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Agentic-Native Platforms Are Creating A New Technology Business Model
For decades, the enterprise technology industry operated on a simple principle: software companies built products, and services firms helped enterprises.
Why Small Businesses Are Winning The AI Race With Agentic AI
Small businesses building agentic AI from scratch are outpacing larger competitors. The obstacle was never the technology, but ownership and trust.
Prosper AI lands $30M backed by Andreessen Horowitz to build AI workforce for healthcare operations
Nine months after announcing its seed funding round, Prosper AI banked $30 million to scale its agentic AI platform to power administrative tasks from patient scheduling to insurance verification a | Prosper AI banked $30 million to scale its agentic AI platform to power administrative tasks from patient scheduling to insurance verification and patient billing.
Doceree Recognized in the Gartner® Hype Cycle™ for Life Science Enterprise Technologies, 2026
Doceree, the only healthcare marketing platform that can measure and adapt to the actual clinical intent of both physicians and patients, has been recognized as a Sample Vendor in the Trusted Conversational AI in Life Sciences profile for the Hype Cycle™ for Life Science Enterprise Technologies, 2026. For Doceree, this recognition reflects the growing role of Agentic AI in life sciences.
Modernizing Front Desk Operations In Health And Wellness Practices
An administrative pain-point for patients and practices alike, agentic AI platforms are creating a seamless process to navigate health and wellness.
Modernizing Front Desk Operations In Health And Wellness Practices
An administrative pain-point for patients and practices alike, agentic AI platforms are creating a seamless process to navigate health and wellness.
Is Vibe Coding Already Dead? Even Karpathy Is Moving On
Andrej Karpathy declared vibe coding passe in February and joined Anthropic in May. Here is what agentic engineering changes for founders this quarter.
I'm glad Apple isn't hyping up agentic AI (yet)
Apple is more focused on delivering usable features with Siri AI, instead of hyping up agentic AI. That's a good thing.
Apple’s iOS 27 goes all agentic on compromised passwords
iBiz might not win the AI race, but analysts say it's focusing on features people may actually use
EHR vendor notebook: Elsevier, athenahealth and PointClickCare ramp up agentic AI
Also: Epic, Elation Health and Glooko activate high-need artificial intelligence integrations while Enzo Health launches an AI-native EHR for home health.
Apple Intelligence Can Change Your Passwords for You When You Get Hacked
Agentic AI and security are normally at odds, but this Apple Intelligence feature could be a lifesaver.
Elation Health acquires Aster as it ramps up agentic AI for primary care
Health tech company Elation Health acquired startup Aster to propel the company's development of an agentic AI operating system for primary care. | Health tech company Elation Health acquired startup Aster to propel the company's development of an agentic AI operating system for primary care.
How ASUS Is Bringing AI into Healthcare Workflows
Move from pilot to production with ASUS AI Hub and NVIDIA NemoClaw. Deploy scalable, secure on-premises enterprise Agentic AI with robust data governance and custom knowledge RAG workflows.
The price of Nvidia RTX Spark PCs is going to hurt
Here’s what we know so far about price and launch dates for these upcoming premium computers, which have been designed for an agentic AI world.
The Intelligent Health Care Enterprise: Driving Measurable Business Value with Agentic AI - SPONSORED CONTENT FROM AWS
Webinar Sponsored by AWS
The Nvidia RTX Spark Era Starts Here: Hands On With Microsoft's Surface Laptop Ultra
Microsoft's new flagship Surface is the poster child for Nvidia's agentic-AI-first laptop platform. Here's what we learned from our first encounter with the hardware.
Google delivering on Gemini promises means Apple Intelligence can do the same
Tests to determine whether Google’s agentic AI system Gemini Spark can deliver on the promises made on stage at last...
Enzo Health launches agentic EHR for home health agencies
Health tech startup Enzo Health rolled out an AI-native electronic health record (EHR) system designed for home healthcare agencies, touting it as an industry first. | With the platform, organizations can seamlessly run all operations, including intake, scheduling, visits, quality compliance, billing and visibility for patients, the company said.
NVIDIA, Foxconn and Taiwan Medical Centers Bring Agentic and Physical AI to ‘Healthy Taiwan’
NVIDIA, Foxconn and Taiwan Medical Centers Bring Agentic and Physical AI to ‘Healthy Taiwan’ Foxconn is deploying NVIDIA AI across Taiwan’s leading medical centers, transitioning from using individual AI tools to coordinated AI agent workforces that help clinicians reason, document and orchestrate care. News Summary: Foxconn is deploying NVIDIA AI across Taiwan’s leading medical centers, transitioning from using individual AI tools to coordinated AI agent workforces that help clinicians reason,
MSI shows MEG Vision X2 AI+: "The World’s First Gaming Desktop with Agentic AI Companion"
MSI MEG Vision X2 AI+ desktop adds a cylindrical AI display MSI has announced the MEG Vision X2 AI+, a new flagship gaming desktop that will be shown at
Google's Agentic AI Tool Gemini Spark Is Now Available
Gemini Spark is currently only available to Google AI Ultra subscribers in the US, meaning you’ll need to spend at least $100 per month to access it.
