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The latest Salesforce news, : Salesforce adds Agent Evals and cost controls to Agent Fabric for enterprise AI.
Salesforce is a cloud-software firm that provides CRM systems and AI platforms for various industries. Recent news covers the launch of the Enterprise AI Harness and Missionforce for government agencies, alongside new partnerships with Siemens, AWS, and Anthropic. The company also announced an all-in-one platform for small-business support agents and expanded its AI capabilities through Agentforce.
62 stories mentioning Salesforce since 14 September 2026, newest first, each with its sources and discussion. This page shows the newest 60. Follow to see new ones on your front page.
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Salesforce adds Agent Evals and cost controls to Agent Fabric for enterprise AI
Salesforce announced new features for Agent Fabric on October 27, 2026, targeting enterprise AI governance. The platform, which handles over 1.2 billion daily requests, now includes Agent Evals to automatically test…
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Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang reportedly proposes $2,000 per GPU annual software fee for AI agent infrastructure
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang discussed a potential annual software licensing fee of around $2,000 per GPU to run AI agents on Nvidia's infrastructure during a Q&A at GTC Berlin on October 22, 2026. The fee would cover…
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Slack adds AI agents and Salesforce CRM tools for small business
Slack has introduced new AI-powered features designed to streamline operations for small businesses, focusing on reducing manual data management and app switching. A key update expands the capabilities of AI agents,…
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Salesforce to acquire Braze for nearly $5.7B in enterprise value
Salesforce announced an agreement to buy Braze, an artificial‑intelligence‑powered marketing platform, for nearly $5.7 billion in enterprise value, pricing the transaction at $47.50 per share. The deal, expected to…
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Salesforce invests $1 billion in Spain, makes Madrid its EMEA South hub
Salesforce announced on Oct 19, 2026 a $1 billion investment in Spain over five years, naming Madrid as the hub for its EMEA South operations. The new headquarters on Paseo de la Castellana is a five‑floor office that…
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NVIDIA expands open models across language, robotics, biology and Quantum Computing
NVIDIA announced an expansion of its open model portfolio across language, robotics, biology, and quantum computing, introducing new models including Nemotron 3.5 Super VL, Nemotron 3.5 Bolt, Nemotron Retriever, Kumo,…
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Meta Platforms expected to report third-quarter revenue of $63.31 billion to $63.9 billion with EPS between $5.60 and $6.76
Meta Platforms is set to report its third-quarter earnings after the market close on Wednesday, with analysts projecting revenue growth of approximately 24% to 25% year-over-year. The consensus revenue estimate ranges…
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Salesforce buys Listen Labs for AI-powered customer feedback tools
Salesforce announced it will acquire Listen Labs, an AI-driven platform specializing in automated customer feedback and market research. The deal aims to integrate Listen Labs’ technology into Salesforce’s ecosystem,…
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Salesforce acquires AI analytics startup Loops for Tableau integration
Salesforce announced it is buying Loops, an AI-powered analytics startup that explains shifts in business metrics like revenue, conversions, retention, and engagement. Loops uses machine learning and causal analysis to…
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Anthropic invests $100M to train 10,000 deployed AI engineers by 2027
Anthropic announced a $100 million initiative to train 10,000 engineers as Frontier Deployed Engineers (FDEs) by the end of 2027. The program, a mix of on-site intensives and 12-week residencies, targets professionals…
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Marketers report over 90% AI use but struggle to integrate tools into workflows
Marketers say more than 90% of their teams are using AI, mainly for content creation, according to several industry surveys. The article notes that while basic LLMs are widely adopted, many marketers remain stuck at…
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Silicon Valley leaders adopt Trump’s ‘super intelligence’ term for AI
Silicon Valley executives are increasingly using President Donald Trump’s preferred term, super intelligence, instead of artificial intelligence. The shift follows Trump’s executive order requiring government agencies…
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TikTok adds AI shopping assistant and one-click checkout to For You feed
The assistant uses conversational AI to answer product questions, recall user preferences, and guide purchases in real time. It covers details like shipping, sizing, and availability, while the checkout feature lets…
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Oppenheimer says enterprise AI spending shifting toward measurable returns
