Salesforce is deepening its AI collaborations with both OpenAI and Anthropic. OpenAI's models, including GPT‑5, are being integrated into Agentforce 360 and made accessible through ChatGPT. This setup will let Salesforce customers retrieve sales data, review conversations, and generate Tableau analyses directly within ChatGPT.
At the same time, Anthropic is expanding its partnership with Salesforce to serve regulated industries. Its Claude model will be embedded into Agentforce and Slack, operating under Salesforce's trust layer for data security. Salesforce also announced the global rollout of Agentforce 360, a unified platform designed to connect people, AI agents, and data in one environment.
Amazon has officially launched AgentCore, its platform for running AI agents, making it generally available as part of Amazon Bedrock.AgentCore is designed to help companies quickly integrate AI agents into real-world applications, with support for models and frameworks like OpenAI, Gemini, and LangGraph. The platform offers runtime environments, access to web apps, API integration, and built-in storage and monitoring through CloudWatch.
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Amazon says companies including Sony, Ericsson, and Cohere Health are already using AgentCore for manufacturing, telecom, and healthcare. AgentCore is now available in nine AWS regions.
Walmart is partnering with OpenAI to introduce "agentic commerce" to ChatGPT, making it possible for customers to shop and buy products directly through chat. Based on OpenAI's new Instant Checkout feature, users will "soon" be able to search for items in a conversation and purchase them immediately, skipping traditional search results and shopping carts. Walmart says the goal is to create an AI-powered shopping experience that understands personal preferences and offers predictive recommendations.
"For many years now, eCommerce shopping experiences have consisted of a search bar and a long list of item responses. That is about to change. There is a native AI experience coming that is multi-media, personalized and contextual."
Microsoft has introduced its first in-house image generation model, MAI-Image-1. The model currently ranks ninth among text-to-image systems on LMArena. According to Microsoft AI, MAI-Image-1 was designed to avoid repetitive or overly generic results. The team incorporated feedback from creative industry professionals to fine-tune the model. It performs especially well at producing photorealistic images, capturing details like lighting effects and landscapes, and runs faster than many larger models.
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The model is available for testing on LMArena and will soon be integrated into Copilot and Bing Image Creator. Microsoft emphasizes its focus on safe and responsible outputs. MAI-Image-1 expands the company’s own AI lineup, which also includes the speech generation model MAI-Voice-1 and the chatbot MAI-1-preview.
OpenAI and Broadcom are teaming up to build AI accelerators with a combined output of 10 gigawatts.OpenAI will handle chip design, while Broadcom supplies key networking components like Ethernet and PCIe. The accelerator racks are scheduled to start shipping in mid-2026, with installation in OpenAI and partner data centers expected to wrap up by the end of 2029. The deal is reportedly valued at around $10 billion.
Adobe encourages candidates to use AI during the application process. Stacy Martinet, the company's chief communications officer, told Fortune that work samples or designs created with AI tend to stand out. According to Martinet, the company is searching for people who combine creativity with technical skills.
As AI reshapes how we communicate, market, and create, those who pair creative skills with AI fluency will have a competitive edge, and we’re looking for that combination.
Stacy Matinet
Previous experience with AI isn't required, but new hires are expected to be willing to learn the tools.
