Allison Francis

Red Hat acquires Chatterbox Labs to bolster AI safety, adding model-agnostic testing, risk metrics and guardrails for trusted, production-ready AI.

ThoughtSpot unveils a unified platform of AI BI agents, including Spotter 3, to automate analytics workflows and help teams turn raw data into insights faster.

IBM’s $11B Confluent acquisition aims to power enterprise AI with real-time, trusted data streaming across clouds and applications.

Salesforce lifts forecasts as Agentforce demand surges, showcasing accelerating AI revenue momentum and stronger customer adoption heading into fiscal 2026.

HPE backs AMD’s Helios rack-scale AI platform, pushing open Ethernet designs that challenge proprietary GPU systems and reshape next-gen AI infrastructure.

SAP taps TCS for a five-year cloud and GenAI overhaul, launching major internal IT modernization with new Centers of Excellence to drive efficiency and innovation.

Microsoft redefines AI at Ignite 2025, unveiling an end-to-end ecosystem that reshapes how organizations build, deploy and securely govern AI agents.

Microsoft, Nvidia, and Anthropic form a major AI alliance to scale Claude with shared compute, co-engineered models, and deep enterprise integration.

TCS and TPG launch a $2B HyperVault venture to build AI-ready, liquid-cooled data centers across India as global investment accelerates.

Cisco accelerates its AI strategy with plans to acquire NeuralFabric, adding SLM tech to boost enterprise model customization, control and deployment.

AMD acquires AI startup MK1, founded by ex-Neuralink engineers, to boost inference and reasoning performance on Instinct GPUs and strengthen its AI stack.

CoreWeave expands $1.17B partnership with Vast Data to accelerate AI cloud performance and data scalability