Intuit just told small and mid-market businesses that their fragmented stack of hiring tools, payroll software, benefits portals, and time-tracking apps — often seven to twenty-five different systems, by Intuit’s own count — is about to become one system with a Payroll Agent doing

On July 8, 2026, Salesforce confirmed what it had been building toward all year: Slackbot, the AI agent embedded in every Slack workspace, can now read, reason over, and act on your entire Salesforce environment — CRM records, Tableau visualizations, Data 360 customer profiles, and Agentforce

On July 6, 2026, Salesforce made its biggest bet yet that AI agents — not chatbots, not search boxes — will decide who wins the next holiday shopping season. Agentforce Commerce, the company’s suite of transactional AI agents for retail and B2B selling, is now generally available,

On July 7, 2026, Microsoft confirmed that Sales Agent and Service Agent inside Microsoft 365 Copilot have reached general availability, following Service Agent’s GA on June 30 and the earlier general availability of Microsoft 365 Copilot directly inside Dynamics 365 Sales and Customer Service. Toget

On July 1, 2026, Seamless announced a direct integration with HubSpot’s Breeze Prospecting Agent, letting sales teams source net-new contacts — decision-makers who don’t yet exist as records in HubSpot — without leaving the CRM. The timing isn’t a coincidence. HubSpot has also removed th

On June 23, 2026, HubSpot moved its Agent CLI from private to public beta — a command-line tool built specifically for AI agents like Claude Code, Claude Cowork, and OpenAI Codex to read, write, and manage HubSpot CRM data without a human clicking through a single dashboard. It’s not a chatbot, no