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Slack Frontline Gives Shift Workers a Simpler Slack, With AI Agents to Follow
Roughly 80 percent of the world’s workers don’t sit at a desk. They stock shelves, ship orders, and care for patients in their homes, and they’re often the only people a customer ever meets from a company. Yet much of the conversation about workplace collaboration and artificial intelligence has centered on the other 20 percent, […]
Live Blog: Microsoft Unveils the Surface Laptop Ultra and RTX Spark
When Satya Nadella takes the stage in San Francisco on Wednesday, he’s expected to show off the Surface Laptop Ultra, the latest step in Microsoft’s push to bring AI directly into the PCs it sells. He’ll be joined by Pavan Davuluri, executive vice president overseeing Windows and devices, and Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang, whose RTX […]
AWS’s Well-Architected Agent Audits Your Cloud Setup and Hands Back the Code
Amazon Web Services (AWS) on Thursday released a public preview of its Well-Architected Agent, an AI service designed to examine a customer’s cloud infrastructure, compare it against the company’s standards for how systems should be built, and return specific fixes. AWS described it as working like an experienced cloud architect, which is a notable framing […]
AWS Releases Strands Decider 2B, a Small Model for an AI Agent’s Routine Decisions
In the 16 months since Amazon Web Services (AWS) released Strands Agents, its open-source SDK for building AI agents, the project has steadily grown beyond that original toolkit. Since then, the company has added a labs program for experimenting with new approaches to agentic AI and released a harness for running agents, among other things. […]
ServiceNow Launches Flow, an AI Service Desk That Works Inside Slack and Teams
IT teams spend much of their time solving the same problems again and again, from password resets to questions about company policy. ServiceNow’s new service, Flow, is built around a simple idea: once someone resolves one of those requests in a Slack or Microsoft Teams conversation, they can click a single button, and Flow will […]
Oracle Launches Fusion Claw, an OpenClaw-Inspired Runtime for Its Enterprise AI Apps
In most hospitals, someone has the job of making sure there are enough nurses on every floor for every shift, and on a bad morning, working that out can take the better part of a day. Oracle says its software can now do the same work in minutes and, if the hospital allows it, change […]
Microsoft’s Rebuilt Copilot Is a Bet on How Companies Will Work Next
In 1981, a multinational company that wanted to know what the next financial quarter looked like had to piece the answer together from interoffice memos and faxes, each moving from desk to desk until someone could reconcile the numbers. That labor-intensive process disappeared with the introduction of the Excel spreadsheet, which traveled as an email […]
Adobe’s Creative Tools Arrive in Gemini as Acrobat Joins Claude
As promised, Adobe has brought professional-grade tools from Photoshop, Lightroom, Express, and Firefly to Google Gemini, putting them within reach of the chatbot’s more than one billion monthly users. Gemini users describe what they want to create in plain language, and Adobe handles the work, picking the right tools and applying the edits without anyone […]
Okta Launches Blueprint Alliance to Set Standards for Securing Enterprise AI Agents
Unsanctioned agents. Borrowed credentials. Agents exceeding orders. These are the things that keep enterprise security teams up at night. Software vendors have shipped tools to rein them in, but Okta argues those efforts are piecemeal. It’s like trying to empty the ocean with a teaspoon. That’s why on Wednesday at its annual Oktane conference, the […]
Handshake’s AI Skills Studio Turns Free AI Training Into Hiring Evidence
In June, Handshake, the self-described “career network for the AI economy,” acquired the AI-native learning platform Uplimit. Handshake said it was the first step in building a skills studio that connects skill development to career opportunities. Today, that learning hub is now open and free for any job seeker looking to reskill or upskill to […]