Slack’s Slackbot can now pull your CRM data, generate charts, and send DocuSigns — all from a chat message.

Salesforce has connected Slackbot to CRM, Tableau, Data 360 and AI agents through MCP, turning Slack into a conversational ...

Salesforce enhances Slackbot with connectors to the entire platform ecosystem

Salesforce Inc. today announced new updates for Slackbot, the company’s personal artificial intelligence agent in Slack, ...
ADTmag

Do Coding Agents Really Understand Enterprise Java? Or Are We Measuring the Wrong Things?

Most widely cited AI coding benchmarks, including the original SWE-bench, were built primarily around Python repositories, meaning headline performance results may not accurately predict how coding ag ...
InfoWorld

‘Talk like a caveman’ prompts save tokens, but far less than promised

JetBrains found that the popular AI coding optimization reduced output token consumption without hurting performance, but ...
Tech Times

Claude Tag Deep Dive: Proactive Triggers and Async Execution Are What Make It an Agent, Not a Chatbot

Claude Tag Slack AI agent separates itself from every prior assistant by flipping two switches simultaneously: proactive ...
InfoQ

Hardwood Promises High-Speed JVM Apache Parquet Processing with Zero Mandatory Dependencies

Hardwood, the project Gunnar Morling kick-started handling of Parquet files in Java, reached version 1. Its multi-threaded approach and zero mandatory external dependencies promise a simpler, more ...
The Hacker News

New Avalon Malware Framework Packs CrownX Ransomware Capabilities

Cybersecurity researchers have discovered a previously undocumented modular malware framework codenamed Avalon that's distributed by means of a multi-stage phishing chain capable of bypassing ...
Computerworld

Industry

Q&A: Temporal aims to be the reliability backbone for an agentic AI economy Temporal Co-founder and CEO Samar Abbas weighs in on AI reliability, execution and what IT decision-makers should to keep in ...