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As AI rapidly rewrites enterprise economics, cloud cost optimization has become essential for preventing budgets from collapsing under AI workloads, enabling organizations to slash expenses and redirect engineering talent from reactive firefighting to higher-value innovation. Nordstrom Inc. learned
The Chinese government today ordered Meta Platforms Inc. to scrap its acquisition of artificial intelligence startup Manus. The development comes about five months after the Facebook parent announced the deal. The transaction was reportedly valued between $2 billion and $3 billion. Manus develops an
Microsoft Corp. has partnered with Accenture Plc on the largest-ever deployment of its artificial intelligence tool Microsoft 365 Copilot, rolling it out to the consultancy’s global workforce of more than 743,000 people – roughly equivalent to the population of Denver. The sheer scale of the rollout
The agentic AI boom has an inconvenient truth: Without a solid data foundation, the revolution stops before it starts. Conversations surrounding an emergent agent control plane signal that agentic AI is maturing — but the enterprises best positioned to capitalize are those that did the unglamorous d
As enterprises race to wire AI into their operations, the infrastructure bottleneck has shifted from model capability to data access — and the enterprises winning the race are those treating real-time data pipelines as a first-class architectural concern. Agents are only as intelligent as their unde
AI-native healthcare has arrived, with the convergence of cloud infrastructure and intelligent data rewriting how insurance companies engage members, run campaigns and measure business outcomes. The rules of competition are changing faster than most organizations can absorb — and the real question i
Consumer packaged goods companies face mounting pressure to grow profitably while operating on razor-thin margins — and agentic AI is emerging as the tool that can close the gap between fragmented data and real-time marketing outcomes. The sector has long relied on weeks-long campaign measurement cy
As enterprises navigate the complexities of scaling AI initiatives, the agentic AI blueprint for success lies in combining deep process intelligence with powerful cloud platforms, enabling organizations such as Genpact Ltd. to transform finance and operations workflows through reimagined processes a
Quantum Art Ltd., a quantum computing startup focused on enhancing computational throughput, said today it has extended its Series A funding round to $140 million following a surge of interest from investors. The company originally raised $100 million in a December early-stage funding round led by B
Enterprises are rapidly moving from an artificial intelligence that answers questions and generates content to one that performs tasks and takes actions. According to Google Cloud Chief Executive Thomas Kurian, this shift requires a fundamentally different approach to infrastructure and software. Go
With the release of the newest version of its Experian Virtual Assistant, Experian plc is leveraging artificial intelligence to advance its broader goals of expanding beyond credit reporting to become a technology-driven services provider. Doing that in a tightly regulated industry has tested the li
Artificial intelligence startups Cohere Inc. and Aleph Alpha GmbH today announced that they intend to merge. The transaction is backed by Schwarz Group GmbH, Germany’s largest retailer. It plans to lead a funding round into the combined company by making a $600 million “structured financing commitme
Amazon Web Services Inc. has inked a multiyear deal to supply Meta Platforms Inc. with cloud infrastructure. Bloomberg reported today that the agreement is worth billions of dollars. The deal centers on AWS’ Graviton family of internally-developed central processing units. According to the company,
When a company such as Google LLP demonstrates leadership in large-scale data systems, advantages can begin to accrue in areas not readily apparent from the keynote speeches and press releases. One of these involves the sovereign cloud. Google itself made no major announcements during Google Cloud N
Public sector organizations are at an inflection point, one where the combination of domain-specific data and agentic enterprise intelligence is producing measurable, life-changing outcomes for the populations they serve — outcomes that legacy manual workflows could never achieve at scale. Covered C
Chinese artificial intelligence developer DeepSeek today released a new series of open-source large language models. V4, as the algorithm family is called, comprises 2 LLMs on launch. There’s the flagship V4-Pro and a smaller model called V4-Flash that trades off some output quality for lower hardwa
Enterprise AI is shifting from hype to measurable outcomes, with success now depending on seamless integration and balancing automation with the human element. But the gap between a compelling AI demo and a deployment that actually changes outcomes isn’t the model — it’s everything built around it,
As AI accelerates enterprise transformation, it is simultaneously widening the attack surface organizations must defend — and compressing the time defenders have to respond. The convergence of geopolitical tension, AI-powered adversaries and a surging wave of agent deployments has pushed agentic def
As enterprises pivot from AI experimentation to production deployment, AI storage infrastructure is emerging as the critical bottleneck determining whether massive chip investments deliver real returns. The central challenge for running large-scale AI workloads has shifted from building models to ke
Intercom Inc. is expanding the role of its Fin artificial intelligence customer agent beyond customer support for the first time, positioning it as a sales assistant that operates across all stages of the customer lifecycle. The new “Fin for Sales” capability allows the same AI agent to handle inter
