Over 1,400 Salesforce employees have signed a letter calling on CEO Marc Benioff to drop potential business with the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency, two people familiar with the effort told CNBC. https://www.cnbc.com/2026/02/10/salesforce-employees-call-on-ceo-benioff-to-cancel-ice-opportunities.html

Nearly 1,000 roles were cut at cloud software provider Salesforce at the start of this month, according to a source who spoke to Business Insider . While the company did not disclose the reason for the layoffs , they come on the heels of an executive shake up. Companies across the U.S. have significantly shrunk their staff as artificial intelligence takes over tasks previously handled by employees. In 2025, AI was cited as a reason for over 54,000 job cuts, according to a

Cloud software provider Salesforce (CRM.N), opens new tab cut fewer than 1,000 roles at the beginning of this month, Business Insider reported on Monday, citing a person familiar with the matter. The affected roles included marketing, product management, data analytics and Agentforce AI product, Business Insider said, citing LinkedIn posts and conversations with two employees. https://www.reuters.com/business/world-at-work/salesforce-cuts-less-than-1000-jobs-business-insider

Salesforce made cuts to its workforce at the beginning of this month. The cut involved fewer than 1,000 roles, according to a person familiar with the matter. At least nine employees posted on LinkedIn that their roles had been eliminated. Affected roles included marketing, product management, data analytics, and Salesforce's Agentforce AI product, according to LinkedIn posts and profiles, as well as two employees who spoke to Business Insider. https://www.businessinsider.co

Salesforce will no longer accept new enterprise contracts for Heroku, its cloud application platform, and is no longer focused on new features, with the reason given being investment elsewhere in "enterprise-grade AI." Nitin T. Bhat, who leads the Heroku business unit within Salesforce, posted an update  on the Heroku blog in which he stated that Heroku was "transitioning to a sustaining engineering model." Users were  quick to conclude that "they’re planning to coast from h

YouTuber MrBeast went viral over the weekend for a new Salesforce Super Bowl ad that offered a $1 million payout for the first person who could solve his puzzle. Jimmy Donaldson, known online as MrBeast, joined "Good Morning America" on Monday to explain how the puzzle competition works. https://abcnews.com/GMA/Culture/mrbeast-drops-big-hint-1m-puzzle-salesforce-super/story?id=129987912

Salesforce’s decision to halt new enterprise sales for Heroku most likely signals a strategic de-prioritization of the once-prominent PaaS as the company pivots towards AI-led growth, analysts say. Salesforce has signaled a major strategic shift for its long-standing cloud platform Heroku by ending sales of new Heroku Enterprise contracts and moving the service into a maintenance-focused “sustaining engineering” phase. https://www.infoworld.com/article/4129430/salesforce-may-

For most of the past year, a quiet skepticism followed Salesforce’s AI narrative. Was the company executing a real infrastructure shift—or simply renaming familiar components to keep pace with the agent hype cycle? The 2026 MuleSoft Connectivity Benchmark Report doesn’t resolve that question neatly. What it does reveal is more consequential: enterprises have already crossed into large-scale agent deployment, while the infrastructure required to govern that reality is only ha

You gotta hand it to MrBeast, aka Jimmy Donaldson. The guy knows how to think big. For Super Bowl 60 , he teamed up with Salesforce on a 30-second spot, “The Vault,” that kicks off a game of puzzles with the prize being a million dollars. It aired during the fourth quarter of the game. https://www.adweek.com/brand-marketing/salesforce-teams-up-with-mrbeast-to-give-away-1-million-at-super-bowl-60/

For investors watching NYSE:CRM, these developments highlight how Salesforce’s core strengths in cloud software, data management, and AI are being applied in large scale public sector and infrastructure projects. The U.S. Army contract and the EMBERPOINT alliance both sit at the intersection of secure cloud, AI agents, and real world operations, areas that many enterprise and government buyers are prioritizing. https://finance.yahoo.com/news/salesforce-lands-major-army-ai-090