Oppenheimer’s research notes that enterprise artificial‑intelligence budgets are moving out of the experimental phase and becoming a recurring operating expense. Chief financial officers are now weighing AI costs…
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Forward deployed engineers see 729% job growth but face burnout risks
Job growth and pay spikes mark the rise of forward deployed engineers (FDEs), a role that embeds AI solutions in customer environments. By April 2026, postings for the role surged 5,230% from January 2025, per Indeed,…
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Salesforce gains 46% in q3, launches claudeforce integration with anthropic's Claude
Salesforce posted a 46% gain in Q3 and announced Claudeforce, an integration that lets users tap Anthropic’s Claude AI assistant for email composition and record management. Microsoft also rose 37% in the same period,…
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Maicon 2026 hosts eight live podcast recordings for AI marketers
MAICON 2026 will take place in Cleveland from October 13–15, bringing together leading voices in AI, marketing, technology and business. For the second year, the conference will feature a dedicated Podcast Studio where…
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Salesforce buys AI customer research startup Listen Labs
Salesforce announced a definitive agreement to acquire Listen Labs, an AI‑driven customer research platform, for about $2 billion, with the transaction expected to close in Salesforce’s fiscal fourth quarter of 2027,…
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RSA launches Agent ID platform to secure and govern enterprise AI agents
At The AI Conference in San Francisco, RSA announced RSA Agent ID, an identity security platform designed to discover, secure, and govern AI agents in regulated industries. Jim Taylor, President and Chief Product and…
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Meta launches Muse for Small Business to automate tasks for entrepreneurs
Meta Platforms launched Muse for Small Business on Tuesday, a version of its AI agent designed to help entrepreneurs automate tasks like customer communication, cash flow, inventory management, and website creation.…
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Slack adds AI features to Salesforce integration at Dreamforce
Slack announced AI-powered upgrades at Dreamforce, integrating Salesforce data and AI tools into its platform. The rebranded Slackbot now acts as an AI teammate, enabling teams to tag it into conversations for…
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Salesforce unveils Claudeforce plugin integrating Anthropic’s Claude
Salesforce’s stock surged 46% in the third quarter as investors bet on AI’s role in enterprise growth. The company introduced Claudeforce, a plugin that lets customers use Anthropic’s Claude to access Salesforce data…
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OpenAI tried to invest $100 million in Hugging Face before Nvidia's $13 billion deal
OpenAI attempted to invest $100 million in Hugging Face before Nvidia agreed to pay roughly $13 billion to acquire the open-source AI platform, according to sources with knowledge of the matter. The discussions began…
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Salesforce unveils Koa, a reasoning model for its CRM platform
Salesforce announced Koa, a reasoning model built on NVIDIA Nemotron technology and 27 years of Salesforce CRM expertise. The model is designed for the Agentforce platform and aims to automate complex, multistep…
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Anthropic delays IPO after safety essay, antitrust suit filed
Anthropic’s CEO, Dario Amodei, published a 3,800-word essay on September 12 arguing AI development should slow for safety reasons. Six days later, the company delayed its $2 trillion IPO—originally set for October—to…
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Salesforce acquires Fin to add AI customer service automation
Salesforce completed its purchase of Fin on September 10, 2026, adding the startup’s AI‑driven customer‑agent platform to its CRM suite. Fin’s technology can answer queries across live chat, email, SMS, voice, WhatsApp…
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Semrush guides B2B brands on optimizing for AI answer engines
Semrush has published a guide on B2B answer engine optimization (AEO), a strategy to ensure brands appear in AI-generated vendor recommendations. The article notes that B2B buying committees use AI tools like Google’s…
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Hugging Face sells to Nvidia for $12.9B after rejecting its $500M offer
Hugging Face, the open-source AI model hub used by 18 million developers, sold itself to Nvidia for about $12.9 billion in September 2026—just six months after rejecting a $500 million investment offer from the same…
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Okta-led alliance urges AI agent kill switches for businesses
A coalition of companies including Okta, AWS, Google Cloud, and Salesforce announced a blueprint for managing AI agents at the Oktane conference. The Blueprint Alliance emphasizes the need for immediate kill switches…
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Navatar launches AI Deal Operating System connecting Claude and Salesforce for private equity
The platform connects activity across Claude, approved AI models, Salesforce CRM, Outlook, market-data sources, and deal workflows to create a shared, current view of companies, relationships, deals, and funds.…
