Five years and $27.7 billion after Salesforce acquired Slack, the two products are finally starting to function as a single system. On Tuesday, Slack launched an integration that connects Slackbot — the personal AI agent built into every workspace — to the entire Salesforce platform, including CRM data, Tableau analytics, Data 360 customer profiles, and a growing constellation of third-party applications, all through a single conversational prompt.The mechanism behind the expansion is a set of dedicated Model Context Protocol (MCP) servers from Salesforce that connect Slackbot to the company's Headless 360 infrastructure. In practical terms, a salesperson can now ask Slackbot for a customer's deal history, receive a live Tableau visualization of pipeline trends, update a CRM [...]
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 [...]
Slack today announced more than 30 new capabilities for Slackbot, its AI-powered personal agent, in what amounts to the most sweeping overhaul of the workplace messaging platform since Salesforce acqu [...]
Slack is fundamentally reshaping how artificial intelligence agents access and use enterprise data, launching new platform capabilities that allow developers to tap directly into the rich conversation [...]
Kilo Code, the open-source AI coding startup backed by GitLab cofounder Sid Sijbrandij, is launching a Slack integration that allows software engineering teams to execute code changes, debug issues, a [...]
Anthropic on Tuesday launched Claude Tag, a new product that embeds its most advanced AI model directly inside Slack as a persistent, shared teammate that anyone on a team can delegate work to by simp [...]
Anthropic on Monday launched a beta integration that connects its fast-growing Claude Code programming agent directly to Slack, allowing software engineers to delegate coding tasks without leaving the [...]