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.

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

Microsoft and OpenAI announced they’re offering a select group of media outlets up to $10 million ($2.5 million in cash plus $2.5 million worth of “software and enterprise credits” from each) to try out AI tools in the newsroom.

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 want to automate your tasks with AI, Microsoft's Copilot Studio will soon allow you to do it—and create an AI agent for the operations.

CPM will hire an AI Fellow to work on projects for “improving business sustainability and implementing AI technologies.”

The Department of Divine Shitposting helps seed a new mind virus around AI-created religions, and academics claim AI is in a bubble.

UK-based Wayve is taking an AI-centric approach to autonomous driving. Here’s why this could be the future of self-driving tech.