What Slack shipped in July 2026

Now Slackbot moves work forward

Slackbot’s July update introduces Advanced Features—Code Execution, Surface dashboards, and Slide Creation—enabling non-technical users to generate reports, visuals, and decks directly in Slack. Enter…

Announcing the Slack MCP and Skills Plugin

Slack introduced the MCP and Skills Plugin, bundling skills to aid development on the Slack platform alongside the Slack MCP Server. The plugin is currently available for Claude Code and Cursor, with …

Slack Feature Drop: Working While You’re Away

Slack introduced features that let tools function without user oversight, including Slackbot performing tasks like research synthesis and dashboard building, mobile CRM updates for Salesforce via iOS …

OpenAI launches ChatGPT work fetching Gmail, Slack, Google Drive, Salesforce

OpenAI introduced ChatGPT Work, an AI tool that autonomously fetches and processes data from Gmail, Slack, Google Drive, and Salesforce to complete multi-step tasks like report prep or document creati…

Employee Retention Strategies to Reduce Turnover

Why Is Collaboration Important in the Workplace?

Tools for AI in Scrum to Accelerate Work

10 Google Chat Alternatives for Teams and Businesses

Slack published a blog post outlining why Google Chat may be limiting for growing teams and comparing 10 alternatives, positioning Slack as the best choice for structured collaboration, AI features, a…

What Is Work-Life Balance?

Grow Organizational Culture and Leadership at Work

The Importance of Emotional Intelligence in Leadership

Jack Dorsey’s Block takes on Slack with Buzz, a workspace for humans and AI agents

Block introduced Buzz, a free, open-source workspace where humans and AI agents share channels with portable cryptographic identities, challenging Slack. The platform supports channels, threads, and a…

The AI Multiplier: How Slack Makes Every Layer of Your AI Stack Smarter

Slack announced a webinar highlighting how its platform acts as a connective layer for enterprise AI stacks, integrating conversational context, enterprise search, and Slackbot to enhance AI model per…

From Conversation to Action: Real-Time Project Intelligence with Atlassian Rovo and Jira Cloud

Slack announced a webinar showcasing how Atlassian’s Rovo AI teammate and improved Jira Cloud agent integrate with Slack to deliver real-time project support. Features include pulling Jira/Confluence …

Tego AI Finds Claude Tag Slack Integration Can Trigger Unauthorized Enterprise Actions

Tego AI’s research reveals that Anthropic’s Claude Tag Slack integration can be triggered by non-intentional content like bot messages or webhooks, potentially enabling unauthorized enterprise actions…

Partner HR Agents in Slack: From “Who’s Out?” to “Who’s Outstanding?” with HiBob

HiBob introduced an AI agent in Slack that enables instant HR support for tasks like checking employee availability, submitting time-off requests, querying org charts, and tracking onboarding—all with…

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: Bolt for JS v5

Slack launched Bolt for JS v5, replacing axios with the native Fetch API, removing deprecated Workflow Steps, and raising the minimum Node.js version to 20. Most apps will require migration unless the…

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…