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Monday, May 4, 2026

Salesforce just restructured as an agent-first platform. The company announced Headless 360, making every workflow, object, and business logic accessible through APIs, MCP tools, and CLI commands. Your AI agents now have full Salesforce data access with inherited permissions—same as human users. The browser UI is optional.

Inference is the new inflection point. AI adoption has shifted from training new models to serving them efficiently. This drives opportunities for specialized AI chips, making agent responses faster and cheaper to run. If you're deploying agents, watch inference costs drop.

AI moved from promise to operational reality, with emerging challenges: data center demands and managing systems at scale.

For builders: Salesforce opened its full platform to agents. For operators: inference competition is accelerating your cost advantage.

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