Today’s chief executives are the last generation to manage all-human workforces as companies increasingly adopt artificial intelligence, Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff said Thursday.

The CEOs of today will be the last to manage all-human workforces, according to Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff. Benioff made the comments in Davos, Switzerland Wednesday while speaking to Axios. “We are really moving into a world now of managing humans and agents together,

DAVOS, SWITZERLAND — The weather may have been teeth-chattering along the promenade in Davos, but that didn't stop Salesforce ( CRM) co-founder and CEO Marc Benioff from firing off a few new choice words on AI rival Microsoft ( MSFT ).

A new U.S. president’s promise to expand fossil fuels that is at odds with global ambitions to combat climate change will be a topic of discussion at the World Economic Forum.

The 55 th Annual Meeting of the World Economic Forum opened this week with a powerful message and all-encompassing themes. Klaus Schwab, World Economic Forum Founder and Chairman of the Board of Trustees, global leaders, leaving no doubt about his message: the undeniable need for, in Schwab’s words, Collaboration for the Intelligent Age.

Donald Trump will star in an eagerly-anticipated online appearance at the World Economic Forum in Davos on Thursday, addressing global elites whose annual gabfest has been consumed by the US president's days-old second term.

Topics up for discussion range from carbon pricing and the economics of nature to changing weather patterns and upcoming COP30 efforts. Noteworthy speakers such as Al Gore, Ursula von der Leyen, Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala,

Salesforce Inc (NYSE:CRM) co-founder, chairman and CEO Marc Benioff took a shot at Microsoft Corp (NASDAQ:MSFT) while laying out his vision for the future of AI Wednesday in a CNBC interview from the World Economic Forum.

Today's CEOs are likely the last who will "manage a workforce of only human beings," Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff told Axios' Ina Fried in Davos Wednesday. Why it matters: The rise of generative AI "agents," which Benioff described Wednesday as "digital labor," is among the next wave of advancements for the tech.

Salesforce Inc. Chief Executive Officer Marc Benioff said there will be “thousands” of deals for its new Agentforce AI product in the current fiscal quarter.Most Read from BloombergHow Sanctuary Citie

The World Economic Forum, colloquially called "Davos" after the location at which it's hosted in the Swiss mountains, is a yearly meeting of elites.

C.E.O.s, policymakers and billionaires at the World Economic Forum’s conference have long pledged to fight climate change. Has it done any good?