Microsoft has been slowly but steadily gaining share in Salesforce's key CRM software market. Generative AI may be a new challenge.

Microsoft has launched groundbreaking autonomous AI agents capable of handling complex business tasks independently, from sales qualification to supply chain management.

Microsoft Research President Peter Lee speaks at the University of Washington in 2023. (Allen School of Computer Science Image) What's next for AI, and

Matt Garman became CEO of AWS earlier in 2024. He took the helm as the cloud pioneer battles for supremacy in generative AI.

Microsoft is beating the drum for artificial intelligence on its "AI Tour". In Berlin, CEO Satya Nadella presents his vision of a "world of agents". Microsoft is going "all in" with artificial intelligence (AI) and on tour: the software giant is currently ...

Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff criticized Microsoft for its AI-powered agents and compared Copilot to Clippy 2.0.

Analysts still expect Lumen's revenue to decline in 2025 and 2026 -- so they don't seem convinced its new AI contracts will fix its business. But with an enterprise value of $23 billion, Lumen's stock looks cheap at less than 2 times this year's sales.

Microsoft says agents can save companies as much as $50 million a year or offer the equivalent value of 'adding 187 full-time employees' by automating business processes.

If you're lucky enough to get access to the technical preview of Copilot Workspace, you get a taste of coding's AI future. It doesn't involve much coding. Microsoft-owned GitHub describes Copilot Workspace as "a Copilot-native dev environment, designed for everyday tasks," currently accessible via waitlist .

An unnamed Google engineer reportedly said the chips only last about three years, which could be good news for Nvidia.