For most of computing history, performance was an engineering problem you could reason about at your desk. Profile the code, count the database calls, size the hardware. If a system was slow, the cause was usually something you could hold in your head: an unindexed query, a synchronous call that should have been async, a…
Enterprise AI transformation has moved beyond experimentation. Organizations are no longer asking whether artificial intelligence can improve productivity, decision-making, customer engagement and operating efficiency; they are asking how to adopt it responsibly, repeatedly and at scale. A Client Zero strategy offers a practical answer to this challenge. In this approach, an enterprise becomes the first…
Alternative clouds have emerged amid major cloud providers such as AWS, Google Cloud, and Microsoft Azure, and often specialize in niche areas like AI-native computing, and sovereign and edge deployments, while professing to provide cost reductions and best-of-breed performance. “Many organizations are rebalancing away from all-in hyperscaler strategies to avoid lock-in and concentration risk,” says…
AI’s ascent in business is rapidly impacting nearly every industry and job role. But, according to data from Indeed Hiring Lab, IT remains the epicenter of AI’s role revolution, with AI skills still proving to be most valuable to those working technology positions. When it comes to AI’s impact, Indeed identifies software development, IT systems…
Over the last four years, artificial intelligence has captured the imagination of technology and business leaders worldwide, holding out the promise of revamped business models, new growth avenues and efficiency gains. In the past 12 months, however, enterprise conversations have undergone a sharp strategic pivot. As the initial AI hype cycle cools, corporate boards and…
Meta is once again repositioning itself to target the enterprise market. This week, the company announced the Meta Enterprise Platform, which it says will evolve its AI stack into products and services that enterprises can deploy into operations, rather than just using them for advertising and social media campaigns. While the company provided few details…
The fact that almost one-fourth of Anthropic’s revenue last year came from just two customers, and that many of its largest customers have not signed long-term contracts, could translate into a much stronger negotiating position for enterprise CIOs. According to a detailed analysis by Reuters, the company’s confidential prospectus depicted a company that might be…
Microsoft used its Fabric + SQL European Community Conference in Barcelona today to unveil a new vision for its customers’ agentic future. Before a crowd of more than 5,000 people from 71 countries at the Barcelona International Convention Centre (CCIB), the company announced a comprehensive set of new features across Microsoft Fabric, Power BI, OneLake,…
Oracle is adding a new execution layer to its Fusion Cloud Applications Suite that it says will help enterprises lower the costs of automating complex and long-running business processes with AI agents. The execution runtime, Fusion Claw, uses a combination of a frontier model, deterministic policies, and governed execution capabilities to plan and carry out…
Archipelo today announced Salmon, Execution Verification Infrastructure (EVI) for AI agents and autonomous systems, powered by a cryptographic protocol designed to make execution history verifiable. Salmon establishes verifiable execution history and state lineage across humans, AI agents, and automation. The launch follows the OpenAI–Hugging Face incident, in which OpenAI reported that models participating in cybersecurity…