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SAP’s recent acquisition activity should be viewed as building a three-part stack: Dremio for open lakehouse and business context, Reltio for trusted master data, and Prior Labs for AI models purpose-built for structured business data.
Building fast on the Enterprise AgentStack (a toolkit for building, deploying, and managing AI agents) released in January, Teradata followed with the Autonomous Knowledge Platform in May – a unified system spanning cloud, on-premises, and hybrid environments.
Salesforce is repositioning Agentforce Service around customer resolution rather than case deflection. Its announcements include Agentforce Help Agent, $2 resolution pricing, and a redesigned Service Portal experience, giving buyers a clearer way to evaluate service AI. This research examines what changed, why the pricing model matters, and what IT leaders should validate before scaling their Agentforce investment.
It has become almost a full-time job to stay current with the glut of news in the AI space. This weekly roundup will get you up to speed on the news and happenings with the big 5 AI vendors in the last week.
Oracle’s 2026 Analyst Relations Summit showcased how their three platforms – Oracle Cloud Infrastructure, AI Data Platform, and Fusion Data Intelligence – unified by shared governance and semantics, could facilitate building an enterprise-scale agentic AI platform.
It has become almost a full-time job to stay current with the glut of news in the AI space. This weekly roundup will get you up to speed on the news and happenings with the big 5 AI vendors in the last week.
At Agentforce World Tour 2025, Salesforce outlined its vision for the agentic AI era through Headless 360, ecosystem partnerships, and platform consolidation, while raising important considerations around governance, pricing, vendor lock-in, and long-term partner dynamics.
At Microsoft Build 2026, the central theme was AI agents moving from demonstrations to production, with Microsoft positioning Foundry, Agent 365, and Microsoft IQ as an integrated, governed agent platform. The tools to build and run agents are becoming available first, while those to govern, measure, and bill them are still maturing through 2026.
AWS executives and customers shared insights on the most valuable use cases for agentic AI so far. At the same time, they’re still working on a way to make the costs of agentic workflows more predictable.
It has become almost a full-time job to stay current with the glut of news in the AI space. This weekly roundup will get you up to speed on the news and happenings with the big 5 AI vendors in the last week.
Anthropic just made its most capable model generally available. Before your teams pile in, understand what you’re buying and what it costs when agents run for days.
It has become almost a full-time job to stay current with the glut of news in the AI space. This weekly roundup will get you up to speed on the news and happenings with the big 5 AI vendors in the last week.
It has become almost a full-time job to stay current with the glut of news in the AI space. This weekly roundup will get you up to speed on the news and happenings with the big 5 AI vendors in the last week.
In May, OpenAI introduced GPT-5.5 with Trusted Access for Cyber and GPT-5.5-Cyber as two model tiers for defensive security workflows. Its approach was markedly different from that of Anthropic with respect to Claude Mythos.
It has become almost a full-time job to stay current with the glut of news in the AI space. This weekly roundup will get you up to speed on the news and happenings with the Big 5 AI vendors in the last week.
It has become almost a full-time job to stay current with the glut of news in the AI space. This weekly roundup will get you up to speed on the news and happenings with the Big 5 AI vendors in the last week.
Think 2026 positions IBM’s AI products as middleware between modern tools and the mainframe customers who can’t leave. The agentic and integration announcements ride on top of a moat IBM has been deepening for forty years.
It has become almost a full-time job to stay current with the glut of news in the AI space. This weekly roundup will get you up to speed on the news and happenings with the Big 5 AI vendors in the last week.
On May 5, Dario Amodei and Jamie Dimon shared a stage in lower Manhattan to talk about AI in financial services. At first glance it looked like a standard vendor and customer keynote or panel-type discussion. It was much more than that.
It has become almost a full-time job to stay current with the glut of news in the AI space. This weekly roundup will get you up to speed on the news and happenings with the Big 5 AI vendors in the last week.
Google Cloud Next ‘26 in Las Vegas wrapped recently, and the theme was familiar. If 2025 was the year of experimenting with agentic AI, 2026 will be the year of running it at scale.