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Boomi makes its AI control plane case: theCUBE’s Boomi World keynote analysis

Emile Louw — Wed, 13 May 2026 18:49:36 +0000

The AI arms race has a new front, and it isn’t the battle over individual models — it’s war for the entire AI control plane. That theme was front and center at Boomi World in Chicago, where Boomi LP Chief Executive Officer Steve Lucas spent two hours on stage steering the conversation away from model hype […]

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AI ambition is crashing into a decade of deferred IT maintenance, says Red Hat CEO

Jonathan Anthony — Wed, 13 May 2026 16:35:28 +0000

Enterprise AI infrastructure modernization has reached a critical crossroads as organizations grapple with decades of technical debt while facing intense pressure to deploy AI — and returning to IT fundamentals is now the only viable path forward. Nowhere is that collision more visible than at the intersection of platform engineering and AI-driven infrastructure, where organizations […]

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Veeam’s big pivot on display at VeeamON 2026

Zeus Kerravala — Wed, 13 May 2026 15:46:45 +0000

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 […]

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Red Hat and Intel spotlight scalable AI inference as enterprises move beyond the GPU gold rush

Ryan Stevens — Wed, 13 May 2026 13:52:35 +0000

As companies move from testing AI to broader adoption, the biggest challenge is building scalable AI inference systems that perform without breaking the budget. The next wave of AI won’t be won on raw power alone — it will be decided by who can do more with less. When AI inference first took off, the […]

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Exclusive: AirOps targets emerging AI search market with autonomous content optimization agent

Paul Gillin — Wed, 13 May 2026 12:30:44 +0000

AirOps, the business name of Rivington Labs Inc., today introduced Quill, an artificial intelligence agent designed to help brands maintain visibility in generative AI search engines by continuously monitoring, updating and creating content. The San Francisco-based startup is building its business on the broader shift from traditional search engine optimization to what is increasingly being […]

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Sam Altman testifies in landmark OpenAI trial, says Musk wanted control of company

James Farrell — Wed, 13 May 2026 02:32:09 +0000

OpenAI Group PBC co-founder and Chief Executive Sam Altman faced the witness stand today in the high-stakes trial that could determine the future of the company. Elon Musk is suing the company and its leaders, alleging that Altman and OpenAI president Greg Brockman betrayed the founding mission to serve humanity by turning a nonprofit into […]

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Celonis buys decision-intelligence startup Ikigai Labs to provide operational context for enterprise AI

Mike Wheatley — Wed, 13 May 2026 02:20:51 +0000

Process mining software company Celonis SE said today it has snapped up the Massachusetts Institute of Technology-linked decision intelligence startup Ikigai Labs Inc., planning to use it to power a new “context model” developed by Celonis that’s designed to function as a real-time digital twin of its customers’ business operations. Celonis says enterprises are facing a […]

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Nebius snaps up Clarifai’s compute orchestration tech and talent to enhance AI inference

Mike Wheatley — Wed, 13 May 2026 01:11:35 +0000

Dutch artificial intelligence infrastructure giant Nebius Group N.V. said today it’s recruiting the core engineering team from AI orchestration software firm Clarifai Inc. in an effort to boost its managed inference services. As part of the deal, Nebius is also snapping up Clarifai’s portfolio of patents and licensing its inference and compute orchestration technology, the […]

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CME Group and Silicon Data to launch AI compute futures market

Mike Wheatley — Wed, 13 May 2026 00:22:08 +0000

Silicon Data, the startup that provides market intelligence for artificial intelligence compute infrastructure, will provide the price indexes for a new futures market that will allow investors to hedge their bets on the semiconductor industry. CME Group’s new “compute futures market” will give investors the opportunity to bet on the price of renting cloud-based computing […]

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Google debuts Gemini Intelligence automation features, Googlebook laptop series

Maria Deutscher — Tue, 12 May 2026 23:31:46 +0000

Google LLC is upgrading its consumer device portfolio with a set of Android features called Gemini Intelligence and a new laptop series. The company debuted the products today during a virtual event called The Android Show. It also introduced new mobile security capabilities designed to protect users from malicious apps, device theft and attempts to […]

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What to expect during KB4-CON: Join theCUBE May 14

Chad Wilson — Tue, 12 May 2026 21:43:10 +0000

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 […]

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What to expect during Dell Technologies World: Join theCUBE May 18-20

Mark Albertson — Tue, 12 May 2026 20:27:54 +0000

Following a multiyear journey to advance its artificial intelligence agenda, Dell Technologies Inc. is arriving at a moment it has long been preparing for: the AI factory as the next model for enterprise infrastructure. Dell has been building toward this moment based on a belief that artificial intelligence would lead to a fundamental shift in […]

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AI’s easy on-ramp has become a costly exit problem for enterprises, says Red Hat

Kelly Knight — Tue, 12 May 2026 20:12:30 +0000

As enterprises push AI beyond the pilot stage, the cost and complexity of running inference at scale are forcing a fundamental rethink of how infrastructure is designed, governed and sourced, putting horizontal cloud — one shared foundation for running workloads across the enterprise — at the center of AI strategy. The open hybrid cloud model […]

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Vapi nabs $50M to make voice AI more human

Kyt Dotson — Tue, 12 May 2026 17:20:01 +0000

Voice artificial intelligence startup Vapi Inc. said today it has raised $50 million in new funding to change the way people talk to computers, experience phone calls and interact with customer support. Vapi builds voice AI infrastructure, the middleware that connects AI models, such as OpenAI Group PBC’s GPT and Anthropic PBC’s Claude models to voice-to-text and text-to-voice engines. It allows low-delay […]

