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Dell Technologies said it adding more automation to Nvidia AI Factory deployments using blueprints that automate more than 30 manual steps and can get customers into deployment in as few as 10 clicks.
The news, announced at SC 2025, comes as Dell has landed more than 3,000 customers for its AI factories including Lowe's and Zoho, which uses Dell infrastructure to power its Zia LLMs. Sandisk was also cited as a customer.
Frontline workers are having a moment as their importance in the age of AI grows across multiple sectors, including manufacturing and industrial enterprises, and organizations flatten. With all the talk of digital workers and AI agents taking jobs, frontline workers may wind up mattering more.
Inside DisrupTV Episode 418: AI Startups, Biohacking Leadership & the Power of Uncompeting
In this new episode of DisrupTV, hosts Vala Afshar and R "Ray" Wang dive into the rapidly shifting worlds of AI entrepreneurship, leadership science, and the cultural shift from competition to collaboration. Joined by an exceptional lineup—Ed Addison (NC State University), Dr. Scott Hutchison (author of Biohacking Leadership), and Ruchika T.
I recently spent a couple of days at Fortinet’s analyst summit in Sunnyvale. The conversations with Fortinet’s executive leadership team felt refreshingly grounded. No forced big-bang announcements. Instead, the focus was on how 25 years of engineering work shaped the company’s platform and why those choices matter more now as security shifts toward hybrid deployments and AI workloads.
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.