Oracle introduced Base Database Cloud@Customer, a managed database service that runs inside customer data centers, targeting regulated enterprises with data residency requirements and AI workloads that cannot move to public cloud due to latency or compliance concerns.
OpenAI unveiled Presence, a new enterprise platform for deploying AI voice agents and chatbots, while announcing plans to spend $750 billion on infrastructure through 2030—a 25% increase from earlier estimates. The moves come as the company faces pressure to prove AI's business value, while Emarketer projects that OpenAI will fall far short of its AI advertising revenue targets.
OpenAI unveiled the OpenAI Deployment Company with $4 billion in initial investment to place Forward Deployed Engineers inside client organizations. The initiative follows Palantir's enterprise model and aims to accelerate AI adoption.
EY announced a global rollout of enterprise-scale agentic AI across its entire Assurance workforce of 130,000 professionals conducting 160,000 audits worldwide, representing one of the largest production deployments of multi-agent AI systems.
