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Companies are rethinking the contact center to deliver outcomes — and empathy — at scale

Jonathan Anthony — Fri, 15 May 2026 19:44:30 +0000

Contact center AI transformation is accelerating in financial services as new innovations close the gap between surface-level metrics and genuine customer understanding in high-stakes interactions. For companies handling deeply personal products — health savings accounts, retirement rollovers, flexible spending plans — the stakes of a poor customer experience go beyond satisfaction scores. These are lifecycle […]

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Three insights you might have missed from theCUBE’s coverage of Google Cloud Next

Manny Veiga — Mon, 04 May 2026 21:27:18 +0000

The race for AI dominance is about more than which model will reign supreme. The real action is happening underneath the surface, where hyperscalers such as Google LLC are focused on the infrastructure and the data pipelines that models run on — especially as agentic AI infrastructure becomes the true battleground for enterprise scale. In […]

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Agentic development demands a multi-model strategy — and the governance to match

Tristan Foster — Mon, 04 May 2026 17:34:05 +0000

The rapid rise of agentic development has radically transformed the software engineering landscape, compelling enterprises to embrace a multi-model AI ecosystem. The pace of change in software development has outstripped even the most optimistic predictions, leaving enterprises scrambling to keep up. To optimize workflows but avoid provider lock-in, organizations must empower developers to seamlessly orchestrate […]

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Google and PwC are closing the enterprise AI trust gap one agent at a time

Tristan Foster — Mon, 04 May 2026 17:22:49 +0000

The race to capture tangible AI value – and to extract a genuine return on investment – has officially moved from isolated experiments to the core of enterprise operations. As enterprises turn to agentic solutions to solve business problems, success now hinges on striking a balance between rapid deployment and unwavering trust. That balance is […]

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The model wars are over. Now, Google is fighting for something bigger

Kelly Knight — Thu, 30 Apr 2026 16:44:04 +0000

Whoever controls the agentic control plane controls enterprise AI. Google LLC just showed up to that fight with everything it has. The company claiming it can own the full stack arrived at Google Cloud Next 2026 firing on all cylinders, including unveiling the new Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform — but the deeper story was about how that […]

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No more waiting: Enterprise AI transformation has become the top CEO mandate

Thomas Godwin — Thu, 30 Apr 2026 14:34:24 +0000

Enterprise AI transformation is clearing the proof-of-concept stage for many organizations, with execution at scale becoming the new challenge that IT departments alone can’t handle. Governance, talent and organizational structure are required to meet C-suite mandates, according to Daniel Prager (pictured, right), global partner development lead for Google Cloud at Slalom Consulting LLC, a global […]

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Google Cloud is rebuilding the enterprise stack for the age of agents

Tristan Foster — Thu, 30 Apr 2026 14:25:56 +0000

Google Cloud is assembling an ambitious agentic enterprise stack it believes will close the gap between AI ambition and real business outcomes. But the transition from traditional, linear workflows to autonomous systems requires a shift in how organizations view their entire operating model. The focus is no longer incremental automation — it’s building an integrated […]

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Inside Deloitte and Elevance Health’s push to keep humans at the center of AI-driven care

Kelly Knight — Wed, 29 Apr 2026 21:51:34 +0000

As AI transforms healthcare operations, the industry’s most consequential challenge has shifted from building models to deploying them responsibly in regulated workflows where trust, accuracy and human judgment must coexist. This is where human-centered AI healthcare becomes essential, ensuring automation supports faster decisions without displacing the expertise and empathy required in care-related workflows. The challenge is […]

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Enterprises turn to runtime security to close the agentic AI trust gap

Kelly Knight — Wed, 29 Apr 2026 21:43:21 +0000

As enterprises push agentic AI out of the proof-of-concept phase and into production, AI runtime security — the ability to enforce policy at the exact moment an agent acts — is proving to be the bedrock that makes autonomous systems safe enough to trust. The shift from cloud-native to AI-native is accelerating across every business […]

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AI is propelling enterprises toward digital workforces, signaling a leadership overhaul

Ryan Stevens — Wed, 29 Apr 2026 19:59:07 +0000

Generative AI is rapidly reshaping how organizations operate, shifting the focus from standalone tools to integrated digital workforces. As adoption accelerates, AI leaders must now balance speed with the deep cultural and organizational transformation required to realize its full potential. The current market reality is underpinned by the fact that AI fundamentally changes how vendors […]

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‘The transformation is the product’: Google and PwC take aim at the enterprise AI scaling gap

