Agencies will have access to new artificial intelligence tools that can help implement government policies, digitize manual processes and automate work orders through a Missionforce expansion announced in a Wednesday blog post. Salesforce’s post also announced a partnership with OpenAI, which will allow government and national security officials to access Missionforce applications and workflows directly through ChatGPT. That integration is notable as federal agencies will ha

Salesforce users lost access to its cloud software suite on Wednesday as a widespread service outage struck on the second day of the company’s annual Dreamforce conference. https://www.barrons.com/articles/salesforce-stock-google-service-outage-dreamforce-f911b1b2

An hours-long Salesforce outage on Wednesday hit customers with severe delays, intermittent errors, and inability to access some services, according to the SaaS vendor's status page. The outage hit hundreds of instances throughout the world, including the USA, Japan, India, the UK, France, and Germany. https://www.theregister.com/saas/2026/09/16/salesforce-staggers-back-to-feet-after-global-outage/5296800

The absolute last time a company wants its namesake product to stop working is during a big annual event when everyone is talking about said company. Salesforce learned that the hard way on Wednesday morning, per Quartz. The Salesforce software status page indicated that the company's enterprise software, used for things like tracking sales data and invoices, suffered an outage around 3:50 a.m. ET on Wednesday morning. The Salesforce Dreamforce event kicked off on Sept. 15...

During its session with analysts and investors at Dreamforce, Salesforce issued a revenue forecast for fiscal 2030 of over $63 billion, topping analysts’ estimates. The software vendor was expected to reach annual sales of $59.2 billion by that time, according to analysts polled by LSEG. This year’s Dreamforce lands at a pivotal moment for Salesforce, which has been through a rocky year due to concerns about artificial intelligence hurting its business. But it’s rebounded of

Salesforce $CRM -2.88% suffered a widespread service outage on Wednesday, the second day of its annual Dreamforce conference in San Francisco, leaving customers unable to access parts of its cloud software suite. The trouble started at roughly 7:50 a.m. UTC (3:50 a.m. Eastern), based on Salesforce's status page incident tracker. Customers across all three of the company's operating regions, mainly in the U.S., may experience severe delays, intermittent errors, or an inability

While its flagship Dreamforce event was in full swing on Wednesday, Salesforce was triaging a roughly seven and a half hour-long service outage that disrupted user access and caused “severe delays” and intermittent errors. Some customers were also unable to submit new support cases. The service outage hit at 3:50 a.m. EDT, impacting “multiple instances across all regions,” Salesforce reported. It was marked resolved right around 3 p.m. EDT, after several hours of monitoring t

Today at Dreamforce 2026, Salesforce and Google Cloud expanded their strategic partnership to eliminate the friction of fragmented enterprise systems — where data, agents, and applications operate in silos — and accelerate enterprise AI adoption. By running Salesforce on Google Cloud infrastructure and connecting Salesforce’s headless architecture with Google Cloud’s Gemini Enterprise, agents on either platform can reason and act upon the same data without custom integrations

Salesforce Inc. must face most claims of a proposed class action alleging it negligently failed to protect the personal information of millions of customers of its corporate clients that was exposed in a 2025 data breach. The plaintiffs alleged injury in fact sufficient for standing to sue in federal court, Judge Jacqueline Scott Corley said Monday. They also adequately pleaded claims of negligence and violations of the California Consumer Privacy Act, the Illinois Consumer F

Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff on Tuesday became the latest tech leader to urge the artificial intelligence industry to act responsibly as increasingly powerful models become more widely used. His comments come amid an intensifying debate over AI safety, fueled most recently by Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei’s weekend essay calling for frontier AI labs to slow the pace of model development to give safety measures more time to catch up. https://www.cnbc.com/2026/09/15/salesforce-marc