Nvidia launches Nemotron 3 Super to power enterprise AI agents

Nvidia has introduced a new reasoning-focused AI model that combines multiple neural network architectures in a bid to improve how enterprise systems handle complex tasks and automation. The company said its Nemotron 3 Super model combines Mamba sequence modeling, transformer attention, and Mixture-of-Experts routing to support so-called “agentic” AI systems that can plan and execute…

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Databricks buys Quotient AI to boost enterprise‑grade AI agent performance

Databricks has acquired Quotient AI, a provider of AI agent evaluation and training software, to help enterprises scale AI agents in production more reliably. “Quotient AI was built to close the gap in agent evaluation and continual learning,” the company said in a statement, adding that the startup’s technology, infused inside its Genie and Agent…

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Snowflake Report Finds GenAI Paying Off for Enterprises Despite Data Challenges

The latest Snowflake report titled “The ROI of Gen AI and Agents” shows that GenAI seems to be working quite well in the enterprise setting – contrary to other reports that either point to feverish hype or stubborn skepticism. An overwhelming 92% of early adopters say they are seeing positive returns from the GenAI investments. …

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Oracle rejects request it give up control of MySQL

Oracle has formally refused to restructure control of the Community Edition of MySQL, following a request that it do so from a consortium of database companies providing forks of the database, and from MySQL users. The decision comes after the consortium’s major players, Percona and VillageSQL, met Oracle earlier this month to discuss the changes…

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Amazon is linking site hiccups to AI efforts

Amazon reportedly convened an engineering meeting Tuesday to discuss “a spate of outages” that are tied to the use of AI tools, according to a report in the Financial Times.  “The online retail giant said there had been a ‘trend of incidents’ in recent months, characterized by a ‘high blast radius’ and ‘gen-AI assisted changes’”…

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Beyond the Hype: 5 Surprising Realities of Enterprise AI

The AI fatigue that defined the late 2023 and 2024 business cycles was, in hindsight, a necessary correction. During that period, many organizations found themselves trapped in what industry observers called “pilot purgatory.” Millions were poured into experimental generative AI pilots, comprised mostly of chatbots designed to summarize meetings or draft internal emails. While these…

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