Okta Deploys AI‑Agent Identity as 'Claw' Architecture Takes Hold in Enterprise
Okta, the $14 billion identity‑management firm, announced a new AI‑agent identity framework to protect autonomous software agents, signaling the enterprise’s shift toward “claw” technology. Executives from Okta, Nvidia and startup NanoCo highlighted security, productivity and cost pressures driving the move.
Why Seattle’s AI Ambitions Started with a Hypervisor Migration
Seattle faced a $250 million budget gap and launched a hypervisor migration with Nutanix to consolidate 2,500 legacy virtual machines. The project delivered $1.6‑2 million in annual savings, improved uptime, and created a hybrid, cloud‑smart foundation. City leaders stress workload‑specific placement and...
RBC Prepares for the AI Era
Royal Bank of Canada has launched a standalone AI Group, headed by Bruce Ross and reporting directly to the CEO, to accelerate the bank’s artificial‑intelligence agenda across retail, wealth and capital‑markets businesses. The group builds on RBC’s decade‑long AI foundation,...
‘Fragmentation Is Poison’: How Microsoft Is Targeting Disparate Data to Boost AI Adoption
Microsoft unveiled Database Hub and Fabric IQ at FabCon and SQLCon 2026, extending its Fabric SaaS analytics platform to unify roughly 20 data services under a single management plane. The new Database Hub adds AI‑driven, natural‑language exploration across Azure SQL, Cosmos DB, PostgreSQL and...
WorkUp Platform Redefines Asset Strategy, Says Quarterbac CTO
Engineering Readiness: How Paul Starr and the WorkUp Platform from Quarterbac are Redefining Asset Strategy Meet Paul Starr, CTO & Head of Software Engineering at Quarterbac - the thought leader & innovator who gave life to the WorkUp data platform.. https://t.co/34fOM3r9Zh
Microsoft Adds Anthropic’s Claude to 365 Copilot, Lifts Research Quality 13.8%
Microsoft announced that its 365 Copilot suite now uses Anthropic’s Claude to critique and improve GPT‑generated drafts. The new Critique feature lifts the DRACO benchmark by 13.8%, a move aimed at accelerating Copilot adoption among its 15 million paid enterprise seats.
1inch Launches AI‑agent API Suite, Letting Bots Execute DeFi Swaps Directly
1inch announced that AI agents can now access its full suite of 15 APIs via the 1inch MCP, enabling real‑time swap execution, portfolio analysis and on‑chain transactions. The move positions the DeFi platform as the backbone for the emerging “agent...
Microsoft Plans To Build 100% Native Apps For Windows 11
Microsoft announced a new initiative to develop 100% native applications for Windows 11, led by Partner Architect Rudy Huyn. The program invites developers with strong product instincts, regardless of prior Windows experience, to build apps that run directly on the...
Why Amer Sports Is All in on IT Modernization
Amer Sports announced a $400 million IT spend for 2026, up from $310 million in 2025, to accelerate enterprise‑system modernization, digital commerce, and AI integration. The company is migrating finance, supply‑chain and HR platforms to a cloud‑based SAP S/4HANA backbone and rolling out...
Rebellions Secures $400 Million Pre‑IPO Funding, Valued at $2.34 Billion
Rebellions, the South Korean fabless AI inference chip maker, raised $400 million in a pre‑IPO round led by Mirae Asset and the Korea National Growth Fund, lifting its valuation to $2.34 billion. The cash will fund aggressive expansion into the United States,...
How Lumen Is Dismantling Decades of Network Complexity
Lumen Technologies, a $12.4 billion telecom operator with a 500,000‑mile fiber network, faced fragmented inventory from decades of acquisitions, operating over 17 legacy systems and nearly 500 data sources. It built a unified data layer and AI‑driven digital twin, launching the...
A Developer’s Guide to Integrating Embedded Analytics
Embedding analytics directly into applications is rapidly becoming a strategic priority for software vendors, as 78 % of tech leaders plan to boost BI investments. Developers must decide between building custom visualizations or buying a third‑party platform such as Tableau, Power BI,...
