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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.
Nvidia said its Rubin platform is in full production as it rolled out a series of hardware updates at CEO Jensen Huang's CES 2026 keynote.
Huang said the Rubin platform will offer an integrated hardware and software stack that will provide a 10x reduction in inference token costs and a 4x reduction in the number of GPUs needed to train foundational models relative to Nvidia's Blackwell platform.
Nvidia released new Cosmos and GR00T open models for both learnings and reasoning and a new framework for robotic training workflow. The company also outlined a strong ecosystem for autonomous machines and the availability of the Blackwell Jetson T4000 module.
Nvidia outlined its Alpamayo open AI models and datasets to bring reasoning to autonomous vehicles. At CES 2026, Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang said Mercedes Benz with Alpamayo will hit the road in the first quarter.
Huang said Alpamayo and its collaboration with Mercedes Benz is its first full-stack effort for autonomous vehicles (AVs). The approach with Alpamayo revolves around reasoning-based vision language action (VLA) models that bring human thinking to autonomous vehicle designs.
Samsung and Munich Re's Hartford Steam Boiler (HSB) unit, which offers insurance for equipment breakdown, are planning to leverage IoT sensors, AI and smart appliances to spin up personalized home insurance. Welcome to the 2026 monetization of AI use cases.
Enterprises will get all-you-can eat agentic AI pricing, data tools are going to be a headache, AI agents will look more like a feature than a revolution and physical AI will matter. Those are some of the trends to watch in 2026.
Here’s a look at the trends and predictions in enterprise technology for 2026 grouped by confidence levels.
DeepSeek published a technical paper co-authored by co-founder Liang Wenfeng that argues for a new architecture to train foundational models.
The paper, which details Manifold-Constrained Hyper-Connections (mHC), argues that a new architecture is needed to better scale deep learning without signal divergence. Granted, the mHC paper is wonky, but the key takeaway is that you can have large-scale training that's more efficient with better quality.
Meta acquired Manus in a deal that aims to give the company a rare win in artificial intelligence after a year of revamping. Manus is critical to fleshing out Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg's dream of a universal AI assistant to get work done across its products.
Whether Meta allows Manus to run or bogs it down remains to be seen, but there are some fun facts worth noting.
From AI breakthroughs to infrastructure investments, 2025 reshaped the tech landscape. CGTN's Sally Ayhan spoke to Ray Wang, Principal Analyst at Constellation Research, about the year's biggest tech milestones and what's driving competition heading into 2026.
Quantum computing hogged the headlines in 2025 and it was ok to say it was the year of quantum--or maybe qubits--after just a few months. The quantum computing developments were flying, but it's worth noting that we're years away from big commercial adoption.
Nevertheless, CxOs need to get ready. After all, the boardroom is getting tired of AI. The AI trade lost steam. Boardrooms are going to start asking about your quantum computing plans in 3, 2, 1.
Groq announced it has entered a non-exclusive licensing agreement with Nvidia for Groq's inference technology. Groq CEO Jonathan Ross and team will join Nvidia, but Groq will operate independently with GroqCloud.
News of a licensing deal landed as CNBC reported that Nvidia was buying Groq.
Five Market Trends for 2026 and the ServiceNow Armis Deal
Today on Fox Business Network with Ashley Webster on Varney and Co, 5 Market Trends for 2026 were shared (watch the full program here):
As CxOs zoom out on 2025, it's clear that the year was characterized by AI building blocks and the need for real returns. Agentic AI platforms aren't quite mature, but the industry standards and connections are making deployments more realistic.If you're an enterprise technology buyer the onus is on the vendors for showing value and more than proof of concepts. The game for both the buy side and the sell side revolves around use cases that show returns and can scale across the enterprise.
ServiceNow acquired Armis, a cybersecurity exposure management company, for $7.75 billion in cash in a move that will triple the company's addressable market in security.
HCLSoftware said it will acquire Wobby, a startup focused on providing AI agents for data platforms and combine it with its Actian unit. Separately, HCLSoftware said it's acquiring Jaspersoft from Cloud Software Group in a deal to build out Actian's agentic AI toolset.Terms of the deals weren't disclosedActian, the data and AI division of HCLSoftware, is seeing strong demand for its metadata, data catalog and governance tools. Wobby will bring an agentic AI data analyst to Actian so customers can get insights on complex datasets quickly.