Workday said it will acquire Pipedream, an integration platform for AI agents that features more than 3,000 pre-built connectors.
Intuit and OpenAI announced a multi-year $100 million contract that will integrate ChatGPT with Intuit TurboTax, Credit Karma, QuickBooks and Mailchimp. Intuit will also expand its use of OpenAI models and potentially exposes its platform to a large ChatGPT customer base.
Anthropic will continue to diversify its cloud infrastructure for its Claude workloads with an agreement to purchase $30 billion in Azure compute. In addition, Nvidia will invest up to $10 billion in Anthropic and Microsoft can invest up to $5 billion. Claude will also be available on Microsoft Foundry.
Microsoft launched Agent 365, which is designed to be the control plane for native and third party AI agents, as the company aims to be a horizontal as well as vertical play. The other key theme is that Microsoft is arguing that the best way to incorporate AI agents into your business is to extend the infrastructure you already have.
Google launched Gemini 3, its latest model, across its Gemini app, search services, Gemini API, AI Studio and Google Cloud's Vertex AI and Gemini Enterprise. The company also highlighted how Gemini 3 can provide answers with a generative visual user interface.
Zoho One, a suite of 50 applications available for $37 a month, is getting a new user interface that integrates the business software buffet into one platform. The moves are the first installment in making Zoho One and integrated platform.
Dell Technologies said it adding more automation to Nvidia AI Factory deployments using blueprints that automate more than 30 manual steps and can get customers into deployment in as few as 10 clicks.
Frontline workers are having a moment as their importance in the age of AI grows across multiple sectors, including manufacturing and industrial enterprises, and organizations flatten. With all the talk of digital workers and AI agents taking jobs, frontline workers may wind up mattering more.
The pure plays in quantum computing are Davids trying to slay Goliath (or a series of them). In the meantime, the smaller quantum rivals are taking shots at the big guns and each other.
Speaking at the IFS Industrial X Unleashed conference in New York, Anthropic's Garvin Doyle, Applied AI Lead, said it's one thing to apply AI to industries like financial services and software development but another game entirely in real world settings.
QAD | Redzone is looking to infuse AI, process intelligence and frontline worker empowerment as it looks be the ERP provider of choice for mid-market manufacturing companies. The goal: Provide the systems that reinvent manufacturing.
