Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff has announced plans to hire 1,000 graduates and interns. The move is aimed at bolstering the company's expanding artificial intelligence (AI) product line-up. These include Agentforce and Headless360. The announcement comes as a counter to fears that AI could lead to the loss of entry-level jobs. https://www.newsbytesapp.com/news/business/salesforce-to-hire-1-000-grads-interns-to-support-ai-push/story

Salesforce is set to hire 1,000 graduates and interns, its chief executive Marc Benioff has announced in a post on X. Benioff said the recruits would support the company’s expanding artificial intelligence (AI) products, including Agentforce and Headless360. https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/tech/artificial-intelligence/salesforce-to-hire-1000-graduates-in-ai-push-ceo-marc-benioff/articleshow/130517522.cms?from=mdr

Salesforce shares have fallen sharply amid investor concerns that AI could disrupt core software models, even as analysts expect strong fiscal Q1 2027 earnings growth. The company’s AI-driven tools, including Agentforce, are gaining adoption and boosting revenue, but fears of margin pressure and competition weigh on sentiment. Analysts remain largely bullish, projecting long-term revenue growth and positioning Salesforce’s CRM as central to customer engagement strategies....

Salesforce Inc. is being sued by a former consultant claiming he was terminated in a reduction in force after he took medical leave to take care of his father with cancer. The company’s move to select Jeremy John for a layoff was related to his father’s disability and in response to him taking time off under the Family Medical Leave Act, according to a complaint filed Thursday in the US District Court for the District of Connecticut. https://news.bloomberglaw.com/litigation/s

Salesforce.com Inc. reported $1,010,000 in first-quarter lobbying expenditures in an amended federal lobbying disclosure filed yesterday, but disclosed no specific issues its lobbyists worked on during the period. The blank issues field is notable given the active policy environment around Salesforce's core business areas. The company has consistently lobbied on artificial intelligence regulation, data privacy, high-skilled immigration, and R&D tax treatment. All of those iss

About a week ago at TrailblazerDX, Salesforce's developer conference, Salesforce announced a headless architecture that puts agents in the driver's seat of applications and how people interact with them. After reviewing the announcement, I was left with many questions -- questions I'm hearing from CIO friends as well: Should CIOs rethink their approach to their current application stack? Should purchase plans still include seat-based subscriptions? How does Salesforce intend

Shares of Salesforce (CRM) slipped 8.76% to close at $173.18 on Thursday, snapping a six-session winning streak, as renewed concerns over the long-term impact of artificial intelligence on software companies weighed on investor sentiment. The stock has gained around 6.87% between April 15 and April 22, compared to a 1.64% rise in the broader index. https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/other/salesforce-tumbles-ending-six-day-gains-as-ai-fears-weigh/ar-AA21yYzW?ocid=finance-verthp-f

Salesforce has expanded Agent Fabric – its multi-agent management layer – with a new centralised control plane that lets enterprises discover, govern, and orchestrate AI agents from any vendor in one place. The update is designed to solve a problem that has quietly become one of the biggest headaches in enterprise AI: too many agents, running on too many platforms, with no single view of what they’re doing or what they’re costing. https://www.uctoday.com/employee-engagement-r

Google Cloud and Salesforce (NYSE: CRM) today announced an expanded partnership that will enable AI agents to execute end-to-end workflows across both platforms by solving the long-standing challenge of fragmented data and disconnected systems. With new integrations across Salesforce and Google Cloud, customers can deploy AI agents in tools like Slack and Google Workspace, while Agentforce and Gemini Enterprise provide the intelligence and context behind the scenes. This allo

Salesforce Inc. said today it’s trying to break down the siloes that separate enterprise’s customer relationship management data from their productivity tools, specifically for artificial intelligence agents. It’s doing so by expanding its partnership with Google Cloud, unveiling a deep set of integrations that will enable autonomous agents to work seamlessly across both company’s ecosystems. The focus of the expanded partnership is all about “agentic interoperability,” Sales