BMW Group: Agentic AI is part of our daily business
BMW Group: This article explores agentic AI and how it simplifies workflows, supports teams and makes processes even more intelligent.
Microsoft's Yusuf Mehdi plans departure after role transition
Microsoft executive vice president Yusuf Mehdi is leaving after 35 years. He wrote that he plans to help "reimagine Windows for the agentic era."
New in Edge for Business: AI for work, safe from day one
TL;DR: Edge for Business adds agentic browsing in limited preview, a Copilot-inspired new tab page, and mobile availability for multi-tab reasoning and YouTube summarization. These experiences are built on a secure enterprise browser foundation w
Omni, Pics, and a Big Search Overhaul: Everything You Missed at Google I/O 2026
Google's Tuesday I/O keynote was jam-packed with news about AI, AI, and more AI, from agentic AI in search and Gemini enhancements to details about the Google-Samsung smart glasses.
Alteryx Puts Business Logic at the Center of Agentic AI, Enabling Enterprises to Operationalize AI at Scale
/PRNewswire/ -- Alteryx, Inc., a leading AI-ready data and analytics company, today unveiled new product capabilities that advance agentic automation across...
Google announces agent-optimized Gemini 3.5.Flash and a do-anything model called Omni
Google says its more efficient Gemini 3.5 Flash is the key to your agentic AI future.
Google flips Antigravity into an agentic dev suite, AI Studio app lands on Android
Google's Antigravity 2.0 is here to build and manage agents to let them loose on your latest projects, as AI Studio Android app arrives.
With Gemini 3.5 Flash, Google bets its next AI wave on agents, not chatbots
Google launched Gemini 3.5 Flash, its most powerful coding and agentic AI model yet, at the company's annual developer conference. It is capable of autonomously executing complex tasks and building software from scratch.
Google Shoves More AI Into Search, Including A Dynamic Search Box And Agentic Features
You can kiss the classic Google Search goodbye.
Google I/O kicks off with reveals on AI models, Gemini product expansion, and agentic features
Google I/O 2024: Alphabet highlights Gemini AI surge (3.2 quadrillion tokens, 900M MAUs), unveils Ask YouTube + Omni Flash video AI.
Apple Explores Ways to Welcome AI Agents in the App Store
Apple is exploring ways to better incorporate AI agents into its App Store so it can benefit from the tech industry’s hottest trend while ensuring that the software in its store continues to play by its rules, according to people briefed on the matter. So far, the widespread embrace of agentic ...
Everything Google announced at its Android Show, from Googlebooks to vibe-coded widgets
Google unveiled its new AI-first Googlebooks laptops, more agentic Gemini features, vibe-coded Android widgets, Gemini in Chrome, refreshed Android Auto, and more ahead of I/O.
The new CEO flex: Bragging about how much AI code your company shipped
CEOs like Meta's Mark Zuckerberg can't stop talking about how agentic AI is changing how engineers code — and it's not just the Big Tech bosses.
Cloudflare announces 1,100 layoffs amid AI focus shift
Cloudflare announced 1,100 layoffs as it restructures for the age of agentic AI, sending shares tumbling.
Global Health & WASH: May 2026 Funding Opportunities (14 new opportunities!)
The May update for Global Health & WASH brings new calls that cluster around three distinct shifts: LMIC research leadership moving from funder encouragement into a hard eligibility constraint, pharmaceutical and corporate-linked funders running structurally independent education and use-inspired research portfolios at substantial scale, and AI adoption shifting decisively from speculative tool to operational capability across health and WASH systems alike. In LMIC Research Leadership as Eligibility, Not Encouragement, Wellcome anchors the dominant signal of the month with three separate major calls that all require or strongly center LMIC leadership in their basic eligibility architecture. Wellcome’s ESIC Hubs (£1.5-£1.9M per hub over 3-5 years) explicitly requires an LMIC-based lead applicant, treating Global South leadership as a design constraint rather than a participation goal. Wellcome’s Infectious Disease Clinical Trial Development Award funds transdisciplinary teams whose lead must be a mid-career or established researcher based at an organization in Africa, South Asia, or Southeast Asia. Wellcome’s larger Infectious Disease Clinical Trial Award (£1M-£8M for optimizing licensed interventions) requires the administering organization to be in eligible LMIC regions and at least 50% of applicants based there. Around Wellcome, the same pattern shows up at smaller scale and across funders: CHINNOVA channels $1M into West and Central African research institutions for climate-health work; IBRO’s Neuroscience Training Grants explicitly tier ceilings by region of residence with Africa receiving the highest amount ($5,000); IHME’s GBD Emerging Researcher Award reserves at least one of its two annual awards for an LMIC researcher; Sidaction’s HIV Cure call funds research teams across France, the Netherlands, and eligible African countries with a minimum two-country collaboration requirement. Taken together, these calls signal a meaningful shift in how research equity is being operationalized — not as encouragement language at the bottom of a call, but as a structural feature of who can lead, where the work must be administered, and what proportion of the team must be regionally rooted. In Pharma-Funded Independent Medical Education and Use-Inspired Research, the lineup this month is unusually deep. Pfizer alone runs four parallel calls under independent education and quality improvement frameworks: a Migraine and Women’s