Aaron Holmes

As AI spending has eaten into corporate budgets, generating concern over rising costs at Fortune 500 firms from Uber to ServiceNow and Snowflake, some companies are beginning to throttle employees’ usage.The latest is AT&T, which has begun limiting some employees’ access to Microsoft’s Github ...

When a group of tech companies announce an agreement to support an AI backend-software protocol, we don’t blame corporate IT executives for not paying attention. It sounds quite boring.But one such announcement on Wednesday from Google, Microsoft, Salesforce, Snowflake, ServiceNow and others is ...

Salesforce and Microsoft may be worried about threats posed by AI upstarts like Anthropic to their core enterprise apps, but they’re taking a conciliatory approach.Even though the two incumbents sell proprietary AI agents that can be used inside their Slack and Teams messaging apps, for ...

Microsoft is planning to lay off thousands of employees across the company in the coming week, including in sales and engineering units, according to someone briefed on the plans. The layoffs will also include job cuts across Microsoft’s Xbox gaming organization that have been previously reported.Microsoft typically conducts layoffs after the close of its fiscal year, which ended on Tuesday.

Microsoft on Thursday announced the creation of a new business unit geared towards helping large customers set up customized AI applications, commercial CEO Judson Althoff announced. Microsoft is spending $2.5 billion and assigning 6,000 employees to the effort, called Microsoft Frontier Company, Althoff said.The new unit comes as large companies have groused that it can be tricky to

As businesses spend more on AI from Anthropic and other new providers, traditional enterprise apps and IT services providers are sometimes fighting for a smaller piece of the pie.In one example, French biopharmaceutical giant Sanofi told me it’s using its own in-house AI agent developed with ...

Should businesses worry about whether leading AI providers are using their corporate data to develop competing products? The AI providers’ rivals, including the CEOs of Microsoft, Salesforce and Palantir, seem to think soThe real threat is far more subtle, having more to do with the high-level ...

Microsoft, the largest cybersecurity software seller in the world, is overhauling that business to cash in on corporate anxieties about AI-powered hacks. Hayete Gallot, who took over Microsoft’s security business in February, has directed more teams to develop AI security products such as those ...