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Agentic AI to date has revolved around architecture, standards, use cases, process automation and productivity, but customer experiences and visions of reinventing categories are m...
ServiceNow said that it has expanded its multi-year partnership with OpenAI in a move that will revolve around computer-use automation, expanded AI tools and workflows using techno...
OpenAI has $20 billion in annual recurring revenue, but perhaps the bigger news is that the company's 2026 focus revolves around "practical adoption" in health, science and enterpr...
Quantinuum will file for an initial public offering. The quantum computing company will confidentially file its S-1 with the Securities and Exchange Commission to offer shares.
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Walmart's head of AI acceleration, product and design riffed on OpenAI ChatGPT and Google Gemini for agentic commerce, transformation, the retailer's role in the AI economy and the...
Google is making its play to lead agentic AI commerce across its units as it combines AI Mode commerce features and agents with a new end-to-end commerce protocol and Google Cloud'...
Retailers are busy trying to figure out agentic AI driven commerce and keep frontline workers engaged so they can drive customer experience. Those are the key themes from the Natio...
OpenAI is planning on being a healthcare industry AI player with the launch of OpenAI for Healthcare, a HIPAA-compliant version of ChatGPT for clinicians, just days after debuting ...
Meta acquired Manus in a deal that aims to give the company a rare win in artificial intelligence after a year of revamping. Manus is critical to fleshing out Meta CEO Mark Zuckerb...
Quantum computing hogged the headlines in 2025 and it was ok to say it was the year of quantum--or maybe qubits--after just a few months. The quantum computing ...
Nvidia launched its Nemotron 3 family of open models as it aims to provide an efficient set of large language models that can be used by enterprises to customize and deploy in mult...
Rimini Street's first act took 20 years, but the second one will move much faster as the company aims to layer agentic AI over legacy enterprise research planning systems. The stra...
Anthropic, Block and OpenAI have contributed their technologies and emerging standards to connect AI agents to the Agentic AI Foundation, a project under The Linux Foundation.
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Accenture and Anthropic launched a partnership that revolves around driving Claude deployments in the enterprise. The news lands a few days after Accenture announced a similar...
Confluent gives IBM a platform that will connect and reuse data for applications notably AI agents. In many ways, Confluent will be to IBM what MuleSoft and Informatica is to Sales...
Amazon Web Services is adding AI agent policy and evaluation features to Amazon Bedrock AgentCore in a move that aims to solve the big issues that keep enterprises from moving from...
An IBM executive said the company's steady and practical approach to quantum computing will win out over the bluster that's emerging from multiple vendors.
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Intuit and OpenAI announced a multi-year $100 million contract that will integrate ChatGPT with Intuit TurboTax, Credit Karma, QuickBooks and Mailchimp. Intuit will also expand its...
Microsoft launched Agent 365, which is designed to be the control plane for native and third party AI agents, as the company aims to be a horizontal as well as vertical play. The o...
