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Industry · Claudeforce

Salesforce is making its own screens optional: the sales work moves inside Claude

At the companies picked for the pilot, a salesperson can now type a request to Claude instead of clicking through Salesforce. Salesforce still owns the records, the permissions and the rules underneath, and it has not published a price.

Aug 28 · 4 min read · Morning Byte · by Keith Andrade

What sellers can do from inside Claude, and what still runs through Salesforce

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OpenAI's open letter, A Call for Collective Action on Cyber Defense, pinned to the corner of a San Francisco building with Google and Anthropic among the signatures. Beside it, large type reads Rivals signed, nothing in it is binding, and a cream card at the bottom right reads AI cyberattacks get far more widespread within months.

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Four different autonomous machines stand lit on ground power in a dark hangar: a passenger-sized road vehicle with a roof sensor dome, a fixed-wing aircraft, a rotor aircraft, and an uncrewed boat hull on a wheeled cradle. Rows of unpowered hardware recede into darkness behind them.

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