Salesforce Staff Bristle as Anthropic’s Claude Tag Muscles Into Slack

Claude Tag Brings Always-On AI Teammates Into Slack in 2026

Anthropic is putting Claude right where office work already happens: inside Slack. The company’s new Claude Tag feature lets teams call the AI into a channel by typing @Claude, then hand it real work. That sounds useful. It also means your company chat could become the place where AI learns how your business thinks, works, argues, decides, and forgets. Claude Tag turns Slack into an AI workplace Claude Tag is Anthropic’s latest push into enterpr…

Salesforce staff worry Anthropic's Claude Tag could cannibalize Slackbot and give the AI firm more leverage over the enterprise software industry (Laura Bratton/The Information)

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Salesforce Staff Bristle as Anthropic’s Claude Tag Muscles Into Slack

Salesforce employees have grown uneasy. Their company just opened the doors wider for Anthropic’s AI to operate inside Slack. The latest move, a feature called Claude Tag, lets users summon the chatbot directly in channels by typing @Claude. It behaves like another teammate. One that watches conversations, pulls data, completes tasks and reports back in public view. But not everyone inside the enterprise software giant feels good about it. Some …