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Amazon Web Services moved into the business application market via its Amazon Quick AI agents and outlined plans to build Amazon Connect customer contact platform. AWS is planning ...
Microsoft launched real-time voice agents in Microsoft Copilot Studio and a set of new agents in Microsoft Dynamics 365 Contact Center, Microsoft Dynamics 365 Sales, and Microsoft ...
OpenAI said it has reworked its partnership with Microsoft so it can quot;now serve all of its products to customers across any cloud provider.quot;...
Verizon has been scaling its use of AI agents across its enterprise with a focus on operational efficiencies and customer experience. As a result, Verizon has had to put in process...
Meta is now one of the largest customers of AWS Graviton chips. Amazon said Meta will deploy quot;tens of millions of Graviton coresquot; in a move that highlights how the CPU is b...
Cohere is acquiring Aleph Alpha to focus on sovereign AI and provide a counterweight to US AI giants. Schwartz Group, the retail company that owns Lidl, has committed $600 million ...
Agentic AI is shifting from experimental to production in enterprises and Google Cloud is touting its integrated AI stack including next-gen TPUs, data platform and agent layer. To...
SAP reported better-than-expected first quarter results but the company is taking a hit on currency rates and noted geopolitical risks. Accelerating revenue growth is pushed off to...
OpenAI launched GPT-5.5 and aside from gains in the usual benchmarks, the company is claiming it can figure out your messy prompts and directions.
According to OpenAI, GPT-5.5 &qu...
Google Cloud CEO Thomas Kurian riffed on being open, enterprise AI adoption, measuring success and why CPUs matter. He also teased the next evolution of Google Gemini models at Goo...
ServiceNow's first quarter was in line with expectations and the company projected second quarter subscription growth of 22.5%. Separately, ServiceNow said it has expanded its part...
IBM reported a better-than-expected first quarter and said it saw strong sales of infrastructure due to hybrid cloud and IBM Z systems. Software revenue was up 11% in the first qua...
Google Cloud's partnership with Citigroup is starting to pay off as Citi Wealth, a unit of Citibank, launched an AI agent that utilized the Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform and for...
Macy's has rolled out a Google Cloud powered AI agent called quot;Ask Macy's,quot; a concierge that leverage multimodal capabilities to move sales along and sort through the retail...
Under the multi-year deal, Gemini Enterprise and Google Cloud's other AI services will be deployed at Merck to enhance its digital backbone. In addition, Google Cloud will provide ...
Google Cloud is making its stack more specialized across the board as it launched two 8th-generation TPUs aimed at model training and inference, outlined a data platform that will ...
SoundHound AI, which focuses on conversational AI, said it has acquired LivePerson in a deal valued at $43 million, a slight premium to LivePerson's $40 million market cap. ...
Snowflake said it has updated Snowflake Intelligence and Cortex Code in a bid to become a single control plane for developers and business users to move AI agents into production. ...
Amazon will invest $5 billion in Anthropic now and up to an additional $20 billion in the future as the Claude model provider plans to secure up to 5 gigawatts of Amazon Web Servic...
Apple said Tim Cook will become Executive Chairman and John Ternus will become CEO effective Sept. 1. Johny Srouji will become chief hardware officer....
Adobe at Adobe Summit 2026 positioned itself as an agentic customer experience platform that goes beyond its core creative and marketing tools and into more of an orchestration lay...
Amazon's move to acquire Globalstar is just the latest data point that enterprises are likely to have space as part of the IT stack with real-world use cases. ...
Canva has rearchitected its visual communication platform that layers AI, including a set of its own foundational models, throughout the creativity process and expands into workflo...
