Salesforce, which owns Slack, is promoting Anthropic's Claude Tag AI agent within Slack, causing confusion among its employees. This rival product competes with Salesforce's own AI offerings, Slackbot and Agentforce, despite Salesforce investing heavily in both and paying Anthropic millions.
Major cryptocurrencies saw a rebound, with BTC nearing $63k. Concerns about AI token spend are growing as companies like Amazon, Microsoft, and Meta cut back due to costs. Meanwhile, Tether led a $1.4B round for robotics firm NEURA, and Mastercard launched AI Agent payments with Coinbase and Ripple.
Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff projects spending hundreds of millions on AI tokens this year, shifting investment from engineering hires to AI tools for coding and other tasks. He stated AI has increased engineer productivity by over 30% and that engineers will work alongside AI agents rather than be replaced.
