Salesforce Stock Surges on Better-Than-Expected Earnings

Salesforce reported better-than-expected quarterly earnings on Wednesday, shaking off worries about artificial-intelligence tools disrupting its business. The enterprise software giant also announced an expanded partnership with Anthropic that the two companies call Claudeforce. As part of the collaboration, Anthropic will integrate Salesforce into its Claude chatbot, allowing humans and AI agents to access Salesforce data and functions through a plug in.