Aaron Holmes

Executives at Microsoft and other enterprise software firms heralded 2025 as the year artificial intelligence would be capable of automating tasks that involve multiple steps, such as generating dashboards based on company sales data. But as the year comes to a close, Microsoft has lowered ...

When Whoop’s analytics chief Matt Luizzi recently looked across the company’s tech stack, he saw the same thing everywhere: AI agents multiplying. Slack has one. So does Snowflake. Google Workspace, too. And they all promise to do the same jobs—dig through data, forecast sales, even message ...

While artificial intelligence agents continue to generate mixed results, depending on how much assistance customers get from their AI vendors, some of them have gained a new skill: negotiating software contracts.Over the past year, data management startup Cribl has been using an AI agent from ...

Microsoft will get a 27% stake in OpenAI valued at $135 billion and will retain the rights to use the startup’s intellectual property through 2032, the companies announced on Tuesday. Microsoft will give up its right of first refusal over OpenAI’s compute contracts, which had meant OpenAI had to ask Microsoft first whether it could handle cloud computing needs before OpenAI could ask other

Microsoft is adding new AI features to its forthcoming Windows 11 operating system that will let users speak to their computer to automate tasks like locating and editing files, organizing tabs, or managing calendar events, the company announced on Thursday. The new push comes as Microsoft aims to convince more consumers to use its AI Copilot features, which are primarily powered by models

Over the past three years, as OpenAI swelled from a tiny research lab into the world’s most valuable startup, one company has captured nearly all of its billions of dollars in annual spending on the servers needed to power OpenAI’s artificial intelligence: Microsoft. In recent months, though, ...

OpenAI can hardly announce a new product before a chorus of tech pundits declare it will kill a bunch of other applications. In the most recent example, investors in several public software companies went into a panic last week after OpenAI showed a demo of an internal artificial intelligence ...

Over the past year, companies have been tinkering with generative artificial intelligence to create customized agents that automate complex tasks, but they’ve gotten mixed results. Now, OpenAI is pushing a new suite of tools to make the assembly of agents easier, and to peel customers away from ...

Microsoft is preparing to launch a new marketplace that would let makers of AI products pay U.S. publishers for content that the AI products surface, Axios reported on Tuesday. The company is preparing to launch a pilot program that will pay certain publishers for content that’s used by Microsoft’s Copilot chatbot and eventually expand to  AI applications made by other companies. It outlined the

On paper, Informatica, a Redwood City-based cloud software firm with 5,000 white collar employees, is exactly the type of company that should be gung-ho to pay up and buy Microsoft 365 Copilot, the version of the company’s flagship Office software that comes with artificial intelligence ...