AWS Elemental MediaTailor now offers two new monetization hooks to customize ad insertion workflows, enabling finer control over ad selection and delivery without additional middleware.
Toronto-based smartARM introduces an AI-powered bionic arm prototype that automatically selects grips for objects, reducing manual steps in daily tasks and enhancing accessibility for users with limb differences.
Atlassian introduces BearQ, an AI agent for Jira that autonomously tests code by integrating directly into workflows, reducing defects and manual handoffs.
Salesforce introduced Koa, an AI reasoning model tailored for enterprise workflows, replacing a general-purpose model to improve consistency and governance in multi-step tasks.
Salesforce expands Missionforce with AI tailored for government agencies, partnering with OpenAI to integrate secure AI models and streamline mission-critical operations.
Anderon, an IBM subsidiary, secured a $1 billion CHIPS Act award to expand its quantum wafer foundry in Albany, New York, aiming to scale manufacturing for superconducting qubit technologies.
Mozilla and Mistral launch a partnership to integrate an open-source AI model into Firefox, expanding user choice and competition in AI-powered browsing across the US, Canada, and France.
TypeSafe AI’s Jev probabilistic decision model is now accessible via Vercel’s AI Gateway, promising faster, cheaper, and structured decision-making for software workflows.
Microsoft partners unveiled a range of new Windows PCs at IFA, showcasing devices for gaming, productivity, AI, and sustainability, alongside tools for developers and creators.
Amazon SageMaker AI now allows users to submit prioritized instance type lists for training and processing jobs, reducing wait times during high-demand periods.
HubSpot acquired AI pipeline platform Warmly to enhance sales workflows, with founder Keegan Otter advocating targeted AI agents over bulk lead generation.
Cloudflare introduces four new scoped roles for Workers to restrict teammate and agent access, limiting actions to specific applications and preventing unintended production changes.
Cloudflare introduces a Disallow AI Training setting to let site owners block AI training while remaining search-indexed, with commitments from Apple, Google, and Microsoft to honor the preference.
Salesforce and Google Cloud announced a unified AI infrastructure and agent framework to break enterprise data silos, enabling cross-platform reasoning and action on shared data without custom integrations.
Salesforce and NVIDIA unveiled Koa, a CRM reasoning model for Agentforce built on NVIDIA Nemotron, designed to handle complex enterprise workflows with fewer errors.
AWS and Salesforce integrate CRM data, AI agents, and model choice into daily tools like Amazon Quick and Slack, enabling real-time voice interactions and zero-copy data access across environments.
Siemens and Salesforce integrate Agentforce with Teamcenter SLM to embed engineering-grade answers directly into industrial sales, service, and customer workflows, accelerating decision-making and revenue growth.
Salesforce introduces AIforce, a live interface layer integrating its platform’s data and logic into any AI tool, enabling agents and users to act on Salesforce information without opening the app.
Vercel’s AI SDK harness layer now authenticates harnesses via native subscriptions when supported, eliminating code changes and enabling seamless agent switching under the same interface.
AWS adds NVIDIA’s Qwen3.6-35B-A3B-NVFP4 and Alibaba’s Wan2.1-T2V-1.3B-Diffusers to SageMaker JumpStart for agentic coding and lightweight text-to-video generation.
AWS now hosts three new foundation models on SageMaker JumpStart: granite-speech-4.1-2b, kanana-2-30b-a3b-instruct, and OpenFold3, expanding AI capabilities for speech, bilingual agents, and biomolecular prediction.
Atlassian has launched an open beta for a rebuilt code search feature in Bitbucket Cloud, offering faster, integrated access to repository code with syntax highlighting and filtering tools.
Atlassian and Gamma integrate to streamline work-to-presentation workflows using AI agents that pull live context from Jira and Confluence, reducing manual effort in creating decks and documents.
Perplexity’s AI agent now runs locally on Windows PCs with NVIDIA RTX GPUs, enabling on-device task automation while optionally tapping cloud models for advanced reasoning.
Salesforce launched a 12-week Missionforce Military Fellowship to help transitioning service members transition military skills into AI and technology careers through training and certifications.
AWS End User Messaging introduces automatic failover in phone pools to improve SMS delivery reliability during downstream disruptions without requiring customer action.
AWS Elemental MediaLive introduces Video Aligned Locking to synchronize video pipelines without source timecode, simplifying frame-accurate stream alignment for digital workflows.
Salesforce integrates real-time data visualization into Slack, allowing teams to create interactive dashboards and reports directly within conversations without leaving the platform.
AWS Lambda now allows explicit control over direct read configurations for Amazon S3 Files, enabling optimized throughput or latency based on application needs without additional cost.
Amazon Bedrock Managed Knowledge Base now supports TwelveLabs Marengo 3.0 for multimodal embeddings, enabling direct video, audio, and image search without transcription reliance.