Health RFP (200K x 2-year, $500K pool), Migraine IME ($200K, $1M pool), JAK Inhibitor evidence-based education ($100K), and Maternal Vaccination HCP Education in Saudi Arabia ($75K), plus a separate Pediatric Pneumococcal Surveillance research call in Saudi Arabia ($400K per project). Novo Nordisk Foundation runs four parallel calls of its own at substantial scale: Infectious Diseases Catalyst Grants (DKK 60M pool, up to DKK 7M collaborative), Non-Diabetic Endocrinology Collaborative Grants (DKK 53M pool, DKK 5-10M per project), Pioneer Innovator Grant Health (DKK 1.1M), and Distinguished Innovator Grant Health (DKK 6.8M). LEO Foundation deploys DKK 2-4M per project for dermatology research excellence. Pfizer’s framing across calls deliberately separates the funding from product promotion, emphasizing measurable practice-relevant change and structural distance between scientific outputs and commercial activity. Novo Nordisk’s “use-inspired” hard filter pushes researchers toward a credible translation pathway from mechanism to deployable tool. The pattern: industry-aligned funders are running structurally independent portfolios at meaningful $ that fund implementation evidence, not promotion. In AI as Operational Capability, Not Speculation, several calls this month explicitly treat AI adoption as a near-term operational question with real evidence and governance requirements, rather than a speculative trend to be watched. Wellcome’s ESIC Hubs frames AI as “the accelerator” for evidence synthesis, asking hubs to translate technical innovation into adoption-ready workflows that can match real-world policy timelines. UNICEF Venture Fund’s new Climate Tech for Children’s Health call funds for-profit startups deploying AI, machine learning, and blockchain in low-resource environments, with a strict requirement that solutions must already have a working prototype with promising pilot results. The Water Research Foundation has launched two simultaneous AI calls treating reproducibility, cybersecurity guardrails, and human-in-the-loop deployments as core design constraints rather than nice-to-haves: one on GenAI and Agentic AI in water utilities ($200K), one on alternatives to water shutoffs that explicitly screens for implementation economics evidence. Nordic Innovation’s quantum technology call (NOK 4.5M) extends the same logic into life science and healthcare, demanding consortium-stage projects mature enough to test with real users. TEF-Health offers €300K in subsidized testing infrastructure for European healthcare AI and robotics SMEs. The pattern: funders are converting AI pilots into playbooks, requiring transfer evidence and risk controls before AI can move from experimentation to sector-wide operational practice. For LMIC-based researchers in infectious disease or evidence synthesis, the three Wellcome calls together represent the deepest concentration of LMIC-led research capital in recent memory — pair the Infectious Disease Clinical Trial Development Award (£200K, deadline May 19) as a strategic pipeline feeder into the larger Infectious Disease Clinical Trial Award (£1-£8M, deadline June 2), since the development award functions explicitly as a track into the larger trial scheme. For Nordic researchers, the four Novo Nordisk Foundation calls plus LEO Foundation and Nordic Innovation Quantum represent ~$30M in regional research capital this cycle, all with deadlines clustered in May-August. For WASH practitioners, the three Water Research Foundation calls together (each up to $200K) are a cluster worth reading across — one on AI deployment, one on shutoff alternatives, one rewarding applied innovation — and the strongest applicants will articulate how their work bridges utility operations to policy-relevant evidence. For US-based clinical researchers and educators, the four Pfizer calls plus the APF Portfolio’s 80+ programs form an unusually accessible recurring pipeline; APF’s prohibition on indirect costs is a meaningful structural feature for early-career applicants whose institutions might otherwise absorb significant overhead. Snapshot of New Opportunities Total Estimated Funding Pool: $100 Million+ USD The grants are organized into three categories: Open Calls: Current grant and opportunities with a deadline. Grants are listed by closing date. 39 open opportunities- 14 new! Rolling Applications: current grant and opportunities with rolling applications (but it’s still best to submit as early as possible). 14 rolling opportunities- 1 new opportunity! Long term planning: Grants that have closed their current rounds, but are expected to open new windows. 4 long term opportunities! A quick tip for returning readers: if you want to jump straight to the newest additions, use CTRL F to search for “New!” and navigate quickly to the latest funding opportunities This post is for paid subscribers. This helps support the time and effort it takes to curate and organize these opportunities. Subscribe To keep this accessible to everyone who needs it, we’re happy to offer pay what you can rates. You can find more details here. Open Calls: Migraine Competitive Grant Program: Migraine and Women’s Health (Quality Improvement and/or Research RFP), Pfizer.*Closing soon!* Pfizer, in collaboration with the American Headache Society, is seeking independent quality improvement and research projects that close persistent gaps in migraine care for women across the United States. The funding logic centers on measurable, practice-relevant change: proposals should generate actionable evidence, tools, or system improvements that can be shared and used widely, not just within a single site. Priority areas span menstrual migraine and screening in women’s health settings, the role of hormonal fluctuations across the lifespan, sex-specific risk factors, comorbidities and quality-of-life burden, and disparities in outcomes by race, ethnicity, and socioeconomic status. The call is structured as a two-step competitive process with an initial Letter of Intent, with the strongest concepts expected to translate scientific insight into implementable improvements in diagnosis, management, and equity. Geographies: United States. Who can apply: U.S.