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Exclusive: ClickUp endows its Brain assistant with agentic capabilities

Paul Gillin — Tue, 12 May 2026 17:00:55 +0000

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 […]

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AWS Kiro accelerates software development by proving code correctness before it gets to work

Mike Wheatley — Tue, 12 May 2026 17:00:10 +0000

Amazon Web Services Inc. is trying to get rid of the bottleneck between architectural planning and code execution with a number of upgrades to its artificial intelligence software development tool Kiro. The upgrades, which are all rolling out today, include Parallel Task Execution and streamlined Quick Plan workflow capabilities designed to help developers move faster. […]

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IBM’s enterprise AI strategy makes trust and control the production test

Chad Wilson — Tue, 12 May 2026 15:59:32 +0000

Before artificial intelligence can scale, governed enterprise AI has to prove it can be trusted. As companies move from pilots to production, the real test is whether platforms can bring automation, trusted data and operational control into messy business environments without creating more risk than value. That shift gives IBM Corp. a practical opening as […]

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White Circle raises $11M to help companies secure and monitor AI model behavior

Kyt Dotson — Tue, 12 May 2026 15:45:27 +0000

Artificial intelligence guardrail and monitoring startup Pumpkin Intelligence Inc., which operates as White Circle, announced today it raised $11 million in seed funding from a who’s who of AI leadership after its founder showed it was possible to break most models with a single prompt. Some of the biggest names in the industry joined the round, including OpenAI Group PBC Head of Developer Experience Romain Huet; Dirk […]

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Google Cloud sees its marketplace as the launchpad for the agentic enterprise

Kelly Knight — Tue, 12 May 2026 15:39:41 +0000

Enterprise software buyers are moving fast — and they’re no longer shopping the way they used to. The shift toward platform-centric, outcome-driven procurement is accelerating the new agentic reality that’s transforming how work gets done, creating a rare window for companies that have positioned themselves at the intersection of distribution and autonomous AI. As Google […]

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Honeycomb introduces agent observability features to keep an eye on production

Kyt Dotson — Tue, 12 May 2026 13:01:55 +0000

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 […]

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New Signadot skill lets Claude Code, Codex and Cursor validate changes in live Kubernetes environments

Duncan Riley — Tue, 12 May 2026 13:00:20 +0000

Microservices testing company Signadot Inc. today launched /signadot-validate, a new skill that lets coding agents such as Anthropic PBC’s Claude Code, OpenAI Group PBC’s Codex and Cursor validate their own changes against production-like Kubernetes environments before handing code back to developers. The skill is designed to close what Signadot calls the “agent loop” in cloud-native […]

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SAP recasts Joule as the front door to autonomous enterprise AI

Kyt Dotson — Tue, 12 May 2026 12:30:26 +0000

SAP SE today introduced at Sapphire 2026, the company’s annual conference, what it calls Autonomous Enterprise, a suite of artificial intelligence tools and agents designed to enhance how humans and AI work together. The announcements are built on SAP Business AI Platform, a new governed foundation for building and deploying enterprise AI grounded in business […]

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Red Hat expands agentic AI strategy with new inference, automation and sovereignty capabilities

Paul Gillin — Tue, 12 May 2026 12:00:46 +0000

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 […]

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Thinking Machines drops a new, highly responsive model designed for humanlike interactions in real time

Mike Wheatley — Tue, 12 May 2026 00:59:39 +0000

Thinking Machines Lab Inc., the artificial intelligence research startup founded by former OpenAI Group PBC Chief Technology Officer Mira Murati, wants to move beyond the era of “turn-based” AI interactions. The company has just announced a research preview of its first “interaction models,” which are a new class of multimodal AI systems designed to avoid […]

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7 lessons from the first wave of agentic AI deployment: theCUBE + NYSE Wired’s AI Agent Conference insights

Emile Louw — Tue, 12 May 2026 00:37:02 +0000

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 […]

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OpenAI launches professional services business with $4B investment

Maria Deutscher — Mon, 11 May 2026 20:47:49 +0000

OpenAI Group PBC today unveiled a new business unit, The OpenAI Deployment Company, that will help companies adopt its artificial intelligence models. The subsidiary is launching with $4 billion in funding from the ChatGPT developer and more than a dozen other backers. The biggest external investor is asset manager TPG. SoftBank Group Corp., Bain Capital, […]

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AMD and Red Hat target enterprise AI costs with broader compute choice

Kelly Knight — Mon, 11 May 2026 20:15:45 +0000

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 […]

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On theCUBE Pod: IBM Think goes AI first and Musk buries the hatchet with Anthropic

Devony Hof — Mon, 11 May 2026 14:55:29 +0000

IBM Think saw Big Blue grab its place in the artificial intelligence spotlight. In a week full of notable, and surprising, AI news, IBM Think saw CEO Arvind Krishna emphasize AI as the operating model of the future while positioning IBM’s platform as a control plane for AI and quantum infrastructure. The rise of the […]

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Quiq extends its AI agent platform into voice as enterprise rollouts move past pilots

Duncan Riley — Mon, 11 May 2026 14:15:14 +0000

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 […]

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AIR, ARR and AI: Inside RingCentral’s transformation into an AI-first engagement platform

Zeus Kerravala — Sat, 09 May 2026 03:54:15 +0000

RingCentral Inc.‘s latest quarter shows a company that has quietly turned artificial intelligence from a future story into its primary engine for product differentiation, operational leverage and, increasingly, growth. What started as a unified-communications-as-a-service provider is evolving into an AI-first customer engagement platform, with RingCentral AIR and related products at the front door of every conversation. Steady top […]

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