OpenAI and Anthropic have collectively hired approximately 100 Salesforce employees over the past 18 months, with Anthropic hiring more than 45 and OpenAI nearly 40, primarily in sales, marketing, and…
A developer spent three weeks testing AI note-taking tools Otter, Fireflies, Fathom, and smaller players on real meetings. Fathom was kept for client calls due to its clean post-meeting experience, wh…
Vercel launched Vercel Connect, a service that allows apps and AI agents to securely access external services like Slack, GitHub, and Salesforce using scoped, short-lived tokens instead of long-lived …
Databricks reported $6.9 billion in annualized recurring revenue, up 80% year over year, widening its lead over Snowflake to $1.6 billion. AI products now account for $1.7 billion of Databricks' ARR, …
Vercel launched Enterprise Apps and Agents, a platform that enforces security and access controls for internal AI applications and agents, including identity-based authentication, short-lived credenti…
Enterprise AI agents are expanding beyond server-side operations to act on client-side state, such as unsaved form data, cursor positions, and browser permissions. Focused Labs highlights that server-…
Salesforce stock has fallen for its longest consecutive losing streak on record, dropping 33-37% year-to-date through mid-June 2026, after the company announced a $3.6 billion acquisition of AI startu…
Salesforce agreed to acquire AI customer-service company Fin for approximately $3.6 billion, aiming to bolster its Agentforce platform with a packaged autonomous support solution. The deal, expected t…
Silicon Valley companies like Meta, Amazon, and Salesforce are grappling with soaring costs from AI token usage, co-opting the term 'tokenomics' from crypto to describe budgeting for large language mo…
Companies like 8x8 are saving millions by replacing software subscriptions with Anthropic's Claude AI, while others like Cisco and Royal Bank of Canada report surging token usage costs. The phenomenon…
A developer launched Opencom, an open-source alternative to Intercom for customer support chat, featuring a knowledge base, AI support, and mobile apps. The project aims to provide a self-hostable sol…
Adobe and LinkedIn are launching a free 'AI Essentials for Marketers' program to upskill marketing professionals as AI reshapes the industry. Job postings requiring AI literacy have surged 113% year-o…
Salesforce acquired Fin for $3.6B on June 15, 2026, while NewCore raised $66M for AI-agent identity management and Cloudflare hired Ensemble AI's team, signaling a shift from building agents in-house …
Salesforce agreed to acquire Fin, formerly Intercom, for $3.6 billion in the largest deal ever for an Irish-founded tech firm. The AI customer-service agent company will bolster Salesforce's Agentforc…
Salesforce announced on Monday its $3.6 billion acquisition of agentic AI firm Fin, formerly known as Intercom, to enhance its AI capabilities for customer service. Analysts expressed concerns about i…
Nvidia plans to raise up to $25 billion in its first bond sale since 2021, drawing $85 billion in early orders as tech giants race to fund AI infrastructure. The offering spans seven tranches with mat…
US Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick imposed export controls on Anthropic's Fable 5 and Mythos 5 AI models over military intelligence concerns, forcing the company to disable access globally. The dire…
Salesforce agreed to acquire Fin, the customer agent business formerly known as Intercom founded by Eoghan McCabe, for approximately $3.6 billion. The deal is expected to close in the fourth quarter o…
Salesforce acquired AI customer service platform Fin for $3.6 billion to enhance its Agentforce enterprise platform. Fin's AI agent resolves customer queries across multiple channels, and the deal is …
Salesforce acquired AI customer service agent Fin for $3.6 billion on June 15, 2026, to address Agentforce's slow deployment times. Fin resolves 76% of support queries end-to-end and serves 30,000 com…