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April 4, 2026
Slackbot Now Runs AI Agents Across Your Entire Desktop
Published: April 4, 2026 at 12:38 AM
Updated: April 4, 2026 at 12:38 AM
100-word summary
Salesforce just turned Slackbot into an autonomous assistant that can monitor your desktop, transcribe meetings, and route work to external AI agents across 30 new features. The upgrade includes Model Context Protocol integration, letting Slackbot tap tools like Agentforce across Salesforce and third-party apps. Meanwhile, Microsoft's Copilot Cowork now lets you pit Claude against GPT in side-by-side comparisons, posting a 7-point accuracy boost on research benchmarks. Google's adding AI Overviews to Gmail, surfacing thread summaries and high-priority items before you ask. The common thread: your work apps are no longer waiting for commands. They're learning to interrupt you with the right thing at the right time.
What happened
Salesforce just turned Slackbot into an autonomous assistant that can monitor your desktop, transcribe meetings, and route work to external AI agents across 30 new features. The upgrade includes Model Context Protocol integration, letting Slackbot tap tools like Agentforce across Salesforce and third-party apps. Meanwhile, Microsoft's Copilot Cowork now lets you pit Claude against GPT in side-by-side comparisons, posting a 7-point accuracy boost on research benchmarks. Google's adding AI Overviews to Gmail, surfacing thread summaries and high-priority items before you ask. The common thread: your work apps are no longer waiting for commands.
Why it matters
They're learning to interrupt you with the right thing at the right time.