CrowdStrike CEO George Kurtz pushed back on the narrative that artificial intelligence makes cloud-based software obsolete. "I don't really buy that," Kurtz told CNBC's Jim Cramer on " Squawk on the Street " on Thursday morning. "I think you need software in order to be able to protect AI. They're interrelated. It's not like you just have one without the other." That core argument of AI killing software is two-fold and has been developing ever since agentic AI – a new class of autonomous agents – has gained traction as a more automated way to operate a business. First, the perceived threat is that customers integrating AI-enabled tools, which operate independently with little to no human interaction, won't need to pay for as much access to a suite of software-as-a-service tools. The SaaS m
CrowdStrike CEO blasts 'AI is killing software' narrative, says one can't exist without the other

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