Microsoft Named a Leader in 2026 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Integration Platform as a Service
Microsoft has been named a Leader in the 2026 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Integration Platform as a Service, marking its eighth consecutive year in the Leader quadrant. The recognition underscores Azure Integration Services’ expanded capabilities that now blend AI, real‑time...
Rust Powers Ultra-Fast AI Automation for VC Workflow
I needed AI-powered automation that could actually keep up with my day. Existing tools were too slow, too error-prone. So I rewrote everything in Rust — 45+ APIs that Claude Code uses to run my VC workflow end-to-end. I'm presenting the architecture...
Starknet Powers High‑Compute Apps with New Architecture
Some apps need different tech to power them. It's not just about more throughput, it's about a different kind of architecture. For things like gaming, perps exchanges (maybe also AI), the ability to handle big computational transactions makes all the difference. Starknet is...
How Aigen Transformed Agricultural Robotics for Sustainable Farming with Amazon SageMaker AI
Aigen, a maker of autonomous weed‑removing robots, migrated its machine‑learning pipeline to Amazon SageMaker AI to overcome on‑premises bottlenecks. By automating data labeling with vision foundation models and leveraging SageMaker’s distributed training, the company boosted labeling throughput 20‑fold and cut...
🎙️ This Week on How I AI: How Stripe Built “Minions”—AI Coding Agents that Ship 1,300 PRs per Week +...
Stripe engineer Steve Kaliski revealed how the company’s AI “minions”—autonomous coding agents—produce roughly 1,300 pull requests each week, often triggered by a simple Slack emoji. The system relies on robust developer experience, cloud‑based development environments, and automated confidence signals to...
Feature Flag-Based Rollout: A Safer Way to Ship Software
Feature‑flag‑based rollout decouples code deployment from user release, letting teams push code to production while controlling exposure via runtime switches. By incrementally enabling a feature—internally, to beta users, or by percentage—organizations can test in live environments, detect issues early, and...
Craig Basham Appointed Deputy CIO at the U.S. Secret Service
Craig Basham has been named Deputy Chief Information Officer of the U.S. Secret Service. He previously served as Deputy Executive Director of the DHS Office of the CIO, overseeing IT operations for more than 12,000 personnel across the National Capital...
Arthur Cox Names First CTO to Lead Legal‑Tech Innovation
Arthur Cox has appointed Jennifer Ward as its first chief technology officer, giving the firm a dedicated executive to drive AI, technology and innovation initiatives. The move signals the Irish firm’s commitment to modernising client services and keeping pace with...
DigitalOcean Raises $800M to Scale AI‑ready Cloud for SMBs, Stock up 77% in 2026
DigitalOcean announced an $800 million capital raise to build AI‑ready data‑center capacity for small‑ and medium‑size businesses. The move follows a 77% rise in its shares this year and record ARR of $970 million, positioning the company for faster growth amid rising...
‘Hot’ Property: Azzurri Group’s Chicken Chain and the Greenfield Tech Opportunity
Azzurri Group secured the UK‑Ireland master franchise for US‑origin Dave’s Hot Chicken in 2024 and plans to roll out at least 180 European outlets, with about 14 in the UK and Ireland by the end of 2026. The restaurant chain...
RAMageddon Triggers $150 PS5 Price Hike and Industry‑Wide Chip Shortage
Sony announced a $150 price increase for its PS5 Pro console as AI‑driven demand for DRAM pushes memory chip costs up 80‑90%. Industry leaders warn the resulting "RAMageddon" could cripple product timelines through 2028.
Tech Firms Weigh Buying AI Models vs Building Own Stack
I am happy to see a lot more "build vs buy" discussions happening across more tech companies. As in "should we buy leading models [like OpenAI, Anthropic] and be dependent on their pricing and reliability, or should we build+own our inference...
Nvidia and Its Partners' KV Cache Extenders
At GTC 2026 Nvidia unveiled its CMX KV‑cache extension platform and the STX modular reference architecture, adding a new G3.5 flash tier that offloads LLM inference context from GPU memory to NVMe storage. Nvidia claims CMX can deliver up to five‑fold...
