Southwest Power Pool (SPP) is building a mini AI factory with Nvidia, Hitachi Vantara and other Hitachi units to better simulate future demand on the electric grid in its region.
Google's move to layer Gemini and AI features in Chrome, including AI agents, will revamp the browser just as a bevy of players are looking to reinvent the primary vehicle for enterprise applications.
Atlassian said it will acquire DX, a startup specializing in engineering intelligence, for $1 billion as it aims to help enterprises track AI investments.
Nvidia said it will invest $5 billion in Intel and co-develop custom data center and PC products. The move gives Intel more capital and also solidifies its relevance going forward.
Zoom launched its third version of the Zoom AI Companion and layered in AI enhancements, including lifelike AI avatars, across its platform. It also outlined new capabilities for Zoom Business Services.
CrowdStrike acquired Pangea and launched Threat AI, a system of AI agents designed to take on cybersecurity and intelligence workflows.
Microsoft is building a new quantum computing center in Maryland and line up with its work with DARPA on evaluating and funding quantum systems.
MongoDB said it will bring its search and vector search tools to MongoDB Community Edition and MongoDB Enterprise Server. The move provides enterprises full-text search and vector search features on MongoDB on-premises and self-managed deployment.
Google launched the Agent Payments Protocol (AP2) in a move that will flesh out how AI agents will handle commerce and transactions. AP2 is an extension of Google's Agent2Agent (A2A) protocol.
Workday has acquired Sana, an AI agent startup that surfaces knowledge in enterprise systems, for $1.1 billion in a bet that the HCM and finance software provider can become "the front door to work."
Workday launched Workday Data Cloud, Workday Build as well as a set of Illuminate AI agents as it aims to build a larger ecosystem around its platform.
MongoDB launched MongoDB AMP (Application Modernization Platform) as the vendor becomes the latest to take on enterprise code transformation needed to migrate workloads.
