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For all the excitement artificial intelligence has generated, success is still eluding many companies. A recent PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP study found that just 20% of enterprises are achieving at least three-quarters of the revenue and efficiency gains AI promises. Gartner estimates that at …
Exclusive: MotherDuck adds agentic data ingestion to its cloud analytics service
MotherDuck Corp., the maker of a cloud-native data warehouse based on the open-source DuckDB analytical engine, is betting that artificial intelligence agents will reshape how data pipelines are built and managed. Today, it unveiled a new capability called Flights that enables users …
Tiger Data launches PostgreSQL extension designed for AI agents
Tiger Data today introduced a managed PostgreSQL database service designed specifically for AI agents, saying conventional database architectures are poorly suited to a future in which software is increasingly built and operated by autonomous agents. The New York-based company, whose business name …
Pega expands AI platform with agent orchestration, development tools and new pricing model
Workflow automation vendor Pegasystems Inc. today unveiled a broad set of artificial intelligence enhancements aimed at helping enterprises deploy AI agents in mission-critical business processes while maintaining governance, reliability and cost control. Announced at the company’s PegaWorld conference, the updates span agent …
AWS adds database features and license options aimed at simplifying agent deployment
Amazon Web Services Inc. today enhanced its database services to simplify the process of building and operating agentic artificial intelligence applications while also lowering the barriers to cloud migration for users of Microsoft Corp.’s SQL Server. The announcements add built-in durability for …
Cisco’s new cloud platform aimed at securing AI infrastructure
Cisco Systems Inc. today introduced a sweeping set of products and services designed to help enterprises manage, secure and automate increasingly complex information technology environments as artificial intelligence agents become embedded in corporate infrastructure. The announcements, made at Cisco Live in Las …
AI agents, open data and governance take center stage at Snowflake Summit
Snowflake Inc. is using its Summit 2026 conference today in San Francisco to present a vision of what it calls the “agentic enterprise,” unveiling a broad set of products and enhancements that it says help organizations build, govern and operate artificial intelligence …
Cisco bets on AI agents to redefine workplace collaboration
Cisco Systems Inc. today unveiled a set of collaboration and customer experience products that transform its Webex videoconferencing platform into what executives describe as an intelligent operating system for work. The updates span collaboration hardware, AI agents, contact center software and security …
Starburst bets on semantic context to solve enterprise AI trust problem
Starburst Data Inc. today is expanding its push into enterprise artificial intelligence with the introduction of a platform aimed at allowing organizations to run AI workloads directly on distributed data without moving it into centralized repositories. Announced at the company’s AI+Datanova event …
IBM expands digital sovereignty push with new cloud compliance and visibility platform
IBM Corp. today introduced a new cloud sovereignty tool aimed at helping enterprises demonstrate compliance, operational control and governance as artificial intelligence deployments expand across hybrid and multicloud environments. IBM Cloud Sovereignty Risk Profile is designed to give organizations greater visibility into …