Google Cloud Introduces QueryData to Help AI Agents Create Reliable Database Queries
Google Cloud unveiled QueryData, a tool that converts natural‑language prompts into database queries with claimed near‑100% accuracy. The service relies on a pre‑defined “context” that encodes schema details and deterministic instructions, which are refined using the Context Engineering Assistant in Gemini CLI and validated through the Evalbench framework. QueryData can be called via APIs or used within Google’s own data agents and currently supports AlloyDB, CloudSQL for MySQL and PostgreSQL, and Spanner. The preview aims to make AI‑driven agents reliable enough for decision‑grade use cases in regulated enterprises.
Anthropic's Claude Mythos Preview Threatens Traditional Security Playbooks
Anthropic released the Claude Mythos Preview model to a coalition of more than 40 vetted enterprises, where it has already identified thousands of unknown zero‑day vulnerabilities. The AI‑driven findings, including a flaw missed by automated scanners in five million tests,...
Atos Adds Four Senior Leaders to Accelerate Genesis Transformation
Atos Group announced the appointment of four senior executives—Florin Rotar, Laurent Soulier, Pénélope de Fouquières and Camille Le Provost—to key roles in its Genesis transformation plan. The hires are intended to fast‑track the four‑year roadmap that aims to return the...
Litera CTO Says Hybrid AI Beats Pure LLMs in Contract Review
Litera’s chief technology officer announced that a hybrid AI model, which layers generative AI over its 20‑year‑old rules‑based comparison engine, outperformed leading large language models in a Legalweek 2026 benchmark. The findings underscore a shift toward mixed‑technology platforms in legal...
Ada Health Secures European Patent for Hybrid AI Layer, Claiming 7% Accuracy Gain
Ada Health announced that the European Patent Office granted it a patent for its hybrid clinical AI architecture, a system that blends large language models with a proprietary probabilistic model to improve diagnostic accuracy by more than 7%. The filing,...
AWS Launches Agent Registry to Tackle Enterprise AI Sprawl
Amazon Web Services introduced Agent Registry, a centralized catalog for building, storing, and governing AI agents across frameworks. The service, now in preview via the Bedrock AgentCore console, is live in five compute regions and offers searchable records with ownership,...
Cisco Eyes Astrix Security To Lock Down AI Agents In Potential $350M Deal: Report
Cisco is in advanced talks to acquire Israeli AI‑agent security startup Astrix Security for a price between $250 million and $350 million. Astrix’s platform safeguards non‑human identities across SaaS, IaaS and PaaS environments, addressing emerging threats as AI agents proliferate. The potential...
New York Times Shakes Up Senior Exec Ranks as It Leans Into Product, Data and AI (Exclusive)
The New York Times announced a senior leadership overhaul as CTO Jason Sobel prepares to leave and a search for a New York‑based successor begins. Alex Hardiman and Hannah Yang were promoted to executive vice presidents, gaining shared oversight of engineering and data...
Hitachi Vantara Topped GigaOm Radar 2026 Object Storage Leader List
Hitachi Vantara was named a Leader and Fast Mover in GigaOm’s 2026 Radar for Object Storage, highlighting its Virtual Storage Platform One Object (VSP One Object) as a top‑tier, software‑defined solution for large enterprises. The analyst endorsement spotlights the platform’s...
Anthropic Plots Lovable Challenger, Leak Suggests
Anthropic is reportedly testing a new in‑chat app‑builder inside Claude that lets users create chatbots, photo albums, and landing pages from simple prompts. If launched, the feature would turn Claude into a full‑stack, no‑code development platform, directly challenging Sweden’s fast‑growing...
Why IBM and Arm Are Partnering up on AI for Mainframes
IBM and Arm announced a strategic collaboration to develop dual‑architecture hardware that lets Arm‑based AI software run on IBM’s mainframe systems. The initial focus is on virtualization solutions that enable AI workloads to execute directly on on‑prem mainframes, bridging legacy...
Next Hunts Head of Data Science for AI Search Shake-Up
UK fashion retailer Next is launching a global search for its first Head of AI and Data Science, based at its Leicestershire headquarters. The role will oversee the intelligence layer serving over 3 million daily customers across 80+ sites and drive...
