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Databricks said OpenAI's foundational models will be available in the Databricks Data Intelligence Platform and Agent Bricks natively in a partnership worth $100 million.
The European Commission has formally opened an investigation of SAP and its maintenance and support practices for on-premises deployments in Europe.
Hitachi Vantara is embedding AI agents throughout its storage systems, seeing customers embrace more hybrid cloud and on-premise AI architectures and betting on AI at the edge and sovereign AI as growth markets.
SAP said it has launched its sovereign cloud offerings on AWS European Sovereign Cloud and inked a deal that brings OpenAI to Germany's public sector customers.
Microsoft said it will add Anthropic's Claude Sonnet 4 and Claude Opus 4.1 to Microsoft Copilot Studio and Researcher in a move that highlights how the company is diversifying from OpenAI.
Qualcomm laid out a vision where AI workloads are hybrid between the cloud and edge devices such as smart glasses, smartphones and wearable devices. The conduit for these AI workloads will ultimately be 6G.
OpenAI, Oracle and Softbank have announced 5 new data centers under the Stargate project good for 7 gigawatts of capacity. The data centers will be largely powered by Nvidia-based infrastructure.
Enterprise software vendors' consumption-based pricing is creating uncertainty and concern among CxOs trying to get a grip on budgets.
Snowflake, Salesforce, BlackRock and other enterprise vendors have launched the Open Semantic Interchange initiative, which aims to standardize data and ensure semantic metadata interoperability.
Nvidia and OpenAI said they have struck a partnership where OpenAI will deploy at least 10 gigawatts of AI datacenters built on Nvidia's Vera Rubin GPUs. Nvidia will invest up to $100 billion in OpenAI as each gigawatt is deployed.
Thoma Bravo has acquired PROS Holdings, a pricing and revenue management software company, in a deal valued at $1.4 billion.
Technology conference season is about to hit overdrive. Enterprises are plotting IT budgets for the year ahead. And the fourth quarter, which is critical, is about to kick off. And the only thing that's scaling into 2026 are open questions that aren't going to be answered quickly (even if vendors tell you otherwise).
