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Intuit's Chief Data Officer Ashok Srivastava Ph. D said the company is now deploying AI agents across its platform, GenOS and products.
Srivastava walked through AI agents deployed on Intuit, which is built on the AWS stack. "Two weeks ago, we formally launched our agent experiences," said Srivastava, speaking during the AWS Summit New York keynote.
Amazon Web Services launched Amazon Bedrock Agent Core, a set of tools designed to deploy and operate AI agents at scale. Agent Core includes a secure serverless runtime, access to tools and support for open-source frameworks.
In the big picture, AWS is aiming to be the best place to build and run AI agents that can carry out tasks with minimal human involvement. AWS is also looking to give enterprise customers tools that can give them stability in a rapidly changing AI environment.
Anthropic is best known for its Claude large language model (LLM), but its enterprise software ambitions are clear as the company builds out its go-to-market team.
Many who attend communication workshops are familiar with the Johari Window—a simple 2×2 model that maps what we know (and do not know) about ourselves against what others know (and do not know) about us. Traditionally, it encourages us to explore the undiscovered parts of our identity, sometimes even hinting at the realm of the unconscious when others notice what we overlook.
The US Department of Defense has awarded contracts to Anthropic, Google, OpenAI and xAI with a ceiling of $200 million to each vendor to leverage AI models for national security.
The award, announced by the DoD's Chief Digital and Artificial Intelligence Office (CDAO), amounts to a major win for frontier AI companies looking to advance in the public sector.
Amazon Web Services launched Kiro, an integrated development environment (IDE) that uses AI agents to move from prompt to prototype to production.
In a blog post launching Kiro, AWS executives Nikhil Swaminathan and Deepak Singh explained that last production step is where applications often fall over.
Kiro is in line with AWS' approach to creating tools to make deployment easier. Kiro is an IDE that allows you to go from concept to prototype quickly via conversations about specifications and designs.
The view from the C-suite is increasingly gloomy as executives navigate policy, inflation and the economy that's a reality show with two-week story arcs. It's hard to plan when your conditions change every other day.
Yet, technology companies--including a few that barely have revenue--live in a world full of unicorns and rainbows.
We’re at a pivotal moment in the evolution of artificial intelligence—and the way companies respond could mean the difference between leading the next era or getting stuck in the last one. On DisrupTV Episode 403, marketing and innovation legends Christopher Lochhead and Sunil Karkera laid out a powerful challenge to the current AI hype cycle—and offered a radically different way forward.
Apple needs to jump start its AI strategy and the only way it's going to get there is through acquisitions. Here's why a purchase of Perplexity makes sense and why Apple may want to keep shopping.
Bloomberg reported last month that Apple was discussing a purchase of the AI search startup.
Let's look at why an Apple purchase of Perplexity, reportedly valued at about $14 billion or so, would make sense.
HPE raised its savings target for the Juniper Networks acquisition, set its integration teams, said no customer will be left behind and provided the first installment of vision for the combined companies.
Samsung launched its latest devices--Galaxy Z Fold7, Z Flip7 and Watch8 Series--but the more interesting development may be the company's big bet on digital healthcare via the acquisition of Xealth.
The company fleshed out its digital health plans during its Unpacked event. Not surprisingly, Samsung outlined its sensor technology and updates for Galaxy Watch8 that revolved around health.
Apple said Jeff Williams, chief operating officer, will retire at the end of the year and Sabibh Khan, senior vice president of operations and architect of the company's supply chain, will take over this month.
Williams, who also oversees Apple design and Apple Watch, will continue to report to CEO Tim Cook before he retires at the end of the year. After Williams retires, Apple's design team will report directly to Cook.
Don't miss this CR #CX Convo! Liz Miller sits down with Adobe's Shelly Chiang to unpack the game-changing potential of modern Digital Asset Management (#DAM).
Key Insights:
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Chief financial officers are paring expectations for the economy, revenue, earnings and capital investments for the second quarter as they become more risk averse, according to Deloitte's latest CFO Signals report.
Deloitte's quarterly report showed that CFO sentiment fell in the second quarter as the CFO confidence score was 5.4, indicating medium confidence, down from 6.4 in the first quarter. The first quarter tally indicated high confidence among CFOs.
CoreWeave said it will acquire Core Scientific in an all-stock deal valued at about $9 billion. Core Scientific, a crypto mining company, was a data center provider to CoreWeave.
According to CoreWeave, the acquisition of Core Scientific will eliminate about $10 billion of future leases, create $500 million annual run rate cost savings by the end of 2027 and simplify operations.
Enterprises may want to start thinking of large language models (LLMs) as ensemble casts that can combine knowledge and reasoning to complete tasks, according to Japanese AI lab Sakana AI.
Sakana AI in a research paper outlined a method called Multi-LLM AB-MCTS (Adaptive Branching Monte Carlo Tree Search) that uses a collection of LLMs to cooperate, perform trial-and-error and leverage strengths to solve complex problems.
In a post, Sakana AI said:
The money being thrown around AI talent and infrastructure is staggering, but the return on investment may be sketchy for longer time frames. What happens if AI demand doesn't deliver triple-digit growth forever?
In recent weeks, we've seen the following:
Grammarly built a strong business by bringing its AI writing assistant to wherever you work, but recent acquisitions of Coda and Superhuman and new capital point to much larger ambitions.
The company's acquisition this week of Superhuman, which gives Grammarly a native email platform, is just the latest in a series of moves to redefine the company in the AI age. Grammarly is best known as a handy writing tool, but large language models (LLM) threaten to usurp it.
Don't miss ConstellationTV episode 108! 📺 This week, co-hosts Larry Dignan and Martin Schneider kick off with #enterprise tech trends, including the slow of AI adoption, innovation fatigue/data challenges, and how practical AI with measurable productivity trumps agentic AI hype.
Next, Martin tees up his latest Market Overview on customer success, focusing on...
📌 CustomerSuccess as a full-journey strategic function
📌 Moving beyond renewals to driving growth and expansion
📌 Leveraging AI, community tools, and education platforms
Cloudflare said it is offering a "pay per crawl" plan where web sites will automatically block AI crawlers and can charge for access. Is this the start of the data dark ages for AI?