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UiPath's second quarter results indicate that enterprises are starting to realize that genAI-powered agents will require orchestration and process automation at the core.
Salesforce's purchase of Own Company for $1.9 billion highlights how the company has to play small ball with mergers and acquisitions given the scrutiny it gets with big deals. But keep in mind that small acquisitions such as Airkit.ai, which powered Salesforce’s Agentforce strategy, can have bigger impact.
Broadcom reported better-than-expected third quarter results as revenue growth was driven by Ethernet networking and custom accelerators for AI data centers.
C3 AI's revenue growth in its first quarter checked in at 21% as the company continued to land enterprise use cases. C3 AI's outlook for the second quarter was light.
Hewlett Packard Enterprise said its third quarter was driven by AI systems as revenue was up 10% from a year ago.
Quantum Brilliance and Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) said they will collaborate on a platform that couples quantum computing with high-performance computing (HPC).
With the move, Anthropic is building out a suite of enterprise plans powered by its Claude large language model (LLM).
Intel joined the AI PC parade with its Intel Core Ultra 200V series, code named Lunar Lake, with a launch designed to show that x86 architecture can compete with Arm in Copilot+ PCs.
Pricing for generative AI APIs, services from Google, Anthropic and OpenAI among others, are receiving deep discounts this year and generally trending downward.
Enterprise software giants have spent heavily on sales teams, channel strategies and cross-selling playbooks, but it increasingly looks like sales are going to run through AWS Marketplace and similar efforts from other cloud giants.
