When it comes to building an effective AI stack, context is king and power isn’t everything it’s cracked up to be. “Smaller, smarter, safer — this is a bet our company has taken in how we deploy AI internally,” said Ricky Thakrar, head of sales and account management at Zoho, provider of a suite of…
DetailsEvery CIO I speak with today is wrestling with some version of the same question: How do we move faster with AI and deliver on our commitments? It’s an understandable concern. Boards and CEOs are asking about AI. Business leaders are experimenting with use cases. Employees are discovering tools daily, while technology vendors promise unprecedented…
DetailsIn public-sector and regulated-cloud work, I learned that sovereignty rarely starts as a national strategy. It starts as an auditor’s question: Who can prove where the data went, which system made the decision and what changes when the vendor or infrastructure does? That question is now moving into AI, and most sovereign-AI debates answer the…
DetailsHealthy software companies typically don’t suddenly eliminate one-fifth of their workforce, but monday.com is doing just that as it bets on flatter teams, AI agents, and customer implementation expertise as the winning combination in the AI era. Monday.com co-founder and co-CEO Eran Zinman today announced the “very difficult decision” to reduce the AI work platform…
DetailsOracle’s July 2026 Critical Patch Update, its largest ever, contains 1,449 new security patches spanning 32 product families, from Oracle Database and E-Business Suite to PeopleSoft, GoldenGate, Java SE, and Fusion Middleware. Fusion Middleware was particularly hard hit, with new security patches for 355 security vulnerabilities, 219 of them remotely exploitable without authentication, meaning they…
DetailsOracle is expanding its Cloud@Customer on-premises portfolio with a managed database offering that it says will enable enterprises to run databases, applications, and AI agents in their own data centers, helping CIOs modernize mid-sized workloads while meeting data residency, regulatory, and low-latency requirements. The hybrid cloud offering, Base Database Cloud@Customer, combines existing database and infrastructure…
DetailsCyCognito, a leading exposure management platform, today introduced Continuous AI Pentesting. The new capability bakes AI-driven offensive pentesting directly into the platform, leveraging the rich context it already maintains for every exposed asset. This enables CyCognito to deliver AI pentesting as a continuous service, circumventing the cost and coverage constraints that confine comparable solutions to…
DetailsYou are one of the six billion people (75% of the world population) online today, and every click you make is routed through the data center. Data centers, whether knowingly or unknowingly, play a very critical role in your daily online activities. With an increasing population, increasing usage of online presence, and now omniscient AI,…
DetailsAcross industries, a version of the same conversation is playing out in technology leadership meetings. Enterprises have deployed AI broadly, and foundation models keep getting more capable. Yet the outputs still feel generic, shaped by industry patterns rather than by the organization producing them. McKinsey’s AI Trust Maturity Survey found that while overall AI maturity…
DetailsAI agents can turn a clear description into working software, the engineer’s judgement is what makes the difference: deciding what to build, catching the tradeoff the agent didn’t know to weigh, and owning the call on whether the result is right. That judgement has always been the hard part of engineering. It just used to…
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