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Actian launched its first vector database with Actian VectorAI DB, which is designed for AI workloads in regulated, disconnected and edge computing environments.
The company, the data and AI division of HCLSoftware, designed its vector database for on-premises deployments. Most vector databases are cloud-first and assume always-on connectivity and when it's not available they don't meet latency and data residency requirements.
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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 to move into new applications markets including talent, supply chain and healthcare.
The company also launched Amazon Bedrock Managed Agents powered by OpenAI.
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Most enterprises don't have a data problem. They have a meaning problem.
That's the framing Mike Ni, analyst at Constellation Research, brought to an interview with Paul Pritchard, CEO of Overdose, at Google Cloud Next. Throughout their conversation, Pritchard unpacked exactly what it takes to get from scattered data sources to AI that actually moves the business forward.
The answer, it turns out, starts well before the AI.
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Welcome to a new edition of The Board: Distillation Aftershots (*).
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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 Dynamics 365 Customer Insights.
The Microsoft news lands as hyperscale cloud players as well as SaaS companies are ramping up customer experience (CX) efforts with their agentic AI platforms. Microsoft's plan for its CX efforts is to integrate interfaces and provide context for its AI agents in the contact center, sales and insights portfolio.
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OpenAI said it has reworked its partnership with Microsoft so it can "now serve all of its products to customers across any cloud provider."
In other words, OpenAI's models and services will be coming to an AWS Trainium chip or Google Cloud TPU near you. OpenAI said in a blog post that Microsoft remains its primary cloud provider and its products will ship on Azure first unless Microsoft doesn't support them.
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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 processes to navigate AI agent sprawl as well as approaches to returns and costs.
Speaking at Google Cloud Next 2026, Anil Kumar, VP of Consumer AI and Analytics at Verizon, outlined the company's approach to agentic AI in a briefing with industry analysts. The talk was notable given it highlighted how far agentic AI deployments have come as well as how far it has to go.
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SAP is planning to revamp its portfolio to "infuse deep domain know-how into SAP's AI agents" at its SAP Sapphire conference in Orlando.
SAP Sapphire, which will be held May 11-13, is going to have a heavy dose of agentic AI mixed with domain knowledge and process optimization, said SAP CEO Christian Klein.
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Built to Last in the Age of Agentic AI: Why Technology Is Ready—but Leadership Isn’t
On this episode of DisrupTV, hosts R “Ray” Wang and Vala Afshar sit down with Joe Kim, CEO of DRUID AI, and Paul McCarthy, author of The F.I.R.E.D. Leader, to unpack a hard truth:
AI is ready. Most organizations are not.
The conversation explores two forces colliding in real time—agentic AI and disruptive leadership—and why the gap between them is now the biggest risk (and opportunity) for enterprises.
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Meta is now one of the largest customers of AWS Graviton chips. Amazon said Meta will deploy "tens of millions of Graviton cores" in a move that highlights how the CPU is back due to AI inference.
According to Amazon, Meta and AWS have expanded a partnership that now includes Graviton custom CPUs. The Meta deployment starts and scale and can move higher. Meta leverages Amazon Bedrock to support its AI efforts.
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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 in financing.
The deal combines Cohere, Canada's leading large language model (LLM) player, with Germany's Aleph Alpha.
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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 go along with those moves, Google Cloud is building its ecosystem and ground game to target industries and use cases.
With Google Cloud Next 2026 in the books, here’s a look at the big themes.
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Enterprise AI isn’t being won in the model layer—it’s being won at the point of execution.
That was the clearest signal from the April Infor Analyst Summit. What stood out wasn’t more copilots or incremental AI features layered onto existing systems. It was a more fundamental shift: AI is moving into the processes where decisions are made—and where outcomes are measured.
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SAP reported better-than-expected first quarter results but the company is taking a hit on currency rates and noted geopolitical risks.
The company reported first quarter non-IFRS earnings of €1.72 a share on revenue of €9.56 billion, up 6% from a year ago. IFRS earnings in the quarter were €1.66 a share. The company's current cloud backlog was €21.9 billion, up 20% from a year ago. In constant currency, cloud backlog was up 25%.
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Intel reported better-than-expected first quarter earnings and said it is set up for a CPU renaissance due to AI inference.
The company reported a first quarter net loss of $3.7 billion, or 73 cents a share, but non-GAAP earnings were 29 cents a share. Revenue for the first quarter was $13.6 billion, up 7% from a year ago.
Wall Street was expecting Intel to report non-GAAP earnings of a penny a share on revenue of $12.43 billion.
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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 "understands what you’re trying to do faster and can carry more of the work itself…Instead of carefully managing every step, you can give GPT‑5.5 a messy, multi-part task and trust it to plan, use tools, check its work, navigate through ambiguity, and keep going."
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Cisco has developed a research prototype of a universal quantum switch that can route quantum information between systems while preserving it.
The company is looking to extend its enterprise and telecom networking prowess into quantum computing. Cisco has been pushing toward a complete quantum networking program.
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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 Google I/O.
Speaking at an industry analyst Q&A at Google Cloud Next 2026, Kurian outlined the following on Google Cloud’s strategy and the broader industry.
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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 partnership with Google Cloud and launched industry specific agentic AI offerings. Now if only Wall Street could understand the rule of 55 company and its strategy.
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