This list celebrates changemakers creating meaningful impact through leadership, innovation, fresh perspectives, transformative mindsets, and lessons that resonate far beyond the workplace.
Softbank is acquiring the robotics division of ABB Group in a deal worth $5.375 billion. Softbank's plan is to combine ABB Robotics with its physical AI assets.
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DeepSeek created an AI boom in China and has more than doubled usage as it attracts new users and then holds them, according to a research report from Microsoft Research.
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IBM said its Spyre AI accelerator and Telum II processor are generally available, outlined a partnership with Anthropic and layered agentic AI tools throughout its offerings.
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OpenAI launched App SDK, which connects applications directly to ChatGPT, AgentKit to speed up AI agent development, ChatKit to bring OpenAI to apps and websites, the general avail...
OpenAI just made AMD a viable counterweight to Nvidia for GPUs. OpenAI said it has inked a 6 gigawatt deal with AMD to provide AMD Instinct GPUs for its AI buildout. The enterprise...
Constellation Research’s AI Forum in Washington DC featured 19 sessions, AI thought leaders and practitioners and a community drinking from a firehose. Here’s a look at the takeawa...
OpenAI is eyeing software as a service as it aims to build applications around ChatGPT and has to be a software-as-a-service disruptor to justify at least some part of its valuatio...
When Abrigo, which provides compliance, credit risk, and lending software for financial institutions, launched a series of new capabilities to its Abrigo AI suite in September this...
Snowflake launched Snowflake Cortex AI for Financial Services, a suite designed to connect AI models to financial data, apps and data via model context protocol (MCP).
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Conga said it will acquire the B2B business of PROS Holdings, which is being acquired by Thoma Bravo. Congo is also a Thoma Bravo portfolio company.
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UiPath expanded its UiPath Platform, which is aimed at agentic AI automation and orchestration, and lined up a bevy of partners including OpenAI, Google, Microsoft, Nvidia and Snow...
Sunil Karkera, Founder Soul of the Machine, is leveraging agentic AI to outpace much larger companies. quot;We solve boring problems and it's exciting,quot; said Karkera.
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Peter Danenberg is a senior software engineer at Google's DeepMind, leads rapid prototyping for Gemini and has to think through more than a few big ideas. Here's a look.
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The IT department is where agentic AI goes to die--or at least never make it out of proof of concept. Agentic AI needs to be driven by outcomes, returns and benefits to the busines...
ServiceNow launched AI Experience (AIx), a multimodal interface that will serve as a user interface for the company's platform. Enterprise users will be able to access ServiceNow a...
Large language model providers are rapidly building in agentic AI tools to handle tasks autonomously over time. Anthropic released Claude Sonnet 4.5, Microsoft sees Office as a way...
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...
