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Slack is a business messaging and collaboration platform owned by Salesforce, with channels, bots, and third-party integrations.
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OpenAI's Dots agents, arriving in a business base of more than 35 million weekly users, must get a user's sign-off before changing a password or deleting data. Permissions are adjustable settings, so each team deploying an always-on Dot sets its own limits.
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Meta launched Muse for Small Business on Tuesday, pitching the AI agent at the 200 million small business owners it says use its platforms. How much cash it brings in depends on how many owners pay for higher limits and how much ad spend comes from the campaigns it drafts.
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ServiceNow says a small team with a founder-like mandate built Flow, its AI service desk for Slack and Teams, in three months. For IT teams whose staff already work in chat, the question is whether a desk with no setup project will still fit once request volume and complexity grow.
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Metaview raised a $60M Series C led by Insight Partners, taking its total funding to $110M for AI agents that source and screen job candidates. Its sourcing agent already works in Slack, so teams can trial it on one role before reorganizing recruiters.
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OpenAI's Dots, unveiled Tuesday at DevDay, is a background agent that acts on events such as Slack alerts across about 4,000 connected apps. For security teams it is a new standing identity inside Slack, holding whatever app access each user grants it.
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OpenAI is letting enterprise workspace admins decide whether staff get Dots, its always-on ChatGPT agents that can connect to more than 4,000 apps. Whoever turns on the beta approves software that keeps working while nobody watches, under permission rules each employee writes for their own Dot.
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Meta connected its Muse AI agent to QuickBooks, Shopify, Slack, Canva and 11 other third-party tools for owners in the US and Canada. For an owner, the access decision comes when picking which services to connect, since plugging in QuickBooks lets an agent read the books.
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OpenAI opened the plugin system behind ChatGPT's own features to outside developers at DevDay and launched a 32-partner enterprise marketplace. For teams that build internal tools, ChatGPT is now both a place their integrations can run and a product that competes with them.
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OpenAI's Dots give ChatGPT persistent agents that each run on an isolated cloud computer and keep working after the user leaves the chat. Teams now have to sort which errands can run unwatched and which must stop for a person's approval.
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OpenAI is halving the usage in its $200 ChatGPT Pro plan from 30 October and adding a $500 plan with its fastest speed. Before buying Pro seats for Space, teams should check who used more than ten times the Plus allowance.
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OpenAI's new Dots give ChatGPT subscribers an always-on agent that works through more than 4,000 connected apps. Whoever runs those accounts now sets the rules for which actions a Dot takes on its own and which have to wait for a person to say yes.
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NVIDIA's Open Agent Safety Platform, launched September 28, makes its OpenShell runtime available now while its Sentry hardware watchdog has no release date. Sentry's promised millisecond stop has no independent test yet, so the hardware half rests on NVIDIA's word.
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Zenity Labs demonstrated SalesBleed, a proof-of-concept that used a public Salesforce lead form to make Agentforce read Account records and leak them over DNS. Salesforce has already patched it.
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Salesforce is packaging Anthropic, GitHub, Cognition and Vercel agents into Slack channels. The shared piece is not a model or a runtime. It is the conversation.
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Unit 42 reports endpoint alerts tied to collaboration tools more than quadrupled in 12 months, with 99% linked to chat phishing. Most controls still watch email and logins, not authenticated sessions.
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OpenAI's Alignment team documented prompt injections that copy themselves from one autonomous agent to the next with no person in the loop, detailing three demonstrations in a September 25 report. The payloads ride the same connectors teams add for data, so agent context becomes a channel that spreads attacks.
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Tom's Guide reports that Apple worked directly with three large apps to fit them to the iPhone Duo's two displays, while the interview names no submission cutoff and no developer program for everyone else shipping on iOS.
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Zenity Labs found three Salesforce Agentforce bugs that let a planted sales lead drive zero-click CRM data theft and Slack phishing. Each attack began with one poisoned lead-form submission, and Salesforce fixed all three within 79 days of Zenity's report.
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Contrarian Thinking's founder says gossip earns a warning and then a firing. The case she describes in her new book began with an employee telling coworkers, every week, that the company worked them too hard.
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The procurement platform's Q1 benchmark puts midmarket and enterprise software growth near 20% against 3.5% at small business, and it attributes the gap to multi-year contracts and integrations that make pushback harder.
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