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Amazon revamps Quick as a proactive desktop app that gets work done
Amazon.com Inc. is digging further into the artificial intelligence assistant game today with a major update to Amazon Quick. Whereas other chatbots offer tons of promise but often result in more work for the user, the revamped Amazon Quick is billed as a deeply personalized and proactive assistant that lives within user’s desktops to get ...
Appian adopts MCP protocol and partners with Snowflake to provide more structure and control for AI agents
Business process automation software company Appian Inc. is stepping up its game in agentic artificial intelligence, announcing major updates to its platform focused on AI-assisted application development and Model Context Protocol integration. The company announced the updates at its annual user conference Appian World 2026, where it explained how anchoring AI within processes can eliminate ...
Altair Semiconductor raises $50M after completing spinoff from Sony
Altair Semiconductor Ltd. has returned to its roots as an independent company after its parent completed a strategic spinoff from Sony Semiconductor Solutions Corp. With the successful split, Altair has secured $50 million in funding from Pitango Group. Sony Corp. will remain one of the largest shareholders in Altair, a decision that reflects its continued belief ...
Microsoft reveals how Accenture deployed Copilot to 700,000+ users at Accenture
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 is truly a show of force, for Microsoft claims ...
Quantum Art raises $140M to scale quantum computing with a unique ‘multicore’ architecture
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 Bedford Ridge Capital, but the extension round saw the ...
Cognition, creator of the AI software engineer Devin, in talks to raise ‘hundreds of millions’ at $25B valuation
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 Cognition is trying to tap into the growing momentum around AI-generated code ...
SAP posts solid earnings results to shrug off latest software stock slaughter
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 over 6% that occurred in regular trading, prior to the results ...
Intel crushes Wall Street’s expectations and its stock surges 24% as revival gains pace
Updated: 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 compensation of 29 cents per share, way ...
Rilian raises $17.5M to automate security software procurement and deployment in the defense sector
A startup called Rilian that’s building agentic systems integration tools for companies operating in the defense and national security industries, said today it has raised $17.5 million in seed funding. The round was led by 8VC, Tamarack Global and First In, and saw participation from defense technology specialists such as 8090 Industries, Liquid 2 Venture ...
Salesforce and Google partner on agentic cross-platform collaboration
Salesforce Inc. said today it’s trying to break down the siloes that separate enterprise’s customer relationship management data from their productivity tools, specifically for artificial intelligence agents. It’s doing so by expanding its partnership with Google Cloud, unveiling a deep set of integrations that will enable autonomous agents to work seamlessly across both company’s ecosystems. The ...