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Agents at Work
Northslope, a Palantir Vanguard Elite partner, gives OpenAI instant access to the enterprise clients where Palantir has already done the hard integration work.
◆ Dana Ellison
Agents at Work
The same company that declared an entire class of workers obsolete is now building the picks and shovels for the agent era. The question: is this transparency, or a template?
◆ Dana Ellison
Agents at Work
TCS, Infosys, Wipro, HCLTech, and Tech Mahindra shed 7,389 employees in FY26 — the first net decline in two decades. Nifty IT down 23%, $77B wiped. The annuity base is cracking.
◆ Dana Ellison
Agents at Work
ClickUp deployed 3,000 AI agents and restructured around a model where fewer employees do more work for dramatically higher pay. Industry data suggests most companies can't make it pay.
◆ Dana Ellison
Agents at Work
A new study of 21,599 U.S. firms finds that companies spending the most on AI hired more people, including at the entry level. But the gains stopped there.
◆ Dana Ellison
Agents at Work
A Stanford study found 26% of Black applicants faced discrimination from AI hiring systems. Two landmark lawsuits are testing whether vendors or employers are responsible. And the federal government has stepped back.
◆ Dana Ellison
Agents at Work
Microsoft launched Frontier Company, a $2.5B program embedding 6,000 AI engineers in customer enterprises. Four days later, it cut 4,800 of its own roles. The juxtaposition raises questions about who benefits from the agent transition.
◆ Dana Ellison
Agents at Work
Oracle cut 21,000 jobs (13% of workforce) and went $23.7 billion negative on free cash flow to fund a $55.7 billion AI infrastructure buildout. A bondholder lawsuit alleges the company concealed the scale of its planned borrowing.
◆ Dana Ellison
Agents at Work
Microsoft eliminated 4,800 roles while investing $190B in AI infrastructure. Analysts say workforce reductions fund AI capex. The 'not replacing people' framing examined.
◆ Dana Ellison
Agents at Work
Matthew Prince divided employees into builders, sellers, and measurers — then declared measurers obsolete. He did it while posting record revenue. The question: is this honesty, or a template?
◆ Dana Ellison
