Salesforce

Salesforce just announced the most ambitious Slack update since the $27.7B acquisition — and if you’re building agentic workflows for enterprise, the MCP integration is the headline buried under 29 other features. 30 Features, One That Stands Out At a small gathering in San Francisco on Tuesday, CEO Marc Benioff and his team unveiled Slack’s AI overhaul. The 30 new features cover everything from desktop awareness and meeting transcription to reusable AI skills. But the one that changes the architectural picture for enterprise AI is this: ...

Salesforce has made its biggest bet on the future of enterprise AI concrete: AI Foundry, a dedicated research initiative investing through 2027 in three specific bets about where agentic AI is going. The announcement from Salesforce AI Research isn’t a product launch — it’s a roadmap statement about what Salesforce believes the enterprise AI landscape will look like in 18 months, and where they intend to lead. The Three Bets Salesforce AI Foundry is organized around three research pillars, each targeting a real gap in how enterprise agentic AI works today. ...

Salesforce didn’t just decide to add AI features. It found itself staring down an existential threat — and decided to charge toward it. The company that spent three decades building the definitive enterprise CRM platform is now betting its future on a technology that, if it works as advertised, could make the platform itself unnecessary. That’s the uncomfortable paradox sitting at the heart of Salesforce’s Agentforce play, and it’s why the company’s current strategic moment is being watched far beyond its own customer base. ...