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Salesforce Buys Spindle AI to Strengthen Accountability Across Agentforce 360
Stop me if you’ve heard this before: Salesforce is buying an(other) AI startup. The enterprise tech giant announced on Friday that it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Spindle AI, an agentic analytics startup. Financial deals weren’t disclosed, but Salesforce reveals that it plans to integrate Spindle’s technology to bolster the “Agent Observability and…
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SAP Plans to Train 12 Million People in AI Skills by 2030
SAP is betting big that it can help more people learn about artificial intelligence. The enterprise software company has set a goal of equipping 12 million more people worldwide with AI-ready digital skills over the next five years. The idea is to better prepare the global workforce for AI’s disruptive impact. This isn’t the first…
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SAP Unveils RPT-1, a Tabular Model for Enterprise Business Predictions
SAP is releasing a new enterprise relational foundation model, designed to provide organizations with better insights into their operations. Named RPT-1, the model promises rapid and accurate predictions for non-text-based data, helping businesses anticipate outcomes and make more informed decisions. This news is part of a bevy of announcements SAP is rolling out as it…
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Ai2’s OlmoEarth Opens the Door to Accessible, Open-Source Earth AI
The Allen Institute for AI (Ai2) is announcing the release of OlmoEarth, a new platform featuring an open multimodal foundation model pre-trained on approximately 10 terabytes of global satellite and sensor data. Developers can utilize this AI to gain a better understanding of what’s happening to our planet, as it democratizes access to insights that…
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HubSpot Is Cementing Its Bet on AI Search With XFunnel Acquisition
HubSpot is acquiring XFunnel, a startup building an AI-powered search optimization platform. Financial terms weren’t disclosed, but HubSpot says it plans to fold XFunnel’s technology into its Marketing Hub to give marketers deeper visibility into how their brands surface in AI assistants and apps such as ChatGPT and Perplexity. “As AI changes how people find…
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Canva’s New Design Model and AI Assistant Aim to Power a ‘Creative Operating System’
Canva is staking its claim as the operating system of creativity. The company today took a big step towards that goal with the introduction of new tools that bring together design, AI, and marketing to better connect every part of the creative process. A key pillar of the visual communication platform’s “Creative Operating System” is…
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Zoom Turns to Nvidia’s Nemotron to Power Its AI Companion and New 49B-Parameter LLM
Zoom has partnered with Nvidia to add the chipmaker’s Nemotron technology to its federated AI architecture. The integration aims to strengthen Zoom’s AI Companion, enabling it to support better those organizations in finance, healthcare, and government—all regulated spaces. In addition, Nemotron is being used to fine-tune a new 49-billion-parameter Large Language Model (LLM). “With the…
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ServiceNow and Nvidia Unveil Apriel 2.0, a Compact Open Model Made for Regulated Industries
ServiceNow and Nvidia have introduced Apriel 2.0, the latest version of their jointly-developed Apriel Nemotron open model. It boasts improved reasoning, native support for multimodal input, and built-in data and safety guardrails. However, unlike its predecessor, which was a general-purpose foundation model, Apriel 2.0 is explicitly designed for autonomous and semi-autonomous agents operating in regulated…
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Google Labs and DeepMind Launch Pomelli, an AI Tool for SMB Marketing Campaigns
Google Labs and Google DeepMind have jointly created an AI-powered marketing tool called Pomelli to help small and medium-sized businesses generate effective social media campaigns. It’s launching today as a public beta experiment for those in the United States, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand, and it currently only supports English. This is Google’s latest initiative…
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Microsoft 365 Copilot Gets the Power to Build Apps and Automate Workflows
Microsoft is adding new capabilities to Microsoft 365 Copilot to help employees be more productive. Available today through the Frontier Program are two new agents —App Builder and Workflows—and a lightweight version of the company’s existing Copilot Studio app. The goal of these tools is to empower all workers—not just power users—to use AI more…