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This month unpacks the next wave of AI adoption against a backdrop of economic uncertainty, cautious optimism, and renewed discipline in enterprise technology investment.
QAD | Redzone said it has acquired Kavida.ai in a move that will bring AI agents to its procurement and supply chain workflows.
The September 2025 Intelligence Book explores how AI economics, governance, and shifting enterprise priorities are redefining the path from experimentation to measurable business impact.
CoreWeave symbolizes much of the AI infrastructure market in that there's a race between investor patience and scaling amid fears that overcapacity may loom.
KPMG is both a partner and a customer for Google Cloud and that dual role is honing methodologies, use cases and approaches for AI agent deployments. On a webinar for analysts, Google Cloud and KPMG walked through the early lessons learned from deploying Gemini Enterprise.
Artificial intelligence and customer experience are a common intersection on earnings conference calls as enterprises. Companies are looking to connect the dots between lifetime value of a customer, driving revenue and hybrid approaches that meld technology and humans. Here's a look at some of the CX efforts detailed in recent days.
This report outlines how data and AI leaders can accelerate decision velocity by turning critical decisions into governed, self-improving services.
Nathan Rosenberg, Chief Brand & Marketing Officer at Virgin Voyages, said his company has increased open rates to 30% on email marketing with click through rates of 20% since deploying Gemini Enterprise AI agents working with his copywriting team.
Google Cloud said its seventh generation Tensor Processing Unit (TPU), known as Ironwood, will be generally available soon as the company also outlined new Arm-based Axion instances.
Qualcomm CEO Cristiano Amon: "I think it's all going to be about generating the most amount of tokens with the least amount of power, and that's our right to play."
OpenAI isn't about to cede all the enterprise fun to Anthropic, which is viewed as the LLM for business play.
Freshworks reported better-than-expected third quarter earnings and upped its outlook for the fourth quarter as the company is expanding wallet share. The company is also aiming to land more business users.
