Amazon is tripling its AI compute bet, announcing a monumental deal to bring 3 million next-generation NVIDIA GPUs and Vera CPUs to AWS data centers by 2028.

Salesforce and Anthropic announced Claudeforce on August 26, 2026 in San Francisco, an expanded strategic partnership whose first shipping component is a Salesforce plugin inside Claude carrying 37 prebuilt sales skills, available to select pilot customers ahead of an open beta scheduled for September 2026. The announcement carries an unusual amount of product detail for a partnership release, and an unusual amount of ambiguity about who can actually use it. Salesforce and An

Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff said the company's Dreamforce conference is going to feature a heavy dose of AIforce, the company's enterprise harness that has evolved over the last three years. Benioff, speaking on Salesforce's second quarter earnings call, didn't go into a lot of detail, but said AIforce is designed to serve has a harness that governs enterprise data and workflows to AI agents without integrations. https://www.constellationr.com/insights/news/salesforce-aims-be

Marc Benioff, chairman and CEO of Salesforce (NYSE:CRM), said enterprise adoption of artificial intelligence remains in its early stages despite rapid advances in consumer-facing tools, agents and AI-powered interfaces. https://finance.yahoo.com/technology/ai/articles/salesforce-ceo-benioff-says-enterprise-170201424.html

In August 2026, Slack introduced Slack Code, which is a dedicated workspace for teams to collaborate with AI coding agents on software development. Code channels bring coding work into Slack, allowing developers and other team members to share context, review changes and work with agents in a common environment. https://www.precedenceresearch.com/news/salesforce-ai-coding-shared-workspace-slack-code

The U.S. Coast Guard has issued Consolidation Notice CG-C5I-ESD3-26-08, outlining plans to consolidate Salesforce software licenses currently acquired through four separate contracts into a single enterprise acquisition. The licenses support several Coast Guard applications, including Navita™, Gangway and AuxData, MISLE-MEAM, and the Vessel Documentation System (VDS). According to the Coast Guard, its current approach of acquiring licenses separately by application has result