As the financial year draws to a close, last week saw big earnings call announcements from Salesforce and Zoom, alongside some Copilot revelations from Microsoft.
Here are the extracts from some of our most popular news stories over the last seven days.
Salesforce Champions Unheralded Product Growth, Closes 5,000 Agentforce Deals
Salesforce has confirmed that it has closed 5,000 Agentforce deals since October.
During the company’s Q4 2025 earnings call, CEO Marc Benioff revealed the milestone and claimed that the company has never seen product growth at this level – dubbing it the “quarter of Agentforce.”
Indeed, the Salesforce man explained how Agentforce was crucial to helping the vendor hit $900 million in Data Cloud and AI ARR, up 120 percent year-over-year (YoY).
He also revealed that almost half of the Fortune 100 are users of Salesforce’s AI and Data Cloud solutions, with data and AI playing a role in all of Salesforce’s top 10 Q4 deals.
In discussing the quarter’s results, Benioff highlighted the company’s ambition to keep pushing forward with its agentic AI platform:
Customers are really telling us that we’re lightyears ahead of other providers, and their feedback really speaks volumes.
Amongst the 5,000 Agentforce deals already secured, 3,000 are paid, with Benioff namechecking the likes of Singapore Air, Equinox, and Jacuzzi (Read on...).
The Choice is Yours: Google & Salesforce Team up on AI Agents
Google and Salesforce are teaming up to deliver “more customer choice” when it comes to AI agents.
The two tech titans have announced an expansion of their existing partnership, which will allow joint customers to access Google Gemini within Salesforce’s Agentforce platform.
In doing so, AI agents will be able to leverage Gemini’s AI models and capabilities to process images, audio, and video.
The agents will also have the capacity to tackle complex tasks with multimodal features and extensive context windows, as well as being able to utilize real-time insights from Google Search via Vertex AI.
The companies believe that the collaboration will provide customers with “crucial flexibility” – enabling them to develop customized AI solutions without being restricted to a single model provider.
In discussing the news, Srini Tallapragada, Salesforce President and Chief Engineering and Customer Success Officer, detailed how the deepened partnership and integrations will give “customers choice in the applications and models they want to use.
Salesforce offers a complete enterprise-grade agentic AI platform that makes it easy to deploy new capabilities easily and realize business value fast.
In discussing some of the benefits of the collaboration, the two companies outlined multimodal AI capabilities, enhanced context and reasoning, and greater speed and efficiency (Read on...).
