Threat actors are exploiting "customers' overly permissive" Salesforce Experience Cloud guest user configurations to steal sensitive data, Salesforce Security said in a March 7 blog post. Salesforce said this issue is unrelated to a vulnerability inherent to its platform and that Salesforce remains secure. "Our investigation to date confirms that this activity relates to a customer-configured guest user setting," the blog post read . https://www.darkreading.com/application-s

Salesforce is expanding its portfolio of pre-built artificial intelligence agents designed to reduce administrative workloads for healthcare payers, providers and public health organisations. The company is working with health technology firms HealthEx, Verily and Viz.ai to integrate key datasets and automate tasks such as clinical intake, updates to electronic health records, hospital bed management and monitoring for infectious disease outbreaks. The six new AI agents buil

Salesforce is warning customers that hackers are targeting websites with misconfigured Experience Cloud platforms that give guest users access to more data than intended. However, the ShinyHunters extortion gang claims to be actively exploiting a new bug to steal data from instances. Salesforce has shared guidance for its customers to defend against hackers actively targeting the /s/sfsites/aura API endpoint on misconfigured Experience Cloud instances that gives guest users

The narrative surrounding artificial intelligence in corporate America often swings between two poles: a promise of unprecedented productivity gains and a threat of widespread workforce reductions. Marc Benioff, CEO of Salesforce, is actively challenging the latter assumption. He contends that recent industry layoffs are more frequently a result of company-specific overexpansion and internal corrections, rather than a direct, inevitable consequence of AI adoption. https://www

HubSpot and Salesforce both recently announced major changes to their partner programs — moves that executives say will improve quality and help partners deliver better AI-driven outcomes. But analysts and partners see something bigger: a strategic reset as both companies compete to remain central platforms in an AI-driven software stack. https://martech.org/salesforce-and-hubspot-reshape-partner-programs-for-the-ai-era/

For investors watching the AI tools race, NYSE:CRM is pushing Agentforce beyond its core enterprise software roots into high profile arenas such as global sports and telecom. These deployments put Salesforce closer to real world customer interactions, where brands are looking for ways to personalize engagement at scale without rebuilding their technology stacks. https://finance.yahoo.com/news/salesforce-expands-agentforce-formula-1-141306935.html

On Monday, March 2, Salesforce officially filed the mandatory Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification (WARN), which shows Salesforce will lay off 51 permanent employees effective on Friday, May 1, at San Francisco’s Salesforce Tower on 415 Mission Street. On Tuesday, March 3, the WARN notification was processed by authorities, which met the federal 60-day advance notice requirement. https://www.thesfnews.com/salesforce-will-lay-off-51-employees-in-may-2026/100238

Welcome back to our Sunday edition, where we round up some of our top stories and take you inside our newsroom. Four young finance bros got the glossy treatment in an article that lit up social media and sparked plenty of backlash. We followed up with one of the Wall Street studs, who said he’s leaning into the buzz because “controversy sells.” https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/fallout-salesforce-ceos-off-color-jokes-continues-businessinsider-t0bge/

Salesforce CEO (NYSE:CRM ) Marc Benioff said on Wednesday that warnings about AI-driven mass white-collar layoffs were overblown. By Friday morning, the U.S. economy had shed 92,000 jobs , and a week that saw headlines on job cuts at Morgan Stanley (NYSE:MS ), Oracle (NYSE:ORCL ), and Capital One (NYSE:COF ) was drawing to a close. https://www.benzinga.com/markets/tech/26/03/51115886/marc-benioff-said-mass-ai-layoffs-werent-coming-then-came-a-brutal-week-for-white-collar-

Salesforce used its latest Q4 earnings call to underline that AI is now at the center of its growth story, with revenue for FY26 rising 10% to $41.5 billion and Q4 sales up 12% to $11.2 billion. Remaining performance obligations climbed to $72 billion, while new AI platforms Agentforce and Data 360 surged to a combined $2.9 billion in ARR, growing more than 200% and driving record large‑enterprise deals. https://www.tipranks.com/news/weekend-updates/salesforce-leans-into-ai-