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Microsoft Azure delivers its first large‑scale cluster built on NVIDIA GB300 NVL72 to support OpenAI‑class training and inference, pairing densely interconnected GPUs with high bandwidth to accelerate massive transformer models and agentic systems while raising the ceiling on cloud AI capacity. The deployment gives enterprises and developers elastic, production‑grade compute for foundation models and custom fine‑tunes within Azure, aligning orchestration and governance with existing services to cut time‑to‑train, stabilize high‑volume serving, and prepare for the next wave of frontier‑scale workloads.

Google advances Gemini Enterprise as a push to place an AI agent on every desk, positioning Gemini as a work companion that understands context, retrieves knowledge, automates tasks, and assists with coding and content generation through natural language across productivity environments. The effort focuses on enterprise adoption with administrator controls and security in mind, aiming to embed the agent into everyday workflows alongside existing tools so organizations can standardize on a scalable, governed, and broadly capable AI assistant for employees.

ScottsMiracle‑Gro reports $150 million in savings attributed to AI, linking the gains to data‑driven decision‑making that streamlines operations across a large consumer goods footprint in lawn and garden products. The initiative channels analytics and machine intelligence into planning, procurement, and customer engagement so teams can allocate resources more precisely, reduce waste and stock imbalances, and respond faster to shifts in demand, illustrating how legacy brands can turn modern AI pipelines into tangible, enterprise‑scale financial impact.

Raindrop introduces Experiments to determine whether updating AI agents will help or hurt performance, offering a structured way to compare versions so teams can see the net effect of changes before rolling them out broadly. The tool enables controlled evaluations against defined metrics and guardrails, surfaces regressions that might be masked by anecdotal wins, and supports incremental deployment decisions, giving organizations a repeatable method to improve agents without sacrificing reliability or user experience.

AI‑enabled scams grow more sophisticated, with prevalent patterns that exploit deepfake impersonation, automated social engineering, and synthetic identities to hijack payments, credentials, and personal data. Effective defenses center on verification and friction: confirm identities via trusted channels rather than links or caller IDs, enable multi‑factor authentication and passkeys, avoid rushed transactions and gift‑card or crypto payments, use reverse‑image and number lookups, keep devices and browsers updated, and set up account alerts so suspicious activity is caught quickly before funds or access are lost.