Enterprise
Microsoft working to fix Outlook email issues
The Microsoft office building is in the RheinauArtOffice in Cologne, Germany, on September 11, 2025. Michael Nguyen | Nurphoto | Getty Images Microsoft said Thursday that it was working to resolve technical issues that were getting in the way of people sending and receiving email messages in its Outlook application. The event happened in the […]
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Software selloff sparked by AI sets stage for potential big year of M&A, investors say
Marc Benioff, CEO of Salesforce, speaking on Squawk on the Street at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland on Jan. 20th, 2026. Oscar Molina | CNBC Cloud software stocks have started this year where they left off in 2025: selloff mode. The continued downward spiral is setting the stage for a flurry of acquisitions, […]
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Workday CEO calls narrative that AI is killing software ‘overblown’
Workday CEO Carl Eschenbach on Thursday tried to ease worries that artificial intelligence is destroying software business models. “It’s an overblown narrative, and it’s not true,” he told CNBC’s “Squawk Box” from the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, calling AI a tailwind and “absolutely not a headwind” for the company. Software stocks have sold […]
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OpenAI chair Bret Taylor says AI is ‘probably’ a bubble, expects correction in coming years
Bret Taylor, co-founder of the artificial intelligence startup Sierra, said Thursday that AI “probably” is a bubble that is causing both “smart money” and “dumb money” to fund competitors at every layer of the tech stack. Taylor, who also serves as the chairman of OpenAI’s board, said the free market will ultimately determine where the […]
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OpenAI seeking investments from Middle East sovereign wealth funds for multibillion-dollar round
Sam Altman, co-founder and CEO of OpenAI, takes part in a panel discussion on artificial intelligence at the Technical University Berlin, in Berlin, Germany, February 7, 2025. Axel Schmidt | Reuters OpenAI is in talks with sovereign wealth funds in the Middle East to try to secure investments for a new multibillion dollar funding round, […]
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OpenAI, Anthropic set sights on enterprise customers at Davos
Artificial intelligence startups OpenAI and Anthropic have their sights set on enterprise customers this year as they race to win more revenue, users and market share. In separate interviews with CNBC at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland on Wednesday, Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei and OpenAI CFO Sarah Friar highlighted enterprise as a key […]
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Meta’s $2 billion Manus deal pushes away some of startup’s customers, who are ‘sad that this has happened’
When Meta agreed to spend a reported $2 billion on Manus at the end of last year, the social media giant said it planned to take the startup’s subscription AI agent offering and “scale this service to many more businesses.” But some existing Manus customers aren’t thrilled with the deal and say they’re now going […]
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Trump AI czar Sacks calls California wealth tax an asset seizure and ‘scary direction’ for U.S.
President Donald Trump’s artificial intelligence and crypto czar David Sacks on Wednesday criticized California’s proposed wealth tax on billionaires, calling it a “scary direction” for the U.S. “This is this is not a tax, this is an asset seizure,” the venture capitalist told CNBC’s “Squawk Box” from the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland. “Never […]
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Chinese tech giants enter the ‘agentic commerce’ race as AI reshapes super apps
NANJING, CHINA – NOVEMBER 25: Aerial view of Alibaba Jiangsu Headquarters at night on November 25, 2025 in Nanjing, Jiangsu Province of China. (Photo by Fang Dongxu/VCG via Getty Images) Vcg | Visual China Group | Getty Images China’s technology giants are entering a new phase of the artificial intelligence race called ‘agentic commerce,’ as […]
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OpenAI is rolling out age prediction for ChatGPT consumer plans
Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI, is pictured on Sept. 25, 2025, in Berlin. Florian Gaertner | Photothek | Getty Images OpenAI on Tuesday said it is rolling out an age prediction model to its ChatGPT consumer plans to help the artificial intelligence company identify accounts that belong to users under 18 years old. The model […]
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