What Slack shipped in 2026

How We Rebuilt Slackbot

Slack rebuilt its native Slackbot from a basic notifier into a sophisticated AI agent powered by Anthropic’s Claude, deeply integrated into the platform to understand conversation context. The new Sla…

Release: Multiple Node Slack SDK package updates

Slack released major updates to its Node Slack SDK packages, now requiring Node.js 20+ and migrating HTTP transport from axios to the native Fetch API. Three packages include additional breaking chang…

10 Discord Alternatives for Teams and Businesses

Slack published a detailed guide comparing 10 Discord alternatives, highlighting Discord’s limitations for structured business communication. The post positions Slack as the best solution for workplac…

How AI Organization Tools Can Transform the Way You Work

Slack’s blog outlines how AI organization tools automate task management, scheduling, meeting intelligence, and knowledge retrieval by integrating with existing workflows. It highlights Slack’s role a…

Eight Best CRMs for Startups in 2026: Features, Benefits, and Tips

Seven CRM Best Practices for Teams in 2026

Guide to CRM Integration: Architecture, Benefits, and Best Practices

Slack introduced a native CRM integration that connects its platform directly with Salesforce, enabling real-time customer data access within Slack channels. This integration supports account informat…

Desktop notifications now pull text from blocks first

Slack’s desktop client now prioritizes extracting notification text from message blocks over the top-level text field, while mobile notifications remain unchanged. This change affects how users see me…

Slack Is Your Engineering Multiplier

Slack announced a series of virtual and on-demand webinars highlighting how engineering teams connect AI tools within Slack, positioning it as a conversational interface for headless AI and enterprise…

Slackbot Can Now Do Anything Salesforce Can. Just Ask.

Salesforce introduced dedicated MCP servers that integrate its Headless 360 platform, Sales Cloud, Tableau, and Data 360 directly into Slack. This allows users to query CRM data, update pipelines, tri…

Where AI Works: Slack is the Conversational Interface for Headless AI

Slack unveiled Slackbot as an open-standard Model Context Protocol (MCP) client, consolidating AI agents, models, and workflows into a single conversational interface within Slack. The update enables …

Agent context has landed

Slack now automatically passes contextual data about the user's current view (channel, DM, thread, canvas, or list) to agent apps when a user messages them. This enables apps to respond with more rele…

Slack Feature Drop: Too Hot to Context-Switch

Slack introduced major updates in June 2026, including an AI-powered Slackbot with memory and cross-tool connectivity via the Model Context Protocol (MCP), enabling live data and actions from apps lik…

Best CRM Software Solutions in 2026

AI in CRM: Benefits, Use Cases, and Tools

Slack’s blog details how AI in CRM systems automates lead scoring, predictive forecasting, and customer insights, reducing manual work by up to 60%. It highlights Salesforce’s Einstein AI and Slack’s …

Slack vs. WhatsApp: Which Tool Is Better for Work?

Release: Slack CLI v4.4.0

Introducing the Agent messaging experience

Slack launched a new Agent messaging experience for apps, replacing the Assistant view. New apps must use the Agent view, while existing apps can continue temporarily but must migrate. SDK updates (Sl…

New Block Kit container block

The AI that knows your work and organization

Slack introduced three major AI-driven upgrades to Slackbot over three months: in April, it gained the ability to take actions across tools like Salesforce; in May, it learned to retrieve and display …