Anthropic signs HCLTech, Salesforce buys Loops, and more - Enterprise AI Brief #89

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• Anthropic signs HCLTech as a global partner and licenses Opaque's confidential computing technology.
• Large companies put AI agents to work: Manulife, CaixaBank, Workday, Voya.
• Salesforce and Freshworks buy AI startups; Nvidia talks to Reflection AI.

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Anthropic signs HCLTech, licenses Opaque technology and opens in Singapore

HCLTech and Anthropic signed a global partnership to bring Claude, Claude Code and other agent tools into large companies. HCLTech will set up an Anthropic business unit and a center of excellence, and HCLSoftware will build Claude into some of its security, automation and business software. The partnership

The same week HCLTech reported $219 million in advanced AI revenue for the quarter, $876 million a year at that pace, on $3.7 billion in total quarterly revenue. HCLTech's quarter

Anthropic also licensed Opaque's confidential computing technology and hired part of its team; terms were not disclosed. In Asia it opened an office in Singapore and signed an AI safety memorandum with the government. Opaque · Singapore

CaixaBank, Manulife, Voya and POSCO DX put AI agents to work

CaixaBank extended its Google Cloud agreement to 2033 and adds Gemini Enterprise and agents for document handling, summaries and workflow automation. Manulife launched its own AI platform for building and governing AI across the group; it says its AI work produced $300 million in value by the end of 2025 and expects $1 billion by 2027. Voya Financial chose Unqork's AI platform for retirement onboarding and service. CaixaBank · Manulife · Voya

POSCO DX invested 2 billion won in the Korean startup Enhans and will build agents on its ontology based Agent OS for office work, production, equipment and logistics, using company data and employees' know how. POSCO DX and Enhans

Workday's Sana now works inside Claude, Gemini Enterprise, Microsoft Copilot, Teams and Slack, applying Workday's permissions and approval rules so HR and finance agents can complete tasks there. Workday Sana

Service firms build agent practices with LangChain, Parloa and OpenAI

Service firms are building on LangChain: DXC runs LangGraph and LangSmith in its OASIS platform, which it is scaling toward 125 customer environments, and Quantiphi signed a partnership to build and govern agents for its clients. DXC · Quantiphi

TELUS Digital will implement Parloa's customer service agents for enterprise clients in North America and Europe, covering integration, change management and managed services. NTT DATA Business Solutions launched Elevate, an agentic AI delivery framework for SAP transformations, including RISE with SAP projects. TELUS Digital and Parloa · NTT DATA Elevate

EY formed two alliances: EY US with Watershed, for emissions measurement and audit ready sustainability reports, and EY UK with INSTANDA, to modernise insurers' legacy core systems. Watershed · INSTANDA

Three companies were named OpenAI Select Partners: Innover Digital, which cites claims processing and document analysis work in insurance and financial services; Viettel America, the US subsidiary of Vietnam's Viettel Group; and Fedstack, which trains software engineers for government technology. Innover Digital · Viettel America · Fedstack

Salesforce buys Loops, Freshworks buys Torii, Nvidia talks to Reflection AI

Salesforce agreed to buy the Israeli analytics startup Loops for Tableau, reportedly for about $30 million. Separately, Docusign's Intelligent Agreement Management now runs natively in Salesforce, Agentforce and Slack, where sales, legal and contract teams can handle agreements, renewals and approvals. Freshworks agreed to buy Torii to govern software and AI spending in Freshservice. Loops · Docusign · Torii

Nvidia is in early talks to invest more in, or acquire, Reflection AI, in which it has already put $800 million, the Financial Times reported. Separately it plans to invest in four French companies, Doctolib, Entalpic, Genesis AI and Pigment, and it is working with Danaher to connect Danaher's scientific instruments, lab workflows and data to Nvidia computing, starting with selected instruments. Reflection AI · France · Danaher

Zenzap raised $44 million for its AI workplace messaging app, and RapidCanvas raised a $29 million Series B led by Vertex Ventures SEA and India. Zenzap · RapidCanvas

Goodweek raised a €10.69 million seed round led by Adara Ventures for a platform where small and mid sized companies manage AI models, users, data and spending; it has nearly 150 customers. Flexcompute took an undisclosed strategic investment from Samsung Ventures and Applied Materials' Applied Ventures for its Physics World Model, which combines AI with physics simulation for engineering design. Goodweek · Flexcompute

Surveys: 42% of European small and mid sized firms use AI, 14% of finance teams see enterprise value

A Eurobarometer survey found that 42% of European small and mid sized companies already use AI or algorithmic management, mostly for customer service, monitoring, logistics and scheduling. The survey

CompTIA found that about six in 10 organizations are moving from AI experiments and individual productivity tools to company wide implementation, with cybersecurity the second largest challenge. OneStream asked 1,300 CFOs in the US, UK and France: 74% of finance teams use AI to reduce manual work, 40% have fully transparent financial data and 14% report enterprise value from it. CompTIA · OneStream

Heathrow, Honda, CNN and CERN sign AI agreements

Heathrow Airport extended its Adobe partnership and uses Adobe CX Enterprise, Experience Manager and Brand Visibility for personalised digital services to more than 84 million passengers a year, a new website and more accurate content in AI search. Honda signed a multi year agreement to widen its use of Rescale's platform for simulation and vehicle development. Heathrow · Honda

CNN signed a multi year partnership that gives Google enhanced rights to its content for experimental generative AI features, with payment for the use of its journalism. CERN and Mistral signed a statement of intent to build Flare, a foundation model for collider physics trained on billions of simulated Large Hadron Collider collisions; no timeline or budget was disclosed. CNN and Google · CERN and Mistral

VOLT signs Nebius for Rotterdam, EQT's AI infrastructure fund reaches $11.5 billion

VOLT signed Nebius as the intended first customer of its planned 600 MW AI campus in Rotterdam; the first two buildings would cost about €7 billion. VOLT and Nebius

EQT's AI Infrastructure fund reached $11.5 billion in net asset value after $0.9 billion of net inflows in the third quarter. EQT

T-Mobile uses AI to guide network investment and make its network more resilient, chief technology officer John Saw said at Deutsche Telekom's AI Investor Day. Huawei says more than 60 carriers have deployed its NG WAN Solution and that a South African carrier was the first to reach Level 4 autonomy on an IP network. T-Mobile · Huawei

Speakeasy, Tailscale, ActivTrak and CloudFuze connect agents to company systems

Speakeasy and Tailscale let Enterprise customers run Speakeasy MCP gateways on their own Tailscale networks, keeping MCP traffic private and carrying user and device identity with every request. ActivTrak MCP combines its work activity data with CRM, HR and ticketing data for AI analysis of capacity and productivity, in early access through Claude and ChatGPT. CloudFuze launched a service that moves conversation history, files and knowledge between AI platforms and recreates Microsoft Copilot Studio agents in Gemini Enterprise. Speakeasy and Tailscale · ActivTrak · CloudFuze

Also

OpenAI's GPT-6 Pro in ChatGPT can now run several agents on parts of one task at the same time. Booking Holdings opened a private beta of Vayo, its AI travel agent. GPT-6 Pro · Vayo

Sirion signed two legal tech partnerships: with Deloitte Tax for contract management in the US, and with Legora to connect contract data and legal research. Deloitte · Legora

OnePlan's AI enabled portfolio management platform received FedRAMP High certification, so US federal civilian agencies and their contractors can use it to plan and fund mission programs. OnePlan

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