Speed-to-market dominates enterprise AI priorities in 2026. Beyond upfront resourcing costs of prioritizing speed, organizations face a more insidious risk: the compounding cost of ungoverned AI. In November 2019, a tech entrepreneur signing up for the newly launched Apple Card publicly complained that he received a credit limit 20 times higher than his wife’s, despite…
Vendor consolidation is sold as discipline. Fewer vendors, simpler architecture, better pricing through volume, one throat to choke when something breaks. Every one of those benefits is real on paper. The problem is that the biggest cost of consolidation rarely appears on the slide the procurement team uses to sell it internally, and it does…
Enterprises have built their data systems for humans, but AI agents need a whole new infrastructure. Separate research from Cloudera and Google/MIT found that, not surprisingly, there is fervent enterprise interest in AI agents, but underlying infrastructure struggles to keep up. Deployments continue to be hampered, sometimes even abandoned, largely due to issues with data…
Investor appetite for the burgeoning vibe-coding startup ecosystem has shown few signs of satiation over the past year plus, with Swedish AI upstart Lovable’s Series C injection at a $13.3B valuation the latest evidence of a sector viewed by venture capitalists as one of AI’s most promising business disruptors. AI-assisted coding has proved to be…