Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff apologized Friday for comments suggesting that President Trump should deploy the National Guard to San Francisco, saying he no longer believes it is necessary.  “Having listened closely to my fellow San Franciscans and our local officials, and after the largest and safest Dreamforce in our history, I do not believe the National Guard is needed to address safety in San Francisco,” Benioff wrote in a post on X.  https://thehill.com/policy/technology/

Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff apologized on Friday for making comments in support of President Donald Trump potentially sending federal troops to San Francisco, where his company is based.  “Having listened closely to my fellow San Franciscans and our local officials, and after the largest and safest Dreamforce in our history, I do not believe the National Guard is needed to address safety in San Francisco,” Benioff wrote in a post on X. https://www.cnbc.com/2025/10/17/benio

Salesforce billionaire Marc Benioff backtracked on Friday from comments suggesting President Donald Trump should send the National Guard to San Francisco. The tech CEO’s remarks initially drew a wave of criticism. “Having listened closely to my fellow San Franciscans and our local officials, and after the largest and safest Dreamforce in our history, I do not believe the National Guard is needed to address safety in San Francisco,” Benioff posted on X on Friday. https://www.c

Salesforce (CRM.N), opens new tab shares jumped more than 6% in premarket trading on Thursday, after the company forecast faster revenue growth in the coming years, easing concerns that AI tools were eroding demand for its software. The Marc Benioff-led company had posted its first revenue decline in about three years earlier this year, sparking fears that businesses focused on AI investments were cutting back on what has long been essential customer management software. Tha

Hackers said they published data on more than five million Qantas Airways customers this weekend, fulfilling a threat to do so unless paid a ransom. The leak appears to be one of the first confirmed data dumps from hackers who claim to have a hoard of data stolen over the summer from dozens of companies’ Salesforce accounts. https://www.wsj.com/articles/salesforce-linked-security-breach-fallout-escalates-with-qantas-leak-e42913fd

Marc Benioff doesn't think enough companies have figured out how to adopt AI. "Customers are getting their head around how to deploy AI," Benioff, the CEO of Salesforce, told CNBC host Jim Cramer on Tuesday. Earlier on Tuesday, Benoiff kicked off the Dreamforce conference at San Francisco's Moscone Center with a keynote, where he touted how clients such as Williams-Sonoma and Dutch jewelry maker Pandora have adopted Salesforce's AI products. https://www.businessinsider.com/s

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