This article is part of VentureBeat’s special issue, “The Real Cost of AI: Performance, Efficiency and ROI at Scale.” Read more from this special issue. Recent surveys and VentureBeat’s conversations with CFOs suggest the honeymoon phase of AI is rapidly drawing to a close. While 2024 was dominated by pilot programs and proof-of-concept demonstrations, in mid-2025, the…
This article is part of VentureBeat’s special issue, “The Real Cost of AI: Performance, Efficiency and ROI at Scale.” Read more from this special issue. For the last two decades, enterprises have had a choice between open-source and closed proprietary technologies. The original choice for enterprises was primarily centered on operating systems, with Linux offering…
Join the event trusted by enterprise leaders for nearly two decades. VB Transform brings together the people building real enterprise AI strategy. Learn more At VentureBeat’s Transform 2025 conference, Olivier Godement, Head of Product for OpenAI’s API platform, provided a behind-the-scenes look at how enterprise teams are adopting and deploying AI agents at scale. In a…
Join the event trusted by enterprise leaders for nearly two decades. VB Transform brings together the people building real enterprise AI strategy. Learn more Among the numerous educational and startlingly insightful panel discussions on AI enterprise integrations featuring industry leaders at VentureBeat’s Transform 2025 conference this week was one led by Google Cloud Platform Vice President…
Anthropic tasked its Claude AI model with running a small business to test its real-world economic capabilities. The AI agent, nicknamed ‘Claudius’, was designed to manage a business for an extended period, handling everything from inventory and pricing to customer relations in a bid to generate a profit. While the experiment proved unprofitable, it offered…
Join the event trusted by enterprise leaders for nearly two decades. VB Transform brings together the people building real enterprise AI strategy. Learn more Enterprises that want to build and scale agents also need to embrace another reality: agents aren’t built like other software. Agents are “categorically different” in how they’re built, how they operate, and…
The latest phase of the mobile OS wars isn’t being fought over app stores or user interfaces – it’s being waged with artificial intelligence. Huawei’s latest salvo comes in the form of HarmonyOS 6, in which AI agents aren’t features but the architecture driving user interactions. The beta release to developers signals a broader industry…
Salesforce Agentforce 3 aims to tackle what many businesses have been struggling with: actually seeing what their AI agents are up to. Since its debut back in October 2024, Agentforce has been racking up some wins across a variety of sectors. Engine managed to slash customer case handling times by 15 percent, while 1-800Accountant handed…
Critics fear the revised NO FAKES Act has morphed from targeted AI deepfakes protection into sweeping censorship powers. What began as a seemingly reasonable attempt to tackle AI-generated deepfakes has snowballed into something far more troubling, according to digital rights advocates. The much-discussed Nurture Originals, Foster Art, and Keep Entertainment Safe (NO FAKES) Act –…