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

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

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 ...

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

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

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.

Anthropic, the Amazon-backed AI startup founded by former OpenAI research executives, announced AI agents that can use a computer to complete complex tasks.

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.

Microsoft launches autonomous AI agents for Dynamics 365, challenging Salesforce's Agentforce in the race to dominate enterprise AI and reshape the future of work.