AWS and Superblocks have partnered to bring AI "vibe coding" securely inside the corporate firewall, solving the massive security risks of shadow IT.

June AI, founded by the team behind Bonobo AI after five years at Salesforce, is building AI agents to automate the costly software implementation work holding back enterprise AI adoption. June AI has emerged from stealth with $20 million in pre-Seed funding from a group of strategic investors led by TIME Ventures, the investment arm of Salesforce CEO and founder Marc Benioff. https://www.calcalistech.com/ctechnews/article/s1vpyl0rml

Walk into almost any enterprise organization today, and you'll find the same configuration: Microsoft 365 handles the day-to-day. Teams for collaboration. Outlook for approvals. SharePoint for documents. Excel for... everything else. And sitting alongside it, the CRM your revenue, operations, and service teams depend on: Salesforce. https://www.informationweek.com/software-services/the-real-cost-of-running-microsoft-365-and-salesforce-in-silos

Salesforce is investing in Callimacus, the artificial intelligence-powered platform developed by luxury retailer Brunello Cucinelli’s Solomei AI team, betting that AI-generated shopping experiences could reshape how brands engage online shoppers. https://www.digitalcommerce360.com/2026/07/31/salesforce-agentic-ai-brunello-cucinelli-callimacus/

After nearly three decades at Microsoft, cybersecurity executive Krishna Kumar Parthasarathy has announced he is joining Salesforce as executive vice president of engineering. Parthasarathy is part of a wave of senior Microsoft security leaders who have departed this summer for executive roles at major tech competitors, including Amazon Web Services (AWS), ServiceNow and Salesforce. https://www.geekwire.com/2026/salesforce-hires-ex-microsoft-exec-to-lead-agentforce-engineerin

According to IDC Market Research, companies lose 20–30% of their revenue potential [1] due to inefficiencies caused by data silos. For a mid-sized business with $10 million in revenue, that’s $2–3 million slipping away every year, not because of a lack of demand, but because systems don’t work together. And nowhere is that more visible than in Salesforce–Jira workflows. https://hackernoon.com/5-of-the-best-salesforce-jira-integration-tools-in-2026