This article was originally published on ARPU. View the original post here. Salesforce-owned Slack, the ubiquitous workplace messaging app, recently made a quiet but significant policy change.

Slack trains machine-learning models on user messages, files and other content without explicit permission. The training is opt-out, meaning your private data will be leeched by default. Making ...

Slack is training its machine learning features on its users' data—and everyone's opted-in by default. Slack uses machine learning, a subfield of AI, to operate in-app features like channel ...

If you work somewhere that sometimes involves broken code, followed by someone pinging a coworker in Slack with a harried message like “hey @[human’s name] can you push a quick fix for this?😬” ...

Slack auto-erases messages after a year. Back them up regularly. Free plans only allow exporting public channel messages. Pro, business, and enterprise plans can export everything. To back up Slack ...

Disney is moving away from Slack on a company-wide level after a data breach this summer. According to the memo, unspecified “collaboration tools” will replace Slack completely by the second quarter ...

Learn how OpenAI ChatGPT in Slack can turn scattered team conversations into organized weekly status reports with summaries, ...

Credit: VentureBeat made with Google Gemini 3.1 Pro Image For the modern enterprise, the digital workspace risks descending into "coordination theater," in which teams spend more time discussing work ...

Ali Rayl has her qualms about the green dot. That’s the green dot in Slack, the one that signals to everyone in your workspace that you’re available. Rayl is the senior vice president of product at ...