-based organizations (not individuals), including professional schools, healthcare institutions, professional organizations, and other entities focused on healthcare improvement. Funding amount: Up to USD $200,000 total over 2 years; total pool USD $500,000. Targeted Sectors / SDGs: Health; Focus areas: migraine, women’s health, quality improvement, clinical research, menstrual migraine, health disparities. Deadline: LOI: May 5, 2026; Full proposal (by invitation): August 28, 2026. Learn more and apply here. This RFP rewards “shareable impact”: the most competitive submissions will pair rigorous methods with a clear plan for system uptake and dissemination beyond the originating institution. ReSSARC: Strengthening the Health Sector and Food Security in the Central African Republic (AID 013381/01/0) Call for Proposals, Italian Agency for Development Cooperation (AICS). *Closing soon!* AICS is seeking a limited set of high-capacity humanitarian partners to deliver an integrated package that stabilizes essential health services while reducing acute malnutrition and strengthening food security resilience in priority areas of the Central African Republic. The funder’s logic is explicitly nexus-based: proposals should meet urgent, life-saving needs while reinforcing local systems, coordination mechanisms, and community-level capacity so results persist beyond the emergency window. AICS emphasizes inclusion and protection outcomes, expecting gender-sensitive design and explicit measures for groups facing compounded vulnerability, including women, children under five, internally displaced people, and people with disabilities. The call also signals a localization pathway, encouraging stronger collaboration with national NGOs and balanced partnerships, alongside clear coordination with existing cluster and humanitarian actors to minimize duplication and improve coverage. Geographies: Central African Republic (Bangui, Ombella-Mpoko, Ouham, Ouham-Pende, Lim-Pende, Lobaye). Who can apply: Non-profit organizations registered with AICS, plus eligible non-profits without an office in Italy that have a pre-existing collaboration agreement with an AICS-listed organization. Funding amount: Total pool EUR €1,800,000; max EUR €800,000 (single applicant) or EUR €1,000,000 (ATS). Targeted Sectors / SDGs: Health; Focus areas: malnutrition prevention and treatment, maternal and child health, community health services, food security and resilience, localization partnerships Deadline: May 5, 2026. Learn more and apply here. This call is structured to reward partners who can link frontline service delivery to system durability and localization, not just short-term coverage gains. Contracts for Innovation in drug and alcohol addiction healthcare, Innovate UK. *Closing soon!* Innovate UK, on behalf of the Office for Life Sciences Addiction Healthcare Goals program, is procuring R&D to accelerate innovations that can improve treatment outcomes, strengthen recovery, and reduce harm and deaths linked to drug and alcohol addiction. The competition is positioned as a market-facing readiness push: selected projects are expected to advance solutions toward later-stage validation, generate evidence of user acceptability and UK market fit, and map credible routes through regulatory and certification requirements. Innovate UK signals a preference for innovations that can be field-tested in relevant UK settings and progressed to TRL 6 or 7, with practical plans for commercialization after contract completion. This structure favors applicants that can execute most work in-house, co-develop with service providers and people with lived experience, and translate technical progress into deployable tools for addiction healthcare delivery. Geographies: United Kingdom. Who can apply: Single organizations of any size (including EU, EEA, or international) leading delivery, with most work and key deliverables carried out in the UK; subcontractors for specialist skills only. Funding amount: GBP £200,000–1.5 million per project (inclusive of VAT); Total pool: GBP £20 million (across two strands). Targeted Sectors / SDGs: Health; Focus areas: Mental Health, Health Systems Strengthening, Research & Development, Technology Access. Deadline: May 6, 2026 (11:00am). Learn more and apply here. This call uses procurement to pull near-market addiction innovations toward operational proof and adoption pathways in UK services.
Reimaging Data Intelligence To Supercharge Agentic Business Outcomes
The vital role of reimaging data intelligence to deliver improved agentic business outcomes
Amazon’s chip business scores another major win
Amazon’s stock jumped toward a record high Friday, after the company announced that Meta plans to use tens of millions of the company’s Graviton chips for agentic AI workloads.
Microsoft gives your Word documents an AI co-author you didn’t ask for
: Also rolls out agentic Copilot in Excel and PowerPoint, letting 21st century Clippy lend a... hand
Vodafone Business Launch New AI and Cybersecurity Solutions to Accelerate Small Business Digital Transformation in Partnership with Google Cloud
Cloud Next '26 -- Today Vodafone Business and Google Cloud announce an expansion of their strategic partnership with two new solutions to equip small-and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) with advanced cybersecurity and agentic AI.
