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Microsoft exec suggests AI agents will need to buy software licenses, just like employees
(www.businessinsider.com)
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this post was submitted on 14 Apr 2026
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You'd be surprised, there's a lot of idiots in corporate America
The empty efforts to appease the board that come a large costs need to show some ROI though, it can only be smoke and mirrors for so long. The big dumb ones I’m talking about are the ones who buy huge packages and just give out licenses like candy to 10k+ people without any tech background who have been doing the same thing for 20 years without any direction on how to utilize them are the ones I’m talking about. Early adopter tech first companies can’t foot all that bill.
Yeah, I work at a very large corp, and they're still very early in rolling out AI tools (hilariously recently got an email saying they're on the "cutting edge" which is absolutely not true) basically so far they rolled out copilot and are adding in automatic transcribing/note taking on all phone calls.