A 1988 Roger Rabbit scene animated a pelican riding a real water-filled bicycle, echoing an AI meme.
“It's a pelican riding a bicycle!”
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Every signal tracked from the world's AI conferences — 4,665 talks, quotes & announcements, newest first.
Salesforce reaffirms its nonprofit commitment and teases agentic AI solutions in a Dreamforce nonprofit keynote.
“We are at an incredible time in technology. It's moving at an incredible pace. AI, robotics, social platforms, all the while nonprofits are facing a challenge.”
ENGIE deploys Salesforce Agentforce, now handling over 70% of client billing calls.
“In those type of usage, Agent Force is handling more than 70% of the cases and with great response from our clients.”
Google is expanding its AI & Economy team with academic advisors, fellows, and internal researchers.
“We are expanding our AI & Economy team with world-class academic advisors, fellows, and core internal researchers.”
Salesforce welcomes Fin, billed as the world's highest-performing customer agent, into Agentforce at Dreamforce.
“Finn, now part of Agent Force, the highest-performing customer agent in the world”
Salesforce launches AIforce, a live intelligent interface for the agentic enterprise to unlock trapped Salesforce data.
“getting answers in seconds, not days”
AWS launches SageMaker HyperPod Inference Gateway, GPU-aware Kubernetes routing that cuts first-token latency up to 82%.
“A chatbot user waiting 4.4 seconds for the first token now sees it in under 800 ms.”
Google partnered with designers Jane Wade and Sergio Hudson to custom-build Google Flow tools for New York Fashion Week.
Salesforce says 20% of 2025 holiday retail sales were agent-influenced, with one in three e-commerce sites soon having shopper agents.
“we found that 20% of retail sales were influenced in some way by an agent”
Speed and efficiency will dominate AI in the upcoming years.
DeepSeek 4.1 Flash outperforms previous models and significantly reduces operational costs.
“Incredible leap forward.”
Anthropic, Google, and others are standardizing persistent, asynchronous agent runtimes as the default UX.
“one conversation, many cloud threads”
Quality, throughput, and cost are crucial metrics for AI agents.
Marc Benioff hosts the All-In podcast crew at Dreamforce 2026 in a comedic, banter-filled keynote opening with no substantive announcement.
“It's just software, folks.”
Salesforce pitches agentic AI to energy and utilities as a no-lock-in strategy amid AI risk concerns.
“The board wants AI now.”
New laws are targeting journalists exposing fraud, highlighting critical journalism's importance.
“The fact that they're creating laws to try to stop you from doing basic journalism means you're kicking ass, Nick.”
Batteries Plus grew sales pipeline to $16M in months using Salesforce Agentforce AI agents.
“Now we have the agent reaching out to them, driving opportunities, driving revenue, staying top of mind.”
Salesforce will become an AI company, building private custom models on NVIDIA's platform.
“Salesforce is going to be an AI company.”
Salesforce declares every company is becoming an Agentic Enterprise, with admins positioned as its leaders.
“Every company is becoming an Agentic Enterprise. And the Agentic Enterprise doesn't just change the technology you use, it changes the work itself.”
California high-speed rail project estimated to cost $236 billion without completed segments.
“Governor Nuomo in a private video... doesn't believe that this project will ever be done in our lifetime.”
A Dreamforce demo lets attendees describe an agent, pick an avatar, and receive deployable custom code.
“You pick an avatar and then you'll actually get custom code in your email inbox or you can test and deploy it.”
Slack is now Salesforce's fastest-growing product, positioned as the primary interface for AI agents.
“A million and a half people connect to the Slack MCP server through the agent of their choice on a weekly basis.”
AI is redefining the revenue process in business.
“Of course, AI redefining everything that is possible at work.”
Salesforce introduces AI Force to enhance enterprise workflows with trusted AI capabilities.
“AI plus trusted context is incredibly powerful, but it's most powerful when it unlocks people to do what they do best.”