With Anthropic pledging a staggering $100 billion to AWS over the next decade, Wall Street is eagerly awaiting the AI startup's IPO prospectus to see if it has the cash to back it up.

Pravar Gautam, VP, Alliances and Channel at Salesforce is leaving the vendor after a year. The veteran leader, who joined Salesforce from AWS in September 2025, shared the announcement on his LinkedIn profile. “After a meaningful and fulfilling chapter at Salesforce, I'm turning the page,” he said. Gautam’s departure comes as the vendor continues to strengthen its partner ecosystem in the region. Over the past year, Gautam has been supporting the growth of Salesforce partners

Agiloft for Salesforce on Salesforce AgentExchange has been released, giving legal, finance and sales teams a way to manage contract workflows directly within Salesforce without custom coding. The integration connects Salesforce CRM records with Agiloft’s contract lifecycle management platform. For law firms and legal departments, the main potential benefit is reducing manual contract intake and data entry while giving lawyers greater visibility into the business context surr

Pre-event materials cited include no customer-reported ROI, adoption metrics, or cost-to-run figures for Agentforce. The main keynote is Sept. 15, 2026. UC Today says Dreamforce runs Sept. 15-17 at Moscone, with a free Salesforce+ virtual program Sept. 15-18. https://www.marketscale.com/industries/software-and-technology/dreamforce-2026-goes-all-in-on-ai-agents-but-roi-numbers-are-still-missing

People management software provider HiBob has raised US$166m in new funding through a round led by Salesforce, with continued participation from existing investor Farallon Capital Management. The investment marks a strategic shift for HiBob, taking the company beyond conventional Human Resources systems as it builds an organisational intelligence framework designed for the AI era. https://businesschief.com/news/salesforce-invests-us-166m-into-hibob-to-expand-ai-platform

CNBC reported that Salesforce, Inc. (NYSE:CRM) reported fiscal second-quarter revenue of $11.35 billion, up 11% year over year and above the $11.32 billion analysts expected. Net income rose to $3.53 billion from $1.89 billion a year earlier, boosted by a $2.6 billion gain on its Anthropic investment. https://uk.finance.yahoo.com/news/salesforce-crm-ai-numbers-just-205654689.html