AI Has to Be Dull Before It Can Be Sexy
Enterprise AI adoption is uneven, driven more by engineering capability than model access. Recent workshops in New York highlighted developers’ appetite for practical skills in data modeling, retrieval, and observability rather than flashy agent demos. The author argues that production‑grade...
Jacqueline DeStefano-Tangorra Appointed to Forbes Technology Council
Jacqueline DeStefano‑Tangorra, President and CTO of DataOps, has been invited to join the Forbes Technology Council, an invitation‑only network for senior CIOs, CTOs and technology leaders. DataOps specializes in building enterprise data platforms, governance frameworks and enabling agentic AI deployments....
How ClearTax Is Using AI Agents to Simplify Tax Filing in India
ClearTax’s CTO Suvesh Malhotra said AI success hinges on culture and infrastructure. After two years of building the GL Stream data platform, the fintech launched AI agents, including a WhatsApp tax‑filing service that helps gig workers file taxes. An internal...
Designing the Agentic AI Enterprise for Measurable Performance
EdgeVerve outlines a production‑grade framework for deploying semi‑autonomous AI agents across enterprise workflows. It stresses starting with business outcomes, decomposing tasks, and building a governed, observable platform that balances autonomy with risk. A finance pilot delivered over $32 million cash‑flow lift,...
Neo4j CTO Highlights Graph Technology as Foundation for Reliable AI
Neo4j CTO Philip Rathle told Fintech Times that graph technology is becoming the backbone for reliable generative AI in finance. He highlighted how knowledge graphs complement large language models by providing deterministic, auditable facts, reducing hallucinations in regulated banking environments....
Pure/AVK Self-Powered Dublin Datacentre Dodges Grid Constraints
Pure Data Centres (PureDC) and AVK‑SEG have finished Europe’s first microgrid‑powered datacentre in Dublin, supplying 54 MW from a hybrid LNG and sustainably sourced hydrotreated vegetable oil (HVO) system. The site achieved 100 % decarbonisation of its natural‑gas use in 2025 by...
What Is Project Houdini? How Amazon Plans to Build Data Centres Faster by Cutting Thousands of Labour Hours
Amazon is rolling out Project Houdini, a modular construction program designed to accelerate data‑centre builds for its AI services. By shifting much of the work off‑site, the company aims to compress the typical 15‑week construction timeline to just two or...
Self Labs Acquires Loam to Build Privacy‑First Identity Infrastructure for the Agentic Internet
Self Labs announced the acquisition of Loam, merging its privacy‑first proof‑of‑humanity platform with Loam's agentic workflow expertise. The deal brings Loam founder Birju Shah on board as COO and positions Self to offer full‑stack identity infrastructure for AI‑driven applications.
Anthropic Introduces Dynamic Looping in Claude Code, Shifting DevOps Monitoring to Event‑Driven AI
Anthropic engineer Noah Zweben announced a dynamic looping feature for Claude Code that lets the AI agent automatically set monitoring intervals or bypass polling entirely. The change turns CI/CD checks into event‑driven workflows, promising faster feedback and fewer wasted cycles...
GitLab Named a 2026 Omdia Universe Leader
GitLab has been named a Leader in the 2026 Omdia Universe for AI‑assisted software development, topping the IDE‑based tools category. The vendor earned best‑in‑class scores in Solution Breadth (100%), Strategy and Innovation (88%) and Core Features (82%), with strong marks...
Precision over Perception: Why Architecture Matters in Benchmarking
VMware’s blog touts a 5.6× pod‑density edge for VCF 9.0 with VKS over Red Hat OpenShift, but the underlying study pits 300 virtual worker nodes against just four bare‑metal OpenShift nodes. Per‑node results tell a different story: OpenShift delivers roughly 1,850 pods...
Swiss Re Hires Former BlackRock Executive to Spearhead AI Transformation
Swiss Re announced the appointment of a senior former BlackRock executive to lead its artificial‑intelligence transformation. The hire is intended to embed AI in underwriting, pricing, risk assessment and claims handling, underscoring the reinsurer’s push toward data‑driven operations.
Anthropic Brings Claude Into Microsoft Word, and Legal Contract Review Leads Its Use Cases
Anthropic launched a public‑beta add‑in that embeds Claude directly into Microsoft Word, showing every AI‑generated edit as a native tracked change. The tool targets legal contract review, financial memo drafting, and iterative editing, and is available to Claude Team ($25 per...