Q1 AI Roundup: The Next Phase of AI-Powered EA
Ardoq’s Q1 2026 AI roundup announces a suite of new AI‑driven capabilities for its enterprise architecture platform, including an automated mapping engine and large‑language‑model (LLM) integration. The company introduced a dedicated AI pricing tier at $199 per month, promising up...
SAP, 렐티오 인수로 ‘AI 준비 데이터’ 전략 본격화
SAP announced an agreement to acquire cloud‑native MDM specialist Reltio, aiming to strengthen its Business Data Cloud (BDC) platform. The deal, whose financial terms remain undisclosed, will enable SAP to transform master data from both SAP and non‑SAP sources into...
Samsung Prepares PCIe 5.0 QLC SSD with Custom RISC-V Controller Design
Samsung unveiled a custom RISC‑V based controller for its upcoming BM9K1 PCIe 5.0 SSD, marking a shift from Arm‑based designs. The drive targets sequential reads up to 11.4 GB/s and projected writes near 10 GB/s, using QLC NAND for high density. Samsung claims...
AI Tools Spark Engineer Skill Erosion, Survey Finds Growing Deskilling Concern
A wave of software engineers report that AI‑driven coding assistants are accelerating development while quietly eroding core programming skills. The trend, highlighted by a Business Insider case study and commentary from industry researchers, signals a looming talent‑retention challenge for technology...
Nvidia’s AI Chip Dominance Fuels $9 Trillion Valuation Debate
Nvidia’s surge as the premier AI chip supplier has analysts projecting a market cap that could reach $9 trillion, while some caution the valuation may be overstretched. The debate centers on the company’s hardware roadmap, AI demand, and broader market dynamics.
Platform Teams Cut $43,800 Annual Kubernetes Control‑Plane Cost with Virtual Clusters
Modern platform engineering teams are deploying virtual‑cluster technology to eliminate a $43,800 yearly hidden tax on Amazon EKS control‑plane costs. By consolidating dozens of isolated environments onto a single host cluster, firms achieve near‑zero control‑plane overhead while preserving tenant isolation.
Slack Rebuilt Notifications for Millions of Users
Slack overhauled its notification preferences, merging four fragmented systems into a unified model that separates what to notify from how to deliver. The redesign fixed the misleading “nothing” option that still sent in‑app badges, restoring predictable behavior across desktop and...
Microsoft Unveils Azure Copilot Migration Agent to Automate Cloud Migration Planning
Microsoft has made its Azure Copilot Migration Agent publicly available, embedding an AI‑driven assistant into the Azure portal to automate migration assessment and planning. The tool leverages existing Azure Migrate data, promising faster, more consistent migration roadmaps for enterprises.
LG Leads OLED for the 13th Straight Year
LG retained its OLED TV leadership for the 13th year, commanding 49.7% of the global market in 2025 with roughly 3.22 million units shipped. Global OLED shipments rose 6.6% year‑over‑year to 6.47 million units, underscoring a steady shift toward premium displays. The...
Exclusive: Openmarkets Hires Pepperstone Alum David Jenkins as CPTO
Openmarkets, the Australia‑based brokerage and technology firm, has appointed David Jenkins as its new Chief Product and Technology Officer. Jenkins previously led product and technology at Pepperstone from 2022 to 2025 and held senior roles at Bloomberg, Thomson Reuters and...
NAB Is Co-Designing a SIEM with Databricks
National Australia Bank (NAB) has joined four other design partners to co‑design Lakewatch, a new security information and event management (SIEM) platform built on Databricks. The solution, currently in private preview, leverages the bank’s existing Databricks‑on‑AWS data lake, Ada, to...
Toma Hires Senior Engineer to Build AI-Driven Automotive Coworker Platform
Toma, the Y Combinator Winter 2024 startup, announced the hiring of a senior or staff software engineer to steer the technical direction of its AI‑powered automotive coworker platform. The role will lead architecture, mentor engineers, and deliver fast, reliable user...
