Marc Benioff expects Salesforce to spend $300 million on Anthropic tokens this year, almost entirely on coding. The Salesforce CEO made the projection on the All-In podcast published on Friday, calling AI coding agents “awesome” and Anthropic “awesome” in the same breath, before adding that the spending would make everything at Salesforce cheaper to build. https://thenextweb.com/news/salesforce-benioff-300-million-anthropic-tokens-slack-coding

Madhav Thattai has long operated at the center of enterprise AI. Now executive vice president and general manager for Agentforce at Salesforce, he has a front-row view into how companies across industries are tapping into the power of AI agents. https://deloitte.wsj.com/cio/salesforce-agentic-ai-leader-how-to-escape-proof-of-concept-purgatory-1b71987a

Marc Benioff is all in on the AI coding agent craze and is willing to spend big on it for his company. In an episode of the All-In podcast published on Friday, the Salesforce CEO said his company is projected to spend $300 million on tokens from Anthropic. https://www.businessinsider.com/marc-benioff-salesforce-anthropic-spend-tokens-slack-2026-5

Salesforce (CRM) just picked up a new $72 million contract from the U.S. Air Force, and on the surface, that sounds like good news for a company trying to prove that its AI push has real traction. But the stock market is still asking a bigger question: Is Salesforce becoming a better business, or is it simply getting cheaper while investors wait for growth to reaccelerate? https://www.barchart.com/story/news/1963197/salesforce-received-a-new-72-million-contract-from-the-u-s-a

The wife of Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff has been appointed to a prestigious San Francisco park board position. Lynne Benioff was appointed Thursday as one of six new members of the Presidio Trust Board of Directors, the federal corporation overseeing San Francisco’s iconic 1,500-acre Presidio national park site near the Golden Gate Bridge. https://nypost.com/2026/05/15/us-news/wife-of-salesforce-ceo-marc-benioff-appointed-to-cushy-new-sf-position/

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