This list celebrates changemakers creating meaningful impact through leadership, innovation, fresh perspectives, transformative mindsets, and lessons that resonate far beyond the workplace.
DeepSeek published a technical paper co-authored by co-founder Liang Wenfeng that argues for a new architecture to train foundational models. DeepSeek's paper is just another ...
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 ...
Groq announced it has entered a non-exclusive licensing agreement with Nvidia for Groq's inference technology. Groq CEO Jonathan Ross and team will join Nvidia, but Groq will opera...
As CxOs zoom out on 2025, it's clear that the year was characterized by AI building blocks and the need for real returns. Agentic AI platforms aren't quite mature, but the industry...
ServiceNow acquired Armis, a cybersecurity exposure management company, for $7.75 billion in cash in a move that will triple the company's addressable market in security.
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Actian, the data and AI division of HCLSoftware, is seeing strong demand for its metadata, data catalog and governance tools. Wobby will bring an agentic AI data analyst to Actian ...
Alphabet said it will acquire Intersect, a startup focused on energy for data centers, for $4.75 billion and the assumption of debt. Google, a unit of Alphabet, owns a minority sta...
Paychex is betting that its proprietary data sets in human capital management and adjacent markets will make it a winner in AI via productivity and new products.
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Accenture said that AI is so pervasive in enterprise transformation that it won't break out figures going forward. And although AI is everywhere, Accenture noted that half of the a...
The applications are designed for larger companies and enable smaller ones to scale without leaving the Zoho platform. In addition, Zoho added a series of AI tools in applications ...
IFS said it will acquire Softeon, a cloud native software provider for warehouses. IFS, which provides an industrial AI platform, will use Softeon to expand into warehouse manageme...
CFO confidence has it its highest point in four years as 59% of CFOs say it's a good time to take risks, according to Deloitte's fourth quarter CFO Signals report.
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Databricks said it has raised $4 billion in a Series L investment for a $134 billion valuation and topped a $4.8 billion annual revenue run rate in the third quarter. For compariso...
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...
The companies that are looking to leverage artificial intelligence for competitive advantage are increasingly choosing to go custom. It's build over buy at massive scale...for now....
Rivian's vertically integrated approach to autonomous driving and AI is enabled by its data flywheel that it uses to train its models and optimize.
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OpenAI launched GPT-5.2 in what appears to be its answer to Google's Gemini 3.0. According to OpenAI GPT-5.2 is its most advanced mode for work and long-running agents.
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Oracle reported a mixed second quarter and said it has sold its Ampere unit because it's not strategic to design and manufacture its own chips. Oracle CTO Larry Ellison said, "we a...
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...
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,...
