Slack recently announced a deep integration of its Agentforce AI assistant with Salesforce, aimed at enhancing business efficiency through contextual intelligence. This integration will be a key component of Salesforce Agentforce 2.0, which is expected to launch officially on December 17. In an exclusive interview, Slack's Chief Product Officer Rob Seaman pointed out that the Slack platform typically reflects the structure of the organization and when

Cohere has released the 'Build Your Own Connectors' feature, allowing enterprises to securely connect data from third-party applications such as Slack and Google Drive to their large language models. Supporting fine-tuning across the four major cloud providers, this marks Cohere as the first AI company to offer fine-tuning on all four major cloud platforms. The launch includes 100 'Quick Start Connectors' to enhance the practicality of enterprise conversational AI solutions. The connectors enable enterprise models to securely access company data, using retrieval-augmented generation techniques to view precise answers.

Multiple users have discovered that the Claude chat service on Slack is limited and only available to paid users. They expressed frustration, stating that the chat functionality is an essential part of both work and leisure. The company behind Claude has stated that this decision is aimed at providing higher quality services, with paid users continuing to enjoy privileges. While some users support the paid model for enabling more advanced features and higher levels of service, there are concerns it may create barriers to access. Free users can still experience the basic features of Claude on other platforms.

Salesforce has launched Slack AI aimed at streamlining workflows. Features of Slack AI include channel reviews, conversation summaries, and answer searches to enhance productivity and simplify collaboration. It introduces a list and updated workflow builder to meet the needs of enterprise users. The features will be rolled out next year, while the workflow builder is already available.

26% of employees are concerned that using AI tools will be seen as laziness, and 20% admit that using AI makes them feel like frauds. 92% of employees worry about unethical use of AI. Only 30% of American knowledge workers and 20% of British knowledge workers report that their companies have guidelines for AI usage.