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Perplexity is adding Portable Computer in the Perplexity app for Windows on compatible NVIDIA GeForce RTX PCs and NVIDIA RTX PRO Workstations, bringing agentic AI to more Windows PC users. The release builds on existing support for NVIDIA DGX Spark systems and RTX PCs running Linux .    Accelerated by NVIDIA GPUs,  Portable Computer  uses local models to analyse data, bring together information across files and handle recurring work. Sensitive information stays on-device, and locally-completed work doesn’t consume Perplexity Computer credits.  For tasks that call for more advanced reasoning,  Portable Computer  can also identify when a task needs cloud support, asking the user for permission before sending information off-device.  The app simplifies setup with a local model, such as Qwen 3.8 27B, that is post-trained to work with Perplexity Computer and optimised for NVIDIA RTX GPUs. Users can put the agent to work without having to researc...

UiPath, a business orchestration and automation provider, has found that while enterprises have initial proof-of-concept for their agentic deployments, many remain stuck in that pilot phase, struggling in purgatory as it were to scale those deployments and find a path forward to meaningful return on investment (ROI). The insight is part of a new global report on the state of agentic AI deployments, coding agents, and business orchestration surveying nearly 600 C-suite and IT practitioners at large companies (US$1 B+ in revenue). According to the  Beyond Adoption: Orchestrating the Agentic Enterprise report, fewer than a third (31%) of respondents reported that AI is fully embedded in their business. A closer look at those using AI showed that 35% have adopted AI on a limited basis among select teams, while 11% are stuck in pilot mode doing limited experimentation.  Source: UiPath  Beyond Adoption: Orchestrating the Agentic Enterprise report. Bottlenecks in agentic AI ad...

Genesys, a global provider of agentic orchestration for customer experience (CX), has announced advancements to Genesys Cloud Agentic Virtual Agent , that will help organisations automate more complex customer interactions with greater speed, reliability and natural engagement. New enterprise connectivity and interoperability will also expand the ability of Agentic Virtual Agent to securely work with business systems and other AI agents to drive customer outcomes across the enterprise. Since becoming generally available last March, continual enhancements for Agentic Virtual Agent are increasingly making it easier to build, test and optimise autonomous customer experiences alongside the new Scaled Cognition APT-2 large action model, and new native voice capabilities and integrations with ElevenLabs and Deepgram.   Agentic Virtual Agent will also provide deeper Model Context Protocol (MCP) connectivity and agent-to-agent (A2A) interoperability with enterprise platforms. Organisat...

Source: SAS landing page . A new SAS report* with research insights by IDC has uncovered what’s powering the organisations winning the race to profit from their AI investments: embracing trustworthy AI measures. Southeast Asia has emerged as the strongest-performing region in trustworthy AI, exceeding global benchmarks across all five dimensions of trustworthiness while rapidly increasing adoption of more autonomous AI systems. Trustworthy AI is defined as AI designed to be reliable, fair, secure, up to regulatory standards, and able to clearly show how it arrived at a decision. Users and decision-makers at all levels within an organisation must be able to hold an AI system to a predetermined chain of accountability for incorrect or missing AI output. Any AI system must also be governed and proven to be in compliance with clear rules.   The 2nd annual  Data and AI Impact Report: The New Economics of Trust has found that organisations investing in trustworthy AI measu...

Rubrik, the security and AI operations company, has announced Rubrik MCP (Model Context Protocol) , giving an organisation’s AI agents a secure, programmable path to Rubrik’s data, identity, and application intelligence. Support for MCP expands Rubrik AI , which is now trusted by one-third of its global customers, and unites Anthropic’s frontier models with Rubrik’s domain expertise and security guardrails—to deliver a multistep reasoning agent engineered for critical incident response. "We are seeing rapid growth with AI, and the addition of Rubrik MCP transforms security operations by seamlessly connecting customer AI agents directly into Rubrik's rich telemetry and governance framework,” said Arvind Nithrakashyap, Co-Founder and CTO at Rubrik. "Cyberthreats accelerate at machine speed, and we are helping our customers use AI to maintain complete visibility and control across complex enterprise environments.” Rubrik MCP exposes the Rubrik Security Cloud API schem...