Smartsheet to go private in deal valued at $8.4 billion
Blackstone and Vista Equity Partners are taking Smartsheet private in an all-cash deal valued at $8.4 billion, or $56.40 a share.
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Google Cloud rolls out new Gemini models, AI agents, customer engagement suite
Google Cloud launched a series of updates including new Gemini 1.5 Flash and 1.5 Pro models with a 2 million context window, grounding with Google search, premade Gems in Gemini in Google Workspace and a series of AI agents designed for customer engagement and conversation.
AI projects remain work in progress, pilots, say CxOs
Do-it-yourself AI projects are alive and well as CxOs are trying multiple approaches for generative AI, getting some projects to production and looking for better returns, according to a pop-up attendee survey at Constellation Research's AI Forum.
Sam's Club CEO Nicholas on AI, frictionless commerce, focus on members
Chris Nicholas, President and CEO Sam's Club, said artificial intelligence is enabling the company to "take 100 million tasks out of our clubs" even though it has more associates.
Boomi CEO Lucas: AI agents will outnumber your human employees soon
Boomi CEO Steve Lucas said that the number of AI agents will outnumber the number of people in your business in less than three years.
Enterprises leading with AI plan next genAI, agentic AI phases
Enterprises that are leaders in artificial intelligence are evolving quickly and laying out plans for their next phases. The next phase of genAI deployments revolve around integrating AI into the business, optimizing processes, agility and scale. You should watch these companies closely for the road ahead.
Constellation Energy, Microsoft ink nuclear power pact for AI data center
Constellation Energy said that it is restarting Three Mile Island (TMI) Unit 1 and will sell about 835 megawatts of power to Microsoft for AI workloads. AI data centers are going to be increasingly co-located with nuclear power plants.
How Iron Mountain built its InSight DXP on MongoDB
We caught up with Adam Williams, Vice President of Global Platforms at Iron Mountain, to talk about use of MongoDB and scaling. Here's a look at some of the key takeaways.
Amazon launches Project Amelia for third party sellers, powered by AWS
Amazon is rolling out a series of generative AI tools for third-party sellers built on Amazon Web Services' models and Amazon Bedrock.
T-Mobile, OpenAI to launch custom AI-driven IntentCX system
T-Mobile said it is custom building an "intent-driven AI-decisioning platform called IntentCX with OpenAI. The partnership with OpenAI was part of a broader AI push by T-Mobile.
HubSpot launches Breeze AI agents, Breeze Intelligence for data enrichment
HubSpot launched Breeze, the company's AI that features copilots and agents, and Breeze Intelligence, which enriches data and identifies the best prospects.
Oracle's cloud, AI plans are a master class in co-opetition
Should Oracle's march toward fiscal 2029 revenue of $104 billion succeed it'll largely because it has managed multi-cloud deployments, co-opetition and triple wins for itself, partners and enterprises.
