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Salesforce stopped hiring software engineers last year, yet CEO Marc Benioff expects the company to spend hundreds of millions on Anthropic tokens this year. The projection highlights how the software company is shifting investment from expanding engineering teams to increasing spending on AI tools that assist with coding and other tasks. Benioff, who said the…
Salesforce chief executive Marc Benioff (Photo-AP) Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff has a message for everyone who thinks his company is in trouble: you are looking at this all wrong. The comment comes after the software giants watched their stocks fall following ‘fears’ that artificial intelligence (AI) will make traditional software companies obsolete. If AI agents…
Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff says AI coding agents have made the company’s 15,000 engineers over 30% more productive—and that’s exactly why Salesforce didn’t hire a single new engineer in fiscal year 2026. Speaking on The Future Live, Benioff said engineers are shifting from writing code to supervising AI agents. He also revealed AI now handles…
Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff finds OpenClaw, the viral AI agent, powerful but lacking enterprise-grade trust and security. Despite its impressive capabilities, Benioff believes it’s not suitable for business use, prompting Salesforce to develop its own secure AI agents. This contrasts with OpenAI’s reported acquisition of OpenClaw’s creator, Peter Steinberger, aiming for broader accessibility. Salesforce CEO…
Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff is pushing back on the narrative that AI is driving mass white-collar layoffs, calling it an oversimplification—and in some cases, a CEO’s “lazy way out.” While companies like Block and Atlassian have framed sweeping cuts as AI-driven restructuring, Benioff argues they’re conflating three very different problems. At Salesforce, he’s doing the…
Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff has now shared how tech giant Microsoft stopped the company from investing on OpenAI. Speaking in an interview with Matthew Berman of Future Forward, Benioff revealed that Microsoft prevented Salesforce from participating in an OpenAI investment round. Microsoft, which already poured billions into OpenAI and tightly integrated…
Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff has pushed back against the idea that Block’s massive layoffs signal an AI-driven jobs apocalypse, suggesting Jack Dorsey’s fintech giant has company-specific problems that don’t reflect the broader market. “Obviously, that company has its own unique issues. We all know that, so let’s put that aside,” Benioff…
Salesforce employees are demanding CEO Marc Benioff publicly condemn ICE following his controversial jokes about the agency at a company event. An internal open letter urges Benioff to denounce ICE’s “unconstitutional conduct” and prevent Salesforce’s technology from being used for immigration enforcement. Employees are furious, citing past instances where Benioff’s influence impacted policy. Salesforce employees…
Salesforce has reportedly reduced its workforce at the start of this month. According to Business Insider, the company has cut nearly 1,000 jobs. Impacted teams include marketing, product management, data analytics, and Salesforce’s Agentforce AI product that Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff has previously said “is part and parcel of Salesforce”. In an interview with CNBC’s…
Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff has once again taken a swipe at Microsoft’s AI chatbot and tool, Copilot. Calling it Clippy 2.0 – an upgraded version of 1990s Office assistant, Clippy – Benioff dismissed it saying that Slackbot offered by Salesforce gets the work done. He also called it the top AI CRM sidekick and every…
