Softbank is acquiring the robotics division of ABB Group in a deal worth $5.375 billion. Softbank's plan is to combine ABB Robotics with its physical AI assets.
DeepSeek created an AI boom in China and has more than doubled usage as it attracts new users and then holds them, according to a research report from Microsoft Research.
IBM said its Spyre AI accelerator and Telum II processor are generally available, outlined a partnership with Anthropic and layered agentic AI tools throughout its offerings.
Dell Technologies raised its annual revenue growth target to 7% to 9% as it ramps its AI infrastructure business.
CoreWeave said it will acquire Monolith AI Limited, which specializes in AI for engineering in industrial and manufacturing companies.
OpenAI launched App SDK, which connects applications directly to ChatGPT, AgentKit to speed up AI agent development, ChatKit to bring OpenAI to apps and websites, the general availability of Codex, and said ChatGPT-5 Pro and a smaller voice model is available in the API.
Verizon named Dan Schulman CEO effective immediately. Schulman, former CEO of PayPal, is a Verizon board member and a telecommunications veteran.
OpenAI just made AMD a viable counterweight to Nvidia for GPUs. OpenAI said it has inked a 6 gigawatt deal with AMD to provide AMD Instinct GPUs for its AI buildout. The enterprise could use some AI competition.
Constellation Research’s AI Forum in Washington DC featured 19 sessions, AI thought leaders and practitioners and a community drinking from a firehose. Here’s a look at the takeaways.
OpenAI is eyeing software as a service as it aims to build applications around ChatGPT and has to be a software-as-a-service disruptor to justify at least some part of its valuation. Enterprises should take note of OpenAI's potential role, but keep perspective.
When Abrigo, which provides compliance, credit risk, and lending software for financial institutions, launched a series of new capabilities to its Abrigo AI suite in September this year, the effort was more than a product launch. The additions were the payoff in product velocity as a result of a broader cloud and data transformation.
Snowflake launched Snowflake Cortex AI for Financial Services, a suite designed to connect AI models to financial data, apps and data via model context protocol (MCP).
