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Industrial AI investment is picking up for infrastructure and component vendors indicating that use cases are in the pipeline for manufacturing, automotive and other asset-heavy industries. The quarters ahead will likely see investment move up the technology stack.
FedEx CEO Rajesh Subramaniam said there's a "referendum on global supply chains every single day" amid economic and global trade uncertainty.
Clorox said the SAP overhaul is more than just an upgrade and about process and digital transformation. The company is also overhauling its data infrastructure to be more efficient in the future.
HPE launched new CloudOps Software, layered AI agents throughout its hybrid cloud stack, unveiled GreenLake Intelligence and expanded its AI factory. In addition, Digital Realty said it would standardize its data center footprint on HPE.
Teradata launched Teradata AI Factory, which aims to target integrated AI systems for regulated industries.
Salesforce launched Agentforce 3, which features Agentforce Command Center, support for Model Context Protocol (MCP), and updated Atlas architecture to speed up reasoning and performance.
AWS is a company that has multiple security offerings, but doesn't try to make money from them. Security isn't a business for AWS as much as it is a base layer for everything it does. Here's a look at AWS re:Inforce 2025 and my key takeaways.
Uber is expanding its AI and data services unit, Uber AI Solutions, as it looks to support labs and enterprises looking to build AI models and deploy agents.
Accenture launched Reinvention Services, a business unit that will bring together its AI assets in one integrated unit. Manish Sharma, Accenture's CEO of the Americas, will become chief services officer.
Microsoft said it has developed quantum computing error-correction codes that can create a 1,000-fold reduction in error rates. The company also said it is landing on-premise interest for its Quantum compute platform, a collaboration between Microsoft and Atom Computing.
