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Slack’s new CEO looks to bring stability after a turbulent period

It’s not often you see an established company burn through three CEOs in less than a year. But through circumstances beyond its control, that’s what has happened at Slack, the company Salesforce acquired in 2020 for $28 billion. In November, Slack introduced Denise Dresser as the latest person to occupy the corner office. Dresser acknowledges it wasn’t easy to step into the role under these circumstances, but she is settling in. “You know, like anything, it’s always hard to step into any new company and do it in a…

Slack’s highly anticipated AI features are finally here, including channel recaps, thread summaries, and more

SlackMany companies rely on Slack for cross-organization communication and their employees use the platform to share messages, documents, team plans, spreadsheets, and more. To optimize user experience on the app, Slack is finally making its generative AI features available on the platform. On Wednesday, Salesforce, which owns Slack, announced the rollout of Slack AI, a generative AI experience that includes AI-powered search, channel recaps, and thread summaries. Also: Don't tell your AI anything personal, Google…

Slack’s new generative AI features include thread summaries and conversational search

Slack has finally unleashed its generative AI toolset on the world, after teasing it last year. The vast majority of these features look to simplify your day-to-day life when using the work-focused chat platform.First up, the AI will auto-generate channel recaps to give you key highlights of anything you missed while away from the keyboard or smartphone. Slack says the algorithm that generates these recaps is smart enough to separate the content from the various topics discussed. In other words, if your co-workers…

Boris comes over to co-host; Slack’s Cal Henderson talks European tech

 Welcome to the new episode of the TNW Podcast — the show where we discuss the latest developments in the European technology ecosystem and feature interviews with some of the most interesting people in the industry. In today’s episode, Andrii is joined by Boris Veldhuijzen van Zanten, co-founder, member of the board, and former CEO of TNW. The topics discussed include the jobs created by Dutch startups, giant state funding for energy projects, translations of the word ‘computer’, and a bunch…

Slack’s new Canvas feature may help bring order to the channel chaos

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How to use Slack’s ‘Saved items’ feature (and why you should)

Once you're in a workspace, DM, or thread, locate the item you want to save. Saving an item to the Slack Saved items section. Screenshot by Jack Wallen/ZDNET To view the Saved items section, click Saved items in the left navigation, where your newly-added item will appear. Those items will remain there until you remove them. To remove them, you simply hover your cursor over the item and click the red bookmark icon. Remove a saved item by tapping the red bookmark icon. Screenshot by Jack

How to use Slack’s huddle feature (and why you should)

The first thing you must do is either click on a channel or a DM. Let's say you started the huddle in a DM with only one other person. As the huddle is open, you'll see your profile icon and next to it is the Invite People button. Click that button to reveal a popup, where you can invite others to the huddle.The other icons around your profile image include (counter-clockwise from the right corner):Show threadPop-out mini windowLeave huddleShare screenStart and stop videoStart and stop audioAlso: How to

Slack’s having issues with notifications and loading threads and channels

If you’ve been having some issues with Slack, you’re not alone — the service’s status page reports that “something’s not quite right” with messaging, apps, integrations, APIs, and connections. The issues, which seem to affect threads, channels, notifications and group DMs, started around 9:40AM ET this morning and are still ongoing. Slack says that it’s “actively investigating.”Here at The Verge, the problems seem to manifest themselves differently for different people; one of my co-workers described Slack as acting…

Slack’s upcoming ‘canvas’ feature will make it easier for teams to share resources

Slack has introduced a new feature called "canvas," which it describes as a "surface" where teams can "curate, organize and share mission-critical resources." When it launches next year, Canvas could replace external apps or programs teams use to collate and share information and ideas, such as Google Docs, company Wikis or Notion.  Users can create a new canvas by choosing the option in the drop-down menu beside their Slack team's name. They can embed files in it, along with links, channel lists, videos, workflows, tasks…

Slack’s new Canvas feature puts a document editor in your chat window

A canvas is a document that lives inside — and works with — Slack. | Image: Slack Slack is becoming a document editor. The Salesforce-owned company announced today at its developer conference that it is building a new feature, called Canvas, that will let users create and edit full docs from within the Slack interface. It’s one of Slack’s biggest announcements in a while and maybe its biggest departure ever from its email-killer roots. The idea behind bringing documents to Slack seems to have been…