Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff on AI skepticism, its future, and battle with Palantir

Salesforce (CRM) co-founder and CEO Marc Benioff has a lot on his mind, from growing his AI agent technology to swatting away the naysayers to competing with Palantir (PLTR) for government contracts. "We have more than 12,000 AgentForce customers now, and that's up from zero nine months ago," Benioff told me at the Goldman Sachs Communacopia conference. "Our data cloud and our agents together, we're doing about $1.2 billion in revenue already. It's a triple-digit grower in our company." Salesforce stock ...