Two outages on the same day in September made one thing clear: when the cloud goes dark, identity security goes with it — and that’s the part attackers wait for. On September 16, 2026, Salesforce went down for seven hours. The same day, Google Drive went dark for 39 minutes. https://www.spiceworks.com/security/what-the-salesforce-and-google-outages-reveal-about-token-theft-and-downtime/

Docusign (Nasdaq: DOCU) today announced the next chapter in its more than 20-year partnership with Salesforce (NYSE: CRM). The expanded partnership brings the Docusign Intelligent Agreement Management (IAM) platform natively into Salesforce, Agentforce, and Slack, helping revenue teams move agreements forward without ever leaving the tools they already work in. https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/docusign-and-salesforce-launch-intelligent-agreement-management-natively-ac

Salesforce is acquiring Loops, an Israeli startup that develops AI-powered analytics technology designed to explain why business metrics change and what companies should do next. The deal is estimated to be worth approximately $30 million, although the companies have not disclosed the price. Salesforce plans to integrate Loops’ technology and specialized team into Tableau, its data analytics platform, as it seeks to make analytics more autonomous. https://www.calcalistech.com

Marc Benioff announced on Friday that Salesforce's AIForce agent platform is now SIForce. "The era of Super Intelligence is here. AIForce is officially SIForce," the Salesforce CEO wrote on X, The Next Web reports. The rename tracks a September 29 executive order from President Trump directing federal agencies to replace "artificial intelligence" with "super intelligence" in official documents and websites. The order does not apply to private firms. https://aiweekly.co/alerts

Donald Trump wants two letters scrubbed from the tech industry’s vocabulary, and some executives are already reaching for replacements. Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff said Friday that his company’s AIForce platform is getting a new name. “The era of Super Intelligence is here. AIForce is officially SIForce,” Benioff wrote on X. https://www.businessinsider.com/trump-ai-rebrand-elon-musk-marc-benioff-2026-10

Salesforce (CRM) CEO Marc Benioff has become the latest tech billionaire after SpaceX (SPCX) CEO Elon Musk to adjust their businesses in accordance with President Donald Trump’s push to replace the term "artificial intelligence” with "super intelligence." https://seekingalpha.com/news/4651903-salesforce-ceo-benioff-joins-trumps-ai-rebranding

Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff has a new favorite acronym. On October 10, 2026, he announced that the company’s AIForce agent platform will now be called SIForce. The “SI” stands for Super Intelligence. That is the term the Trump administration now wants used in place of “Artificial Intelligence.” The change applies only to the platform, not to Salesforce itself. The corporate name stays put, so nobody needs to update the stock ticker or the giant tower in San Francisco....

Salesforce is renaming its AIForce agent platform to SIForce, chief executive Marc Benioff said on Friday, as Katherine Li reported for Business Insider. “The era of Super Intelligence is here. AIForce is officially SIForce,” Benioff wrote on X. The change covers the agent platform only, not the company’s name. https://thenextweb.com/news/salesforce-aiforce-siforce-trump-super-intelligence

If ever there was a stock that personified the promise and peril of the AI trade, it’s Salesforce. Salesforce shares have been in a tug of war throughout 2026, and it may present an opportunity for options traders. The stock bottomed in late June, down more than 40% from the start of the year on fears that AI agents would make traditional software subscriptions obsolete. https://www.cnbc.com/2026/10/06/salesforce-shares-sit-at-the-epicenter-of-ai-confusion-heres-how-to-trade-

In its September 29, 2026 announcement, Salesforce disclosed a definitive agreement to acquire Listen Labs, whose agents can draw on a network of more than 50 million participants and conduct interviews in more than 120 languages, with closing expected in the fourth quarter of Salesforce's fiscal 2027 subject to customary conditions and required regulatory clearance. The proposed acquisition would bring automated customer research closer to Salesforce's CRM and AI products; t