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Byte-Sized AI: Manhattan Associates Commits to Agentic for Logistics, Salesforce Buys Informatica

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Manhattan Associates will launch agents designed to handle supply chain and logistics tasks in the fall.

Salesforce announced this week it had agreed to acquire Informatica , a cloud data management company, for $8 billion .

SAP announced last week that it plans to unleash 40 agents with different functions by the end of the year .

Veho and Rivr team on AI-powered delivery robots in Austin , Tex. If pilot goes well, the companies plan to expand it to other U.S. cities later this year .

Both companies contend that the idea is not to replace human operators, but rather to allow them to deliver more parcels in less time.