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Anthropic named Chris Ciauri, a Google Cloud and Salesforce alum, managing director of its international business as the company continues to scale its operations.
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Cisco announced prototype quantum networking software that aims to network quantum computers together more quickly. IonQ has already bet big on compete quantum networking systems.&...
OpenAI launched a new benchmark that grades large language models (LLMs) on real-world work tasks and enterprises need to take note as they ponder AI agents.
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Accenture CEO Julie Sweet said the company is seeing an inflection point with companies adopting artificial intelligence enterprise-wide and scaling use cases.
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Databricks said OpenAI's foundational models will be available in the Databricks Data Intelligence Platform and Agent Bricks natively in a partnership worth $100 million.
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The European Commission has formally opened an investigation of SAP and its maintenance and support practices for on-premises deployments in Europe.
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Hitachi Vantara is embedding AI agents throughout its storage systems, seeing customers embrace more hybrid cloud and on-premise AI architectures and betting on AI at the edge and ...
SAP said it has launched its sovereign cloud offerings on AWS European Sovereign Cloud and inked a deal that brings OpenAI to Germany's public sector customers.
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Microsoft said it will add Anthropic's Claude Sonnet 4 and Claude Opus 4.1 to Microsoft Copilot Studio and Researcher in a move that highlights how the company is diversifying from...
Qualcomm laid out a vision where AI workloads are hybrid between the cloud and edge devices such as smart glasses, smartphones and wearable devices. The conduit for these AI worklo...
OpenAI, Oracle and Softbank have announced 5 new data centers under the Stargate project good for 7 gigawatts of capacity. The data centers will be largely powered by Nvidia-based ...
Snowflake, Salesforce, BlackRock and other enterprise vendors have launched the Open Semantic Interchange initiative, which aims to standardize data and ensure semantic metadata in...
Nvidia and OpenAI said they have struck a partnership where OpenAI will deploy at least 10 gigawatts of AI datacenters built on Nvidia's Vera Rubin GPUs. Nvidia will invest up to $...
Technology conference season is about to hit overdrive. Enterprises are plotting IT budgets for the year ahead. And the fourth quarter, which is critical, is about to kick off. And...
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.
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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 ente...
Atlassian said it will acquire DX, a startup specializing in engineering intelligence, for $1 billion as it aims to help enterprises track AI investments.
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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 Z...
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 ...
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 (A2...
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 f...
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.
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MongoDB launched MongoDB AMP (Application Modernization Platform) as the vendor becomes the latest to take on enterprise code transformation needed to migrate workloads.
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