Salesforce unveils Slackforce at Dreamforce 2026, letting users query and complete nearly all Salesforce tasks inside Slack through Surface-generated interactive interfaces, with two-way Slackbot voice due later this year.
Anthropic is rolling out a unified “One Claude” interface for Pro and Max subscribers, merging its chatbot and Cowork agent while adding Docs, Slides, Design integration, collaborative editing, and PowerPoint or PDF exports.
Anthropic merges Claude Cowork and chat into a single Claude experience for Pro and Max subscribers, while launching beta Docs and Slides that let paid users co-write files, build presentations, present in Claude, and export PowerPoint or PDF.
Anthropic launches Salesforce in Claude beta, giving sales teams 37 AI skills to research accounts, prepare calls, review pipelines and draft CRM updates while keeping Salesforce as the system of record and requiring seller approval for proposed changes.
Salesforce launches Koa, a business reasoning model built on Nvidia Nemotron 3 Super for long-running AI agents, alongside AIforce, Claudeforce’s 37 pre-built sales skills, and Headless 360 API access at Dreamforce 2026.
Salesforce launches Koa, its first CRM reasoning model for Agentforce, built on NVIDIA Nemotron and slated for U.S. general availability in Winter 2026 after training on proprietary synthetic CRM scenarios across more than 14 industries.
Perplexity launches Portable Computer for compatible NVIDIA RTX PCs, bringing multistep AI-agent workflows locally to Windows machines with at least 24GB of VRAM while connecting to tools including Outlook, Gmail, Slack and GitHub.
Descope launches Cross-App Access in its Agentic Identity Hub, enabling SSO-like AI-agent access to MCP servers through short-lived, request-validated ID-JAG tokens and self-service setup for tenant admins.
U.S. business AI adoption reaches 56.1% in August, but the biggest spenders cut per-employee outlays from $7,976 to $7,205 as frontier models’ token share slips to 45% and open-source or Chinese options remain used by just 6.4% of AI-buying firms.
Google Cloud and Accenture are launching a joint AI unit deploying up to 1,000 engineers to help enterprises adopt Gemini-powered tools, as Google fights to close a massive market share gap, currently holding just 6% of enterprise AI spending compared to Anthropic's 43.5% and OpenAI's 39.7%.