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Dynatrace Makes $915M Bet on AI Observability With Arize Deal
Dynatrace is making a $915 million bet that traditional application observability and AI observability are about to become the same problem. The company has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Arize, bringing together Dynatrace’s application and infrastructure monitoring capabilities with technology designed specifically to evaluate models, LLM applications and AI agents. The transaction is expected…
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NVIDIA Backs Massive Ohio AI Factory With OpenAI as Customer
NVIDIA is moving beyond supplying the chips inside AI data centers. It is increasingly helping secure the infrastructure around them. The company has reached an agreement with SB Energy covering the PORTS-Pike Technology Campus in Pike County, Ohio, where NVIDIA will become the exclusive AI compute infrastructure provider and OpenAI will be the customer. The…
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Broadcom Makes Private AI a Bigger Part of VMware’s Future
Broadcom is making its priorities for VMware increasingly difficult to miss. Private cloud is the foundation. AI is becoming one of the workloads it wants enterprises to run on top of it. That strategy will be front and center at VMware Explore 2026, scheduled for August 31 through September 3 at The Venetian Convention and…
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Fortinet Acquires Virtue AI to Expand Security for AI Agents
Fortinet is expanding its security stack deeper into artificial intelligence with the acquisition of Virtue AI, adding technology designed to continuously test and protect AI models, applications and autonomous agents. The deal brings Virtue AI’s runtime protection, automated AI validation and agent security technology into the Fortinet AI-Native Security Fabric. Financial terms were not disclosed.…
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66% of Small Businesses Now Use AI, but 70% Say They Need More Training
Small businesses are adopting artificial intelligence faster than they are learning how to use it. That is the central finding from Thryv’s 2026 AI and Small Business Adoption Survey, which found AI adoption among U.S. small businesses has climbed to 66%, up from 55% one year earlier. But 70% of respondents said they need more…
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Intuit Targets CFOs With New AI-Powered Accounting and Finance Tools
Intuit is pushing artificial intelligence deeper into the daily work of CFOs and accounting teams, adding conversational analytics, automated bookkeeping and expanded enterprise capabilities across Intuit Enterprise Suite and QuickBooks Online Advanced. At the center of the expansion is Intuit Intelligence Chat, a conversational interface that allows finance professionals to query company performance, identify anomalies,…
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Microsoft Research Unveils CARE-X AI for More Accurate Radiology Analysis
Microsoft Research has introduced CARE-X, an experimental radiology vision-language model designed to tackle a fundamental problem with medical AI: producing language that sounds clinically convincing is not the same thing as producing information clinicians can trust. CARE-X combines generative AI with structured predictions, confidence scores, visual grounding and reinforcement learning designed around clinical correctness. On…
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CrowdStrike Expands AI Security to SMBs Through MSPs and Distributors
CrowdStrike is expanding Project QuiltWorks to small and midsize businesses, extending a cybersecurity framework built around frontier AI vulnerability discovery beyond large enterprises. The expansion brings Arrow Electronics, Ignition Technology, Nord Security, Pax8, TD SYNNEX, Westcon-Comstor and Zip Security into the initiative, using their distribution and managed service networks to reach SMB customers worldwide. It…
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IBM and OpenAI Bring GPT-5.6 to Enterprise Workflows and IT
IBM and OpenAI are forming a strategic partnership aimed at moving generative AI deeper into the core systems and workflows that run large enterprises. The agreement brings OpenAI frontier models including GPT-5.6, along with Codex and ChatGPT Work, into IBM Consulting Advantage, IBM’s AI-powered consulting delivery platform. IBM is also creating a dedicated OpenAI Practice…
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Oracle AI Database@AWS Expands With Exadata and New AI Capabilities
Oracle and AWS are deepening their cloud database partnership as enterprises look for ways to bring artificial intelligence closer to the business data already sitting inside mission-critical Oracle systems. The companies have signed an expanded long-term strategic collaboration agreement aimed at accelerating migrations to Oracle AI Database@AWS, which is now available across 22 AWS Regions.…