Eightfold co-founders secure $35 million in seed funding for Viven, a groundbreaking AI startup that creates digital employee clones by analyzing internal communications like emails and Slack messages, enabling colleagues to query these virtual twins when team members are unavailable.
Hyperspell launches an AI memory platform that gives workplace agents long-term context across apps like Slack, Gmail, and Notion, solving the critical problem of AI systems forgetting everything between sessions and lacking company knowledge awareness.
Salesforce and Anthropic expand their partnership to deliver Claude AI models through the Agentforce 360 Platform specifically for regulated industries like financial services and healthcare, making Anthropic the first AI provider fully integrated within Salesforce's secure virtual private cloud environment.
Gmail rolls out new AI-powered 'Help Me Schedule' feature that automatically detects meeting planning in emails and suggests available times based on Google Calendar, streamlining the back-and-forth of coordinating appointments.
Open source AI models that appear free are shocking IT leaders with hidden costs 4-8 times higher than expected, driven by massive compute demands, specialized talent needs, and infrastructure expenses that often exceed proprietary alternatives, prompting experts to recommend hybrid deployment strategies.
Salesforce launches Agentforce 360, an enhanced AI platform with flexible programming tools and deeper Slack integration, claiming 12,000 customers while facing fierce competition from Google and Anthropic despite MIT research revealing 95% of enterprise AI pilots fail to reach production.
Facebook revives its job board on Marketplace targeting young adults seeking entry-level positions just as AI threatens to eliminate 50% of such jobs within five years, allowing users to search openings and contact employers directly through Messenger.
Slack transforms into an AI-powered operating system, integrating native agents from OpenAI, Google, and Anthropic while rebuilding Slackbot as a personal AI companion and introducing Channel Expert agents that provide instant knowledge from team conversations through natural language interactions.
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg lures AI startup co-founder Andrew Tulloch away from Mira Murati's Thinking Machines Lab with a staggering $1.5 billion compensation package over six years after failing to acquire the entire company.
A shocking new study reveals 96% of companies see no return on investment from AI implementations despite productivity gains, with only 4% achieving ROI by focusing on company-wide transformation instead of isolated departmental use.