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Why AI Pilots Fail, Why 2026 Matters, and How Entrepreneurs Win in the Age of AgentsOn DisrupTV Episode 425, co-hosts Vala Afshar, Chief Evangelist at Salesforce, and R “Ray” Wang, CEO and Founder of Constellation Research, tackled one of the most urgent questions facing leaders today:
Intel said server demand is strong due to AI workloads, but it is struggling to ramp capacity and is prioritizing data center. The company's first quarter outlook was below forecast.
IFS said its annual recurring revenue was up 23% and cloud revenue up 30% for 2025. The company, which specializes in industrial AI, didn't disclose figures since it isn't public, but noted it is moving industrial AI pilots to production. The directional results are a follow up to a late 2025 analyst day.
Rimini Street said it has delivered the first 20 Rimini Agentic UX Solutions Powered by ServiceNow. The Rimini Street agents are focused on various enterprise processes. We detailed the Rimini Street strategy previously.
New Relic rolled out monitoring for ChatGPT apps as part of its broader observability suite. ChatGPT app monitoring offers telemetry to ensure AI-generated user experiences are performing well by detecting user frustration, layout instability and interactions wit backend services.
Elastic said its Agent Builder is generally available as the company aims to bring context engineering into developer workflows. Elastic also launched Elastic Workflows, an automation engine built into the Elasticsearch platform to execute actions across systems.
First, some basics: Working with enterprises moving from pilots and chat interfaces to production with apps, agents, and AI-driven processes that plan, act, and increasingly automate real work, one thing regularly missed is that the bottleneck has shifted. It’s no longer model capability. It’s whether those systems can assemble trusted, decision-grade context at execution time. In chatbots and answer oriented AI solutions, making content searchable and grounded is fundamental. So, why do AI agents and apps need more? Because …