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The Stargate Project is currently eyeing as many as three sites for AI data centers and Softbank executives said due diligence is currently underway on multiple proposals.
Speaking on Softbank Group Corp.'s fourth quarter earnings call, a trio of CFOs talked investments in Project Stargate and a portfolio that includes OpenAI, Ampere and Arm.
Asana and Monday.com are seeing customers increase use of AI actions as both companies--along with the likes of Atlassian and Smartsheet--aim to coordinate AI agents and humans.
In recent earnings calls, it's clear that work management platforms are aiming to use agentic AI to be more relevant and coordinate work across platforms.
Constellation ep. 104 is here! 📺 Co-hosts Martin Schneider and Larry Dignan dive into #tech news, covering ServiceNow's #CRM strategy, the #AI infrastructure investment boom, and major players navigating the current hashtag#business ecosystem.
Next, Esteban Kolsky and Larry talk economic planning: 1?? why #CXOs need to think in 9-36 month horizons, 2?? the critical importance of business resilience, and 3?? strategies for navigating #economic uncertainty.
Classiq, a quantum computing software company, said it raised $110 million in Series C funding. The company is looking to build the software stack for quantum computing.
The funding, led by Entrée Capital and a bevy of other investors, will be used to build Classiq's go-to-market, customer success and R&D teams globally.
The race is on to parent your soon-to-be sprawling set of AI agents with orchestration layers, AI studios and a bevy of tools to build, deploy, manage and optimize this digital workforce. Being in the pole position as an agentic AI platform is going to be lucrative for a few enterprise vendors, but choose wisely.
A set of announcements in recent days featured how the race to be the platform of AI agents is ramping.
Can data, AI and agility enable merchants to navigate economic volatility and scattershot tariff policies? Shopify is betting on it.
Speaking on Shopify's first quarter earnings call, President Harley Finkelstein outlined a bevy of data and AI tools to help merchants--including a bevy of small businesses--to navigate tariffs.
IonQ just keeps buying quantum networking companies. The company is determined to become a leader in quantum networking as it acquired two more companies--Lightsynq and Capella Space--to flesh out its quantum internet roadmap.
ServiceNow enhanced its Workflow Data Fabric with a network that includes more than 100 data partners and acquired Data.world, a data catalog and governance platform.
At Knowledge 2025, ServiceNow said that its Workflow Data Network, which is powered by RaptorDB Pro, will enhance its Workflow Data Fabric. ServiceNow is planning to manage your data assets as it does IT assets and agents.
Constellation ep. 104 is here! 📺 Co-hosts Martin Schneider and Larry Dignan dive into #tech news, covering ServiceNow's #CRM strategy, the #AI infrastructure investment boom, and major players navigating the current #business ecosystem.
Next, Esteban Kolsky and Larry talk economic planning: 1?? why #CXOs need to think in 9-36 month horizons, 2?? the critical importance of business resilience, and 3?? strategies for navigating hashtag#economic uncertainty.
Microsoft said it will support Google Cloud's Agent2Agent (A2A) standard in Azure AI Foundry and Copilot Studio.
Microsoft’s support for A2A likely means the enterprise software ecosystem will follow.
SAS launched a bevy of updates or its Viya platform including synthetic data, tools for building and deploying AI agents, and managed cloud services. The company also launched new AI models and digital twins for manufacturing.
The news, announced at SAS Innovate, aim to position SAS more in the AI technology stack.
Here's a look at what was announced:
AMD saw a data center surge in the first quarter as sales grew 57% compared to a year ago. AMD's PC chip business saw sales growth of 28%.
The chipmaker, which is playing catch up to Nvidia in AI infrastructure, reported first quarter earnings of $709 million, or 44 cents a share, on revenue of $7.4 billion, up 36% from a year ago. Non-GAAP earnings were 96 cents a share.
Well, my first official month as Chief Distllier is over and it has been great.
Spent a long time combing through information, research, insights, data points, and talking to my community of executives and board members around the world and I concluded two things: I am overwhelmed by the need, and overjoyed by the pace of change. Maybe the other way around? Nah, that's right...
First impressions from following the topics, themes, and trends? Read on...
ServiceNow and UKG, a human resources and workforce management software provider, said they will integrate AI agents across their respective platforms using Google Cloud's Agent2Agent protocol.
The announcement, made at ServiceNow's Knowledge 2025 conference, is notable on a few fronts.
ServiceNow unveiled ServiceNow CRM in a move that aims to expand its total addressable market, leverage its ability to automate workflows with AI and couple selling, servicing and marketing across multiple functional groups.
Microsoft said it is raising prices effective Oct. 1 for Dynamics 365 Business Central as it incorporates AI features into its platform.
The price increases, the first in five years, will hit smaller enterprises that typically rely on Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central.
Microsoft said Business Central now has Copilot and AI powered features for analytics, financials, account reconciliation, master data management and better interoperability with Microsoft Power Platform.
IBM CEO Arvind Krishna said there is no law that enterprise AI has to be expensive, pegged to large language models and experimental.
In a keynote at Think 2025, Krishna outlined IBM's strategy and rollout of tools to build AI agents quickly and then orchestrate them.
"I think that the era of AI experimentation is over. Success is going to be defined by integration and business outcomes," said Krishna. "There is no law of computer science that says that AI must remain expensive and must remain large."
Amazon Web Services will launch an AI agent for scientific literature via a partnership with Wiley, a publisher of journals.
The announcement will be made at the AWS Life Sciences Symposium in New York on Tuesday. The AWS conference will feature a bevy of big name customers including Merck, AstraZeneca, Genentech, Pfizer and Johnson & Johnson.