AI-powered martech news and releases: September 19

This is the second year that Salesforce’s Dreamforce and HubSpot’s Inbound conferences happened in the same week. That is, unless you ask Google’s Gemini, which told me 2024 is the first time. This is ironic and/or funny given the “AI is everything” theme of both conferences. The word from both events is agents, and that…

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Salesforce launches new, ‘more trustworthy’ generation of AI bots

Yesterday, Salesforce launched Agentforce — generative AI bots the company says can be trusted to take action on their own.  Agentforce is “the third wave of AI — advancing beyond copilots to a new era of highly accurate, low-hallucination intelligent agents that actively drive customer success,” Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff said during the press conference….

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Measuring customer acquisition cost: Best of the MarTechBot

Best of the MarTechBot showcases the MarTechBot’s responses to prompts submitted by readers. See more about how marketers are using MarTechBot here. The language model is based on content from MarTech embedded on top of ChatGPT. The editors of MarTech selected this response for its usefulness and have supplemented it with additional relevant content. I am the first generative…

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AI and security are the focus of latest Salesforce acquisitions

Salesforce announced Thursday it signed a definitive agreement to acquire Own Company for $1.9 billion in cash. Own, which provides data protection and data management solutions, will help Salesforce accelerate the growth of its Platform Data Security, Privacy, and Compliance products, the company said in a release. The two companies are not strangers to each…

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Salesforce’s Summer 2024 release features time-saving enhancements

Salesforce’s Summer 2024 releases will help teams work smarter, with new product innovations built on data, AI, CRM and trust. This edition’s enhancements save time for businesses and improve the end-user experience with better search results, individualized personalization and more. Here’s a recap of what’s new with Salesforce this season.  Activate and publish a store…

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