AI News and Blog Articles
Curated updates from the most trusted sources in artificial intelligence. Stay ahead without the noise.
Top AI News
Hand-picked stories worth reading right now28 articles found
92% of sales teams drop qualified leads every month-here's why follow-ups are breaking down
Zapier surveyed more than 400 B2B sales leaders and found that 92% say their teams lose qualified leads every month because follow-ups arrive late, happen inconsistently, or get forgotten entirely. The gap is not a lack of tools. Most teams already run a CRM, follow-up sequences, and sometimes AI agents, yet leads still slip through. The takeaway for owners is that the breakdown sits in the daily execution between a lead arriving and a rep responding, which is where timing and consistency matter most.

Blue Yonder pushes supply chain AI toward autonomous operations
Blue Yonder, a supply chain management company, is moving its operations toward autonomous AI by deploying AI agents that work alongside humans. In an interview on theCUBE, Chris Burchett, the company's senior vice president of generative AI, explained how Blue Yonder built warehouse, logistics and inventory agents on a single common data model and announced a partnership with Nvidia at its ICON 2026 event. The company is adopting an 'owned intelligence' strategy, training smaller proprietary models to cut token costs while keeping human oversight for governance.

TestSprite launches an open-source command-line tool to help AI agents check their own work
Autonomous artificial intelligence-powered software testing tool TestSprite Inc. today announced that the company has open-sourced its command-line interface tool that allows AI coding agents to verify their own work. As the AI coding revolution has rolled in, autonomous coding tools have become smarter and enabled developers to prompt their way to entire applications overnight. The [...] The post TestSprite launches an open-source command-line tool to help AI agents check their own work appeared first on SiliconANGLE.

Publicis Sapient launches Sustain to transform IT operations with AI-enabled support
Publicis Corp., a global enterprise AI platform and services company, today announced the launch of Sapient Sustain to improve the reliability of information technology operations and managed services using agentic artificial intelligence. As more enterprise companies modernize by scaling AI, IT teams and environments find themselves in a turf war against legacy systems that are separated by [...] The post Publicis Sapient launches Sustain to transform IT operations with AI-enabled support appeared first on SiliconANGLE.

Stop hand-tuning kernels: How Neuron Agentic Development accelerates AWS Trainium optimizations
AWS released Neuron Agentic Development, an open-source set of AI agents and skills that lets developers write, debug, and profile high-performance kernels for AWS Trainium and Inferentia chips using plain language instead of deep hardware expertise. The tools plug into agentic coding environments such as Claude Code and Kiro and walk a developer through the full kernel workflow, from authoring code to finding performance bottlenecks. The aim is to close the long-standing gap between what the hardware promises and what most teams reach in practice.
How to automate Claude with Zapier
You can connect Anthropic's Claude to the rest of your business tools through Zapier, the no-code automation platform that links more than 9,000 apps and supports over 30,000 actions. Instead of typing one prompt at a time, you set up automated workflows, called Zaps, where Claude reads, writes, summarizes, or analyzes content the moment something happens in another app. Zapier offers one-click templates for common jobs such as drafting replies, summarizing feedback, and routing approvals, so non-technical teams set them up without code. Claude Opus 4.8 is available inside Zapier today, alongside Anthropic's newer Mythos model class.
Which AI models can you automate on Zapier? (Opus 4.8, Gemini 3.5 Flash, and more)
Zapier now lets business teams plug a wide menu of AI models into their automated workflows, spanning OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, and specialty providers like Mistral and DeepSeek. To help users pick the right one, Zapier ranks each model with AutomationBench, its own test of how well models complete multi-step business tasks rather than one-off prompts. Anthropic's Claude Fable 5.0 leads the overall leaderboard, with Claude Opus 4.8 and Google's Gemini 3.5 Flash close behind.

Production AI Playbook: Complex Agent Patterns
A new engineering guide from n8n argues that production AI agents break down from missing architecture, not from inherent complexity. It lays out repeatable patterns for the moment a single working agent grows into a tangled multi-agent system that nobody can debug. The four focus areas are orchestrator-to-specialist delegation, sub-workflow composition, memory management across sessions, and structured failure handling, each aimed at keeping growing systems modular, testable, and affordable.
UiPath pricing: Exploring RPA pricing models
Understanding UiPath pricing should take three minutes. It doesn't. Take a few seconds to browse the website, and you'll find a mostly hidden pricing structure filled with attended bots, action center limits, and AI consumption units. If you want any further clarification, buckle in for a sales call. You've decided to bring automation to your team, and that's an endeavor in itself; you shouldn't have to decipher a riddle or decode a licensing manual just to nail down a budget. In this guide, I'

