Claude will now connect with Microsoft SharePoint and OneDrive to search and analyze documents without you needing to upload them manually. The Microsoft 365 connector is available now for all Claude Team and Enterprise plan users, but administrators need to enable the integration before end users can connect up their accounts. The Microsoft Outlook integration with Claude lets the chatbot access email threads and analyze communications to surface relevant context in its answers.
Slack believes it has a gold mine of data. According to the company, the conversation data between employees is said gold needed to feed AI with the right context. That data is now available within Agentforce, but also to third parties. In recent years, there has been a race to build the best LLMs and have sufficient computing power to enable AI. The latter has been achieved, and now it is time to collect the right data and context and feed it to AI agents.