Lloyds Banking Group is building its next-generation machine learning platform on Google Cloud's Vertex AI in a move that will replace legacy systems. Here's how the partnership fits into the bank's broader transformation.
Lowe's is betting that AI agents powered by Google Cloud can become do-it-yourself home improvement companions and offer personalized customer experiences.
AI agents are likely to be adopted in healthcare as a way to provide patient guidance in any modality and carry out tasks like transportation, appointment scheduling and follow-ups.
Google Cloud announced a bevy of capabilities and services designed to enable multi-agent systems for its customer base, which is increasingly integrating the company’s models, data platform and agent development tools into their stacks.
The Google Cloud partnership with UWM also sets up an interesting technology battle given that Rocket, built on AWS, has acquired Redfin as well as Mr. Cooper in recent weeks
While many folks think of mainframes as creaky old systems designed to process transactions without downtime, the z systems are big business for IBM and a strong upgrade cycle. In addition, IBM has reinvented the mainframe a few times for cloud workloads and now AI.
Vint Cerf said the introduction of AI is about much more than technology so much so that it may make sense to have a few sociologists, psychologists and anthropologists to help with policy.
IBM said it has acquired data and AI consultant Hakkoda in a deal that will give it data migration platform services. Hakkoda is a big partner for Snowflake.
Meta launched Llama 4 family with open weights with two models available so far on AWS, Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud.
Now that the first quarter is closed and the second quarter is just ramping up it's worth pondering questions about enterprise technology spending, what projects get funded amid economic chaos, data strategies and AI implementations.
Microsoft added a bevy of new features for Copilot to enhance memory, ability to take action and conduct research and also updated its Azure AI Foundry with tools to build AI agent systems.
The enterprise data center was supposed to be dead by now, but the reality is on-premises workloads are getting new life courtesy of AI workloads.