The fully-managed Remote MCP Server for AlloyDB is now Generally Available
AI agents possess incredible reasoning capabilities and can perform increasingly complex actions. But the reliability of agentic outcomes depends entirely on the quality of the context they can access - context that is frequently locked away in operational databases. To bridge this gap, we are excited to announce the Remote Model Context Protocol (MCP) Server for AlloyDB is now generally available. The Model Context Protocol (MCP) is an open-source standard that gives LLMs a secure, consistent way to connect to external data sources. As part of Google Cloud's recent rollout of 50+ Google-manag
NVIDIA AI Cloud Ecosystem Expands Worldwide to Meet Global AI Compute Demand
The NVIDIA AI Cloud ecosystem is accelerating the global buildout of AI factory infrastructure. Partners are expanding capacity to meet growing demand from enterprises, startups, nations, AI labs and developers scaling agentic AI applications. NVIDIA AI Clouds are a growing ecosystem of purpose-built clouds serving the exploding token demand behind today's most popular AI applications. [...]

Nano Banana 2 and Nano Banana Pro are generally available, and already powering creative workflows
Organizations are unlocking entirely new ways to use image generation and editing across their industries. To drive next-generation experiences, businesses are embedding AI directly into creative, agentic workflows. But next-gen workflows require enterprise-grade AI you can trust. What's new: To help customers continue their creative journey securely, we are announcing Nano Banana 2 (Gemini 3.1 Flash Image) and Nano Banana Pro (Gemini 3 Pro Image) are generally available (GA) today via Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform. Backed by enterprise-grade infrastructure and security, these models empowe

AI in SRE: Where and how Google is deploying agentic AI to improve operations
Since its inception over 20 years ago, Google has used Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) to keep services like Search, Gmail, Maps, YouTube and Google Cloud reliable and highly available, adhering to the principles and practices of the reliability-first mindset. Recently though, the emergence of AI has driven multiple step-changes in system complexity. Interactions between components are now more complicated due to a variety of factors: With microservice architectures, systems are distributed across wider geographical locations and data centers that have greater hardware diversity. Enterprise

Introducing Google AI Threat Defense to help you outpace the adversary
aside_block ), ('btn_text', ''), ('href', ''), ('image', None)])]> AI-powered cyber threats have been receiving a lot of attention lately. AI has changed the threat landscape; cybercriminals are using it to find security cracks faster than cybersecurity teams can manually fix them. Attacks that used to take weeks to carry out can now happen in mere hours or days. Organizations need to be able to keep pace and protect themselves against AI agent-driven, high-speed attacks - but they can no longer rely on legacy, manual methods. To defend against this range of threats, organizations need more th

Agentic AI for Robot Teams
This presentation highlights recent efforts at the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory to advance agentic AI for collaborative robotic teams. It begins by framing the core challenges of enabling autonomy, coordination, and adaptability across heterogeneous systems, then introduces a scalable architecture designed to support agentic behaviors in multi-robot environments. The talk concludes with key challenges encountered and practical lessons learned from ongoing research and development. Key learnings Provides an introduction to LLM-based AI Agents Describes an approach to applying LLM-ba

Veeam's big pivot on display at VeeamON 2026
Veeam Software Group GmbH used VeeamON 2026 in New York City this week to punctuate its shift from "the backup company" to a data and artificial intelligence trust platform for the agentic era. With a new architectural layer and an aggressive product roadmap, Chief Executive Anand Eswaran (pictured) and President of Products and Technology Rehan Jalil are betting [...] The post Veeam's big pivot on display at VeeamON 2026 appeared first on SiliconANGLE.

What to expect during KB4-CON: Join theCUBE May 14
Human risk management is becoming a practical measure of enterprise security. The old playbook treated employees as the weak link; the new one has to account for people, AI agents and automated decisions moving through the same workflows. That puts cybersecurity company KnowBe4 in a stronger market conversation: not just training users, but helping enterprises [...] The post What to expect during KB4-CON: Join theCUBE May 14 appeared first on SiliconANGLE.

Exclusive: ClickUp endows its Brain assistant with agentic capabilities
ClickUp, the business name of Mango Technologies Inc., today is introducing what it says is a major overhaul of its Brain artificial intelligence assistant inside its workplace collaboration platform, going beyond answering questions to executing complex work tasks. The update, called Brain2, gives AI models direct contextual access to information stored in ClickUp workspaces and [...] The post Exclusive: ClickUp endows its Brain assistant with agentic capabilities appeared first on SiliconANGLE.

Honeycomb introduces agent observability features to keep an eye on production
Full-stack observability startup Hound Technology Inc., which does business as Honeycomb, introduced a number of new platform updates aimed at investigating artificial intelligence agent activity in production. The new enhanced capabilities provide deeper visibility into what AI agents are doing while they're running, the company said. The enhanced capabilities include Agent Timeline, Canvas Agent and [...] The post Honeycomb introduces agent observability features to keep an eye on production appeared first on SiliconANGLE.

