Atlassian Unveils Teamwork Graph, Rovo Updates at Its Team Event
Atlassian announced a suite of AI-driven enhancements at its Team event, centering on the expanded Teamwork Graph and the new Rovo Max mode. The Teamwork Graph now indexes over 150 billion objects, delivering AI answers 44% more accurate while using 48% fewer tokens. Rovo Max can spin up a cloud VM to decompose high‑complexity problems, and Rovo’s usage grew 50% quarter‑over‑quarter, with a 7‑fold rise in agent‑led automations. Additional updates include over 50 third‑party connectors and an upgraded Agent Building Studio that generates automation plans from plain language.
Homhero Hires Ex-Shopify Exec Dominik Wilkowski as ANZ CTO to Accelerate Platform Growth
Homhero has appointed Dominik Wilkowski, a former senior development manager at Shopify, as Chief Technology Officer for its Australia‑New Zealand operations. The hire is aimed at scaling the short‑term rental platform’s technical roadmap, leveraging Wilkowski’s experience leading 200‑plus engineers across three...
General Mills Elevates Tech Chief to Lead Enterprise Transformation
General Mills has expanded chief digital and technology officer Jaime Montemayor's remit to include enterprise transformation, consolidating AI, data science and cost‑cutting initiatives under one executive. The move supports a three‑year program projected to generate $600 million in savings and accelerate...
Andrej Karpathy Has Renamed Vibe Coding. Here’s What Engineering Leaders Need to Do About It.
Andrej Karpathy marks the one‑year anniversary of "vibe coding" by renaming it "agentic engineering," emphasizing that developers must define constraints and reason through solutions before letting AI generate code. The article warns that many teams still treat AI‑produced pull requests...
The Company that Made RAG Mainstream Is Now Betting Against It
Pinecone, the creator of the vector‑database category that popularized retrieval‑augmented generation (RAG), announced Nexus, a knowledge engine that treats retrieval as a legacy pattern. The new platform pre‑compiles source data into typed, cited artifacts and introduces KnowQL, a declarative query...
IBM Leaders Discuss Quantum-Classical Computing Intersection
Next up... a deep discussion w/ head of @IBM Research Jay Gambetta and CTO Jerry Chow on quantum computing and where IBM research is today with their quantum journey. Lots of discussion around the intersection of classic and quantum computing. #CIO...
Algolia Names Peter Minev SVP of Engineering to Drive AI Search Scaling
Algolia announced Peter Minev as its new senior vice president of engineering, tasking him with leading a global engineering organization that powers 1.75 trillion queries annually. The move is aimed at scaling the AI‑search platform for tens of thousands of enterprise...
How NetEase Games Cut LLM Cold Starts From 42 Minutes to 30 Seconds
NetEase Games reduced large language model cold‑start latency from 42 minutes to under 30 seconds by adopting Fluid, a CNCF‑incubated data orchestration layer on Kubernetes. The shift replaced direct cross‑region storage access and a basic Alluxio cache with Fluid’s prefetching...
I Gave Our Developers an AI Coding Assistant. The Security Team Nearly Mutinied
A technology leader approved an AI coding assistant to relieve developers from repetitive tasks, but the security team reacted strongly, fearing uncontrolled code generation. The tool can draft tests, explain legacy code, and suggest refactors, yet it raises questions about...
TripleLift Names Timothy Jasionowski CPTO, Adds Benjamin Felix as CMO to Push Unified Ad Tech
TripleLift announced the appointment of Timothy Jasionowski as Chief Product and Technology Officer and Benjamin Felix as Chief Marketing Officer. The hires are intended to accelerate the company’s TL Spark platform and deliver a more integrated advertising stack across the open...
Why the Linux Foundation Adopted MCP, with Jim Zemlin and Mazin Gilbert
The Linux Foundation has transferred ownership of the Model Context Protocol (MCP), Goose, and AGENTS.md to the newly created Agentic AI Foundation (AAIF). At the MCP Dev Summit in New York, CEO Jim Zemlin announced his step‑back from AAIF leadership,...
