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VentureBeat names Rob Strechay as its first Lead Analyst, expanding its enterprise AI research push

Rob Strechay, until recently managing director and principal analyst at theCUBE Research, has joined VentureBeat as our first Lead Analyst and a founding analyst of VentureBeat Research. His arrival is the next step in a deliberate move at VentureBeat toward deeper specialization: analysis built for the technical decision-makers — the directors, VPs, CIOs, and CTOs — who are evaluating, buying, and deploying enterprise AI.

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Perplexity partners with Nvidia to launch Portable Computer, a fully local AI agent with zero token costs

The launch, developed in close partnership with Nvidia, is one of the most aggressive attempts yet to move serious AI agent workloads off the cloud and onto local devices. The model, the user's files, and the work itself can all stay on the machine. Work completed locally consumes no billing credits, and the company says every task starts on the device by default — with the system asking permission before sending any individual step to a more powerful frontier model in the cloud.

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Anthropic’s new Claude Tag update lets its Slack agent read the full conversation — and jump in unprompted

In an exclusive interview with VentureBeat, Scott White, Anthropic's head of product for enterprise, laid out the company's thesis for what it calls "multiplayer AI": a shift away from the single-user chatbot paradigm toward AI agents that operate across teams, read organizational context, and proactively insert themselves into work — sometimes without being asked.

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IBM’s next-gen mainframe chip is the first to run Arm and Z workloads on the same cores

The chip, which will power the next generation of IBM Z and LinuxONE systems, is the first dual-architecture mainframe processor ever built. It is designed to let enterprises run the vast and fast-growing ecosystem of Arm-native Linux software — including the AI frameworks that increasingly define modern infrastructure — directly alongside the z/OS transaction-processing workloads that anchor the world's banks, insurers, and governments.

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Enterprise AI agents are only as reliable as the messiest documents behind them

Enterprise AI has largely been built around context engineering. Teams connect enterprise systems, generate chunks and embeddings, build retrieval pipelines, and assemble the context needed by individual AI applications. While this approach works well for isolated assistants and copilots, it treats enterprise knowledge as application-specific context rather than a shared enterprise asset.

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Enterprises winning with AI agents are limiting how much the agents can do alone

For much of the past two years, the general belief in enterprise AI has been that more autonomy equals better performance. Build agents that can plan, decide, and act across multi-step workflows, and give them as much room to run as possible. That assumption is now being tested at scale, in real production environments — and in a lot of deployments it's failing. The companies that end up benefiting from agentic AI won't necessarily be the ones that have given their agents the most flexibility. They're the ones who create AI agents with specific responsibilities and make sure they operate within clear rules.

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Slack wants to drag AI coding out of the terminal and into the group chat

The Salesforce-owned messaging platform today announced Slack Code, a new product that embeds AI coding agents — including Anthropic's Claude Code, Cognition's Devin, GitHub Copilot, and Vercel's agent — directly into dedicated Slack channels where entire teams can watch, steer, review, and ship software together. Slack Code is available on any Slack plan at launch, though customers need their own access to the partner agents.