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AI agents could crush enterprise infrastructure, says Cockroach Labs CEO
As artificial intelligence agents shift from experimental projects to production systems, enterprise technology leaders are worried that today’s infrastructure can’t handle the coming scalability demands. They have good reason, according to Spencer Kimball, chief executive of Cockroach Labs Inc., maker of a distributed SQL database highly regarded for its high availability and resilience. The company’s recent ...
Dassault and Nvidia partner to build industrial AI platform
Dassault Systèmes SA and Nvidia Corp. today announced a long-term strategic partnership aimed at creating a shared industrial artificial intelligence platform that combines science-based virtual twins with large-scale AI infrastructure to support applications across multiple industries. The companies said the partnership is designed to move industrial AI beyond point products by grounding AI systems in ...
Snowflake bets on platform-native AI as enterprises rethink custom development
Snowflake Inc. today detailed a sweeping set of product updates aimed at accelerating enterprise adoption of artificial intelligence, positioning its platform as a foundation for building, governing and operating AI systems directly on enterprise data rather than as an experimentation layer bolted onto existing infrastructure. The announcements, timed around the company’s Build 2026 event in ...
Snowflake bypasses Microsoft to strike $200M multiyear deal with OpenAI
Snowflake Inc. today said it has struck a $200 million, multiyear partnership with OpenAI Group PBC to bring enterprise-grade generative artificial intelligence models directly into its data platform, deepening a relationship that until now had largely flowed through Microsoft Corp.’s Azure ecosystem. Under the agreement, OpenAI’s models will be natively available inside Snowflake Cortex AI ...
SAP tops estimates but cloud backlog miss rattles investors
SAP SE reported strong profit growth and cash generation in the fourth quarter of 2025, but its shares fell sharply after investors focused on slower-than-expected growth in cloud bookings, highlighting continued sensitivity around the company’s long-running transition from traditional software licensing to cloud subscriptions. The enterprise resource planning software giant said fourth-quarter revenue rose 3% ...
Strong revenue performance sends IBM stock soaring after-hours
Nearly five years to the day after being named chief executive of IBM Corp., Arvind Krishna joined Chief Financial Officer James Kavanaugh in taking a victory lap today as the company posted strong fourth-quarter and full-year results, driven primarily by accelerating growth in software and infrastructure. Executives said IBM’s 9% quarterly revenue growth, the highest ...
AI TRUST & CYBER RESILIENCY SPECIAL REPORT
The biggest AI bottleneck isn’t GPUs. It’s data resilience
When Dun & Bradstreet Holdings Inc. set out to build a suite of analytical capabilities anchored in artificial intelligence three years ago, it confronted a problem that has become common across the enterprise AI landscape: how to scale up AI workflows without sacrificing trust in the underlying data. Trust wasn’t a negotiable issue. The company’s ...
Databricks reports finds surge in AI agent adoption despite governance bottlenecks
Databricks Inc.’s 2026 State of AI Agents report, released today, documents rapid growth in the use of artificial intelligence agents within enterprises but acknowledges that few are deploying the technology at large scale. The use of multi-agent workflows grew 327% over four months, driven by the rapid introduction of agent orchestration features. However, only 19% ...
Obsidian Security targets rising tide of SaaS integration threats
Obsidian Security Inc. today released a new suite of capabilities aimed at securing the software-as-a-service supply chain, offering what the company calls the first end-to-end protection for integrations between cloud-based applications. The release comes as businesses increasingly rely on interconnected SaaS environments and autonomous artificial intelligence agents embedded in workflows. The company said such integrations, while ...
Tacnode emerges from stealth with a data infra platform tuned to AI agents
Tacnode Inc. today emerged from stealth mode with a new data infrastructure platform designed to enable artificial intelligence agents to reason and act over a shared, up-to-date representation of enterprise context. The company’s Tacnode Context Lake technology and Semantic Operators feature form what it describes as a “context layer” for agent-based systems. Context Lake is intended ...