Microsoft exec suggests AI agents will need to buy software licenses, just like employees

Microsoft exec Rajesh Jha Bloomberg/Getty Images A version of this story originally appeared in the BI Tech Memo newsletter. Sign up for the weekly BI Tech Memo newsletter here. Ashley Stewart's scoops are always worth reading. This week, she published a sharp piece on the AI threat to software, and how Microsoft, Salesforce, and others are responding. Buried in the story was a deceptively simple question: does your AI agent count as an employee? At a recent conference, Microsoft executive ...