Meanwhile, AI capabilities have become critical to large platforms such as Slack, which might explain why Salesforce sees this capability as worth changing its API access rules to protect.

Slack, a Salesforce-owned workplace messaging app, recently blocked other software firms from searching or storing Slack messages, The Information reported on Tuesday, citing a public disclosure.

Security researchers have discovered five zero-day vulnerabilities and a further 15 easy misconfigurations in Salesforce Industry Cloud, potentially affecting tens of thousands of organizations.

Google warns of a financially motivated threat actor employing vishing to compromise Salesforce customers, and extort them.

Salesforce has quietly snapped up Moonhub, a startup building AI to vet and hire talent. The terms of the deal weren't disclosed.

Salesforce is buying AI-powered cloud data management company Informatica in an approximately $8 billion deal. Informatica’s shareholders will receive $25 per share.

Industry analysts explain how Salesforce's $8 billion Informatica acquisition will transform enterprise data management and accelerate agentic AI adoption .

Salesforce is pursuing ‘AI-driven growth’ with Informatica Salesforce’s considerable marketing and distribution teams will support Informatica’s cloud-native platform across its customer base.