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At the Smarsh EDGE conference, financial institutions revealed how they are transforming compliance archives into business intelligence through AI, while grappling with the challenge of governing autonomous agents that now operate across multiple communication channels.
IBM is positioning governed context—the right information delivered to AI agents at the right time—as essential infrastructure for enterprises deploying autonomous decision-making systems at scale.
Xbox is now selling streaming access by the hour to players who own games but don't subscribe to Game Pass, at rates between 24 and 40 cents per hour.
As demand for AI infrastructure outpaces available supply, Dell Technologies is shifting its sales strategy away from price negotiations toward collaborative long-term planning with customers, according to executives at the company's New York Symposium.
As artificial intelligence workloads shift from training to inference, neocloud providers are targeting underserved small and midsize businesses that hyperscalers have deprioritized in GPU allocation.
At GTC Berlin, Nvidia unveiled Agent Knowledge Foundation, a collection of open-source components designed to help AI agents understand enterprise data while leaving control in the hands of existing data platforms like Snowflake and Databricks.
A team of Gemini 4 Argon agents defeated Minecraft's final boss by autonomously generating 2,783 programs and coordinating through in-game communication, though the feat cost roughly $520 in tokens.
MiniMax claims its new M3.1 Flash model cuts agent costs by 70 percent through lower token prices and faster inference, but independent benchmarks suggest the actual savings may be smaller and vary by workload.