Jonathan Anthony — Wed, 29 Apr 2026 19:34:53 +0000

AI scaling challenges are intensifying as enterprises continue commiting serious budgets. However, cultural and structural barriers — not technology — are now the biggest obstacle to closing the gap between experimentation and production. The forces responsible for that gap are converging at once. AI tooling is advancing faster than most organizations can adopt it, legacy […]

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Enterprises are not running out of AI ambition — they are running out of time to act on it

Jonathan Anthony — Tue, 28 Apr 2026 20:43:30 +0000

Enterprise AI transformation has a new home: the boardroom. Across financial services, CEOs are now demanding results, not more roadmaps. As Google Cloud Next 2026 packed Las Vegas with announcements — from the Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform to eighth-generation Tensor Processing Units — a clear theme emerged among systems integration partners: The era of tinkering is […]

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With agents on the rise, is the ‘modern’ data stack already legacy infrastructure?

Thomas Godwin — Tue, 28 Apr 2026 20:37:52 +0000

The modern data stack might already be the new legacy. In response, Google Cloud is rebuilding for a world where AI agents — not humans — are the primary users of data infrastructure, unveiling an agentic data platform called Agentic Data Cloud designed for that new era. This is a fundamentally different architecture, according to […]

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The Google-Anthropic partnership made trust the strategy behind a $30B run rate

Jonathan Anthony — Tue, 28 Apr 2026 12:06:01 +0000

Google LLC and Anthropic PBC are two of the most powerful forces shaping enterprise AI. As agentic deployments demand platforms that are both capable and safe to build on, the Google-Anthropic partnership is fast becoming the model others are measured against. Google and Anthropic have spent three years building one of the most consequential partnerships […]

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Cloud cost optimization becomes an enterprise mandate as AI bills spiral

Jonathan Anthony — Mon, 27 Apr 2026 20:28:58 +0000

As AI rapidly rewrites enterprise economics, cloud cost optimization has become essential for preventing budgets from collapsing under AI workloads, enabling organizations to slash expenses and redirect engineering talent from reactive firefighting to higher-value innovation. Nordstrom Inc. learned that lesson firsthand after migrating its data warehouse to Google Cloud LLC’s BigQuery, a move that exposed […]

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‘You can’t make great decisions without good data’: How fragmented data blocks enterprise AI success

Thomas Godwin — Mon, 27 Apr 2026 20:21:08 +0000

Without trusted data as the foundation, even the most sophisticated models will produce outcomes that enterprises can’t act on with confidence. As a matter of fact, enterprises are paying a steep price because of fragmented, problematic data stores, according to Alyson Welch (pictured), chief revenue officer at Reltio Inc., a cloud-native master management company. Organizations […]

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You can’t prompt your way out of complexity: Why enterprise AI is turning to process intelligence

Jonathan Anthony — Mon, 27 Apr 2026 12:55:54 +0000

As enterprises navigate the complexities of scaling AI initiatives, the agentic AI blueprint for success lies in combining deep process intelligence with powerful cloud platforms, enabling organizations such as Genpact Ltd. to transform finance and operations workflows through reimagined processes and effective partner ecosystems. That convergence defines the moment the industry finds itself in as […]

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Agentic AI gives CPG brands a real-time edge on marketing spend and product testing

Jonathan Anthony — Mon, 27 Apr 2026 12:50:58 +0000

Consumer packaged goods companies face mounting pressure to grow profitably while operating on razor-thin margins — and agentic AI is emerging as the tool that can close the gap between fragmented data and real-time marketing outcomes. The sector has long relied on weeks-long campaign measurement cycles, disconnected consumer data and costly physical test markets to […]

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Healthcare AI is converging tech and marketing — and rewriting the CMO role in the process

Kelly Knight — Mon, 27 Apr 2026 12:35:45 +0000

AI-native healthcare has arrived, with the convergence of cloud infrastructure and intelligent data rewriting how insurance companies engage members, run campaigns and measure business outcomes. The rules of competition are changing faster than most organizations can absorb — and the real question isn’t whether the technology is ready. It’s whether the leaders are. That convergence […]

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How real-time data pipelines are giving AI agents something worth acting on

Kelly Knight — Mon, 27 Apr 2026 12:24:51 +0000

As enterprises race to wire AI into their operations, the infrastructure bottleneck has shifted from model capability to data access — and the enterprises winning the race are those treating real-time data pipelines as a first-class architectural concern. Agents are only as intelligent as their underlying data substrate, and batch-based architectures built for yesterday’s dashboards […]

