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The ARD standard could redefine enterprise AI integration, potentially marginalizing non-compliant tools and boosting major backers' market dominance. The post Google, Microsoft, and Salesforce back new AI software standard to counter OpenAI and Anthropic appeared first on Crypto Briefing.

Enterprises implementing agentic AI face a challenge: Which tools should they allow their agents to use, where can they be found, and how can they be used safely? A new protocol, Agentic Resource Discovery, or ARD, aims to let agents answer those questions for themselves. Behind it are Google, Microsoft, Cisco, Nvidia, Salesforce and others. ARD aims to standardize the way that tools and services are shared across systems within a corporate domain. For example, when investigating a production problem, an agent may want to query engineering documentation and open support tickets, deployment history and observability systems, all of which could be managed by different registries and across different silos. There is no common layer that pulls them together. ARD has been designed to be that layer. It operates across two levels. Catalogs and Registries. In the first, an organization publishes a catalog setting out its available capabilities. The Registries layer act as a form of search engi

Enterprises implementing agentic AI face a challenge: Which tools should they allow their agents to use, where can they be found, and how can they be used safely? A new protocol, Agentic Resource Discovery, or ARD, aims to let agents answer those questions for themselves. Behind it are Google, Microsoft, Cisco, Nvidia, Salesforce and others. ARD aims to standardize the way that tools and services are shared across systems within a corporate domain. For example, when investigating a production problem, an agent may want to query engineering documentation and open support tickets, deployment history and observability systems, all of which could be managed by different registries and across different silos. There is no common layer that pulls them together. ARD has been designed to be that layer. It operates across two levels. Catalogs and Registries. In the first, an organization publishes a catalog setting out its available capabilities. The Registries layer act as a form of search engi

Zaro.ai, a London-based enterprise AI startup, has emerged from stealth with $5.1 million in pre-seed funding led by Cherry Ventures. The company was founded by Michael Bajwa and Qian Zheng, who previously built AI agent products at Convergence before it was acquired by Salesforce, where the team worked on Agentforce. Additional investors include Thomas Wolf […]

We implement an end-to-end workflow for Salesforce CodeGen, loaded from Hugging Face. We move past basic inference by adding function extraction, syntax checking, static safety checks, and unit-test validation. We rerank best-of-N candidates, compose multi-turn program synthesis, and experiment with prompt styles. We finish by visualizing a mini benchmark and exporting the generated artifacts as reusable files. The post Salesforce CodeGen Tutorial: Generate, Validate, and Rerank Python Functions With Unit Tests and Safety Checks appeared first on MarkTechPost.

Agencies look to AI to modernize legacy processes, but disparate data and systems pose a challenge, says Salesforce's federal data and integration director.

OpenAI and Anthropic's strategic hires from Salesforce highlight AI's shift to enterprise focus, challenging established tech giants' dominance. The post Anthropic and OpenAI hire over 85 Salesforce employees in 2026 appeared first on Crypto Briefing.

The talent shift highlights a strategic pivot in AI firms towards direct enterprise engagement, reshaping future industry revenue dynamics. The post OpenAI and Anthropic have poached roughly 100 Salesforce employees in 18 months appeared first on Crypto Briefing.