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Alibaba has unveiled Wukong , an AI-native enterprise platform designed to bring advanced agentic capabilities directly into business workflows. Built on enterprise-grade security infrastructure, the platform can coordinate multiple agents to handle complex tasks within a single interface. Source: Alibaba. Wukong poster introducing it as a platform for AI-native enterprise work. The launch follows Alibaba’s recent establishment of the Alibaba Token Hub (ATH) Business Group, and is the flagship enterprise AI product from the Wukong Business Unit under ATH.  According to Alibaba, the AI industry is transitioning from conversational AI (“AI that responds”) to agentic AI (“AI that acts”). Enterprises are actively exploring tools that can execute multistep workflows autonomously, so employees can focus more on high-value work and achieve measurable productivity gain. However, this surge in interest also raises questions about security, governance, and appropriate deploym...

Details of Wave 3 of Microsoft Copilot were disclosed in several  blog posts  from Microsoft in early March.  " Microsoft 365 Copilot Wave 3 is not just a singular release of new capabilities but rather a commitment to continuous innovation. We will bring frontier capabilities with enterprise promises for our customers in an open and model diverse manner," said Judson Althoff - CEO, Microsoft Commercial Business, in a separate blog post . The company also introduced  Work IQ,  a new capability that ensures each job is not performed in isolation, but with the big picture in mind.  "... It has the full context of your work, not just fragments of data, so it can reason over all relevant materials," said Spataro in a description of Cowork .   Agent 365 Microsoft Agent 365 gives IT and security leaders a single place to observe, govern, manage and secure agents across the organisation.  " Agent 365 extends the management, security, and govern...

Source: LEM Surgical via NVIDIA. LEM Surgical robot. As industries move toward physical AI, they will need a new class of intelligent edge computing devices capable of real-time sensing and inference to power autonomous, safety-critical machines in complex environments. Enter NVIDIA IGX Thor — an industrial-grade platform that delivers real-time physical AI at the edge with high-speed sensor processing, enterprise-grade reliability and functional safety. Now generally available, NVIDIA IGX Thor boosts edge applications in construction, manufacturing, logistics, healthcare and life sciences, and even space exploration: - Caterpillar is developing an in-cabin conversational AI assistant, powered by IGX Thor, to enhance worker productivity and safety - Hitachi Rail is using IGX Thor to deploy advanced predictive maintenance and autonomous inspection systems on rail networks. - KION Group, the global supply chain solutions company, is harnessing IGX Thor and the NVIDIA Halos Outs...

By Alexander Rumyantsev, Senior Product Manager, Cloud & Network Security at Kaspersky Image conveying the concept of visibility generated by Google Gemini ( Nano Banana 2 ). Today, organisations are facing the unprecedented challenge of maintaining control over infrastructures that have become too vast, too fragmented, and too dynamic to oversee through traditional means. Cloud adoption, virtualisation, containerisation, and the rise of remote work have erased the clear boundaries that once defined the corporate network. What used to be a single, well-guarded perimeter has evolved into a fluid environment made up of data flows between on-premise and cloud servers, IoT devices, third-party SaaS platforms, and remote employees’ laptops. Each new connection increases the organisation’s attack surface – and its potential for blind spots.  Despite millions being spent on IT security across organisations of all sizes, an overwhelming majority continue to suffer network attacks. L...

JFrog, the creators of the JFrog Software Supply Chain Platform , has announced  JFrog Agent Skills Registry . Validated through early integration with NVIDIA, the platform provides governance and a verifiable trust layer required for agentic workforces to operate securely at enterprise speed and scale.  The rapid evolution of AI has made autonomous agents, which rely on skills, a standard part of the software supply chain. However, an infrastructure layer beneath them is needed to enforce policies, security, and privacy controls required to make them safe for use, JFrog said. Without a standardised infrastructure, organisations face unprecedented security and compliance risks, as demonstrated by recent OpenClaw manipulations and breaches . The new JFrog Agent Skills Registry  is built to provide the governance and verifiable trust layer required for agentic workforces to operate securely at enterprise speed and scale. It will support NVIDIA Agent Toolkit , i...

NVIDIA is partnering with the global robotics ecosystem — including leading robot brain developers, industrial robot giants and humanoid pioneers — to power production-scale physical AI. p> Industry leaders building on the NVIDIA platform include ABB Robotics, AGIBOT, Agility, FANUC, Figure, Hexagon Robotics, KUKA, Skild AI, Universal Robots, World Labs and YASKAWA. “Physical AI has arrived — every industrial company will become a robotics company,” said Jensen Huang, founder and CEO of NVIDIA. “NVIDIA’s full-stack platform — spanning computing, open models and software frameworks — is the foundation for the robotics industry, uniting a worldwide ecosystem to build the intelligent machines that will power the next generation of factories, logistics, transportation and infrastructure.” Hashtags: #GTC, #GTC2026

Employees in Singapore are experiencing some of the highest levels of organisational change globally, and against this backdrop, they're turning to AI to stay productive, said Qualtrics. Nearly seven in 10 (68%) use it frequently at work, yet only 14% use company-provided tools exclusively, revealing a gap between employee AI success and organisational technology investment in Singapore, according to the Qualtrics 2026 Employee Experience Trends Report . The research, based on responses from over 1,000 customer-facing employees in Singapore as part of a global study of over 33,000 workers across 24 countries, reveals that 79% of Singapore employees experienced significant organisational change in the past year. This is among the highest rates globally and in response, employees are embracing AI at scale. Singapore-based findings from the annual study include: - Almost seven in 10 (69%) of Singapore employees use AI to improve work quality, among the highest rates globally. ...