: Salesforce does not train any models on customer data. "Models don't have any sort of security," he explained. "If we trained it on some confidential conversation that you and I have, I don't want Carolyn to know — if I train it into the LLM, there is no way for me to say you get to see the answer, but Carolyn doesn't."

Inside Salesforce's internal experiment: 80,000 employees tested Slackbot with striking results

Salesforce has been testing the new Slackbot internally for months, rolling it out to all 80,000 employees. According to Ryan Gavin, Slack's chief marketing officer, the results have been striking: "It's the fastest adopted product in Salesforce history."

Internal data shows that two-thirds of Salesforce employees have tried the new Slackbot, with 80% of those users continuing to use it regularly. Internal satisfaction rates reached 96% — the highest for any AI feature Slack has shipped. Employees report saving between two and 20 hours per week.

The adoption happened largely organically. "I think it was about five days, and a Canvas was developed by our employees called 'The Most Stealable Slackbot Prompts,'" Gavin said. "People just started adding to it organically. I think it's up to 250-plus prompts that are in this Canvas right now."

Kate Crotty, a principal UX researcher at Salesforce, found that 73% of internal adoption was driven by social sharing rather than top-down mandates. "Everybody is there to help each other learn and communicate hacks," she said.

How Slackbot transforms scattered enterprise data into executive-ready insights

During a product demonstration, Amy Bauer, Slack's product experience designer, showed how Slackbot can synthesize information across multiple sources. In one example, she asked Slackbot to analyze customer feedback from a pilot program, upload an image of a usage dashboard, and have Slackbot correlate the qualitative and quantitative data.

"This is where Slackbot really earns its keep for me," Bauer explained. "What it's doing is not just simply reading the image — it's actually looking at the image and comparing it to the insight it just generated for me."

Slackbot can then query Salesforce to find enterprise accounts with open deals that might be good candidates for early access, creating what Bauer called "a really great justification and plan to move forward." Finally, it can synthesize all that information into a Canvas — Slack's collaborative document format — and find calendar availability among stakeholders to schedule a review meeting.

"Up until this point, we have been working in a one-to-one capacity with Slackbot," Bauer said. "But one of the benefits that I can do now is take this insight and have it generate this into a Canvas, a shared workspace where I can iterate on it, refine it with Slackbot, or share it out with my team."

Rob Seaman, Slack's chief product officer, said the Canvas creation demonstrates where the product is heading: "This is making a tool call internally to Slack Canvas to actually write, effectively, a shared document. But it signals where we're going with Slackbot — we're eventually going to be adding in additional third-party tool calls."

MrBeast's company became a Slackbot guinea pig—and employees say they're saving 90 minutes a day

Among Salesforce's pilot customers is Beast Industries, the parent company of YouTube star MrBeast. Luis Madrigal, the company's chief information officer, joined the launch announcement to describe his experience.

"As somebody who has rolled out enterprise technologies for over two decades now, this was practically one of the easiest," Madrigal …

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