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Organizations racing to deploy agentic AI are discovering that raw model performance is only part of the equation — context engineering is the key to managing decades of unstructured, ungoverned data trapped inside legacy information management systems. As Google Cloud Next 2026 signals a complete p
For years, AI conversations at major tech events centered almost exclusively on large enterprises, leaving small and medium-sized businesses on the margins of a transformation reshaping the global economy. That dynamic is now shifting fast, as SMB AI adoption moves from cautious pilots to real workf
Pudu Technology Inc., a leading developer of intelligent service robotics, has raised nearly $150 million in a new funding round. With this capital raise, announced Thursday, the company exceeded $1.5 billion in valuation and has reached over $300 million in total funding. The architect of a variety
Enterprise AI deployments are accelerating, but the velocity of change in models, tools and platforms is quietly creating a new and costly trap: costly failure to build for AI architectural replaceability. As Google Cloud Next 2026 confirms that agentic AI has become the organizing logic for the ent
At Cloud Next this week in Las Vegas, Google made its case this week that it has all the pieces — literally the entire “stack” of technologies from chips to models to data management platforms — needed to provide essentially the operating system for AI agents, the autonomous software that is the onl
A U.S. special forces soldier who was part of the operation to capture Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro has been arrested and charged for allegedly betting on the operation in the prediction market and winning more than $400,000. Federal investigators said Master Sgt. Gannon Ken Van Dyke opened a
Intel Corp. crushed analysts’ expectations as it delivered its first-quarter earnings results today, in a sign that its efforts to turn around its business under Chief Executive Lip-Bu Tan could be finally starting to pay off. The chipmaker reported solid earnings before certain costs such as stock
Shares of the European enterprise software maker SAP SE registered solid gains in late trading today after the company delivered earnings results that beat expectations. The company’s American depository receipts gained more than 6% in the after-hours trading session, reversing a decline of just ove
Cloudsmith Inc., a startup that helps software teams manage application components, has secured $72 million in new funding. The Series C round was led by TCV, which was also the biggest backer of the company’s previous raise last year. Cloudsmith stated in its funding announcement today that the ven
Artificial intelligence coding assistant startup Cognition AI Inc. is engaged in discussions with investors over another massive funding round that would more than double its valuation to $25 billion, Bloomberg reported today. The report cites “people familiar with the matter” as saying that Cogniti
A U.S. special forces soldier who was part of the operation to capture Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro has been arrested and charged for allegedly betting on the operation in the prediction market and winning more than $400,000. Federal investigators said Master Sgt. Gannon Ken Van Dyke opened a
OpenAI Group PBC today launched a new large language model that is significantly better than its predecessors at solving math problems and writing code. GPT-5.5 is rolling out a week after rival Anthropic PBC released its latest LLM. OpenAI is offering the model in two flavors: a standard version an
Artificial intelligence and data security company Cyera Ltd. announced today that it has acquired Ryft Data Inc., an Israeli startup that has built an automated data lake platform designed for enterprises deploying AI agents. The terms of the deal were not disclosed, although Globes reports that mar
CrowdStrike Holdings Inc. today announced the launch of Project QuiltWorks, an industry coalition aimed at helping enterprises find and fix the wave of software vulnerabilities being surfaced by frontier artificial intelligence models. The coalition brings together Accenture PLC, Ernst & Young Globa
The agentic AI era is forcing a fundamental redesign of enterprise infrastructure — not just in the cloud, but all the way to the on-premises data center. Regulated industries, governments and enterprises with strict data sovereignty requirements are now demanding AI-ready infrastructure that can ru
Telecom operators worldwide are wrestling with a defining question: remain connectivity providers or evolve into full-stack technology companies in a process dubbed techco transformation. That transformation is playing out ambitiously in Indonesia, a nation of 17,000 islands where digital access has
Enterprises are investing heavily in AI customer experience, but many experiments are stalling out before ever going live. The culprit is a confidence gap, according to Chris Mina (pictured), chief product and technology officer at LivePerson Inc. Organizations build compelling proof-of-concept work
Meta Platforms Inc. told staff today that it is planning to lay off about 8,000 employees, or roughly 10% of its workforce and cancel 6,000 open roles in an efficiency drive aimed at offsetting a massive surge in artificial intelligence spending. The cuts take effect on May 20 and according to Bloom
Omni Analytics Inc. today announced that it has closed a $120 million funding round at a $1.5 billion valuation, more than double what it was valued at last year. ICONIQ led the Series C investment. It was joined by Alphabet Inc.’s GV venture capital arm, Redpoint Ventures and others. Building a bus
AI agents depend on the quality and accessibility of the data behind them, placing Google Cloud databases at the center of that equation. The agentic data cloud introduced at Google Cloud Next 2026 underscores Google’s push to position its databases as the foundation of AI-driven enterprise architec
