Nutanix said it will acquire Ryax Technologies, a company focused on AI compute orchestration and management software. Nutanix said Ryax, based in Lyon, France, will be integrated into future releases of Nutanix Kubernetes Platform and Nutanix Enterprise AI.
Meta's Muse AI agent has made a splash and people are thinking Meta has cured its AI monetization issues, created its next big product and made our lives so much better.
Cool your jets kids.
Ahead of Meta's Connect conference, traders are certainly buying the Muse story. It remains to see if this is a pop and drop or something more sustaining.
More on Muse's AI agent ambitions.
A Deloitte report noted that audit committees are increasingly focusing on AI governance. The report, Audit Committee Practices Report, found that 54% of respondents are more focused on emerging risks over the past year. Not surprisingly, 75% of respondents see AI governance as a top 3 priority, up from 35% a year ago.
See Esteban Kolsky's insights for boards.
Here's our take on the Salesforce Dreamforce happenings.
Teradata said it has revamped its Tera AI assistant to create an AI coworker focused on enterprise data. Tera will enable analysts, engineers and database admins to analyze data, build apps and automate workflows within Teradata and outside the platform.
The company said Tera now has a vendor-neutral context engine, a harness to route work and agent skills designed for data engineering, analysis and data science.
Palo Alto Networks said it has added Anthropic's Claude Mythos and OpenAI's GPT-5.6 to its Unit 42 frontier AI defense system, which is billed as "an agentic offensive security service."
Unit 42 has a multi-model harness for cybersecurity and includes continuous testing, multiple models, adversary simulation and accelerated remediation.
Manhattan Associates launched Editions for the Manhattan Active supply chain management portfolio. Editions are designed for multiple company sizes as well as industries.
The Editions are Essentials, Enterprise and Enterprise Premier and available for or ActiveWarehouse, ActiveTransportation, ActiveStore and ActiveOrder on Manhattan's award-winning ActivePlatform.
SpaceXAI launched Grok 4.7, which is the company's most capable model and can check its own work more carefully.
Grok 4.7 lands in a week that's expected to feature a host of LLM launches. SpaceXAI continues to leverage price and said it has better performance and half the price of similar models. Remember that the key feature for LLMs is price and that reality may not be great for the OpenAI and Anthropic IPOs.
Google launched Googlebook, a set of laptops starting at $899 designed for the Android stack and integrated with Gemini. Googlebook is the successor to Chromebooks.
According to Google, Googlebook will seamlessly integrate with your Android phone. Customers can easily use apps, move files and cast across Googlebook and an Android device.
Alibaba's Qwen released Qwen-Image-2.1 with open weights. The model combines text-to-image generation and image editing in one model. Qwen-Image-2.1 has 7B parameters in its visual generation component and is designed to be lightweight for inference optimizations. The model is in the ballpark of closed models and on par to slightly ahead of Google Nano Banana 2.0.
A lot of little things worth noting about AI. A quick scan:
Google's Gemini models reportedly hacked three companies in a test, but the incident wasn't disclosed since the LLMs stopped when they were hacking real companies. Here's The Wall Street Journal story.
