Welcome to CIOFirst’s Weekly Roundup — your trusted source for the latest breakthroughs shaping enterprise IT modernization, AI-driven transformation, cloud intelligence, and cybersecurity innovation. This week’s highlights explore strategic cloud alliances, AI-powered discovery, secure enterprise agents, serverless ML workflows, and Europe’s advancing vision for sovereign cloud and AI governance.
In Enterprise AI…
Accenture and Snowflake Launch Joint Business Group to Accelerate Enterprise AI
Accenture and Snowflake, the AI Data Cloud company, are expanding their collaboration. This effort seeks to increase generative AI use. It aims to create real business impact for global firms, such as Caterpillar.
In Cloud Infrastructure…
Fivetran and MegazoneCloud Partner to Accelerate AI-Ready Data Foundations Across Asia Pacific
Fivetran, the global leader in automated data movement, announced a new partnership with MegazoneCloud aimed at helping enterprises across Asia Pacific build secure, compliant, and AI-ready data foundations.
In Data Discovery & Analytics…
Palantir Partners with CenterPoint and NVIDIA on AI Infrastructure
Palantir Technologies has introduced Chain Reaction, a new operating system designed to accelerate America’s AI infrastructure by addressing the growing bottleneck of power and compute rather than algorithms.
In Secure Enterprise AI Agents…
Microsoft Foundry Integrates OneLake Files for Enterprise AI
Microsoft Fabric and Azure AI Foundry announced a key enhancement enabling enterprises to use files stored in OneLake as a native knowledge source for AI agents.
In Machine Learning Platforms…
OpenAI Acquire Neptune, for AI Training Insights and Visibility
OpenAI has signed an agreement to acquire neptune.ai. This deal boosts the tools and infrastructure for its research efforts. Neptune offers a precise and scalable experiment-tracking platform.
In Quality Engineering…
Fujitsu Unveils AI Agent Collaboration for Supply Chains
Fujitsu has announced the development of a new multi-AI agent collaboration technology for optimal complex supply chains. The goal is to support secure and efficient cooperation among AI agents owned by various companies.
In Sovereign Cloud & AI Governance…
Marvell Announce Partnership with Microsoft Azure Security Services
Marvell Technology, a leading provider of data infrastructure semiconductor solutions, announced that Microsoft has expanded the use of its cloud-based security offerings powered by Marvell® LiquidSecurity® hardware security modules (HSMs).
⭐ Article of the Week
AI CRM Tools: How Intelligent Customer Platforms Are Redefining Sales and Service in 2026
But AI CRM tools have quietly become the truth tellers. No emotions. No hero stories. They score every deal by chewing through millions of real signals. Historical win rates. Engagement patterns. Who actually opened the proposal. How long the CFO went silent? The system measures behavior instead of belief and ranks opportunities with brutal honesty. And because it keeps learning from every win and loss, the scoring sharpens month after month. This is where the old guesswork finally dies and forecasting starts feeling like a real science.