This list celebrates changemakers creating meaningful impact through leadership, innovation, fresh perspectives, transformative mindsets, and lessons that resonate far beyond the workplace.
lt;pgt;Although AI--generative, agentic and everything in between--is viewed as a tool that can improve customer experience there is the risk that enterprises may rely too much on ...
lt;pgt;OpenAI launched a research preview for GPT 4.5 and perhaps the biggest takeaway is that it can fake emotional intelligence pretty well--potentially better than a few humans ...
lt;pgt;Snowflake Cortex AI will integrate Microsoft Azure OpenAI Service in Azure AI Foundry. That move will put OpenAI's models Snowflake and make them available as data agents in...
lt;pgt;Amazon launched Alexa+, a revamped version of its voice assistant powered by generative AI models such as Amazon Nova and Anthropic Claude via AWS' Amazon Bedrock.lt;/pgt;
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lt;pgt;Workday reported better-than-expected fourth quarter earnings as the company saw strong demand for its AI products and more penetration across industries.lt;/pgt;
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lt;pgt;The plan for IBM is to leverage DataStax's technologies and combine them with its Granite large language models. IBM will also be a bigger player in vector databases and lev...
lt;pgt;Qualcomm said it has launched a new brand called Dragonwing as it expands its footprint more into enterprise and industrial use cases.lt;/pgt;
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lt;pgt;For Michael Storey, Chief Experience Officer at RentSpree, customer experience (CX) is intertwined with processes that can be simplified, a bevy of user experience metrics a...
Zoom Video reported better-than-expected fourth quarter earnings as its enterprise revenue picked up. However, fourth quarter sales were below estimates and the outlook for the fis...
lt;pgt;Salesforce and Google Cloud have expanded a partnership that will bring Google's Gemini models to Agentforce, integrate Salesforce Service Cloud tightly with Google Customer...
lt;pgt;Voyage AI embeds and reranks models based on accuracy in retrieval augmented generation (RAG). MongoDB's bet is that these tools should be in the database layer to improve a...
lt;pgt;CxOs say that software-as-a-service business models that include consumption are going to require a learning curve as well as a few surprise bills. Nevertheless, there may b...
lt;pgt;Five9 is betting that the contextual data layer above AI models will be just as critical to enterprises, and potentially be the difference in return on investment.lt;/pgt;
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lt;pgt;Walmart continues to bet on leveraging AI, optimizing its supply chain and developing a host of related businesses that'll grow operating profits.lt;/pgt;
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lt;pgt;Alibaba's cloud computing business delivered 13% revenue growth and the company said it is quot;committed to advancing multi-modal AI technology and expanding our opensource...
lt;pgt;Fiverr, a marketplace for freelancers, launched Fiverr Go, an AI platform that enables creators to tune models based on their portfolio of work.lt;/pgt;
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lt;pgt;Airbnb plans to become a platform for travel akin to how Amazon in commerce courtesy of a multi-year transformation and a new tech stack.lt;/pgt;
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lt;pgt;Enterprise procurement departments are already annoyed with software-as-a-service contracts and AI agents--and the consumption-based models that go with them--are likely to ...
lt;pgt;Palo Alto Networks reported better-than-expected second quarter results and indicated that demand was helped by the need for AI-driven cybersecurity and enterprises consolid...
lt;pgt;SAP launched Business Data Cloud, a platform that gives applications access to structured and unstructured data across its platform as well as third-party data. The effort i...
lt;pgt;Freshworks is planning to expand by courting enterprises fed up with their SaaS providers and layering in AI in its platform. Freshworks is also looking to land ServiceNow d...
lt;pgt;Supermicro cut its revenue outlook for fiscal 2025 as the company still hasn't filed its audited annual report. The company said that it intends to make filings by Feb. 25 a...
