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Lowe's is betting that AI agents powered by Google Cloud can become do-it-yourself home improvement companions and offer personalized customer experiences.
AI agents are likely to be adopted in healthcare as a way to provide patient guidance in any modality and carry out tasks like transportation, appointment scheduling and follow-ups.
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The shock and awe from tariffs represent just one part of the Great Reset that’s being led by a President that has a once in a lifetime opportunity to transform America's standing and shape the POTUS legacy. Hampered by a failing WTO and short-term thinking that plagues the Western world, tariffs provide the biggest leverage point to both political and economic bilateral negotiations for access to the US $29 trillion economy.
Microsoft added a bevy of new features for Copilot to enhance memory, ability to take action and conduct research and also updated its Azure AI Foundry with tools to build AI agent systems.
The AI Landscape's Tectonic Shift: OpenAI's dominance is crumbling under the weight of technical missteps, unsustainable economics, and intensifying competition from both established players and newcomers. With Microsoft testing rival models, Apple reconsidering partnerships, and Chinese innovations accelerating, the "simply partner with OpenAI" strategy has become dangerously outdated. The next 18 months will transform the AI ecosystem—and only organizations with flexible, sophisticated approaches will emerge as winners.
Amazon is putting its Nova family large language models (LLMs) on display for a tryout aims to spur developer interest. And if Alexa+, which is also available for early access, performs well Nova's profile will only increase.
AI agents remain the hot topic among BT150 CxOs and there’s little to no doubt multi-agent systems will be useful. However, there are doubts about vendor offerings, platform lock-in, data strategy, architecture and change management.
Cognizant is betting that it can embed agentic AI across enterprises. The strategy will be driven by the ability to design enterprise AI agents that work across systems, create industry-specific large language models and build its own platforms such as Cognizant Neuro AI, which is built on Nvidia's stack.
AI models are quickly including the physical world and multiple modalities and a humanoid robot inflection point may soon follow.
Workato launched Workato One, a platform designed for agentic AI workflows, AgentX Apps, pre-built agents that orchestrate business processes across multiple systems, and acquired DeepConverse, which specializes in automated customer support.