Vodafone offers small businesses cybersecurity, AI capability with Google tie-up
European mobile and broadband operator Vodafone said it would offer its small business customers advanced cybersecurity and agentic AI through its $1 billion strategic tie-up with Google Cloud agreed in October 2024.
CFC pilots agentic AI system that underwrites in seconds
London firm is testing AI on live cyber business, marking what it calls a first for the industry
Microsoft confirms AI agents are still coming to the Windows 11 taskbar as it prepares for public rollout
Microsoft has clarified that it's not giving up on an agentic Windows 11 experience and is still bringing agents to your taskbar.
Time for government, business leaders to figure out AI cybersecurity regulation
Experts say capabilities of agentic AI rising, along with risk to personal data, economy, national security.
Walmart partners with OpenAI: The dawn of agentic commerce
WebFX reports Walmart and OpenAI are launching AI-first shopping, enabling users to buy directly via ChatGPT with personalized recommendations.
OpenAI takes aim at Anthropic with beefed-up Codex that gives it more power over your desktop
OpenAI's agentic coding tool has gotten a major makeover, with a variety of new powers and abilities.
OpenAI’s Codex Mac app adds three key features that go beyond agentic coding
OpenAI is releasing a new version of its Codex desktop app today. The latest Codex update adds three key features...
Google just unlocked 'Agent Mode' for Gemini 3.1 — here are 7 things it can now do for you
From "inbox zero" to full trip planning, here is how to unlock Google’s powerful new agentic workflows
Microsoft Plans to Bring Copilot Into the Agentic AI Age
An always-on Copilot could sort out your inbox and calendar.
Meet CAS Newton: Agentic AI built for science
/PRNewswire/ -- CAS, a division of the American Chemical Society, today announced the launch of CAS Newton℠, science-smart agentic AI built specifically for...
Avalara to Deliver Fully Embedded, Automated Sales Tax Compliance Tool to Small Businesses Within the Clover Platform
New integration brings seamless access to daily tax set-aside, real-time tracking, and guaranteed filing and remittance DURHAM, N.C., April 8, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- Avalara, Inc., the agentic tax...
San Francisco's new dating scene: AI matchmakers, cash bounties
$100,000 bounties, agentic matchmaking, and rizz keyboards: Can San Francisco's dating culture ruined by technology be saved by more of it?
Google's Gemma 4 Runs Frontier AI On A Single GPU
Google's Gemma 4 open models deliver frontier AI performance on a single Nvidia GPU, with Apache 2.0 licensing and native support for agentic workflows.
Gemma 4 and what makes an open model succeed
Having written a lot of model release blog posts, there’s something much harder about reviewing open models when they drop relative to closed models, especially in 2026. In recent years, there were so few open models, so when Llama 3 was released most people were still doing research on Llama 2 and super happy to get an update. When Qwen 3 was released, the Llama 4 fiasco had just gone down, and a whole research community was emerging to study RL on Qwen 2.5 — it was a no brainer to upgrade. Today, when an open model releases, it’s competing with Qwen 3.5, Kimi K2.5, GLM 5, MiniMax M2.5, GPT-OSS, Arcee Large, Nemotron 3, Olmo 3, and others. The space is populated, but still feels full of hidden opportunity. The potential of open models feels like a dark matter, a potential we know is huge, but few clear recipes and examples for how to unlock it are out there. Agentic AI, OpenClaw, and everything brewing in that space is going to spur mass experimentation in open models to complement the likes of Claude and Codex, not replace them. Especially with open models, the benchmarks at release are an extremely incomplete story. In some ways this is exciting, as new open models have a much higher variance and ability to surprise, but it also points at some structural reasons that make building businesses and great AI experiences around open models harder than the closed alternatives. When a new Claude Opus or GPT drops, spending a few hours with them in my agentic workflows is genuinely a good vibe test. For open models, putting them through this test is a category error. Something else to be said about open models in the era of agents is that they get out of the debate of integration, harnesses, and tools and let us see close to the ground on what exactly is the ability of just a model. Of course, we can’t test some things like search abilities without some tool, but being able to measure exactly the pace of progress of the model alone is a welcome simplification to a systematically opaque AI space. Share The list of factors I’d use to assess a new open-weight model I’m considering investing in includes: Model performance (and size) — how this model performs on benchmarks I care about and how it compares to other models of a similar size. Country of origin — some businesses care deeply about provenance, and if a model was built in China or not. Model license — if a model needs legal approval for use, uptake will be slower at mid-sized and large companies. Tooling at release — many models release with half-broken, or at least substantially slower, implementations in popular software like vLLM, Transformers, SGLANG, etc due to pushing the envelope of architectures or tools. Model fine-tunability — how easy or hard it is to modify the given model to your use-case when you actually try and use it. The core problem is that some of these are immediately available at release, e.g. general performance, license, origin, etc. but others such as tooling take day(s) to week(s) to stabilize, and others are open research questions — with no group systematically monitoring fine-tunability. In the early era of open models, the days of Llama 2 or 3 and Qwen pre v3.5, the architectures were fairly simple and the models tended to work out of the box. Some