Artificial Intelligence

Solita launches AI agent orchestrator for enterprise software development: Solita RoadCrewAO

Solita - Solita today announced the launch of Solita RoadCrew Agentic Orchestrator (Solita RoadCrewAO), a multi-agent tool designed for autonomous, enterprise-grade software development. It marks a significant step forward in how software is designed, built and operated in complex organisational environments.

Cisco Reimagines Security for the Agentic Workforce

Cisco - Cisco today announced significant security innovations designed for the agentic AI ecosystem, where software no longer just answers questions—it acts. By establishing trusted identities, enforcing strict Zero Trust Access controls, hardening agents before deployment, enforcing guardrails at runtime, and giving security operations center (SOC) teams the tools to stop threats at machine speed, Cisco is building security into the foundation of the emerging AI economy.

Snowflake Unveils Cortex Code, An AI Coding Agent That Understands Your Enterprise Data Context

Snowflake - Snowflake, the AI Data Cloud company, today unveiled a new Snowflake-native AI coding agent and other tools purpose-built to help organizations move data and AI projects from idea to production faster. With Cortex Code, a data-native AI coding agent that automates and accelerates end-to-end enterprise development, users gain an agent that deeply understands and operates within their enterprise data context.

Caterpillar Teams With NVIDIA to Revolutionize Heavy Industry with Physical AI and Robotics

Caterpillar - Caterpillar today announced an expanded collaboration with NVIDIA to drive innovation across industries through next-generation, AI-enhanced customer solutions and manufacturing systems. This engagement will transform how work gets done for Caterpillar’s customers, dealers and employees.

Honeywell and TotalEnergies Pilot AI-Assisted Control Room to Accelerate Shift to Industrial Autonomy

Honeywell - Honeywell today announced a collaboration with TotalEnergies for the ongoing pilot of its AI-assisted Experion Operations Assistant at TotalEnergies' Port Arthur Refinery in Texas. The initiative aims to support and empower operators to make timely and informed decisions while also providing the opportunity to enhance operational autonomy.

AI linked to a fourfold increase in productivity growth and 56% wage premium, while jobs grow even in the most easily automated roles

PwC - AI is making workers more valuable, productive, and able to command higher wage premiums, with job numbers rising even in roles considered most automatable, according to PwC’s 2025 Global AI Jobs Barometer, released today. The report is based on analysis of close to a billion job ads from six continents.

Avanade to Launch Innovative AI Governance Platform

Avenade - Avanade, a leading Microsoft solutions provider and Duke Health have partnered together to design, build and implement Avanade’s Smart AI Governance Engine (SAIGE), a-first-of-its-kind healthcare-specific AI governance platform, using the power of Microsoft Azure and Microsoft Fabric. The initiative advances Duke Health’s commitment to maintaining ethical and responsible standards while employing the transformative power of AI within clinical settings.

New Research Finds That Nearly Half of Executives Trust AI Over Themselves

SAP - Generative AI is increasingly influencing decision-making at the highest levels of business. SAP SE (NYSE: SAP) today announced new research that reveals 44 percent of C-suite executives would override a decision they had already planned to make based on AI insights. Another 38 percent would trust AI to make business decisions on their behalf.

Salesforce Powers Up Manufacturing with New Suite of Capabilities and AI Tools for Connected Asset Management

Salesforce - Salesforce today announced Connected Assets, a new suite of capabilities for Manufacturing Cloud that gives manufacturers a comprehensive, real-time view of their connected asset data — including service history, status, and customer and telematics information — so they can better manage assets, monitor health and performance, and act on real-time data.

ServiceTitan Unveils Powerful New AI Solutions at Pantheon 2024

ServiceTitan - ServiceTitan, a leading software platform built to power the trades, today announced additions to its AI-powered technology for residential and commercial contractors. The latest solutions unveiled at Pantheon 2024 include a transformative AI assistant that will work across ServiceTitan’s suite of products, along with new applications for sales and call centers.

AI and the Workforce: Industry Report Calls for Reskilling and Upskilling

Cisco - Today, the AI-Enabled ICT Workforce Consortium–led by Cisco with industry leaders Accenture, Eightfold, Google, IBM, Indeed, Intel, Microsoft and SAP, along with key advisors–released its inaugural report, “The Transformational Opportunity of AI on ICT Jobs.”

Snowflake launches Arctic: the most open, enterprise-grade Large Language Model

Snowflake - Snowflake, the Data Cloud company, today announced Snowflake Arctic, a state-of-the-art large language model (LLM) uniquely designed to be the most open, enterprise-grade LLM on the market. With its unique Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) architecture, Arctic delivers top-tier intelligence with unparalleled efficiency at scale. It is optimized for complex enterprise workloads, topping several industry benchmarks across SQL code generation, instruction following, and more.

Gartner Identifies the Top Cybersecurity Trends for 2024

Gartner - Generative AI (GenAI), unsecure employee behavior, third-party risks, continuous threat exposure, boardroom communication gaps and identity-first approaches to security are the driving forces behind the top cybersecurity trends for 2024, according to Gartner, Inc.

Gartner Survey Shows Half of Supply Chain Organizations Plan to Implement GenAI in the Next 12 Months

Gartner - Half of supply chain leaders plan to implement generative AI (GenAI) in the next 12 months, with an additional 14% already in the implementation stage, according to a survey by Gartner, Inc. The survey data also showed that chief supply chain officers (CSCOs) are dedicating 5.8% of their function’s budget, on average, to GenAI.

Easier and systematic qualification of AI applications

Fraunhofer - A new software framework is to make it easier for companies to approve or audit applications based on Artificial Intelligence (AI). The framework is being jointly developed by Fraunhofer IPA in conjunction with the Institute of Industrial Manufacturing and Management IFF at the University of Stuttgart as part of the “AIQualify” research project of the German Association for Quality (DGQ).

Dell Technologies Growing Generative AI Portfolio Speeds Business Transformations

Dell Technologies - Dell Technologies (NYSE: DELL) expands its Dell Generative AI Solutions portfolio, helping businesses transform how they work along every step of their generative AI (GenAI) journeys.

Building Sustainability’s Digital Future with EcoStruxure Resource Advisor Copilot: Schneider Electric’s Latest AI Advancement

Schneider Electric - Schneider Electric, the leader in the digital transformation of energy management, automation, and sustainability, today announced its plans to launch EcoStruxure Resource Advisor Copilot, a conversational AI tool designed to help business leaders interact with their enterprise energy and sustainability data at even greater speed.