This list celebrates changemakers creating meaningful impact through leadership, innovation, fresh perspectives, transformative mindsets, and lessons that resonate far beyond the workplace.
Leading in Real Time: Thriving Amidst the Machines | DisrupTV Ep. 414
This week on DisrupTV, we sat down with trailblazers who are redefining what’s next for business and technology:
Salesforce said it has acquired Apromore, a process intelligence software provider, as it aims to bring process optimization to its Agentforce platform.
As previously noted, agentic AI will require a hefty dose of process mining, task mining and intelligence to really benefit enterprises. Without process knowhow, there's a risk you'll simply automate less than optimal processes. Agentic AI could mean you actually scale faulty processes.
ConstellationTV episode 115 covers AI Forum Washington DC highlights, the latest #enterprise M&A (Thoma Bravo), a field report on #Sprinklr’s platform shift and #CX outcomes, and a pragmatic look at #LLMs vs. small models—performance, cost, and where edge deployments change the equation. If you own AI strategy, CX, apps, or data platforms, this one’s for you.
Amazon Web Services launched Amazon Quick Suite, which combines Amazon Q Business features with Amazon Quick Sight as well as new capabilities for automation and research in a move to bolster business user and AI agent collaboration.
The platform is designed to bridge the gap between AI proof-of-concepts and production deployments. In many ways, Amazon Quick Suite reflects the current playbook for AWS. AWS has been combining building blocks into suites and unified platforms that are easier to consume.
Google Cloud launched Gemini Enterprise, an agentic AI platform that includes Gemini models, first and third party agents and orchestration technology that was previously known as Agentspace.
The goal of Gemini Enterprise is to create one platform that can create multi-step and process AI agents coupled with the latest models and an enterprise's data. The agents within Gemini Enterprise can leverage data from internal systems and Google AI tools in one workflow.
SoftBank is acquiring the robotics division of ABB Group in a deal worth $5.375 billion. Softbank's plan is to combine ABB Robotics with its physical AI assets.
With the move, SoftBank has a base of robotics customers and manufactures to expand its physical AI ambitions. ABB will complement SoftBank’s robotics stable of companies: SoftBank Robotics Group Corp., Berkshire Grey, Inc., AutoStore Holdings Ltd., Agile Robots SE, and Skild AI.
DeepSeek created an AI boom in China and has more than doubled usage as it attracts new users and then holds them, according to a research report from Microsoft Research.
In a paper, Microsoft Research took anonymized telemetry data on how people are using AI globally. The data complements other use case data from LLM providers like OpenAI and Anthropic.
Life begins with duplication, but it doesn’t stay there. At just the right moment, cells fold inward and specialize. Change is not an interruption; it’s the design.
So why do so many fear change? And why do so few ask themselves why?
IBM said its Spyre AI accelerator and Telum II processor are generally available, outlined a partnership with Anthropic and layered agentic AI tools throughout its offerings.
The news outlined at IBM's Tech Xchange 2025 in Orlando revolved around operationalizing AI in the enterprise. Here's a look at the notable news.
Dell Technologies raised its annual revenue growth target to 7% to 9% as it ramps its AI infrastructure business.
The company outlined its guidance at its security analyst meeting. Dell maintained its third quarter guidance delivered when it reported second quarter earnings.
CoreWeave said it will acquire Monolith AI Limited, which specializes in AI for engineering in industrial and manufacturing companies.
Terms of the deal weren't disclosed, but the purchase is notable because CoreWeave is looking to take its broader AI infrastructure workloads vertical where the customer base is stickier.
OpenAI launched App SDK, which connects applications directly to ChatGPT, AgentKit to speed up AI agent development, ChatKit to bring OpenAI to apps and websites, the general availability of Codex, and said ChatGPT-5 Pro and a smaller voice model is available in the API.
The company also said that it has 800 million weekly users, 4 million developers and 8 billion tokens processed per minute on OpenAI's API.
Post-sales is a critical phase of the customer lifecycle in terms of offering up the most opportunities for expansion revenue and optimizing customer lifetime value. But these signals often get lost in silos or simply ignored, leading to lost revenue opportunity.
Verizon named Dan Schulman CEO effective immediately. Schulman, former CEO of PayPal, is a Verizon board member and a telecommunications veteran.
Schulman replaces Hans Vestberg, who will stay with the company in an advisory role for a year. Verizon also named Mark Bertolini chairman of the board.
The leadership change comes as Verizon is transforming via the acquisition of Frontier Communications. Vestberg led Verizon through the 5G transition.
OpenAI just made AMD a viable counterweight to Nvidia for GPUs. OpenAI said it has inked a 6 gigawatt deal with AMD to provide AMD Instinct GPUs for its AI buildout.
Constellation Researchâs AI Forum in Washington DC featured 19 sessions, AI thought leaders and practitioners and a community drinking from a firehose.
Hereâs a look at the takeaways.
Millennial Samurai, AI Futures, and Why Culture Still Wins | DisrupTV Ep. 413
This week on DisrupTV, we caught up with visionary leaders shaping the future:
OpenAI is eyeing software as a service as it aims to build applications around ChatGPT and has to be a software-as-a-service disruptor to justify at least some part of its valuation. Enterprises should take note of OpenAI's potential role, but keep perspective.
When Abrigo, which provides compliance, credit risk, and lending software for financial institutions, launched a series of new capabilities to its Abrigo AI suite in September this year, the effort was more than a product launch. The additions were the payoff in product velocity as a result of a broader cloud and data transformation.
Snowflake launched Snowflake Cortex AI for Financial Services, a suite designed to connect AI models to financial data, apps and data via model context protocol (MCP).
The move highlights how industries are increasingly building enterprise AI plans around proprietary and industry specific data.
Snowflake said the linchpin of the financial services offering is the company's new MCP Server, which connects data from the likes of MSCI, Nasdaq, AP and eVestment with agents built on Anthropic, CrewAI, Cursor, Cognition and Windsurf.