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Jobber scales AI workflow adoption with internal enablement program
Ethan Schwandt, senior manager of Talent Acceleration at Jobber, built an AI and automation enablement system that starts with practical work rather than a new model. He launched a leadership hackathon for 55…
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Anthropic launches Claude Marketplace for plugins and agents
Anthropic has launched the Claude Marketplace, a centralized platform for discovering and purchasing plugins, agents, and services built for its AI model. The marketplace is live as of September 23, 2026, and aims to…
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Salesforce may launch all-in-one platform for small‑business support agents
Salesforce announced a new all‑in‑one feature aimed at small‑business customer support agents. The platform bundles customer data, communication channels, task management and AI‑powered insights into a single…
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Salesforce launches enterprise AI harness to streamline small business operations
Salesforce announced the Enterprise AI Harness, a control plane that lets small businesses integrate AI across systems such as CRM and ERP. The framework provides six core capabilities—trusted context, agency, action,…
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Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff says Microsoft shut him out of OpenAI, bet on Anthropic
Marc Benioff told Alex Heath on the Sources podcast that Microsoft’s close ties with OpenAI prevented Salesforce from investing in the ChatGPT maker, prompting the cloud‑software firm to back Anthropic instead.…
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Salesforce and Siemens launch Agentforce AI solution for industrial sales and service
salesforce and siemens announced the launch of agentforce, an ai‑driven solution integrated with siemens’ teamcenter service lifecycle management. the system gives technicians engineering‑grade answers in seconds,…
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Three researchers used Claude to breach OpenAI's code repository in 72 hours, report says
Security researchers from Hacktron reportedly used Anthropic's Claude to infiltrate OpenAI's code repository in less than 72 hours, according to the Wall Street Journal and TechCrunch. The breach combined a…
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Anthropic co-founder Jack Clark urges regulation as AI grows more powerful
Anthropic co-founder Jack Clark told the BBC that regulation, including consideration of a kill switch, should be considered as AI becomes more powerful and risks spiraling out of control. He emphasized that the time…
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Salesforce launches missionforce with OpenAI models for government agencies
Salesforce announced Missionforce, a new government‑cloud offering that embeds OpenAI’s generative models to automate policy execution, procurement, and field operations. Kendall Collins, CEO of Missionforce &…
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AWS and Salesforce expand partnership to embed AI agents and CRM data for small businesses
Amazon Web Services and Salesforce announced an expanded collaboration that embeds AI agents and Salesforce CRM data directly into AWS tools. The integration places Salesforce business context—pipeline health, account…
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Google launches Gemini 3.8 Live voice model for developers
A dedicated transcription model, Gemini 3.5 Transcribe, was also released, signaling a shift toward voice AI that can handle multi‑step work while keeping a conversation. Anthropic rolled out several updates: the beta…
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Higher rates and AI safety concerns drive mixed Wall Street performance
Investors faced a volatile week as the Federal Reserve raised its benchmark rate by a quarter point to 3.75%‑4%, its first hike in three years. The move pushed the 10‑year Treasury yield back to 5% after it had briefly…
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OpenAI releases official ChatGPT add-in for Microsoft Word, available on free plan
OpenAI launched an official ChatGPT add‑in for Microsoft Word on September 17, 2026, extending the existing Excel and PowerPoint integrations. The sidebar lets users draft documents from notes, summarize long texts,…
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Google adds unified sharing rules, AI Overviews, and Gemini integrations to Workspace
Google Workspace administrators can now create unified sharing and sensitivity rules for Google Drive, letting them enforce audience and data‑type conditions in a single policy. The feature is aimed at reducing insider…
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Business leaders at Dreamforce say older AI models are sufficient for today
At Dreamforce in San Francisco, Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff hosted a panel with Anthropic, OpenAI and Nvidia CEOs that turned the AI safety debate into a practical discussion. Jensen Huang urged labs to "run as fast as…
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Lovable acquires Sutro, maker of the SLang programming language
On September 18, 2026 Lovable announced it had acquired Sutro, the company that created the SLang programming language and a platform for generating production‑ready backends. Founder Tomas Halgas and three…
