Company

Slack

Slack is a cloud-based collaboration platform that provides team communication tools, including channels, direct messaging, and file sharing, to streamline workplace communication and productivity.

Why it’s in the news: It is in the news due to increasing competition from new AI-powered collaboration tools and platforms from major tech companies.

Latest on Slack

  • Slack is launching collaborative vibe-coding channels
  • My male co-workers with kids expect me to pick up their slack because I don’t have children. Do I push back?
  • Exclusive: Former Meta And Slack Engineers Raise $15M For New Startup Centralize To Build A ‘Deal GPS’ For Enterprise Sales
  • Fresh off AI layoffs, Block now wants to whack Slack with agent-human collab tool
  • Jack Dorsey is taking on Slack with Buzz, a group chat platform for teams and their AI agents
  • OpenAI introduces ChatGPT Work, a cloud-based AI agent that manages tasks across email, Slack and calendars
  • Atlassian’s enterprise AI assistant Rovo, which is usually connected across sensitive work environments like Slack, Microsoft 365, and Google Workspace, was found vulnerable to data leaks through malicious instructions.
  • The attack grants the deployed agent full access to applications including Outlook and Slack
  • The tool aims to integrate artificial intelligence capabilities directly into workplace communication platforms.
  • [via Salesforce]
  • Wikidata: Salesforce — capital ownership — Slack
  • Wikidata: Slack — founded by — Stewart Butterfield

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