Red Hat expands agentic AI strategy with new inference, automation and sovereignty capabilities
IBM Corp. subsidiary Red Hat today is unveiling a broad set of product and partnership announcements aimed at helping enterprises put artificial intelligence into operation, modernize infrastructure and extend open-source platforms into new environments ranging from software-defined vehicles to computing in space. The announcements at Red Hat Summit in Atlanta extend Linux and container platforms [...] The post Red Hat expands agentic AI strategy with new inference, automation and sovereignty capabilities appeared first on SiliconANGLE.

7 lessons from the first wave of agentic AI deployment: theCUBE + NYSE Wired's AI Agent Conference insights
The enterprise artificial intelligence stack is getting smarter - but is it getting the context it needs to make agentic AI deployment actually work? The defining problem of the agentic era might never have been building the agents. Instead, evidence is mounting that even the most capable AI systems stall without a clear strategic grounding [...] The post 7 lessons from the first wave of agentic AI deployment: theCUBE + NYSE Wired's AI Agent Conference insights appeared first on SiliconANGLE.

AMD and Red Hat target enterprise AI costs with broader compute choice
Enterprise AI adoption has crossed a threshold: The question is no longer whether to invest, but how to do it wisely. As agentic workloads multiply and inference costs rise, AI choice - the ability to match workloads to the right compute rather than defaulting to the most powerful infrastructure available - has become a growing [...] The post AMD and Red Hat target enterprise AI costs with broader compute choice appeared first on SiliconANGLE.

Quiq extends its AI agent platform into voice as enterprise rollouts move past pilots
Artificial intelligence customer service platform provider Quiq Inc. today launched a new voice product and refreshed its brand, betting that customer experience teams are ready to move beyond isolated pilots to scaled production deployments. The new voice capability extends Quiq's platform into real-time spoken conversations to allow customers to move between voice and messaging channels [...] The post Quiq extends its AI agent platform into voice as enterprise rollouts move past pilots appeared first on SiliconANGLE.

Claude Code costs up to $200 a month. Goose does the same thing for free.
The artificial intelligence coding revolution comes with a catch: it's expensive. Claude Code, Anthropic's terminal-based AI agent that can write, debug, and deploy code autonomously, has captured the imagination of software developers worldwide. But its pricing - ranging from $20 to $200 per month depending on usage - has sparked a growing rebellion among the very programmers it aims to serve. Now, a free alternative is gaining traction. Goose, an open-source AI agent developed by Block (the financial technology company formerly known as Square), offers nearly identical functionality to Claud

Salesforce rolls out new Slackbot AI agent as it battles Microsoft and Google in workplace AI
Salesforce on Tuesday launched an entirely rebuilt version of Slackbot, the company's workplace assistant, transforming it from a simple notification tool into what executives describe as a fully powered AI agent capable of searching enterprise data, drafting documents, and taking action on behalf of employees. The new Slackbot, now generally available to Business+ and Enterprise+ customers, is Salesforce's most aggressive move yet to position Slack at the center of the emerging "agentic AI" movement - where software agents work alongside humans to complete complex tasks. The launch comes as S

Anthropic launches Cowork, a Claude Desktop agent that works in your files - no coding required
Anthropic released Cowork on Monday, a new AI agent capability that extends the power of its wildly successful Claude Code tool to non-technical users - and according to company insiders, the team built the entire feature in approximately a week and a half, largely using Claude Code itself. The launch marks a major inflection point in the race to deliver practical AI agents to mainstream users, positioning Anthropic to compete not just with OpenAI and Google in conversational AI, but with Microsoft's Copilot in the burgeoning market for AI-powered productivity tools. "Cowork lets you complete

Nous Research's NousCoder-14B is an open-source coding model landing right in the Claude Code moment
Nous Research, the open-source artificial intelligence startup backed by crypto venture firm Paradigm, released a new competitive programming model on Monday that it says matches or exceeds several larger proprietary systems - trained in just four days using 48 of Nvidia's latest B200 graphics processors. The model, called NousCoder-14B, is another entry in a crowded field of AI coding assistants, but arrives at a particularly charged moment: Claude Code, the agentic programming tool from rival Anthropic, has dominated social media discussion since New Year's Day, with developers posting breat
Addendum to GPT-5 system card: GPT-5-Codex
This addendum to the GPT-5 system card shares a new model: GPT-5-Codex, a version of GPT-5 further optimized for agentic coding in Codex. GPT-5-Codex adjusts its thinking effort more dynamically based on task complexity, responding quickly to simple conversational queries or small tasks, while independently working for longer on more complex tasks.