Agentic AI Foundation launches with MCP, other AI agent standards
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.
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.
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 partnership with OpenAI.
CVS Health is betting it can leverage technology and AI to create an "engagement as a service" strategy and an integrated platform that ties together its brands that include Aetna, CVS Caremark, CVS Pharmacy and Health Care Delivery.
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 Salesforce.
AWS re:Invent 2025 featured the usual firehose of news, announcements and tech talks, but it's also clear that AWS is becoming a different company. Yes, AWS is firmly committed to developers and dedicated to creating building blocks needed to scale agentic AI. But AWS is clearly more than an infrastructure company now. Yet it is not quite a software company either.
AWS launched new Graviton5 based instances with 192 core per chip and a 5x larger cache as the company continues its custom processor cadence.
HPE's results were mixed by product line. For instance server revenue was down 5% to $4.5 billion. Networking revenue, boosted by the acquisition of Juniper Networks, was $2.8 billion, up 150% from a year ago. Hybrid cloud revenue was $1.2 billion, down 12% from a year ago.
Salesforce reported better-than-expected third quarter results, said it has reached 9,500 paid deals for Agentforce and upped its outlook for the fiscal year.
Snowflake expanded its partnership with Anthropic to cover joint sales efforts and model integration with Snowflake Intelligence, detailed AWS Marketplace growth and teamed up with Accenture on enterprise AI deployments. The company also reported strong third quarter results.
Amazon Connect is the lead for AWS when it comes to taking a bunch of building blocks and "primitives" and compiling them for enterprise use cases. Amazon Connect isn't about being a contact center application as much as it is addressing customer-facing use cases starting with service.
AWS CEO Matt Garman said Trainium 3 early demand is strong, the company's hardware ambitions revolve around providing cloud services and enterprises are seeing strong returns amid AI bubble talk.
Dr. Swami Sivasubramanian, Vice President of Agentic AI, made the case that AWS' suite of AI tools is best suited for wrangling AI agents and customizing models to deliver business outcomes.