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Salesforce and Anthropic recentlyunveiled Claudeforce, a partnership that integrates frontier AI reasoning into the world’s leading customer relationship management (CRM) platform. While the announcement featured the standard smiling CEOs and celebratory marketing, it masked the architectural reality: Salesforce is voluntarily surrendering its user interface (UI) to Anthropic. This move signals a public, slow-motion unbundling of…

Despite substantial investment in artificial intelligence, mortgage origination remains expensive and labor-intensive. In the first quarter of 2026, the average cost to originate a loan rose to $11,898, while lenders earned just $727, or 16 basis points, in pre-tax production profit.