This week, Salesforce made Slackbot into an agentic AI assistant, which means the chatbot can now do many jobs automatically without needing a person to tell it every single step. The new Slackbot can write meeting summaries, create tasks, and even update business records all by itself. Think of it like having a robot helper that watches what you're doing and helps out without you asking.

Salesforce showed off 30 new AI features for Slack on March 31. The coolest part is that Slackbot can now connect to other computer tools and work with them together, kind of like how different team members work together on a project. Companies can teach Slackbot special skills one time, and then it can use those same skills in many different situations.

The startup funding world is exploding with AI money. In the first three months of 2026, companies raised $300 billion to start new businesses. That's more money than any other time in history! Four really big AI companies alone got $188 billion, which is almost two-thirds of all the money. The money is going mostly to companies building AI agents and tools that work with artificial intelligence. This shows that companies everywhere believe agentic AI - AI that can do jobs on its own - is going to be super important.