of this was due to the extremely hard work of the Llama, Qwen, Mistral, etc. developer teams. Some is due to the new models being genuinely harder to work with. When it comes to something like Qwen 3.5 or Nemotron 3, with hybrid models (either gated delta net or mamba layers), the tooling is very rough at release. Things you would expect to “just work” often don’t. I’ve been following this area closely since we released Olmo Hybrid with a similar architecture, and Qwen 3.5 is just starting to work well in the various open-source tools that need to all play nice together for RL research. That’s 1.5 months after the release date! This is just to start really investing more into understanding the behavior of the models. Of course, others started working on these models sooner by investing more engineering resources or relying on partially closed software. The fully open and distributed ecosystem takes a long time to get going on some new models. All of this is lead-in for the most important question for open models — how easy is it to adapt to specific use-cases? This is a different problem for different model sizes. Large MoE open-weight models may be used by entities like Cursor who need complex capabilities in their domain, e.g. Composer 2 trained on Kimi K2.5. Other applications can be built on much smaller models, such as Chroma’s Context-1 model for agentic search, built on GPT-OSS 20B. The question of “which models are fine-tunable” is largely background knowledge known by engineers across the industry. There should be a thriving research area here to support the open ecosystem model. The first step is to understand characteristics of different base and post-trained models to understand what they look like. The second step is to tune pretraining recipes for open models so they’re more flexible. Interconnects AI is a reader-supported publication. Consider becoming a subscriber. Subscribe For The ATOM Project and other Interconnects endeavors, we’ve put in substantial effort to measuring adoption trends in the open ecosystem. Everything takes a long time to unfold after a model is first publicly available — and adaptability is why. What we know for sure now, when Qwen has been going from strength to strength with its releases, is that technical staff across the industry has gotten comfortable working with Qwen models. Countless research methods and datasets were made to work with Qwen. It’ll take patience for any other model family to get to this point — a patience I’m not sure many open model builders have. This takes us to Gemma 4, Google’s latest open models. Gemma 3 was released more than a year ago, in March of 2025, and is a bit underrated. Gemma 4 comes in 4 sizes for now, with a bigger, MoE model of over 100B total parameters rumored but not released yet. The models we have today come in sizes of ~5B dense, 8B dense, 26B total 4B active MoE, and 31B dense. I’m most excited that they’re finally adopting a standard Apache 2.0 open source license. This’ll massively boost adoption. The standard of better licenses for strong open-weight LLMs was set by mostly Chinese open model labs in the last 1-2 years, and now U.S. companies are following suit. I will personally be so happy if the horrible Llama licenses and Gemma terms of service were an ~18-month transient dynamic of the industry being nervous about releasing strong open models. The Gemma 4 scores look very solid, the small models have incredible benchmark scores (especially in general domains like LMArena) and the 31B model rivals the recent Qwen 3.5 27B, which is the leading member of that class. The ~30B size range is an important one, as it’s accessible both to researchers and to enterprises looking to deploy the model in real use-cases. Where the 7B model scale is the default for tinkering and research, a 30B model is the default for seeing if an open model can unlock substantial value in your specific workflow — a good mix of intelligence, low price, tractability for downstream training, etc. This takes us back to the above adoption criteria I mentioned for open models and the bigger question — do I think Gemma 4 will be an overwhelming success? Previous Gemma models have been plagued by tooling issues and poorer performance when being finetuned. Gemma 4’s success is going to be entirely determined by ease of use, to a point where a 5-10% swing on benchmarks wouldn’t matter at all. It’s strong enough, small enough, with the right license, and from the U.S., so many companies are going to slot it in. I’m cautiously optimistic that Gemma 4 is going to work better here. Winds are shifting for open models built in America. We saw GPT-OSS go through a bumpy launch to become an overwhelming success. There’s a collective energy around the likes of Reflection, Arcee, Nemotron, Gemma, Olmo, and peers that show substantial demand for building new stacks around open models. There’s capital to be spent on AI stacks across the economy by those who want more ownership of everything, including the model. After launching The ATOM Project 240 days ago, the conversation is shifting into the next stage. Summer of 2025 was a crisis moment where the U.S. AI scene realized it can’t wait and figure out open models after building AGI. The two markets will capture different areas and proceed in parallel. Now that more companies in the U.S. are releasing strong models, we need to improve the ecosystem so that these models are easy to use, understand, and build value around. It’s the hard work to build another inflection point in these adoption plots I’ve been updating consistently, but that’s the work to be done. Join me in it. More data coming soon! Here’s a sneak peek:
Agentic Science Toolkit for Exoplanet Research
The expansion of exoplanet observations has created a need for flexible, accessible, and user-friendly workflows
Vibe coding could mark the end of the App Store review process as we know it
Toward the tail end of last year, agentic coding (otherwise known as vibe coding) truly took off. With the launch...
