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Slack adds Agentforce ‘hub’ for AI agents – Computerworld
“From there, you can activate your chosen agent and begin a conversation,” the Slack team said in a blog post. Agents are tailored to a variety of use cases; deal assistance, IT help, onboarding, and marketing strategy are some examples Slack detailed. As well as pre-built agents, customers will be able to host their own customized agents in the Agentforce…
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Slack adds templates to help users kick off projects quicker – Computerworld
“Teams shouldn’t be reinventing the wheel with each new project,” Rob Seaman, senior vice president for product at Slack, said in a blog post Wednesday. “Templates provide the setup and framework for every line of business, so there’s no guessing at how to get work started.” Users can access the template gallery from a tab on the left-hand sidebar in…
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Notion AI can now access Slack chats and Google Drive files – Computerworld
That’s the thinking with the new Notion AI, said David Tibbitts, product marketing manager for Notion AI, with the AI assistant able to provide more accurate responses based on information held in third-party apps. “It’s no longer about writing a haiku about burritos,” he said. “You have all of these day-to-day workflows that you need help with, and now Notion…
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Disney to ditch Slack after security breach, will move to Microsoft Teams – Computerworld
A group called “Nullbulge” published a 1.1 TB file containing data taken from Disney’s internal Slack archive in July. This included 44 million messages between Disney employees, 18,800 spreadsheets and at least 13,000 PDFs, according to a Wall Street Journal report earlier this month. Information posted publicly included details on Disney’s financial status and strategy, as well as personally identifiable information on some staffers…
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Slack AI agents shift looks to “unify” enterprise data and drive team synergy
Salesforce has unveiled a raft of new updates and features for Slack as part of an effort to foster greater operational synergy for users of the workplace collaboration platform. Announced at Dreamforce 2024, Salesforce said the updates will help “unify” data across Slack and Salesforce, bringing together enterprise data, apps, and automation in a more aligned and easily digestible manner.…
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Slack opens up to third-party AI ‘agents’ – Computerworld
The Slack AI search function gets an update, too; users can now surface results based on files uploaded or connected to a Slack workspace. Until now, Slack could only search conversations in the app; now the tool can retrieve information from sources such as canvas documents, Google and Microsoft documents, and files in connected apps, Slack said. Aside from AI-related…
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Slack Rolls Out New Automation Features
Salesforce is jumping further onto the automation bandwagon with newly announced features in Slack that make it easier for users to build features regardless of their level of technical expertise. According to an Aug. 26 press release: Slack users can now build a workflow that starts automatically when an event occurs in a third-party app such as PagerDuty, Asana, or…
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