Aiming to boost the adoption of artificial intelligence products by enterprise customers, Salesforce (CRM) will lean into the 2021 acquisition of Slack Technologies at its Dreamforce conference this week. Salesforce stock has retreated 27% in 2025 despite its push into "agentic" AI. Salesforce on Monday announced that it will integrate Slack's work collaboration tools and voice technologies into a new Agentforce 360 platform. Further, Salesforce acquired Slack for $27.7 billion in 2021 but critics say the c ...