As the Trump administration shrinks the federal workforce, the private sector is developing artificial intelligence that could fill in gaps — specifically, agentic AI, technology that can take action without precise instructions.  The “agentic enterprise,” where humans work alongside AI agents, was the theme of Salesforce’s annual conference last week. https://www.nextgov.com/artificial-intelligence/2025/10/salesforce-pitches-ai-agents-government-sheds-staff/408952/?oref=ng-

AI’s energy use and carbon emissions are a red-hot topic in the climate space these days. The collision between AI and climate goals will be one of the defining corporate challenges of the next decade. And Salesforce — one of tech’s most visible sustainability champions — sits squarely at the center of that tension.  https://trellis.net/article/the-problem-with-salesforces-new-climate-math/

The tech world is full of what appear to be odd partnerships, and some of the announcements at last week’s Dreamforce conference put that on full display.  Everyone knows Salesforce wants to be synonymous with AI — and agentic AI in particular. It opened Dreamforce with the introduction of Agentforce 360 , the latest version of its Agentforce platform.  https://martech.org/why-is-salesforce-partnering-with-the-biggest-names-in-ai/

Microsoft and Salesforce have been ranked as leaders in the ‘low-code’ development landscape by a new report. GlobalData’s Low-Code Platforms: Competitive Landscape Assessment report states that the success of Microsoft Power Platform and Salesforce Flow application platforms is largely based on the vendors’ ability to evolve their mature low-code technology into a popular user interface (UI) for advanced artificial intelligence (AI) innovations including generative AI (GenA

Salesforce is one of the world's largest software as a service (SaaS) providers, with product offerings in customer relationship management ( CRM ), sales, marketing and financial services . Just ahead of Salesforce's annual Dreamforce conference in October 2025, the company experienced a significant data breach. A sophisticated extortion group launched a dark web data leak site, threatening to expose sensitive information stolen from major organizations whose customer data

A year ago, Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff announced a huge bet on AI agents amid the cartoonish sprawl of his company’s annual Dreamforce conference, which resembles something of a Disneyland for B2B SaaS enthusiasts. https://www.techbrew.com/stories/2025/10/20/salesforce-dreamforce-2025-ai-agents

At their annual Dreamforce conference in San Francisco last week, Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff Agentforce 360 , the fourth edition of Agentforce. Agentforce 360 is the foundation for enterprise-grade artificial intelligence (AI) agents, now featuring a new conversational builder, hybrid reasoning for greater control and accuracy, and voice capabilities, according to company officials. It incorporates Data 360, the unified data layer that gives every agent context. https://ww

At Dreamforce 2025, Salesforce centered its entire narrative around a single concept: the agentic enterprise. Every announcement, demo, and customer story pointed toward a vision where AI agents drive business operations, decision-making, and collaboration. The company is aligning its products, platform, and partnerships through Agentforce 360, the core of the Salesforce 360 ecosystem that connects people, data, and systems in an intelligent, trusted framework. https://www.co

Salesforce Inc. Chief Executive Officer Marc Benioff apologized for calling on President Donald Trump to send the National Guard to San Francisco, after almost a week of public criticism from local allies and government officials for his statements. https://www.seattletimes.com/business/salesforces-benioff-apologizes-for-pro-trump-national-guard-comments/

Salesforce Inc. is moving from the hype phase of generative AI into doing the harder engineering work to create the agentic enterprise . The Dreamforce 2025 conference this week showed us that the company that created the original software-as-a-service model now wants to lead what we call  service as software . In our view, this represents a profound revolution, not just in technology but in business. In a world where AI agents deliver outcomes across systems of record, syste