Billionaire Salesforce (CRM) co-founder and CEO Marc Benioff is never lost for words when it comes to how great his software company is. The problem is that the market has been tuning him out for over a year, believing new artificial intelligence models from OpenAI (OPAI.PVT) and Anthropic (ANTH.PVT) would render the company and others like it extinct in a few years. https://finance.yahoo.com/markets/stocks/article/salesforce-billionaire-ceo-marc-benioff-just-spent-27-billion

The SaaSpocalypse is nothing to fear, Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff assured investors Wednesday during a video earnings call from the Salesforce Tower in San Francisco, emphasizing the company’s continued progress in the AI era. https://www.channeldive.com/news/salesforce-ai-is-boosting-saas/821401/

Legions of students pursued engineering in college in hopes of hitting the hiring market as a hot commodity. But now, their prospects are falling flat among some major employers. Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff recently revealed that the $145 billion cloud-based platform is keeping its engineering headcount unchanged as AI generates bounds of productivity. And the recruitment freeze extends to many layers across the tech giant—except for sales. https://fortune.com/2026/05/28/ai-s

Salesforce’s mixed April-quarter results didn’t give investors a definitive answer regarding whether or not the company could buck the software selloff and remain competitive in an AI-first market. https://www.marketwatch.com/story/salesforce-shares-sink-on-soft-revenue-outlook-as-ai-disruption-concerns-linger-45dcf0e5

For investors watching enterprise software, this move speaks directly to how Salesforce is positioning its core platform for AI centric workflows. As more large companies test and deploy autonomous agents across sales, service, and internal operations, the ability to coordinate and govern those agents from a single control plane is becoming a key requirement. https://simplywall.st/stocks/us/software/nyse-crm/salesforce/news/salesforce-expands-agent-fabric-to-anchor-ai-agents-

Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff appeared on the VC podcast All-In last week to share his vision for the future of AI and software. Among the usual bonhomie – he skipped Trump's trip to China; he's not a Democrat or Republican, just "here to support the country" – he revealed the CRM giant he co-founded may spend circa $300 million with Anthropic in 2026 to harness its coding agents. https://www.theregister.com/saas/2026/05/26/the-saas-pocalypse-can-wait-salesforce-still-has-custo