Amazon launches Alexa for Shopping as Rufus moves behind the scenes
Amazon has introduced Alexa for Shopping, combining its Rufus shopping chatbot with Alexa+ across its app, website, and Echo Show devices. The assistant can answer product questions, compare items, track prices, and support shopping reminders. It can also handle scheduled shopping actions and eligible automated purchases. The company said Alexa for Shopping combines Rufus’ product […]
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JBS Dev: On imperfect data and the AI last mile – from model capability to cost sustainability
Joe Rose, president at strategic technology provider JBS Dev, wants to cut through one of the myths of working with generative and agentic AI systems. “It’s a common misconception that your data has to be perfect before you do any of these types of workloads,” he explains. As a recent article in AI Fieldbook outlines, […]
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Bain sees US$100 billion SaaS market in agentic AI automation
Bain & Company has estimated a US$100 billion market in the US for SaaS companies using agentic AI. The firm said the market is tied to automating coordination work in enterprise systems. The estimate comes from the second report in Bain’s five-part series on the software industry in the age of AI. The report examines […]
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Google made agentic AI governance a product. Enterprises still have to catch up.
Two weeks ago at Google Cloud Next ’26 in Las Vegas, Google did something the enterprise AI industry has been dancing around for the better part of two years: it made agentic AI governance a native product feature, not an afterthought. The centrepiece announcement was the Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform, pitched as the successor to Vertex AI […]
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SAP: How enterprise AI governance secures profit margins
According to SAP, enterprise AI governance secures profit margins by replacing statistical guesses with deterministic control. Ask a consumer-grade model to count the words in a document, and it will often miss the mark by ten percent. Manos Raptopoulos, Global President of Customer Success Europe, APAC, Middle East & Africa at SAP, observes that the […]
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What LG and NVIDIA’s talks reveal about the future of physical AI
LG is currently engaged in exploratory discussions with NVIDIA concerning physical AI, data centres, and mobility. Following a meeting in Seoul between LG CEO Ryu Jae-cheol and Madison Huang, Senior Director of Product Marketing for Omniverse and Robotics at NVIDIA, the core operational dependencies required to run complex automated systems are becoming apparent. While the […]
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Big Tech just proved AI infrastructure spending works. Then it raised the bill anyway
Every cloud beat. Every capex forecast rose. That is the two-sentence summary of the biggest earnings day of 2026, and it tells you almost everything you need to know about where Big Tech’s AI infrastructure spending actually stands right now. Microsoft, Alphabet, Meta, and Amazon collectively committed somewhere between US$630 billion and US$650 billion in […]
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IDC: How EMEA CIOs can jumpstart AI rollouts
Getting stalled enterprise AI rollouts in the EMEA region moving again will require CIOs to aggressively audit their systems. Over the past 18 months, AI deployments across Europe advanced far beyond initial testing. Companies poured capital into large language models and machine learning, expecting heavy operational upgrades. IDC research reveals that boards are slowing down, […]
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IBM launches AI platform Bob to regulate SDLC costs
To regulate software delivery costs and SDLC governance, IBM is launching Bob, an AI platform built to anchor enterprise engineering. Accumulated technical debt, hybrid cloud structures, and rigid compliance requirements clash with the raw speed of coding assistants. Without boundaries, they generate unmanaged liabilities rather than functional progress. Dinesh Nirmal, SVP at IBM Software, explained: […]
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Kakao Mobility details Level 4 autonomous driving roadmap for physical AI
Kakao Mobility has set out plans to develop Level 4 autonomous driving technologies in-house as part of its physical AI strategy. Kim Jin-kyu, vice president and head of Kakao Mobility’s Physical AI division, presented the roadmap at the 2026 World IT Show conference at COEX in Seoul. His session focused on autonomous driving services built […]
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