Samsung Browser for Windows is now official, and it really wants to replace Chrome
Samsung's PC browser comes with agentic AI features powered by Perplexity.
Samsung Takes Its Browser Beyond Mobile, Extending Agentic AI Across Devices
Seamlessly connecting the mobile and PC browsing experience while simplifying complex web tasks with new agentic AI capabilities
'Claude, Resize These Photos' - Anthropic's Agentic AI Will Run Photoshop For You
It can perform boring tasks.
Anthropic's Claude Can Now Control Your Computer
The developer is boosting Claude's agentic capabilities in an apparent effort to compete with platforms like OpenClaw.
AI Swarm Attacks Are Coming, Is Your Business Ready?
Leaders need a new cybersecurity playbook for the agentic era, with stronger governance, faster response systems, workforce awareness, and up-to-date security frameworks.
Accenture Collaborates with Microsoft to Bring Agentic Security and Business Resilience to the Front Lines of Cyber Defense
NEW YORK, March 19, 2026--Accenture today announced new assets and capabilities for its Adaptive Managed Extended Detection and Response (MxDR).
Paradigm Launches Surface, an AI-Native Platform That Connects Culture to Business Performance
Paradigm, the talent and culture intelligence company, today announced the launch of Surface, an AI-native platform that gives talent and culture leaders a unified view of what's shaping their organizations, benchmarks their efforts against peers, and translates insights into action with the industry's first agentic AI.
Alibaba launches agentic AI tool for businesses with Slack, Teams integration plans
Alibaba unveiled a new enterprise artificial intelligence tool on Tuesday amid a series of other developments in the company's AI space.
Gemini can now order your lunch as Android app control rolls out on Galaxy S26 [Gallery]
Gemini has a new trick up its sleeve with agentic task automation, with the AI able to use an app...
Greenway Health unveils AI-enabled EHR-RCM platform
Called Novare, it offers ambient note-taking, voice-activated chart search, agentic task helpers, intelligent coding suggestions, automated prior authorization, real-time benefit checks and more.
Greenway Health debuts AI-enabled EHR-RCM platform
Called Novare, it offers ambient note-taking, voice-activated chart search, agentic task helpers, intelligent coding suggestions, automated prior authorization, real-time benefit checks and more.
The “Last Mile” Problem Slowing AI Transformation
Few companies have been able to fundamentally change their operating and business models around AI. The primary obstacle to progress is rarely model quality or data availability, but rather the “last mile” of transformation where technical capability must meet organizational design. There are seven frictions that contribute to this problem: proliferation of pilots, the productivity gap, process debt, the identity problem of tribal knowledge, agentic governance, architectural complexity, and the efficiency trap. To overcome these, companies need to focus on clean-sheet process redesign, strategically capturing knowledge, and managing their new digital workforce.
UiPath Expands Into Healthcare AI As Valuation Lags Analyst Targets
UiPath (NYSE:PATH) has launched agentic AI automation tools tailored for healthcare providers and payers. The company is partnering with Genzeon to target data management and revenue cycle workflows. Use cases include medical records summarization, claim denial prevention, and prior authorization processing. For investors following NYSE:PATH, this move takes the company deeper into healthcare, a sector where many workflows still rely on manual processes and fragmented systems. UiPath built...
The train has left the station: Agentic AI and the future of social science research
A new era of agentic AI agents has begun. What does it mean for social scientists? Solomon Messing and Joshua Tucker discuss.
Everything announced at Samsung Unpacked 2026: Galaxy S26 Ultra, Privacy Display, Buds 4 Pro
From the Galaxy S26 phones to new earbuds and agentic AI, here's everything unveiled at Samsung Unpacked this week.
5 Business Technology Trends Leaders Can’t Ignore in 2026
AI is no longer about pilots and promise. Leaders must focus on execution, using agentic AI, smart automation and disciplined cloud and security strategies to deliver business value.
The Beginner's Blueprint For Building AI Agents That Handle Your Toughest Business Tasks
This practical guide explains how to design agentic workflows using a simple inputs, tasks and outputs framework, so any business leader can move from idea to execution.
Agentic AI and the rise of in silico team science in biomedical research
Nature Biotechnology - This study examines the emerging use of agentic artificial intelligence (AI) in biomedical research, highlighting the challenges and opportunities that may inform the design...
Businesses Lean on Technology as Cross-Border Trade Grows More Uncertain, Avalara Finds
New research from Avalara, Inc., the agentic tax and compliance leader, shows that while businesses are eager to expand globally, fading confidence in stable trade rules is forcing many to slow or delay growth amid rising regulatory complexity, tariffs, and geopolitical volatility.
Provenir Launches Comprehensive Decision Intelligence Platform with New Agentic AI Features to Supercharge Business Performance and Agility
PARSIPPANY, N.J., February 13, 2026--Provenir, a global leader in AI risk decisioning, today announced the launch of its comprehensive decision intelligence platform with new agentic AI features to supercharge business performance and operational agility.
