Salesforce’s Dreamforce convention opened in San Francisco today, and the company announced Agentforce 360 as their next generation AI agent. Techcrunch.com reports that the new version of Agentforce includes new ways to instruct AI agents through text, a new platform to build and deploy agents, and new infrastructure for messaging app Slack, among others. A feature they touted is Agent Script, which will be released in beta in November. Agent Script gives users the ability to program their AI agents to be more flexible and better respond to “if/then” situations. This allows AI agents to be programmed to be more predictable in less rigid situations like customer questions.

OpenAI is moving at warp speed into the future, even if that means some real stumbles along the way…like the disastrous ChatGPT 5o, which had to be backed out. According to engadget.com, the AI firm is designing ‘AI accelerators’ and systems. Partner Broadcom will start deploying racks of these systems the latter half of 2026. The companies are shooting for a completed rollout by the end of 2029. The deal is for 10 gigawatts of chips and it’s worth “multiple billions of dollars.” It was reported last month that OpenAI and Broadcom were making custom chips together. 

With the Trump tariffs and other moves throwing the US economy into uncertainty, a number of retailers are backing off on staffing up for the holiday season. The AP notes that part of the issue is the changes by the administration and then the government shutdown that have limited or delayed economic data retailers and wholesalers rely on. Job placement firm Challenger, Gray, and Christmas forecasts that hiring for the last quarter of the year will drop under 500,000 positions. 

My joy knows no bounds…Slack is turning Slackbot into an AI assistant. Theverge.com says with the update, Slackbot can create custom plans tailored to your workspace, sift through a mountain of messages, gather information from a range of Slack channels, and more. For now, it will be a pilot program. Slackbot will appear as an icon next to the search bar at the top of the workspace. Clicking into it will open a DM-like panel on the right side of the screen where you can enter prompts like “What are my priorities for today?” or “Find the latest updates on a project.” The new Slackbot will draw from your conversations, files, and workspace to provide personalized assistance. We can only hope Slack isn’t as pushy about trying to get you to use this as Microsoft is with Teams, or Meta is with their AI assistant. In all of these cases, to be frank…you have to be completely clueless to need the AI assistants to help you with a task, and honestly…so far anyway…it takes as much time as it does for you to just do it yourself.

I’m Clark Reid and you’re ‘Technified’ for now.