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Apple Intelligence as well as a new Siri will be based on Google's Gemini models.
The news, initially reported in August by Bloomberg, is a big win for Google. Apple has a partnership with OpenAI and has embedded ChatGPT into Apple devices.
Here's the joint statement:
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's Gemini Enterprise for Customer Experience.
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 models. If that's the case, CxOs should base nearly all of their AI plans around open-source models.
In Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang's CES 2026 keynote, there were a lot of talk about agentic AI systems, physical AI and robotics, but his open-source comments stuck with me. He said the following (emphasis added):
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 National Retail Federation Big Show in New York City. Like previous years, the show features a parade of tech vendors pitching retailers on how to leverage the latest innovation. In 2026, that innovation is all about shopping agents, AI and employee experience.
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 ChatGPT Health for consumers.
At CES 2025, you really couldn’t avoid the humanoid hype. Humanoid robots were everywhere.
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang shared the stage with a bunch of robots.
Snowflake said it will acquire Observe to integrate observability tools into its platform.
With the move, Snowflake can extend into IT operations management software and keep their telemetry data within its AI Data Cloud.
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.
The move brings together two complementary companies that have multiple joint customers. UserTesting and User Interviews appeal to designers, researchers, product managers and marketers.
Terms of the deal weren't disclosed.
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 planning (ERP) offerings will move to Epicor Cloud.
The company offers a set of ERP systems along with supply chain management, retail management, financial management, manufacturing execution and data management and analytics. Epicor has 23,000 customers, 4,600 employees and 2.3 million daily users.
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.
Yotta-scale represents an expansion from today's 100 zettaflops of global compute capacity to more than 10 yottaflops. Think 24 zeroes and 10,000 more compute available than 2022.
World Economic Forum's 2026 Theme Centers Around "A Spirit of Dialogue"
Another year, another Davos. With 3000 official and 5000 unofficial attendees at UnDavos and a host of amazing side events, the beginning of the year marks a rite of passage for the C-Suite. While convening high above the Swiss Alps, these global leaders will "talk" about the state of world affairs and economy, Many skeptics wonder if real dialogue will be had.