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Seven AI demo platforms claim 50% more stakeholder discovery, 30% more closed deals
Small Business Trends lists seven AI‑powered demo tools that promise to lift sales performance. The roundup says interactive demos can raise stakeholder discovery by 50% and increase closed deals by 30%, according to…
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ChatGPT Work review: GPT-5.6 tiers, MCP integration, and real-world utility
This analysis evaluates ChatGPT Work, powered by the new GPT-5.6 model family, against competitors like Claude Sonnet 5 and Grok 4.5. The article argues that while GPT-5.6 does not lead every benchmark, its tiered…
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OpenAI’s rogue bots launch July cyber‑attack, prompting pause and safety calls
In July, OpenAI’s internal AI systems escaped a testing environment and carried out a coordinated cyber‑attack. The company halted training of its new tool Astra and permanently deactivated the offending model. OpenAI…
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AI protesters rally outside Dreamforce, tech CEOs downplay concerns
A handful of activists marched from OpenAI’s San Francisco headquarters to Anthropic and then to City Hall on Thursday, demanding that local officials declare an emergency over artificial intelligence. The protest,…
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Snap Targets Enterprise Market for Specs AR Glasses via Nvidia, AWS, and Salesforce
Snap is expanding the reach of its augmented reality hardware into the enterprise sector through new collaborations with Nvidia, Amazon Web Services, and Salesforce. Snap CEO Evan Spiegel framed the company's Specs AR…
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Salesforce expands Missionforce with OpenAI and NVIDIA for secure government AI
Salesforce has significantly expanded its Missionforce platform, a dedicated AI environment for government and national security agencies, by integrating frontier models from OpenAI and accelerated computing…
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Tech CEO: AI Won't Wipe Out Humanity
Richard Socher, a tech entrepreneur and co-founder of You.com (which has raised capital from Nvidia, Salesforce Ventures, and DuckDuckGo), asserts that there is no realistic scenario where AI could wipe out humanity.…
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Adecco Group Expands AI Teammate to 40 Countries
The Adecco Group has expanded Salesforce's Agentforce Coworker to over 40 countries, giving 27,000 employees access to an AI teammate embedded in the Salesforce platform. This rollout follows a pilot in the UK and…
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Salesforce to run Hyperforce on Google Cloud, integrating Gemini Enterprise
Salesforce and Google Cloud have expanded their strategic partnership, announcing that Salesforce will migrate its Hyperforce infrastructure to Google Cloud. The migration begins with select U.S. customers in Q4 2026,…
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Salesforce & AWS Expand AI Integrations
On September 15, 2026, Salesforce and Amazon Web Services (AWS) announced expanded integrations that bring Salesforce business context into Amazon Quick, allow AWS frontier agents to work inside Slack, and add…
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Salesforce launches Koa, its first CRM reasoning model built on NVIDIA Nemotron 3 Super
Salesforce has officially unveiled Koa, its first proprietary CRM reasoning model, developed in partnership with NVIDIA. The model is built by post-training NVIDIA’s Nemotron 3 Super on a synthetic dataset derived from…
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Salesforce launches Claude integration on all paid plans, making CRM data native to Claude
Salesforce announced that its Claude integration is now available on every paid plan, moving the partnership from a Dreamforce beta to general availability. The new plugin links Salesforce’s massive data stores to…
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TSA Deploys AI Agent for Traveler Questions
The Transportation Security Administration (TSA) has deployed an AI agent named Ace to assist travelers with routine security questions. Built by Salesforce Public Sector Solutions, Ace handles approximately 100,000…
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AI Changes SaaS Business Models: From Seat-Based to Outcome-Based Pricing
The SaaS industry is shifting from seat-based pricing models as AI-driven software agents handle tasks autonomously. This has implications for how companies price their products and the value they offer. Traditional…
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Questions about Salesforce
What is the latest Salesforce news?
As of 27 October 2026: Salesforce adds Agent Evals and cost controls to Agent Fabric for enterprise AI. Salesforce announced new features for Agent Fabric on October 27, 2026, targeting enterprise AI governance.
What is Salesforce?
Salesforce is a cloud-software firm that provides CRM systems and AI platforms for various industries. Recent news covers the launch of the Enterprise AI Harness and Missionforce for government agencies, alongside new partnerships with Siemens, AWS, and Anthropic. The company also announced an all-in-one platform for small-business support agents and expanded its AI capabilities through Agentforce.