Subquadratic Raises $29 Million to Unveil 12‑Million‑Token AI Context Windows
Subquadratic announced a $29 million seed round to launch SubQ, a generative AI model capable of processing up to 12 million tokens in a single context window. The company claims the architecture delivers 50‑fold speed and cost improvements over frontier models, reshaping...
Greaves Cotton Appoints Vinay Pawar as Group Chief Technology Officer
Greaves Cotton, the Indian diversified engineering firm, has appointed Vinay Pawar as its Group Chief Technology Officer. Pawar arrives after a 30‑year career spanning ABB, Bosch, Continental, KPIT and most recently Minda Instruments, where he led R&D and the cockpit...
AI Survey Shows CIOs Rely on Claude for Slides
Working through survey results for our report next week on CIO/CTOs and AI investment and deployment strategy. Claude still makes prettier PPT FYI. https://t.co/HdvQUk4jew
Lambda AI Cloud Provider Appoints Former Sprint CEO Michel Combes as CEO
Lambda Inc., the Nvidia‑backed AI cloud‑computing startup, announced former Sprint CEO Michel Combes as its new chief executive. Co‑founder Stephen Balaban will become chief technology officer, while his brother Michael Balaban shifts to chief product officer, and former AT&T communications...
Chewy Appoints Former Amazon VP Yunyan Wang as CTO to Accelerate Tech Innovation
Chewy has hired Yunyan Wang, who spent more than 12 years at Amazon and most recently served as vice president of Commerce & Supply Chain Services, as its new chief technology officer. The move signals the pet‑e‑commerce leader’s push to...
NetApp Names Former AWS Exec Jurgen Hofkens CTO for EMEA & LATAM
NetApp announced that Jurgen Hofkens will serve as Chief Technology Officer and Vice President of Sales Engineering for EMEA and LATAM, effective May 1 2026. The hire is aimed at strengthening the company’s AI‑driven data platform and addressing CIO concerns around sovereignty,...
Extreme Moves Toward Autonomous Networking with Advanced AI Agent, Management Tools
Extreme Networks announced its second‑generation AI agent, Extreme Agent ONE, at Extreme Connect 2026, promising proactive, autonomous detection and remediation of network issues. The company also rolled out a major update to its Platform ONE management suite, adding third‑party device...
Apple Plans to Make iOS 27 a Choose Your Own Adventure of AI Models
Apple’s upcoming iOS 27 will let iPhone users pick from multiple on‑device AI models through a new “Extensions” framework. The feature, also slated for iPadOS 27 and macOS 27, will integrate third‑party large language models such as those from Google and Anthropic into...
AWS Unveils New AI‑Agent Stack with Quick Desktop, Connect Verticals and Bedrock Managed Agents
Amazon Web Services announced a multi‑layer AI‑agent stack, previewing Amazon Quick Desktop, adding three new Connect vertical solutions, and launching Amazon Bedrock Managed Agents built on OpenAI models. The rollout aims to give enterprises a cross‑platform AI assistant while deepening...
AWS, IBM Boost Mainframe-Cloud Interoperability
AWS and IBM announced a joint effort to simplify hybrid‑cloud integration between AWS services and IBM Z mainframes. The partnership outlines five reference patterns, including real‑time data streaming enabled by IBM’s $11 billion acquisition of Confluent. AI‑driven tools such as AWS Transform...
IBM Unveils Integrated AI Operating Model for Enterprises
"🔵 IBM Think 2026 sees @RobDThomas unveil the @IBM marketecture for the new AI Operating Model — Intelligence, Action, Trust, and Operations working together as one. Enterprises aren't just deploying more AI models... they're redesigning how their entire business runs....
GitHub AI Leaders Jump to Xbox, Defying Growth Expectations
Several GitHub / CoreAI execs move to Xbox What is going on at Microsoft This is very odd to see, you'd expect the other way round given that AI growth *should* be several times that of gaming growth (in the optimistic playbooks...
Wonder Appoints Antonio Silveira as CTO to Steer Tech Ahead of IPO
Wonder, the fast‑growing food‑hall and delivery concept, announced the hiring of Antonio Silveira as chief technology officer. Silveira, a former CTO of Attentive, Nextdoor and GoDaddy, will join on May 18 to ready the company’s technology for an IPO slated...
