Salesforce Stock Surges on Solid Earnings, Expanded Anthropic Partnership

Salesforce reported better-than-expected quarterly earnings on Wednesday, shaking off worries about artificial-intelligence tools disrupting its business. Just as importantly, the software company announced an expanded partnership with Anthropic that the two companies call Claudeforce. As part of the collaboration, Anthropic will integrate Salesforce’s customer-relationship-management system into its Claude chatbot, allowing humans and AI agents to access Salesforce data and functions through a plugin.