Lowe's is betting that AI agents powered by Google Cloud can become do-it-yourself home improvement companions and offer personalized customer experiences.
AI agents are likely to be adopted in healthcare as a way to provide patient guidance in any modality and carry out tasks like transportation, appointment scheduling and follow-ups.
Google Cloud announced a bevy of capabilities and services designed to enable multi-agent systems for its customer base, which is increasingly integrating the company’s models, data platform and agent development tools into their stacks.
The Google Cloud partnership with UWM also sets up an interesting technology battle given that Rocket, built on AWS, has acquired Redfin as well as Mr. Cooper in recent weeks
Vint Cerf said the introduction of AI is about much more than technology so much so that it may make sense to have a few sociologists, psychologists and anthropologists to help with policy.
Meta launched Llama 4 family with open weights with two models available so far on AWS, Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud.
Now that the first quarter is closed and the second quarter is just ramping up it's worth pondering questions about enterprise technology spending, what projects get funded amid economic chaos, data strategies and AI implementations.
Wikimedia, the organization behind Wikipedia, said its infrastructure is being taxed by non-human traffic scraping the site for data to train AI models.
OpenAI's move to raise another $40 billion at a $300 billion valuation is being funded by Softbank, which in turn is paying for its bet with a lot of leverage.
Amazon is putting its Nova family large language models (LLMs) on display for a tryout aims to spur developer interest. And if Alexa+, which is also available for early access, performs well Nova's profile will only increase.
AI agents remain the hot topic among BT150 CxOs and there’s little to no doubt multi-agent systems will be useful. However, there are doubts about vendor offerings, platform lock-in, data strategy, architecture and change management.
Cognizant is betting that it can embed agentic AI across enterprises. The strategy will be driven by the ability to design enterprise AI agents that work across systems, create industry-specific large language models and build its own platforms such as Cognizant Neuro AI, which is built on Nvidia's stack.
