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Who Wins The AI Superapp Battle?, Apple’s Consumer AI Victory, World Cup Automation Mistake Jul 6, 2026 · 3 mentions

  • ▶ 6:51 Alex Kantrowitz So, you know, in a laptop you would use it for personal use cases, like the same laptop you would watch Netflix on, you could also use Excel and PowerPoint on. 3 times in the scene

The Pentagon's AI Plan + Behind the Anthropic Fight — With Under Secretary of War Emil Michael Apr 15, 2026 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 6:27 Alex Kantrowitz Right, and, and it is interesting to see what's happened with this digitalization, whereas before, this is from Pirate Wires, um, they say, by the start of the conflict with Iran this year, targeting processes were connected with…
  • ▶ 12:07 Alex Kantrowitz That made me feel somewhat uneasy when I looked at this Maven Smart System demo is like, you know, maybe we want the Excel spreadsheets and the Word docs and the PowerPoints when it comes to something as serious as making a decision to…

Software In Shambles, OpenAI vs. Anthropic Super Brawl, Amazon’s Struggles Feb 9, 2026 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 17:53 Alex Kantrowitz It got away with it, and people were talking about, like, these duct tape ways to stitch together software programs, and if they could ever do that, it would be a very big market opportunity, and now that has potentially arrived just, uh,…

Who Wins if AI Models Commoditize? — With Mistral CEO Arthur Mensch Jan 16, 2026 · 1 mention

OpenAI’s Potential, Google’s Speedy Model, Copilot Hits Turbulence Dec 22, 2025 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 14:21 Alex Kantrowitz Like you're not just going to upload all your numbers, uh, like you would to an Excel spreadsheet.

Sam Altman: How OpenAI Wins, ChatGPT’s Future, AI Buildout Logic, IPO in 2026? Dec 18, 2025 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 10:27 Alex Kantrowitz Uh, when Chachaputi came out initially, I think it was Bendig Devins that suggested you might not want to put AI in Excel. 2 times in the scene

OpenAI’s 2026 Priority, Disney’s AI Play, Datacenter Buildout Trouble Dec 17, 2025 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 16:16 Alex Kantrowitz And I think that they've been sprinkling some fairy dust on the, uh, on an Excel spreadsheet and hoping that gets them there.

Google Pushes OpenAI, Bezos Returns, AI’s No. 1 Hit Nov 24, 2025 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 17:04 Alex Kantrowitz Their, their new model, which is going to feel like, you know, maybe a little bit warmer, like Gemini three is supposed to, and a tiny bit smarter when you chat with it and not very different in everyday use case, uh, from let's say a GPT…

Will AI Kill Software? — With Salesforce Co-Founder Parker Harris Oct 14, 2025 · 3 mentions

How Business Software Transforms In The Age Of AI — With Zeb Evans Oct 10, 2025 · 4 mentions

The ‘AI-First Company,’ Big Tech Mega Earnings, NVIDIA vs. Anthropic May 5, 2025 · 1 mention

Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff Has Thoughts on AI Agents, Automation, and The Future of Your Job Nov 27, 2024 · 4 mentions

  • ▶ 25:51 Alex Kantrowitz And instead of being in Excel, you just put all your numbers in a chatbot and you talk to your chatbot instead of Excel. 2 times in the scene
  • ▶ 33:09 Alex Kantrowitz They put it in Outlook, they put it in Excel, they put it in PowerPoint. 2 times in the scene

OpenAI Builds A Browser, Microsoft Copilot’s Struggles, Jaguar Rebrand Nov 24, 2024 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 9:23 Alex Kantrowitz Um, and I think it's, there's an interesting historical point here to make, which is that Google was able to seize the leadership of desktop browsers from Microsoft because Microsoft actually had an incentive and an interest in making the…

Fear Buying AI & Automation Stocks — With Downtown Josh Brown Oct 16, 2024 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 24:55 Alex Kantrowitz Um, but I do think if you show up for a job, some people are going to be interested in doing something meaningful and like copying data, one Excel sheet to another is not the thing that makes them happy.
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