I think the potential of Agenic is to rethink how work gets done overall. It challenges all sorts of

traditional orthodoxies around how organizations execute the work at hand. That's Jason Gersatus,

CEO of Deloitte U.S., talking about the transformational potential of Agenic AI. Join him later to

learn why agents are a game changer for businesses across industries.

Here's your afternoon TNB Tech Minute for Tuesday, March 17th. I'm Julie Chang for the Wall Street

Journal. International Business Machines said it would close its roughly $11 billion acquisition of the

data streaming company Confluent today.

The deal is intended to help businesses access their data for AI agents or bots that can

take action on their own. IBM CEO said Confluence technology will become the backbone of its

platform for helping clients access their data for various AI uses. IBM has integrated AI agents into its

internal operations over the last three years, which the CEO said resulted in a productivity

increase of roughly $4.5 billion. Microsoft is reorganizing its Microsoft 365 co-pilot

teams to Unified's commercial and consumer versions.

This change aims to address customer confusion caused by multiple versions of co-pilot, as previously

reported by the journal. According to a company memo, Jacob Andrea will now lead co-pilot as its

executive VP. Mustafa Suleiman will focus on proprietary AI models, and the Microsoft's

365 apps will be led by a group of executives that include the CEO of LinkedIn and an executive

VP in Microsoft. The shift moves Microsoft toward a single co-pilot experience across all applications.

Finally, Nvidia and Uber are expanding their partnership

to launch a global fleet of robotaxies. The companies will begin launching vehicles in Los Angeles

and San Francisco in the first half of next year, then expand to cities across Europe, Australia,

Asia, and North America by 28. The vehicles will use NVIDIA's

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