Consulting firms have built thousands of AI agents. Now they're trying to figure out their worth.

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AI agents are generating buzz in the consulting industry, but insiders are still debating how they generate value.

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Inside the outrage over Marc Benioff's ICE jokes at a pivotal time for Salesforce

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Marc Benioff, chief executive officer of Salesforce Inc
Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff.

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These Y Combinator founders raised $10 million to get corporate America into vibe coding. Read their pitch deck.

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Vybe cofounders Quang Hoang and Fabien Devos with their arms around one another, standing in front of a brick wall.
Vybe cofounders Quang Hoang and Fabien Devos.

Vybe

A recording of CEO Marc Benioff's keynote was posted on Salesforce's internal site. His jokes about ICE weren't included.

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Marc Benioff
Marc Benioff

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Slack's new head just denounced Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff's ICE jokes in internal messages

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Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff at the Annual Meeting of the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, in January 2025.
Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff says Gemini 3 is so advanced that he has stopped using ChatGPT.

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Salesforce sent emails scolding employees for 'absence' at a company event after its CEO joked about ICE

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Photo of Marc Benioff of Salesforce speaking on stage.
Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff speaks to thousands at the Moscone South Hall during Dreamforce in San Francisco on Tuesday, Sept. 17, 2024. "This is the most exciting and most important Dreamforce," said Benioff.

Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff joked about ICE at an event, and employees are up in arms

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Marc Benioff speaks at the 2024 World Economic Forum in Davos
Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff

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3 VCs behind Affirm, DoorDash, and Zoom say the next wave of billion-dollar companies won't be in San Francisco

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From left to right: Karan Sharma, Ethel Chen, and Jeremy Kranz.

Sentinel Global

Bollywood dance teammates raised $5.3 million for their Y Combinator AI startup. Read their pitch deck.

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Vihaar Nandigala and Kishan Sripada, standing in front of a white wall, wearing dark shirts.
Orange Slice cofounders Vihaar Nandigala and Kishan Sripada.

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A consultant who called the AI software collapse almost a year ago says no part of the business will escape 'unscathed'

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Michelle Miller, Co-Head of the Enterprise Software Technology group at AlixPartners
Michelle Miller, Co-Head of the Enterprise Software Technology group at AlixPartners

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