Andrej Karpathy Warns of “AI Psychosis” As Developers Grapple with Rapid Code Generation
Andrej Karpathy, co‑founder of OpenAI and former head of AI at Tesla, posted an essay this week warning that developers are suffering an "AI Psychosis" as generative‑AI tools solve programming problems in minutes. He argues a growing gap between power...
Cursor, Claude Code, and Codex Are Merging Into One AI Coding Stack Nobody Planned
AI coding tools are coalescing into a composable stack rather than consolidating around a single winner. In early April 2026 Cursor released version 3 with an Agents Window that orchestrates parallel AI agents, OpenAI published a Codex plugin that runs inside...
CoreWeave Lands $21 B Meta AI Infrastructure Deal, Stock Jumps
CoreWeave, Inc. announced a multi‑year $21 billion AI‑infrastructure contract with Meta Platforms that runs to December 2032, sending the stock up more than 10% in a single session. The deal expands CoreWeave’s role as a specialist cloud provider for large‑scale AI...
Kia Commits $38 Billion to Manufacturing Overhaul, Targets 4.1 M Global Sales by 2030
Kia Corporation announced a KRW 49 trillion (~$38 billion) investment plan at its 2026 Investor Day, earmarking new Atlas® manufacturing systems for 2028‑29 and expanding its EV lineup to 14 models. The automaker set a 4.13 million‑unit global sales target for 2030, aiming for...
Oscar Health CTO Warns AI Tools Are Inflating Healthcare Costs
Mario Schlosser, chief technology officer of Oscar Health, cautioned that AI-powered transcription tools are driving up medical bills rather than lowering them. A recent study shows AI scribes boosted patient volume by 22% and pushed visit complexity higher, undermining earlier...
Amazon Unveils $200 Billion AI Capex Plan for 2026, Aiming for $15 Billion in AI Revenue
Amazon disclosed a $200 billion capital‑expenditure program focused on artificial intelligence for 2026, with a goal of generating $15 billion in AI‑related revenue. The plan leans on AWS’s soaring AI run‑rate, new custom silicon, and massive power‑capacity expansion.
Capgemini Publishes Playbook for Building and Scaling Global Capability Centers
Capgemini released a detailed guide that outlines concrete steps for multinational firms to create and expand Global Capability Centers (GCCs). The playbook stresses turning legacy back‑office sites into innovation hubs using AI, cloud and automation, and cites real‑world case studies...
Audi Launches $4.4 B Electric Sedan as VW Vows New EV Every Two Weeks in China
Audi unveiled the A6L e-tron, a luxury pure‑electric sedan built at a 30 billion‑yuan ($4.4 bn) plant in Changchun, while Volkswagen announced it will launch a new EV every two weeks in 2026 – its biggest electric‑mobility offensive in China. The moves...
Adeptia Launches Automate 5.2 with MCP Server, Making Enterprise Integrations AI‑Queryable
Adeptia released Automate 5.2, embedding a native Model Context Protocol (MCP) server that lets AI assistants and users query integration environments in natural language. The move aims to turn static data pipelines into observable, conversational systems, improving real‑time visibility for...
Design Agentic UX, Not Just APIs, for B2B Success
Every B2B software company is (or should be) building an agentic version of their product. One that can be used programmatically by agents, not just interactively by humans. But, you can't just wrap your existing APIs into an MCP server...
Stablecoins Poised to Power Global Payments, Prompting CTOs to Rethink Architecture
Investor Stanley Druckenmiller says stablecoins will run the bulk of global payments within the next decade and a half. Bloomberg data shows stablecoin transaction volume hit $33 trillion in 2025 and could reach $56 trillion by 2030, challenging Visa and Mastercard’s legacy...
Scale Gradually: Start Simple, Add Complexity When Needed
Step-1: Use a static web framework to save costs Step-2: Run entire website on a single virtual machine for simplicity Step-3: Split backend & database into separate virtual machines Step-4: Add more availability zones to improve resilience Step-5: Use serverless for infrequent workloads Step-6: Keep...
