Google Says Code Assist can now Deploy AI Agents
A new Kanban board interface helps track work and manage progress more effectively.
Google Plans to Capture the Inference Market with IronWood
Ironwood is Google’s seventh-generation TPU (Tensor Processing Unit)
Microsoft is Now the Most Valuable Company in the World
Last year, NVIDIA briefly overtook Apple to become the world’s most valuable company, though its time at the top was short-lived.
Alexa Has an AI Sibling: Meet Nova Sonic, Amazon’s Next-Gen Voice Model
Amazon also unveiled another model - Nova Reel 1.1, an upgraded model for text-to-video generation
Meta Unveils Llama 4 Scout and Maverick: Open-Weight Multimodal Models Built for Performance and Scale
Both models were distilled from Llama 4 Behemoth, a larger unreleased model with 288 billion active parameters.
Amazon Unveils Nova Act SDK, an AI Agent for Automating Web-Based Tasks
Amazon’s Nova Act SDK will directly compete with OpenAI’s Operator and Anthropic’s Computer Use.
Google Slides Integrates Imagen 3 for AI-Powered Image Generation and New Productivity Features
Users can also create images in different aspect ratios (19:6, 16:9, 1:1) using the new "Create an image" feature.
Google Releases Gemini 2.5, Its Most Intelligent AI Model So Far
The Gemini 2.5 "thinking model" outperforms other leading models, including OpenAI's o3 mini, GPT-4.5, DeepSeek-R1, Grok 3, and Claude 3.7 Sonnet
Microsoft Launches AI Sales Agents for Microsoft 365 Copilot
The new AI agents will work directly within Microsoft 365 Copilot and Microsoft 365 Copilot Chat.
AWS Unveils New Group Focused on Agentic AI to Drive Automation
The upcoming release of Alexa will showcase some of the new Agentic AI capabilities.
Meta is Planning a Phone App for Llama to Rival ChatGPT
The app could debut as early as the next fiscal quarter (April-June).
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Salesforce Miss Revenue Estimates, Agentforce Adoption Lags
The company's fourth-quarter revenue came in at $9.99 billion, missing a consensus estimate of $10.04 billion.