Discord Engineers Add Low‑Overhead Distributed Tracing to Elixir’s Actor Model
Discord’s engineering team released a new Transport library that injects distributed tracing into Elixir’s actor‑based concurrency model without measurable latency, solving a long‑standing observability gap for high‑scale services.
When Product Managers Ship Code: AI Just Broke the Software Org Chart
AI agents have reduced the cost of turning intent into working software to near‑zero, allowing product managers and designers to build and ship features directly. This eliminated traditional tickets, handoffs, and lengthy sprint cycles, collapsing cycle times from weeks to...
Scaling AI Demands a New Infrastructure Playbook
Enterprises moving AI from pilots to production face a fundamentally different infrastructure challenge, requiring tight integration of accelerated compute, high‑performance networking, security and observability. Fragmented stacks cause fragile deployments and costly GPU idle time, especially during intensive training or retrieval‑augmented...
Starknet’s Proven ZK‑VM Safeguards Trillions in Value
Which ZK tech can you trust with your Dollars? Of recent, in the cross fire of the battle between Canton and Ethereum and Solana, the question of ZK safety has come up. As co-founder of @Zcash and @StarkWareLtd, both powered by...
Bluesky Unveils Attie AI Assistant, Giving Developers Natural‑Language Feed Creation
Bluesky rolled out Attie, an AI assistant that enables developers to design custom social feeds using natural‑language commands, leveraging Anthropic’s Claude and the AT Protocol. The launch, announced at the Atmosphere conference, coincides with a $100 million funding round that extends...
WebAssembly Is Now Outperforming Containers at the Edge
WebAssembly’s emerging Component Model 1.0 is poised to eclipse containers for edge and serverless workloads by delivering millisecond‑level code deployment and superior isolation. Recent talks at Wasm I/O highlighted Preview 3, which adds async functions, lazy APIs, and concurrency primitives, moving...
CTOs Rethink Talent Strategies as AI Deskilling Threatens Software Engineers
A high‑profile AI‑assisted app build that grew to a 100,000‑line codebase has sparked concerns among CTOs that AI is quietly deskilling engineers. Leaders are now revisiting talent strategies to balance productivity gains with skill retention.
Nvidia Sets Sights on $9 Trillion Valuation Amid AI Hardware Surge
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang announced plans that could lift the company toward a $9 trillion market cap, underscoring a massive push into AI GPUs and accelerators. The move intensifies competition with Chinese AI firms and raises fresh questions about data‑center power...
ShipMonk Hires Former Amazon and Chewy Executive Hugh Joiner as Chief Technology Officer
ShipMonk, the U.S. e‑commerce fulfillment platform founded in 2014, announced the appointment of Hugh Joiner as its new Chief Technology Officer. Joiner previously held senior technical and program‑management roles at Amazon and pet‑goods retailer Chewy, overseeing large‑scale logistics and data‑analysis...
Bluesky Unveils Attie, AI‑Powered App for Custom Feed Creation
Bluesky announced Attie, an AI‑driven app that lets anyone build personalized social feeds with natural‑language commands. Powered by Anthropic’s Claude and the AT Protocol, the launch coincides with a $100 million funding round that gives the company three‑plus years of runway.
Google Expands Internal Use of "Agent Smith" AI Tool Amid Access Limits
Google has broadened the deployment of its internal AI assistant, Agent Smith, across more engineering teams, prompting the company to impose usage restrictions after a surge in demand. The tool automates coding and other tasks asynchronously, allowing engineers to stay...
Presight, NodeShift Partner to Scale Sovereign AI for Global Enterprises
Presight and NodeShift have forged a strategic partnership that includes joint go‑to‑market collaboration and investment from Presight's $100 million AI fund. The alliance aims to bring sovereign AI models that run on‑premise or in regulated clouds to multinational firms facing data‑sovereignty...
Postman Shows AI‑Native API Tooling Cuts Development Time Across Six Workflows
Postman released a data‑driven cost‑savings guide that measures the impact of its AI‑native Claude Code across six common API development workflows. The study finds that embedding AI directly in the platform delivers measurable time and expense reductions versus using external...