Amazon Luna Cuts Third‑party Game Purchases, Ends Bring‑Your‑Own Library
Amazon announced that Luna will no longer allow purchases from third‑party stores such as EA, Ubisoft or GOG, and the Bring‑Your‑Own Library feature will end on June 3 2026. Previously bought titles remain streamable only until June 10 2026, after which users must rely...
TAP Real Estate Hires AI Veteran Jeff Jarrard as CTO to Drive New Residential Platform
TAP Real Estate announced the appointment of Jeff Jarrard, a two‑decade AI and cloud veteran from Microsoft and Washington Mutual, as chief technology officer. He will oversee the creation of TAPRealEstate.com, a platform aimed at automating homeowner reporting, property valuation...
Taiwan Accelerates Silicon Photonics and Nanomaterial R&D for AI Chip Power
Taiwan announced a coordinated national effort to fast‑track silicon‑photonic (SiPh) and advanced nanomaterial development, targeting faster, more energy‑efficient AI chips. The move aims to sustain the island’s global semiconductor leadership amid surging AI workloads.
AI Demand Is so High, AWS Customers Are Trying to Buy Out Its Entire Capacity
Amazon Web Services’ AI chip business is experiencing unprecedented demand, with customers attempting to purchase all of the 2026 Graviton capacity. AWS added 3.9 GW of power in 2025 and plans to double its total power capacity by 2027, yet it...
Fusemachines CEO Unveils Agentic AI Roadmap in Shareholder Letter
Fusemachines founder and CEO Dr. Sameer Maskey used a shareholder letter to announce a focused push into agentic AI, highlighting the company’s debt‑free balance sheet and a growth outlook for 2026. The roadmap centers on expanding the AI Studio platform,...
FedEx Freight Adopts AI-Driven Stack for Growth
.@FedEx Freight eyes AI, simplified stack to unlock growth as independent company https://t.co/PzcG5kJdZ4 The technology and AI strategy will simplify operations, reduce customer friction and create an architecture that can leverage AI today as well as future advances. @ldignan
AI Agent Credentials Live in the Same Box as Untrusted Code. Two New Architectures Show Where the Blast Radius Actually...
At RSAC 2026, four security leaders warned that AI agents still operate in monolithic containers where credentials sit alongside executable code, creating a massive blast radius. New architectures from Anthropic and Nvidia aim to impose zero‑trust controls: Anthropic’s Managed Agents split...
Oracle Unveils Fusion Agentic HR Apps, Adding Generative AI to Core Processes
Oracle announced the launch of eight Fusion Agentic Applications for Human Capital Management, embedding coordinated AI agents that can reason, decide, and act within HR workflows. The new suite promises to shift routine HR tasks from manual coordination to proactive...
AWS Launches Bedrock Agent Registry to Tame Enterprise AI Agent Sprawl
Amazon Web Services announced the Bedrock Agent Registry, a managed service that catalogs, governs, and controls AI agents in enterprise environments. The offering aims to curb “agent sprawl,” a growing operational risk as organizations scale generative‑AI workloads, and positions AWS...
Leveraging Heterogeneous Computing Architecture to Power AI Solutions
Intel and Wipro announced a strategic partnership that combines Intel’s heterogeneous computing architecture—Xeon CPUs, GPUs, AMX matrix extensions and Scalable Vector Search—with Wipro’s consulting and integration services to deliver AI solutions from edge devices to the cloud. The collaboration aims...
Intel Secures Google Cloud and AI Infrastructure Deal
Intel and Google have sealed a multi‑year deal to power Google Cloud’s next‑generation AI and general‑purpose workloads with Intel’s upcoming Xeon CPUs and co‑designed infrastructure processing units (IPUs). The partnership extends Google’s deployment of Xeon‑based C4 and N4 instances while...
Pep Boys Names CIO to Drive Technology Strategy
Pep Boys, operating roughly 800 locations in the U.S. and Puerto Rico, appointed Nik Umrani as chief information officer to steer its technology agenda. Umrani, formerly CIO of Novacore and a veteran of Comcast, ADT and Verizon, will craft an end‑to‑end...
Microsoft's Copilot Strategy Is Just More User Abuse From Redmond, Says Mozilla
Mozilla has publicly condemned Microsoft for embedding its Copilot AI across Windows without explicit user consent, labeling the practice as user abuse. In response to mounting criticism, Microsoft announced it will pull Copilot from several built‑in apps such as Snipping...