I have spent enough time building cloud and AI infrastructure to know one thing: Efficiency problems never show up where teams expect them. They tend to sit just beneath the surface, quietly shaping outcomes long before they appear in the metrics anyone is tracking. Most enterprise conversations still center on token pricing. That focus makes…
A growing backlash against building new data centers in the US may have huge cost implications for CIOs planning to expand their organizations’ AI initiatives. Protests against building new data centers were organized in 42 states in mid-July, with participants concerned about new facilities driving up electricity and water costs and using large swaths of…
A few weeks ago, I found myself in yet another demonstration of an application that was not built by my team or my technology partners. The demonstration lasted 20 minutes and by the end of it, everyone in the room agreed that the application solved a genuine business problem. There was genuine admiration for the…
The transformation of the financial sector is no longer just about offering a mobile app or allowing customers to bank from anywhere. After years of digitizing services, institutions now face the more ambitious challenge of building a more personalized, agile, and intelligent relationship with millions of users who expect immediate answers, simple experiences, and service tailored…
Technology leaders are facing a sobering reality: They’re investing heavily in AI, yet many initiatives continue to struggle to move beyond experimentation and pilot programs. For example, Gartner found only 28% of AI use cases in infrastructure and operations fully succeed and meet ROI expectations, while 20% fail outright. The conversation around AI often focuses…
The intuitive way to help a coding agent is to give it more. More context in the prompt, more documents in the window, and the whole project history pasted in before the real request. The more the agent knows, the better it should do. The catch is that an agent will use everything you give…
A sharp spec gets an agent building the right thing, but a deliberate review is what makes the result something you can stand behind. As agents generate more code, the challenge facing engineering leaders is remaining accountable for the output. Developers say it plainly: “The agent’s work has my name on it.” This puts review…
Oracle on Tuesday described new EBCDIC character set compatibility features in Oracle AI Database for customers transitioning from legacy databases on IBM mainframes. In its post, Oracle noted that EBCDIC compatibility has historically been one of the top technical challenges for enterprises re-platforming to use newer, ASCII-based databases while continuing to use proven legacy applications. …
The real risk in legal AI is not the lawyer who studies these tools. It is the associate who quietly pastes a client’s contract into a free chatbot at 11 p.m. because a brief is due and nobody gave them anything better. That lawyer exists at your firm right now. Survey after survey confirms it,…
As enterprises grapple with governing growing fleets of AI agents, Snowflake has unveiled Cortex AI Gateway, a new runtime control plane designed to help organizations track agent actions, enforce policies, and manage AI spending across models and tools. Built on technology acquired through the purchase of Natoma earlier in May, Cortex AI Gateway “acts as…