This list celebrates changemakers creating meaningful impact through leadership, innovation, fresh perspectives, transformative mindsets, and lessons that resonate far beyond the workplace.
Public sector technology executives laid out a series of takeaways and best practices at the Google Public Sector Summit in Washington, D.C., in October. The takeaways ranged from focusing on your data foundation to use cases for artificial intelligence (AI) agents and the importance of training and human-in-the-loop processes. Here's a tour of what seven public sector technology leaders had to say.
Quantum computing's pure plays have bulked up balance sheets and continue to bet they can upend larger rivals backed by big corporations including Alphabet, IBM and Honeywell.
Anthropic is looking to infuse its Claude models into industrial use cases, but those real world applications carry more risk and require domain expertise.
Speaking at the IFS Industrial X Unleashed conference in New York, Anthropic's Garvin Doyle, Applied AI Lead, said it's one thing to apply AI to industries like financial services and software development but another game entirely in real world settings.
QAD | Redzone is looking to infuse AI, process intelligence and frontline worker empowerment as it looks be the ERP provider of choice for mid-market manufacturing companies. The goal: Provide the systems that reinvent manufacturing.
IFS CEO Mark Moffat said industries need to embed AI into physical operations in manufacturing, utilities, defense systems and supply chains to better compete globally and become autonomous. IFS launched new AI-powered products as well as partnerships with Anthropic, Siemens, Boston Dynamics and 1X Technologies.
Cisco reported better-than-expected first quarter results, raised its outlook and said it landed more AI infrastructure orders from hyperscalers and posted strong networking growth.
The company reported first quarter net income of $2.9 billion, or 72 cents a share, on revenue of $14.9 billion, up 8% from a year ago. Non-GAAP earnings for the first quarter were $1 a share.
Anthropic said it will invest $50 billion in building its own AI data centers in a partnership with Fluidstack. The first data centers will be built in New York and Texas with more sites on deck.
IBM launched its most advanced quantum processor, IBM Quantum Nighthawk, and announced its IBM Quantum Loom, an experimental processor that demonstrates all of the processor components for fault-tolerant quantum computing.
Big Blue announced the roadmap additions at its annual quantum developer forum.
AMD projected compound annual revenue growth rates of 35% over the next three- to five years and said demand for AI infrastructure and its chip portfolio is strong.
CEO Lisa Su said during AMD's investor day that the pace of AI infrastructure spending and pace of change is higher than she's ever seen before. "We see a tremendous opportunity ahead to deliver sustainable, industry-leading growth," said Su.
The October 2025 edition of Constellation's Enterprise Technology Intelligence Book unpacks the economic realities now defining the AI era. As the cost of running frontier models rises and enterprises move past the pilot everything phase, leaders are shifting focus to sustainable infrastructure, private platforms, and clear ROI. This month's insights explore the next wave of AI adoption, custom models, agent governance, and resilient architecture against a backdrop of economic uncertainty, cautious optimism, and renewed discipline in enterprise technology investment.
QAD | Redzone said it has acquired Kavida.ai in a move that will bring AI agents to its procurement and supply chain workflows.
Terms of the deal weren't disclosed.
Enterprise technology leaders are navigating a period of volatility and reinvention. In this month's update, Esteban Kolsky distills the key forces shaping boardroom strategy from economic instability and AI infrastructure investment to the rise of agent orchestration and decision automation.
CoreWeave said it is dealing with ongoing supply chain issues as demand far exceeds capacity and revenue expected in the fourth quarter will slip to the first quarter. Nevertheless, CoreWeave's bet is that self-building its AI infrastructure will be a winning strategy in the future.
KPMG is both a partner and a customer for Google Cloud and that dual role is honing methodologies, use cases and approaches for AI agent deployments.
On a webinar for analysts, Google Cloud and KPMG walked through the early lessons learned from deploying Gemini Enterprise.
At Google Cloud Next in April, KPMG said it would expand its AI partnership with Google Cloud. KPMG said it would use Google Cloud to scale its multi-agent platforms to transform business processes and integrate Gemini Enterprise to boost internal productivity.
Artificial intelligence and customer experience are a common intersection on earnings conference calls as enterprises. Companies are looking to connect the dots between lifetime value of a customer, driving revenue and hybrid approaches that meld technology and humans.
Here's a look at some of the CX efforts detailed in recent days.
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In this week’s episode of DisrupTV, hosts Vala Afshar and R “Ray” Wang sit down with global leaders Dr. David Bray, Sue Gordon, and Barry O’Sullivan to explore how artificial intelligence is reshaping leadership, ethics, and decision-making in a fast-moving world.
Nathan Rosenberg, Chief Brand & Marketing Officer at Virgin Voyages, said his company has increased open rates to 30% on email marketing with click through rates of 20% since deploying Gemini Enterprise AI agents working with his copywriting team.
Google Cloud said its seventh generation Tensor Processing Unit (TPU), known as Ironwood, will be generally available soon as the company also outlined new Arm-based Axion instances.