Nearly three years after Broadcom purchased VMware, IT leaders still aren’t convinced they will stick with the leading virtualization technology provider over the long term. Ninety percent of current VMware customer CIOs are considering alternatives to VMware due to higher licensing costs since the Broadcom acquisition, according to a recent survey, with over half saying…
Stripe recently acquired AI routing platform OpenRouter for a reported $7.5 billion, making it one of the largest venture-backed AI startup exits and fintech M&A deals of the year. It’s a blockbuster deal that instantly became one of the most intriguing tech developments to occur this year. Not just because of the dollars involved or…
Companies routinely rely on authenticating the identities of humans who access sensitive company data across their networks. There’s an established and accepted set of protocols, done upfront and in a zero-trust approach – either we know who you are and let you in, or you’re locked out. The same framework needs to be applied to…
Imagine a brand-new marketing hire being handed a spreadsheet and expected to execute a campaign on day one. Would you blame them if it went badly, when no one had explained customer profiles, conversion goals, or lead qualification criteria? AI agents may be the largest batch of new hires your company will bring on for…
The next generation of founders aren’t pinned to one mindset, one technology, and for that matter, one coast. TechCrunch’s Founder Summit event in Boston’s SoWa Power Station on November 4 gives the East Coast its due and is focused on equipping the next generation of disruptive ideas with the tools and connections they need to…
What CIOs need to know about AI agents Enterprise AI adoption is entering a new phase. Generative AI gave employees new ways to create content and access information, primarily through AI web applications. Embedded AI copilots began helping them work natively in existing applications. Now, AI agents are running locally on employee workstations, with expansive…
ServiceNow is giving its AI Control Tower new features to make AI agents more governable — and a new name, Super Intelligence Control Tower (SICT), to please the US President. It is also updating EmployeeWorks to make building AI agents easier. AI Passport, a new component of SICT, gives every agent, whether from ServiceNow or…
AI systems do not make decisions from reality. They make decisions from representations of reality: records, observations, measurements, histories, labels, documents, and whatever else an organization has decided belongs in the data. That distinction sounds almost too obvious to be interesting, yet it becomes surprisingly easy to forget once an AI system can process thousands…
For the past half century or more, the teams running enterprise software stacks have nurtured a vast ecosystem of tools to keep software humming along. They’ve built CI/CD pipelines, elaborate test suites, code repositories, and tools galore, all with the goal of keeping the systems up and running. Now AI is throwing a wrench into…
Last year, my company decided to rebuild our enterprise AI platform, which our customers had been using for over a decade. But instead of simply updating it, we started over with a different ambition: to build an AI-native platform using AI. Using AI to rebuild a platform of that size gave us first-hand experience with…