{"id":142448,"date":"2025-09-08T20:46:06","date_gmt":"2025-09-08T20:46:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/142448\/"},"modified":"2025-09-08T20:46:06","modified_gmt":"2025-09-08T20:46:06","slug":"what-happened-when-researchers-co-founded-a-startup-with-ai","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/142448\/","title":{"rendered":"What Happened When Researchers Co-Founded a Startup with AI"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"Paragraph_text__yGFNO\" data-first-paragraph=\"true\">What if your startup\u2019s first hire wasn\u2019t a person\u2014but an AI agent? This provocative question was at the heart of a semester-long collaboration between Microsoft and NYU Stern\u2019s Tech MBA program. Thirty students, divided into six startup-style teams, were given access to Microsoft 365 Copilot with the latest agent capabilities and asked to reimagine how work gets done when AI is embedded from day one. Their mission: break traditional workflows, build \u201cFrontier Firm\u201d companies, and explore the future of human-agent collaboration.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"What if your startup\u2019s first hire wasn\u2019t a person\u2014but an AI agent? This provocative question was at the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":142449,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[28,158],"class_list":{"0":"post-142448","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-entrepreneurship","8":"tag-business","9":"tag-entrepreneurship"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142448","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=142448"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142448\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/142449"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=142448"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=142448"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=142448"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}