Cognizant dedicates more than 18,000 staff to Gemini agent group
Cognizant says it is dedicating more than 18,000 staff to a new group with Google Cloud that will build AI agents for clients using Gemini. The Gemini Frontier Capability Group will focus on modernizing old software, developer too...
Monday.com launches Harmony to automate sales lead calls in four markets
Monday.com has launched Harmony, a voice AI platform that calls and qualifies sales leads, follows up and hands them to human representatives. The company said the service is available to mid-market and large companies in the US, ...
WhatsApp removes exposed instructions governing its support chatbot
WhatsApp removed hidden chatbot instructions from its help pages after WIRED contacted Meta about their exposure. Privacy company Redact found the instructions on around 80 pages; WIRED viewed the text, including directions agains...
Adobe accelerates Frame.io video search with NVIDIA GPUs
Adobe is using NVIDIA GPUs to accelerate Frame.io video search, with NVIDIA reporting about 5x faster embedding generation, up to 4x higher throughput and up to 5x lower search-processing latency. The companies highlighted the wor...
Databricks plans to double New York office to 120,000 square feet
Databricks announced plans to double its New York office footprint to approximately 120,000 square feet across five floors at 5 Bryant Park. The expansion includes a dedicated engineering and research floor, additional space for i...
Microsoft adds Guardian Agents and tighter controls over enterprise AI agents
Microsoft introduced Guardian Agents on Monday to monitor AI agents used by enterprises, TechCrunch reported. The feature joins Project Perception, which previously focused on agents that attack systems, assess vulnerabilities and...

