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 conversational data flowing through workplace channels — a move that could determine whether Slack or Microsoft Teams becomes the dominant platform for AI-powered work.The company announced Wednesday that its new real-time search API and Model Context Protocol server will give third-party developers secure, permission-aware access to Slack's vast troves of workplace conversations, messages, and files. The move assumes that conversational data—the informal discussions, decisions, and institutional knowledge that accumulates in workplace chat—will become the fuel that makes AI agents truly useful [...]
Adding an AI agent to Slack sounds appealing to many enterprises — but, as VentureBeat has experienced ourselves first hand — the reality is often far more complex and clunkier than it first seems [...]
Slack wants to drag AI coding out of the terminal and into the group chat.The Salesforce-owned messaging platform today announced Slack Code, a new product that embeds AI coding agents — including A [...]
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 [...]
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 — [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]