More than 50,000 people from all over the world have come to San Francisco for Dreamforce 2025, which is officially kicking off Tuesday. It comes as Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff is facing backlash over comments he made, calling on President Trump to deploy the National Guard to San Francisco. He walked back on those comments over the weekend. https://abc7news.com/post/dreamforce-expected-bring-130-million-sf-salesforce-announces-15-billion-investment-city/18006411/

Salesforce is ramping up partnerships with leaders in generative artificial intelligence as investors continue to fear that the software company faces business risks due to the rapid growth of AI. Just ahead of its annual Dreamforce conference in San Francisco, Salesforce said Tuesday it will enable the use of AI models from OpenAI and Anthropic inside its Agentforce 360 software. A day earlier, Salesforce expanded Agentforce beyond text chats to also handle voice calls ....

Salesforce (CRM.N), opens new tab expanded partnerships with OpenAI and Anthropic to integrate their frontier AI models into its Agentforce 360 platform, aiming to deliver enterprise-grade AI tools to a wider range of businesses and regulated industries. https://www.reuters.com/business/salesforce-deepens-ai-ties-with-openai-anthropic-power-agentforce-platform-2025-10-14/

Salesforce ( CRM ) CEO Marc Benioff says agentic AI will be tech's next big wave. "We've gone through cloud, we've gone through mobile, we've gone through social, we've gone through predictive AI," Benioff said at Dreamforce in San Francisco on Tuesday. "And now we're entering this new agentic AI revolution ... and it is going to be magic." https://finance.yahoo.com/news/salesforce-ceo-marc-benioff-agentic-ai-is-the-next-revolution-203215233.html

In a Tuesday interview with CNBC’s Jim Cramer , Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff said his company’s artificial intelligence program, Agentforce, is central to business. “People don’t understand that Agentforce is part and parcel of Salesforce,” Benioff said, speaking to Cramer from Salesforce’s annual conference, Dreamforce, in San Francisco. “It is the core of every product we make now, it is the platform.” https://www.cnbc.com/2025/10/14/salesforce-ceo-agentforce.html

Software giant Salesforce is planning to invest $15 billion in San Francisco over the next five years to strengthen the city’s dominance in artificial intelligence. “This $15 billion investment reflects our deep commitment to our hometown — advancing AI innovation, creating jobs, and helping companies and our communities thrive in this incredible new era,” said Salesforce Chief Executive Marc Benioff in a statement. https://www.seattletimes.com/business/salesforce-to-invest-1

Salesforce CRM -3.61% decrease; red down pointing triangle will invest $15 billion in San Francisco over the next five years, a move the company said will cement the city’s status as a global hub for artificial intelligence. The investment will fund a new AI Incubator Hub, expand workforce-development programs and help companies transform into “agentic enterprises,” Salesforce said Monday. It comes as San Francisco’s office market is showing signs of recovery after years of

Salesforce (CRM.N), opens new tab said on Monday it would invest $15 billion in San Francisco over the next five years to accelerate AI adoption, as the cloud software provider looks to sharpen its competitive edge against tech giants. Founded in San Francisco in 1999 and still headquartered there, Salesforce has been integrating AI into its products, including workplace messaging platform Slack, as it jostles with companies such as ServiceNow (NOW.N), opens new tab , Oracle

Vendors have spent the past year releasing tools and services designed to ease the enterprise development and deployment of AI agents. Now, providers are combining these tools into unified platforms as they look to accelerate adoption.  https://www.ciodive.com/news/salesforce-agentforce-platform-agentic-AI-dreamforce/802622/

Salesforce ( CRM ) said on Monday its artificial intelligence platform "Agentforce 360" would be available globally across its suite of cloud-based tools to help clients automate routine tasks. Software firms are racing to enhance their products with advanced features as competition intensifies in an industry where clients are increasingly turning to AI agents, which can take actions on behalf of users, to help rein in costs. https://finance.yahoo.com/news/salesforce-launche