Business AI News

Yesterday

2 stories

GE Appliances Deploys 800 AI Agents, Reports 25% Fewer Back Orders

The deployment puts Gemini Enterprise into manufacturing, warehouse, logistics and supply-chain work. GE Appliances has disclosed a measurable result for one supplier workflow, but not for the full agent network.

17 hours ago

Platform shift Business

Sonos 27 Lets ChatGPT Control Music Across Its Speaker System

The Sonos 27 update gives the company a route to make AI a system-wide control layer, while its rollout will test whether Sonos can restore confidence in software after its 2024 app failure.

Yesterday

Earlier this week

5 stories

Launch Business

Meta Drops Token Counts From Reviews While Employees Test Hatch

Meta is separating performance assessment from AI activity just as it puts a more autonomous tool in front of employees. Whether workers trust Hatch with personal accounts remains a separate test.

Yesterday

Acquisition Business

Numa Buys SocketTime to Link Dealership AI With Live Shop Capacity

The purchase adds the operational records behind a service promise to Numa’s customer-communications system. Numa’s planned agents now face the harder job: coordinating work as repair orders change.

Sep 1, 2026

Atos and AWS Put 400 Engineers Into a Scored Multi-Agent AI Contest

The dungeon challenge made engineers balance route planning, memory, tool use and safety controls against time, lives and response efficiency—not simply produce a working answer.

Sep 1, 2026

Earnings Business

Rezolve Reports $130.8M H1 Revenue, Puts $360M Goal on a Much Larger H2

The company’s reported first-half growth gives its agentic-commerce strategy a sharper commercial signal. Its reaffirmed full-year outlook, however, requires roughly three-quarters more revenue in the second half than it recorded in the first.

Sep 1, 2026

Caterpillar Commits $100M to Retrain 118,000 Employees as AI Moves Beyond Mining

The five-year training commitment puts workers at the center of Caterpillar’s automation strategy. Its harder task is fitting more autonomous equipment into established jobsite roles and routines.

Aug 31, 2026

Last week

9 stories

Forward Deployed Engineer Postings Reportedly Jump 729% as AI Deployment Stays Hard

The role is designed to turn the informal exceptions inside a business into an AI-supported process—a task that may determine whether model output becomes usable operational work.

Aug 30, 2026

Cisco Rolls Out MyAgent to 90,000 Employees for Supervised Cross-App Work

The deployment combines approved model and data access with work delegation across enterprise software. Cisco wants the internal system to become a blueprint for customers, while its public description leaves the operating controls and results unmeasured.

Aug 27, 2026

Intuit Says 75% of Enterprise Suite Customers Use AI Agents Each Month

The adoption marker arrives as Intuit pushes its agents into bookkeeping and financial workflows, alongside broader business growth and a customer-acquisition drive.

Aug 27, 2026

Security risk Business

MSIG, QBE and Beazley Rework Cyber Coverage for Autonomous AI Losses

The difficult cases start when a company gave an agent legitimate access. A resulting loss may lack the unauthorized entry or identifiable attacker that many cyber policies were built to assess.

Aug 27, 2026

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Research Business

Perplexity Taps NYU’s Andrew Gordon Wilson for Continual-Learning Agent Research

Wilson’s remit joins continual learning with agent collaboration as Perplexity supports work that unfolds across extended sessions. The first test will be whether that mandate becomes a defined research team and publication program.

Aug 25, 2026

Earnings Business

Salesforce Reports $3.4B AI-and-Data ARR as ServiceNow Tops $1B AI ACV

The companies are pursuing overlapping enterprise AI ambitions from different starting points: Salesforce is attaching agents to its CRM and data stack, while ServiceNow is selling governance across workflows, agents and models.

Aug 25, 2026

Partnership Business

Verizon Puts Gemini Enterprise at the Center of a Multi-Year AI Overhaul

The partnership turns an existing customer-service deployment and data consolidation into a wider plan for network operations, marketing, security and internal agents. Results for the new uses remain to be demonstrated.

Aug 24, 2026

Acquisition Business

Seismic Completes Highspot Merger as Its Survey Finds 9% Embed AI in Revenue Workflows

The newly combined company is tying its product strategy to a clear operational constraint: many revenue leaders say their existing tools are poorly connected.

Aug 24, 2026

Goldman Deploys Claude Agents as Lloyds Targets £100M in Value From 2026 AI Plan

Financial deployments are making multi-step AI workflows more concrete, while raising the need for systems that can identify, coordinate and constrain software acting across services.

Aug 24, 2026