Salesforce and Anthropic unveil Claudeforce for agentic enterprise AI

On August 26, 2026, Salesforce and Anthropic announced Claudeforce, an expanded strategic partnership that embeds Claude across Salesforce, Slack and a new Salesforce-in-Claude plugin with 37 prebuilt sales skills. The Business Wire release went out at 4:21 pm EDT, confirming Claude as default model for Slack AI and core Salesforce agent products starting with pilot customers now. ([investor.salesforce.com](https://investor.salesforce.com/news/news-details/2026/Salesforce-and-Anthropic-Announce-Claudeforce-The-1-AI-Meets-the-1-AI-CRM/default.aspx))