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Category: The AI Economy
SAP Bundles Its CX Clouds into a One-Stop Shop with Engagement Cloud
SAP is unveiling an AI-powered platform that provides organizations with deeper insights into their data, enabling them to strengthen customer loyalty and drive better business outcomes. The new SAP Engagement Cloud, announced at SAP Connect, is built on the company’s Business Data Cloud and offers a single dashboard to help businesses deliver personalized experiences across […]
SAP Recasts Joule as an Agentic AI Platform Driving Workflow Automation
When SAP launched Joule more than two years ago, its natural language AI copilot, the goal was like with every other bot of its type: to help people be more productive and drive better business outcomes. Integrated into the company’s broader portfolio of apps, Joule addressed basic tasks, such as answering questions, retrieving data, and […]
Salesforce Opens App-Building to Everyone with Agentforce Vibes AI
Salesforce is telling developers—or anyone who has a software idea—that there’s no excuse for not building an app on its platform. Ahead of Dreamforce, the enterprise tech firm is unveiling Agentforce Vibes, its vibe coding solution. But unlike what’s available through Anthropic’s Claude Code, GitHub Copilot, Vercel, Lovable, or Replit, Salesforce brags that its platform […]
Lattice’s ‘Refounding’ Moment
Much has changed in the world of human resources since entrepreneurs Jack Altman and Eric Koslow graduated from Y Combinator in 2016. The duo had launched a startup called Lattice, built to improve organizational growth. They recognized there was a better way for companies to manage people—being proactive drove success. Though a technology firm, Lattice […]
Google Makes Jules More Flexible With CLI and API for Developer Workflows
Google is making it easier for developers to use its AI coding agent to build apps. The company is adding a command-line interface (CLI) and previewing an API that could bring the GitHub Copilot rival directly into a developer’s preferred system or workflow. First introduced in 2024, Jules was an experimental AI agent developed by […]
Microsoft Pitches $19.99 ‘365 Premium’ Plan as AI Alternative to ChatGPT Plus
Are you a ChatGPT Plus user who wishes it had a direct tie-in with your favorite productivity apps? Microsoft offers an alternative called Microsoft 365 Premium, which it hopes will appeal to power users. Aimed at solopreneurs, professionals, and anyone who depends on AI to tackle their productivity tasks, this $19.99 monthly subscription not only […]
Microsoft Makes Multi-Agent AI More Manageable with New Open Framework
Microsoft is introducing new capabilities to Azure AI Foundry, enabling developers to work more easily with multi-agent systems. The belief is that as organizations become so-called Frontier Firms, teams will need better ways to manage all of the proactive AI agents and ensure they’re working effectively together. Today’s announcements are an effort to address that […]
Ai2’s Asta DataVoyager Makes Complex Data Analysis Accessible to All Scientists
Ai2 is expanding its Asta toolkit with a new addition aimed at helping scientists navigate complex data. The release of Asta DataVoyager makes analyzing any amount of structured data more accessible, thanks to this open-source data analysis offering. All researchers need to do is upload a dataset and ask their questions using natural language. Then, […]
Slack Opens Up Conversational Data to Power Smarter AI Agents
Slack aims to help developers leverage the vast amount of conversational data stored on its platform. The goal: Build better, secure, and context-aware AI agents for the enterprise. To achieve this, the Salesforce-owned firm is launching not only a real-time search API, but also a Model Context Protocol server and other new tools. “The future […]
ServiceNow Debuts AI Experience as a Unified ‘Front Door’ to Enterprise AI
Most tech companies aren’t rebuilding their platforms around AI—they’re layering it on top of existing systems. ServiceNow is taking a bolder approach with the launch of AI Experience, a conversational, context-aware interface that blends AI and users in ways that could change how enterprises interact with software. It’s a new front door to all your […]