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Days before Dreamforce, Marc Benioff told The New York Times he backed President Trump sending the National Guard to San Francisco: "We don't have enough cops, so if they can be cops, I'm all for it."

Agentforce 360 joined Salesforce's agent platform, Data 360, its Customer 360 apps and Slack into one system for people and AI agents, launched with 12,000 customers and Agentforce Voice.

Veteran investor Ron Conway resigned from the Salesforce Foundation's board after a decade, telling Marc Benioff by email that he "barely recognize[d]" him after his National Guard comments.

After Dreamforce closed, Marc Benioff posted that he no longer believed the National Guard was needed in San Francisco and apologized for the concern his remarks caused.

Salesforce's third fiscal quarter brought $10.3 billion of revenue, up 9%, a backlog of $59.5 billion and Agentforce ARR above $500 million, and it lifted its full-year outlook after closing Informatica.

Salesforce signed a deal for Qualified, maker of the Piper AI SDR agent that turns company websites into conversations that qualify and book inbound leads, to strengthen Agentforce Sales and Marketing.

Slack turned its decade-old Slackbot into an AI agent that searches your conversations and files, drafts content, schedules meetings and takes actions, rolling out to Business+ and Enterprise+ plans.

Salesforce put Joe Inzerillo over both Slack and Agentforce and named new security, marketing and architecture chiefs, replacing five senior executives who had left since December.

Salesforce closed fiscal 2026 with $41.5 billion of revenue, up 10%, authorised a new $50 billion buyback, lifted its dividend 5.8% to $0.44 and raised its FY2030 target to $63 billion.

Salesforce said a known threat group was mass-scanning public Experience Cloud sites with a modified Mandiant tool and pulling CRM data through overly permissive guest user profiles.

Salesforce sold $25 billion of senior notes in eight tranches maturing from 2028 to 2066, to pay for a $25 billion accelerated share repurchase agreed the same evening.

Salesforce prepaid $25 billion to five banks and took delivery of about 103 million of its own shares, roughly 80% of the total, in what it called the largest accelerated share repurchase in history.

Salesforce closed its purchase of Qualified, maker of the Piper AI SDR agent, for consideration it valued at $1.2 billion, mostly cash.

Salesforce's new Builder programme, run through its Futureforce university recruiting, set out to hire 1,000 graduates and interns into engineering, product and sales roles building Agentforce.

Salesforce appointed Guy Wanger, its former EY lead audit partner, as chief accounting officer and principal accounting officer, starting on 15 June 2026.

Salesforce's fiscal 2027 opened with $11.1 billion of revenue, up 13%, non-GAAP EPS up 50% to $3.88 as its $25 billion buyback cut the share count, and Agentforce ARR above $1 billion.

Salesforce agreed to buy Contentful, the composable content platform used by more than 4,800 brands, for about $1.5 billion in cash to give Headless 360 and Agentforce a native content layer.

Salesforce signed a deal to buy Fin, the customer-service AI agent company formerly called Intercom, for about $3.6 billion to add fast-to-deploy service agents alongside Agentforce.

Salesforce promoted revenue chief Miguel Milano to chief operating officer, while president and chief engineering officer Srini Tallapragada stepped down after 14 years to advise Marc Benioff for a year.

Salesforce's fiscal second quarter brought $11.3 billion of revenue, up 11%, GAAP EPS of $4.29 lifted by a $2.6 billion gain on its Anthropic stake, a higher full-year outlook and the stock's second-best day ever.

Salesforce and Anthropic launched Claudeforce, starting with Salesforce in Claude, a plugin with 37 prebuilt sales skills, and made Claude the default model for Slack and Slackbot.

Salesforce closed its roughly $1.5 billion purchase of Contentful, adding the headless content platform to Headless 360 so Agentforce can assemble personalised content across channels.

New Core ($195), Advanced ($395) and Max ($550 per user a month) editions of Agentforce Sales, Service and Industries bundle Slack, Tableau Next, security and Flex Credits into one purchase.

Salesforce closed its roughly $3.6 billion purchase of Fin, formerly Intercom, whose AI customer agent resolves an average 76% of queries and now sits in Salesforce's AI Labs.

Salesforce's cut of 74 jobs at its 415 Mission Street headquarters, its fourth round of San Francisco layoffs since September 2025, is scheduled to begin in early October.

Final settlement of Salesforce's record $25 billion accelerated share repurchase, when the banks deliver the last of the shares beyond the 103 million received up front in March.

Salesforce reports its August-October 2026 quarter, guided at $11.42-11.50 billion of revenue, up 11-12%, and the first to include Contentful and Fin if both deals close in the quarter as expected.