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Microsoft Begins Gaming Retreat

By Martin Peers · Jul 6, 2026 5:00pm PDT
We’re guessing the July 4 weekend was not too relaxed for some folks at Microsoft. Today we got news that the company is laying off 4,800 people—around 2% of its total workforce—mostly in sales and at its troubled Xbox business. It's also selling at least four, and probably five, small gaming studios. Asha Sharma, Microsoft’s new gaming... We’re guessing the July 4 weekend was not too relaxed for some folks at Microsoft. Today we got...
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Software’s New Turf Wars

By Jon Victor · May 9, 2025 6:00am PDT · 2 comments
The rise of new artificial intelligence–powered business software threatens the future of long-established software firms. Their response is to jump into new markets with their own AI-powered software. That’s pitting companies against each other in new ways. ServiceNow earlier this week announced an AI agent to handle sales management,... The rise of new artificial intelligence–powered business software threatens the future of...
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What We Learned From The Information’s 50 Most Promising Startups

By Amir Efrati · Oct 25, 2022 6:50am PDT · 15 comments
After splurging in 2020 and 2021, investors this year turned less generous toward startups. But that didn’t slow the pipeline of promising companies that could become the next ByteDance, Stripe or Databricks. The third edition of The Information’s 50 most promising startups looked for the next big winners in artificial intelligence... After splurging in 2020 and 2021, investors this year turned less generous toward startups. But...
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Microsoft Sales Chief Responds to Potential Rivalry with OpenAI’s New Agent Product

By Kevin McLaughlin and Aaron Holmes · Feb 6, 2026 6:45pm PST · 1 comment
Microsoft’s top sales executive told staff on Friday that the company was uniquely positioned to compete against a new OpenAI product aimed at helping businesses automate office tasks across different software applications—including Microsoft’s own apps. In an email, Microsoft commercial CEO Judson Althoff provided talking points... Microsoft’s top sales executive told staff on Friday that the company was uniquely positioned to...
Businesses Still Dream of Using AI to Replace Enterprise Apps
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Businesses Still Dream of Using AI to Replace Enterprise Apps

By Kevin McLaughlin and Aaron Holmes · Nov 20, 2025 10:45am PST · 1 comment
We’ve been hearing for years about the theoretical threat AI poses to enterprise software apps like Salesforce, ServiceNow and Workday. While a disaster scenario for these firms hasn’t happened because AI generally isn’t reliable enough to duplicate what they do, some customers are still trying to use the latest AI models to replace those apps... We’ve been hearing for years about the theoretical threat AI poses to enterprise software apps...
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AI Agenda

Can AI Really Replace Salesforce and Workday?

By Ann Gehan and Amir Efrati · Sep 12, 2024 7:15am PDT · 1 comment
Before you get your hands on OpenAI’s Strawberry reasoning model—which we’re told is due out before the end of this week, including a version that will be in the free tier of ChatGPT—noodle on this:Can artificial intelligence kill the enterprise software app industry that’s led by companies such as Salesforce and Workday?That’s the... Before you get your hands on OpenAI’s Strawberry reasoning model—which we’re told is due out...