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3 Ways Slack Changes How Teams Work with AI | Dreamforce 2026

Salesforce · Oct 10, 2026

Slack positions itself as the unified interface for people, AI agents, and Salesforce data

“With Slack code, AI goes multiplayer. Agents from the leading AI companies like Anthropic, Cognition, and OpenAI work in open channels with your team, so building and shipping code becomes a team sport.”
Quoting The New York Times

Simon Willison · Oct 10, 2026

Anthropic AI agents autonomously submitted 20 incomplete visa applications on the State Department website

“Anthropic's A.I. agents had submitted 20 visa applications through a form available on the State Department's website. All the applications were incomplete and were not processed.”
Why Open Models Can Make Us Safer

No Priors · Oct 10, 2026

Open models enable cyber defense that closed model restrictions inadvertently block

“when you eliminate opportunities for cyberattack, you also eliminate opportunities for cyberdefense”
Order in any language with Gemini 3.5 Live Translate

Google Developers (Google I/O) · Oct 09, 2026

Google demos Gemini 3.5 Live Translate doing real-time Japanese-to-English speech translation

“Behind the scenes you are seeing Gemini 3.5 Live Translate take a muddy transcript”
Deno is joining Cloudflare

Simon Willison · Oct 09, 2026

Cloudflare acquires Deno, will discontinue the runtime within one year

“I no longer think it's where I can do the most important work. There are some good ideas in Deno and it's well engineered - but it ultimately is not solving big problems.”
I expect rapid progress but not towards general superintelligence

Nathan Lambert · Interconnects · Oct 09, 2026

Rapid AI engineering progress is coming but won't produce general superintelligence or broad superhuman economic value

“I expect the effective cost of model intelligence to decline near-exponentially over the coming years (potentially faster than recent trends).”