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Agentic AI protocols have coalesced around Anthropic's Model Context Protocol (MCP) and Google Cloud's Agent2Agent, but Boomi experts expect protocols to emerge to create a crowded field.
Boomi Innovation's Michael Bachman said:
Boomi said it has acquired Thru in a move that will give it the ability to extend its platform into unstructured data. Boomi laid out the case that it should be a platform for AI-driven automation.
Speaking at Boomi World 2025, Boomi CEO Steve Lucas announced the deal. "We've entered into an agreement to acquire a Managed File Transfer platform called Thru," said Lucas. "Thru will give every single one of you the capability to extend Boomi beyond structured data into the world of unstructured."
Boomi said that it has more than 33,000 Boomi AI Agents deployed across enterprises as it rolled out new agents for Boomi Enterprise and Boomi Agentstudio went generally available.
Separately, Boomi and Amazon Web Services announced a strategic partnership that revolves around SAP implementations.
Databricks said it will acquire Neon, which offers serverless Postgres database services. Databricks' move into the database market is part of its plan to enable agentic AI workloads.
Terms of the deal weren't disclosed, but various reports put the purchase price at about $1 billion.
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: 1️⃣ why #CXOs need to think in 9-36 month horizons, 2️⃣ the critical importance of business resilience, and 3️⃣ 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: 1️⃣ why #CXOs need to think in 9-36 month horizons, 2️⃣ the critical importance of business resilience, and 3️⃣ 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.