Startups love to boast about 'ARR.' AI could bring this to an abrupt end.

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Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff says he might rename the company 'Agentforce'

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Salesforce CEO and cofounder Marc Benioff

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Marc Benioff is writing Salesforce's annual strategy document. He shared the key details early with Business Insider.

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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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RBC Capital says these software companies are the most likely to be acquired as AI eats the world

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Michael Douglas starring as leveraged buyout dealmaker Gordon Gekko in the 1987 movie "Wall Street."

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PhDs are the new MBAs for founders in the AI era, as college dropouts remain an outlier

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Developers use Cursor to build a pet website at a hackathon in Singapore. Cursor has become one of the fastest-growing AI tools.

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OpenAI dishes more details on its internal AI software tools, including a sales assistant and customer service agent

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OpenAI's Scotty Huhn discusses the startup's internal AI software tools at the DevDay conference in San Francisco
OpenAI's Scotty Huhn discusses the startup's internal AI software tools at the DevDay conference in San Francisco

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OpenAI enters a special new phase of extreme influence

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Sam Altman, CEO OpenAI, photographed in Berlin

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OpenAI's SaaS era has begun. Here are the companies in the firing line.

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Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI, meeting officials in Berlin.
Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI, meeting officials in Berlin.

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These are the most 'AI-proof' software companies, according to analysts

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Clearwater Analytics CEO Sandeep Sahai rings the opening bell at the New York Stock Exchange.
Clearwater Analytics CEO Sandeep Sahai rings the opening bell at the New York Stock Exchange.

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Amazon seeks more grassroots adoption of its AI products, relying less on salespeople

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AWS CEO Matt Garman

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