This list celebrates changemakers creating meaningful impact through leadership, innovation, fresh perspectives, transformative mindsets, and lessons that resonate far beyond the workplace.
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'...
Nvidia, which is quickly becoming the champion of AI open-source models in the US, argues that open AI models are roughly six months behind more expensive proprietary frontier mode...
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 ...
Humanoid robots were the ultimate in keynote crutches at CES 2026. Here's why chasing humanoid robots doesn't make any sense in terms of returns on investment.
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UserTesting, which provides customer experience insights, said it has acquired User Interviews, a platform for recruiting people for user and market research as well as AI training...
Epicor outlined its schedule of final releases for on-premise versions of Epicor Kinetic, Epicor Prophet 21 and Epicor BisTrack. Future versions of three enterprise resource planni...
AMD teased its Instinct MI500 GPUs, which will launch in 2027, gave an early look of its Helios rack scale platform and touted the need for yotta-scale infrastructure.
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Nvidia released new Cosmos and GR00T open models for both learnings and reasoning and a new framework for robotic training workflow. The company also outlined a strong ecosystem fo...
Nvidia outlined its Alpamayo open AI models and datasets to bring reasoning to autonomous vehicles. At CES 2026, Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang said Mercedes Benz with Alpamayo will hit t...
Samsung and Munich Re's Hartford Steam Boiler (HSB) unit, which offers insurance for equipment breakdown, are planning to leverage IoT sensors, AI and smart appliances to spin up p...
Enterprises will get all-you-can eat agentic AI pricing, data tools are going to be a headache, AI agents will look more like a feature than a revolution and physical AI will matte...
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 devel...
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 developments were fl...
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 ...
