Mobile tech company Button has launched CuratedBy Button, a solution that gives publishers social-ready content. The tool can be used for shoppable collections and product spotlights, all fully customizable to match company branding. They don’t say how many times one has to click a button in the process.
Oracle is joining the enterprise AI bandwagon with updates to Oracle AI Agent Studio for Fusion Applications. A new marketplace gives customers access to partner-built agents and templates. Furthermore, the Oracle AI Data Platform is bringing together cloud infrastructure and gen AI services for ease of scaling.
At the Dreamforce conference this week, Salesforce announced it’s rebuilding Slackbot to better work with agentic AI in Microsoft Teams and other spaces. Enterprises using Slack will be able to interact with CRM data and information from Slack channels by giving Slackbot natural language prompts. Salesforce also announced general availability of Agentforce 360 and the Agentic Enterprise to bring together data, sales, Slack, and more.
Meta has announced agreements with USA Today, People Inc., and other news publishers to pay for access to their content and link to their articles in its AI chatbot. It’s a sharp contrast to Perplexity, which the Chicago Tribune and New York Times are separately suing for allegedly scraping content and bypassing paywalls. Despite this deal, Meta apparently still opposes compensating publishers for news links in social media posts.