IntelePeer Introduces SmartAgent Collections, Automated Revenue Recovery Solution for DSOs and Specialty Healthcare Providers
DANIA BEACH, Fla., February 09, 2026--IntelePeer introduces SmartAgent Collections, an automated Agentic AI solution that improves revenue recovery for DSOs and healthcare providers.
I used Xcode 26.3 to build an iOS app with my voice in just two days - and it was exhilarating
Want to see what agentic coding really feels like? Come along on my wild, wonderful, and terrifying two-day vibe coding adventure with Xcode 26.3.
Xcode moves into agentic coding with deeper OpenAI and Anthropic integrations
Xcode 26.3 offers agentic coding capabilities with Anthropic's Claude Agent and OpenAI's Codex.
Xcode 26.3 unlocks the power of agentic coding
Xcode 26.3 introduces support for agentic coding, a new way in Xcode for developers to build apps, powered by coding agents from Anthropic and OpenAI.
Google Releases Conductor: a context driven Gemini CLI extension that stores knowledge as Markdown and orchestrates agentic workflows
Google Releases Conductor: a context driven Gemini CLI extension that stores knowledge as Markdown and orchestrates agentic workflows
Vendor Notebook: Tackling deployment gaps with agentic AI
Epic, Oracle and Humana have all announced new integrated capabilities. Meanwhile, Corti says through its new infrastructure on NVIDIA that healthcare organizations can create artificial intelligence agents and scale without clinical risk.
Microsoft Steps Back from "AI Everywhere" in Windows 11 to Focus on Core Features
If you're tired of seeing Microsoft's AI features like Copilot, agentic workloads, and Recall forced into their products, you're not alone. Microsoft has finally confirmed that it will be stepping back from its "AI everywhere" strategy. According to an exclusive report by Windows Central, the intern...
Google Chrome Gets Gemini Side Panel and Agentic Browsing Features
AI-powered browsing features have become a battleground among browser makers in recent months. OpenAI launched its Atlas browser in October, while Microsoft Edge and Opera have also introduced AI assistants and automated browsing capabilities. And now Google is upping the ante. The company has announced a slew of new AI features fro Chrome, including a persistent sidebar for the Gemini chatbot and "auto browse" capabilities that can perform web tasks on your behalf.
Clawdbot sheds skin to become Moltbot, can't slough off security issues
: The massively hyped agentic personal assistant has security experts wondering why anyone would install it
The Math on AI Agents Doesn’t Add Up
A research paper suggests AI agents are mathematically doomed to fail. The industry doesn’t agree.
Amazon One Medical introduces agentic Health AI assistant for simpler, personalized, and more actionable health care
This AI-powered health assistant provides 24/7 health guidance and takes action to connect you to your provider, book appointments, read labs, and manage meds.
What International Business Machines (IBM)'s New Enterprise AI Platform Push Means For Shareholders
IBM recently announced several AI initiatives, including IBM Enterprise Advantage for building internal AI platforms, an enterprise-grade agentic AI collaboration with e&, and GRAMMY IQ built with watsonx to power interactive fan experiences using historical Recording Academy data. Together, these moves highlight IBM's push to embed governed, agentic AI across both mission-critical enterprise workflows and high-visibility consumer-facing experiences, underscoring its ambition to be an...
AI Has A Brand Problem And Entertainment Is The Fix
AI is reshaping brand strategy. As agentic AI scales content marketing, brands must build entertainment fields, creating loyalty and gravity beyond transactions.
How digital business models are evolving in the age of agentic AI
As businesses adopt AI, they need to rethink how they make money. Understanding these four new businesses models is a place to start.
Sports brands and AI: A winning combination
Millions of sports fans are being brought ever closer to the live action from their home screens through the power of agentic and generative AI.
How Broadcom's IT Leverages Tanzu Platform to Achieve Enterprise-Scale Agentic Business Transformation - Broadcom News and Stories
Broadcom’s Global Technology Organization is rolling out agentic AI engineering tools to boost productivity and ROI for thousands of developers. By adopting the VMware Tanzu Platform, Broadcom can deliver safer and compliant coding assistants powered by MCP servers, while centralizing governance, performance tuning, cost control, and AI safety across the enterprise.
The era of agentic business applications arrives at Convergence 2025 - Microsoft Dynamics 365 Blog
At Convergence 2025, Microsoft explores agentic business applications and how organizations build AI-first autonomous enterprises. Learn more.
Windows Insiders get a glimpse of Redmond’s agentic future
: Native MCP support lands in Insider Dev and Beta builds
69% Global Executives Predict AI Agents will Reshape Business in 2026, According to DeepL Research
The age of the AI agent has arrived. New research from DeepL, a global AI product and research company, reveals that 2026 will mark a decisive shift from AI experimentation to agentic automation with a majority (69%) of global business leaders expecting agentic AI to transform their operations in the year ahead.
After Elsa, FDA rolls out 'agentic AI' for staff
In this edition of STAT's Health Tech newsletter: FDA rolls out agentic AI for staff, and news about a radiology acquisition, chatbots.