Winners and losers in the AI software shakeout

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Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella speaks at the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) CEO Summit in San Francisco.
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella speaking at a conference in San Francisco.

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AI agents could make the org chart obsolete. Microsoft's AI product lead explains what might replace it.

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23-year-old cofounders left Amazon and Microsoft to build an AI startup. Read their Y Combinator pitch deck.

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Bluejay cofounders Rohan Vasishth and Faraz Siddiqi, with their arms crossed and standing shoulder to shoulder in grey sweaters.
Bluejay cofounders Rohan Vasishth and Faraz Siddiqi

Muhammad Anjum

A Big Law attorney and two techies built an AI that predicts judges' rulings. See the pitch deck they used to raise $5 million.

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Bench IQ founders

Bench IQ

Box CEO Aaron Levie tells BI the fix for AI's 'context rot' isn't one super-agent

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Aaron Levie
Box CEO Aaron Levie tells Business Insider AI agents suffer from "context rot." The fix is breaking work into specialized sub-agents.

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CEO Brian Chesky says Airbnb is going to become an AI-first app with agents that can book trips for you

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Brian Chesky speaking into a mic
Brian Chesky said he thinks all the most popular apps will be AI apps in the future.

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An Accel-backed startup CEO says your next user isn't human — and it's changing how software gets built

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Guillermo Rauch
Vercel's CEO says AI agents are becoming software's next users — and it's reshaping how APIs and developer tools are built.

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AI coding agents are infiltrating the corporate world. Here are the top tools.

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Microsoft CTO Kevin Scott talks about the growth of AI agent use at the Build 2025 developer conference.
Microsoft CTO Kevin Scott talks about the growth of AI agent use at the Build 2025 developer conference.

Microsoft

A tech investor says AI is already coming for jobs — and 2 professions should be very nervous

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ai artificial intelligence robot hand worker run

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VCs say AI agents will be big in 2025. Here's an exclusive look at the pitch deck one startup in the space used to raise $20 million.

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Vapi employees

Vapi

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