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Accenture and WaveMaker announced strategic intent to help organizations modernize applications faster, reduce development complexity, and deliver new digital experiences. "By combining WaveMaker's platform with Accenture's engineering and industry offerings, we are enabling a more scalable and repeatable approach to application development," said Senthil Ramani, chief offerings and products officer at Accenture. "This allows organizations to accelerate delivery while maintaining consistency, quality, and control across their application landscape."

Catch up on the top artificial intelligence news and commentary by Wall Street analysts on publicly traded companies in the space with this daily recap compiled by The Fly.ENTERPRISE AI AGENTS:Adobeis launching CX Enterprise, a set of AI agents designed to help corporate customers automate digital marketing and related functions such as customer engagement, sales, and loyalty, The Wall Street Journal's Belle Lin. The move reflects Adobe's effort to integrate AI more deeply into its enterprise software offerings to stay competitive amid AI-driven disruption. "You're going to get new AI-first applications. There's no question associated with that, and the business models are going to change," said Adobe CEO Shantanu Narayen. Adobe is partnering with more than 30 AI platforms and major tech firms, including Amazon Web Services, Microsoft, Anthropic, OpenAI, and Nvidia, to enable customers to deploy AI agents across multiple ecosystems for digital marketing tasks, Lin writes.MYTHOS PREVIEW:The National Security Agency is using Anthropic's advanced "Mythos Preview" model even as Department of Defense officials have labeled the company a potential supply chain risk, highlighting internal tensions over AI adoption and security concerns, Maria Curi and Sam Sabin of Axios.FUNDING ROUND:Cursor, a leading AI startup for coding, is in advanced talks with investors to raise about $2Bin a funding round at a valuation of more than $50B, not including the investment, Bloomberg's Rachel Metz, Natasha Mascarenhas and Rebecca Torrence, citing a person familiar with the matter. Andreessen Horowitz, an existing backer, is set to co-lead the funding round, said the source. Nvidia is also planning to participate in the financing, according to two people familiar with the matter.AGENTIC FACTORY:Accentureand Avanade are co-developing an agentic factory intelligence system with Microsoftto help companies reinvent factory operations through seamless collaboration between humans, machines, AI agents and data. Leading manufacturers Kruger and Nissha Metallizing Solutions are early adopters, helping validate the agentic factory ahead of its planned general availability later in 2026. Accenture and Avanade are presenting the product in collaboration with Microsoft at Hannover Messe 2026. The agentic factory is an intelligence system built on the Accenture and Avanade Factory Agents and Analytics offering. It uses Microsoft technologies including Microsoft Azure, Microsoft Fabric, Microsoft Foundry and Microsoft Copilot and is delivered via a subscription model that allows clients to start small and scale as value is proven.AI CODING MODELS:Googlehas formed a specialized team of researchers and engineers to enhance its AI coding models, aiming to increase automation in software development and AI research, The information's Erin Wood. The effort was accelerated in part due to competitive pressure from Anthropic, Woo writes.AWS COLLABORATION:Choice Hotels Internationalannounced the integration of artificial intelligence across its enterprise in collaboration with Amazon Web Services. The initiative marks a significant milestone in the hospitality industry, demonstrating how AI can move from isolated pilots to production-grade deployment at scale .Unlike point solutions that address a single use case, Choice Hotels has embedded AI across the full hospitality value chain - from how guests discover and book hotels, to how franchisees manage operations, to how the company optimizes its distribution and channel ecosystem. The result is a more intelligent, responsive, and efficient enterprise built on AWS cloud infrastructure.

Accenture (ACN) and Avanade are co-developing an agentic factory intelligence system with Microsoft (MSFT) to help companies reinvent factory operations through seamless collaboration between humans, machines, AI agents and data. Leading manufacturers Kruger and Nissha Metallizing Solutions are early adopters, helping validate the agentic factory ahead of its planned general availability later in 2026. Accenture and Avanade are presenting the product in collaboration with Microsoft at Hannover Messe 2026. The agentic factory is an intelligence system built on the Accenture and Avanade Factory Agents and Analytics offering. It uses Microsoft technologies including Microsoft Azure, Microsoft Fabric, Microsoft Foundry and Microsoft Copilot and is delivered via a subscription model that allows clients to start small and scale as value is proven.

Accenture has invested, through Accenture Ventures, in AI-native company General Robotics. General Robotics offers general-purpose robotic intelligence that allows organizations to rapidly deploy and continuously adapt robots of any form, with any AI, for any task. With this investment, Accenture and General Robotics will also partner to help manufacturers, logistics companies and clients in other asset-intensive industries advance autonomous operations with physical AI. Physical AI is essential to scaled robot deployment as it enables simulations of factories and warehouses that adhere to real-world conditions, in which robots learn to do tasks more efficiently. These simulations will also let companies find more effective configurations for their robot fleets before deploying them at the actual sites. General Robotics brings GRID, a unified intelligence platform that connects robots across robotics original equipment manufacturers to deployable, scalable, and adaptable AI. Rather than relying on static programming, the platform focuses on modular, reusable AI skills, cloud-based orchestration, simulation training and sovereignty over data and intellectual property. Accenture brings deep expertise in physical AI and manufacturing, logistics and other asset-intensive industries including utilities, energy, and aerospace. Terms of this investment were not disclosed.