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The AI agent race will be won by companies that build the right data foundation

Jonathan Anthony — Mon, 27 Apr 2026 12:01:48 +0000

The agentic AI boom has an inconvenient truth: Without a solid data foundation, the revolution stops before it starts. Conversations surrounding an emergent agent control plane signal that agentic AI is maturing — but the enterprises best positioned to capitalize are those that did the unglamorous data work years before the hype arrived. That divide between prepared […]

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Covered California and Deloitte tap Google AI to put the human touch back into public health

Kelly Knight — Fri, 24 Apr 2026 19:46:25 +0000

Public sector organizations are at an inflection point, one where the combination of domain-specific data and agentic enterprise intelligence is producing measurable, life-changing outcomes for the populations they serve — outcomes that legacy manual workflows could never achieve at scale. Covered California, the U.S.’s largest state-based health insurance marketplace serving more than 16 million enrolled […]

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Small businesses are the backbone of the economy. Now, Google wants them to be AI’s next frontier

Kelly Knight — Fri, 24 Apr 2026 18:42:55 +0000

For years, AI conversations at major tech events centered almost exclusively on large enterprises, leaving small and medium-sized businesses on the margins of a transformation reshaping the global economy. That dynamic is now shifting fast, as SMB AI adoption moves from cautious pilots to real workflow integration. SMBs collectively represent the backbone of the U.S. […]

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OpenText and Google target the data layer gap holding back enterprise agentic AI

Ryan Stevens — Fri, 24 Apr 2026 18:21:25 +0000

Organizations racing to deploy agentic AI are discovering that raw model performance is only part of the equation — context engineering is the key to managing decades of unstructured, ungoverned data trapped inside legacy information management systems. As Google Cloud Next 2026 signals a complete pivot toward the agentic enterprise, the deeper question for IT leaders […]

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DDN and Google Cloud are redefining AI storage infrastructure for the agentic era

Jonathan Anthony — Fri, 24 Apr 2026 17:29:16 +0000

As enterprises pivot from AI experimentation to production deployment, AI storage infrastructure is emerging as the critical bottleneck determining whether massive chip investments deliver real returns. The central challenge for running large-scale AI workloads has shifted from building models to keeping the accelerators that run them fully fed. GPU and tensor processing unit utilization rates […]

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Defenders strike back: AI-native security is closing the gap on adversaries

Kelly Knight — Fri, 24 Apr 2026 17:22:55 +0000

As AI accelerates enterprise transformation, it is simultaneously widening the attack surface organizations must defend — and compressing the time defenders have to respond. The convergence of geopolitical tension, AI-powered adversaries and a surging wave of agent deployments has pushed agentic defense to the center of enterprise security strategy. The old playbook of manual detection […]

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‘It will be different within weeks’: Why enterprises must build for replacement, not permanence

Kelly Knight — Fri, 24 Apr 2026 12:24:49 +0000

Enterprise AI deployments are accelerating, but the velocity of change in models, tools and platforms is quietly creating a new and costly trap: costly failure to build for AI architectural replaceability. As Google Cloud Next 2026 confirms that agentic AI has become the organizing logic for the entire Google LLC product portfolio, the harder question […]

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Enterprises are leaving major AI customer experience gains on the table

Thomas Godwin — Thu, 23 Apr 2026 22:35:03 +0000

Enterprises are investing heavily in AI customer experience, but many experiments are stalling out before ever going live. The culprit is a confidence gap, according to Chris Mina (pictured), chief product and technology officer at LivePerson Inc. Organizations build compelling proof-of-concept workflows and run successful demos, but freeze up when edge cases materialize or legal […]

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Enterprises are learning that the assumptions that powered the cloud era are no longer enough

Kelly Knight — Thu, 23 Apr 2026 22:04:11 +0000

The agentic AI era is forcing a fundamental redesign of enterprise infrastructure — not just in the cloud, but all the way to the on-premises data center. Regulated industries, governments and enterprises with strict data sovereignty requirements are now demanding AI-ready infrastructure that can run frontier models locally without surrendering control of their data. The […]

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Google Cloud databases are being rebuilt for the age of AI agents

Emile Louw — Thu, 23 Apr 2026 21:44:06 +0000

AI agents depend on the quality and accessibility of the data behind them, placing Google Cloud databases at the center of that equation. The agentic data cloud introduced at Google Cloud Next 2026 underscores Google’s push to position its databases as the foundation of AI-driven enterprise architecture. Models are advancing, but without enterprise data, they […]

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