DeepSeek, AI agents, and avoiding a tech-created catastrophe dominated the talk at Davos Agents bring big benefits—and maybe even bigger risks—AI experts tell CEOs in Davos. Fortune · Jan 28, 2025
Marc Benioff says that from now on CEOs will no longer lead all-human workforces The AI agents are here—and they’re taking over more work at the office, reigniting employees' worst fears. Fortune · Jan 24, 2025
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella weighs in on the $500 billion Stargate project, seemingly dismissing Elon Musk's liquidity concerns: “All I know is, I’m good for my $80 billion.” Satya Nadella says the company will continue investing $80 billion in capital annually to build out Azure. Windows Central · Jan 24, 2025
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei claims AI could surpass "almost all humans at almost everything," even robotics, within 3 years — dismisses AGI as a "marketing term" Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei claims that generative AI could surpass human cognitive capabilities "in almost everything," even robotics, within 2-3 years. Windows Central · Jan 24, 2025
Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff claims Microsoft won't use OpenAI in the future — Microsoft already admitted GPT-4 is too expensive and isn't fast enough to meet consumer needs Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff claims Microsoft won't use OpenAI in the future, following the announcement of the $500 billion Stargate project to build AI infrastructure for the ChatGPT maker's cloud computing needs. Windows Central · Jan 23, 2025
The AI trend that could send software stocks soaring in 2025 Palantir and Salesforce have seen their shares soar amid enthusiastic demand for powerful digital assistants and AI platforms. Fortune · Jan 22, 2025
Microsoft News Roundup: Nightmare week of price hikes, rebrands, and remembering how Bill Gates lost $400 billion Negative headlines surrounded Microsoft this past week as the company rebranded its most iconic apps, raised the price of Microsoft 365, and was attacked by Salesforce. Windows Central · Jan 20, 2025
Microsoft claps back at Salesforce — claims "100,000 organizations" had used Copilot Studio to create AI agents by October 2024 Microsoft has clapped back at Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff's comments downplaying its AI efforts. The company indicated over 100,000 organizations had used Copilot Studio to create agents by October 2024. Windows Central · Jan 20, 2025
Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff slams Microsoft Copilot as "a disaster" Wars of words between Benioff and Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella comes via the only appropriate means possible in 2025: two distinct podcasts. TechRadar · Jan 15, 2025
Salesforce is "seriously debating" software engineer hires in 2025 due to the "incredible productivity gains" from agentic AIs Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff might not hire software engineers in 2025 because of the transformative productivity gains of AI agents while Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella foresees a swarm of AI agents at the disposal of knowledge workers through Copilot Studio soon. Windows Central · Jan 13, 2025
Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff says Microsoft "repackaged OpenAI and dropped it into Excel" — Customers barely use Copilot, and that's when they don't have a ChatGPT license Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff throws another lethal jab at Microsoft, stating it has repackaged OpenAI and dropped it into Excel. He further claimed customers barely use Copilot, and that's when they don't have a ChatGPT license. Windows Central · Jan 13, 2025
Marc Benioff’s advice to fellow CEOs: Embrace this Buddhist concept—or ‘you’re going to have a problem’ The Salesforce founder says every CEO needs to cultivate “shoshin” to stay competitive. Fortune · Dec 20, 2024
Salesforce CEO Marc Marc Benioff bashes Microsoft — again Benioff thinks 2025 will be the year when AI starts to truly transform business and disrupt how we work. Fortune · Dec 19, 2024
Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff is a big believer in agentic AI Agentic AI is making Marc Benioff feel like a beginner again. Fortune · Dec 18, 2024
TechRadar · Dec 18, 2024 Salesforce reveals major hiring push to sell AI products 2,000 sales representative jobs have come up at Salesforce as it prepares to handle increased demand for its AI tools.
Fortune · Dec 12, 2024 Marc Benioff says ‘excessive’ AI spending is a ‘race to the bottom,’ and he’d rather Salesforce use other companies’ tech Benioff has previously warned that AI is overhyped.
Fortune · Dec 4, 2024 Salesforce’s ‘hard pivot’ to AI agents pays off with an 11% stock surge. Now comes the hard part Salesforce’s big bet on Agentforce has investors buzzing, but the clock is ticking on the company growing its revenue from AI products.
Kiplinger · Dec 4, 2024 Stock Market Today: Stocks Rally as Econ News Affirms Rate-Cut Bets Some soft economic data was good news for rate cuts and risk assets.
Kiplinger · Dec 4, 2024 Salesforce Leads Dow Jones Stocks After Earnings. Here's Why Salesforce stock is soaring after the tech giant beat revenue expectations for its fiscal third quarter and gave a strong outlook for its fourth quarter.
International Business Times · Nov 20, 2024 Microsoft 'Teaches' New AI Tools To 'Act' On Behalf Of Humans In Work And Life Microsoft is teaching its AI tools to act as agents on behalf of humans.
The Independent UK · Nov 19, 2024 Microsoft pitches AI 'agents' that can perform tasks on their own at Ignite 2024 Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella is opening a company conference in Chicago with remarks that could set the stage for where it’s taking its artificial intelligence business
Windows Central · Nov 14, 2024 OpenAI will reportedly join the Microsoft/Salesforce AI agentic war with 'Operator' in January 2025: "I think 2025 is going to be the year that agentic systems finally hit the mainstream" OpenAI will reportedly ship an AI agent called Operator in January 2025. The AI agent is designed to control computers and perform redundant tasks autonomously.
Latin Times · Nov 13, 2024 Salesforce to Hire Hundreds of Salespeople to Sell AI Products Aimed at Replacing Salespeople Salesforce plans to hire over 1,000 employees to support sales of its new generative AI product designed to execute business operations without human oversight.
Windows Central · Nov 1, 2024 Microsoft AI CEO says Copilot will evolve into a companion and 'real friend' despite backlash from concerned users: "It tries to be my friend when I need it to be a tool" Microsoft AI CEO Mustafa Suleyman discussed the future of Copilot and AI agents, indicating Copilot will evolve into an AI companion. "People are going to have a real friend that gets to know you over time, that learns from you, that is there in your corner as your support," added…
Windows Central · Oct 28, 2024 "We automated 150 tasks with AI agents, just copy us": Microsoft's Windows Agent Arena brings AI assistants keyboard-deep to Windows PCs but there are critical security and performance concerns Microsoft unveiled a new benchmark called Windows Agent Arena, designed to promote testing of AI agents in Windows operating system environments. However, it's not up to par with human performance and presents critical security concerns.