Neocloud Lambda Hires Ex‑Sprint CEO, Pivots to Data‑center Expansion
Neocloud Lambda names former Sprint chief Michel Combes as CEO. Co-founder and former CEO Stephen Balaban moves to CTO as the company's looking to raise more funds to invest in data center capacity, develop its own properties https://t.co/TtM96o2aJA
Panthalassa Raises $140 Million Series B to Deploy Ocean‑Based AI Compute Nodes
Panthalassa announced a $140 million Series B round led by Peter Thiel, aimed at completing a pilot factory near Portland and launching its Ocean‑3 AI inference nodes at sea. The financing brings together a roster of high‑profile investors and targets the...
Project ARIA Pushes AI From Concept to Soldier-Ready Capability
The U.S. Army’s Project ARIA, launched in March, is moving artificial intelligence from experimental labs to soldier‑ready tools. By partnering with industry and academia, the initiative targets high‑value use cases such as logistics, policy compliance, and daily workflows to cut administrative...
Uber Solved AI Scaling with Centralized Gateways and Registry
What problems did Uber face when scaling AI? There wasn't a shared way of building, security was inconsistent, opaque visibility into call patterns, and discovery was unmanaged. They added centralized MCP gateways and a registry. More ... https://t.co/pVTbFSPRR9
SmartCommerce Appoints Anj Yamsani CTO to Drive AI‑Powered Commerce Platform
SmartCommerce announced the appointment of veteran technologist Anj Yamsani as chief technology officer. Yamsani will steer the company’s AI‑native roadmap, building on a platform that already moves more than $15 billion of products into retailer carts each year. The hire signals...
Broadcom Bets Big on VMware Cloud Foundation 9.1
Broadcom unveiled VMware Cloud Foundation 9.1, branding it as an AI‑ and Kubernetes‑native private cloud that supports AMD, Intel and Nvidia hardware. The release targets three pillars: mitigating hardware supply constraints, accelerating AI‑enabled application delivery, and enforcing zero‑trust security. New...
Global Telecom CTO 2026: AI, Open RAN, and Cloud Leadership Reshape Network Strategies
In 2026 telecom operators are transitioning from hardware‑centric networks to AI‑native, software‑defined ecosystems, elevating the CTO to a strategic innovation driver. Leaders at Vodafone, KT, Telefonica, Verizon, AT&T, Telkomsel, STC, Deutsche Telekom and Rakuten are championing Open RAN, sovereign cloud,...
Lili CTO Liran Zelkha on Building AI that Disappears
Fintech firms have spent the past two years layering chatbots and in‑app assistants onto their platforms, but Lili CTO Liran Zelkha argues the effort is misdirected. He believes small‑business owners, who are time‑pressed and uninterested in new interfaces, need AI...
Behind the AI in the Newsroom: The Washington Post’s Vineet Khosla
Washington Post CTO Vineet Khosla explains the paper’s "AI everywhere" strategy, which embeds artificial intelligence across news production and consumer products. The newsroom has rolled out AI‑generated personalized podcasts, now exceeding 100,000 episodes, and internal tools like Haystacker that let...
General Mills Adds Transformation to Tech Chief’s Remit
General Mills has expanded chief digital and technology officer Jaime Montemayor’s role to include transformation, making him chief digital, technology and transformation officer. The change supports a three‑year transformation effort that aims to deliver $600 million in FY2026 savings through AI‑driven...
Interview: Vishal Sharma, CTO of SearchUnify
SearchUnify’s CTO Vishal Sharma outlines how its Agentic AI Suite transforms enterprise support from simple document retrieval to autonomous, end‑to‑end case handling. The platform uses purpose‑built agents, federated retrieval‑augmented generation (FRAG), and real‑time orchestration to triage, resolve, and assist across...
Samba TV Elevates Jaya Aswani to CTO, Names Ramzi Nasr VP of Engineering
Samba TV announced the promotion of Jaya Aswani to chief technology officer and the appointment of Ramzi Nasr, PhD, as vice president of engineering. The moves aim to sharpen the firm’s AI‑driven advertising platform as the industry shifts toward real‑time,...
Twilio CEO Unveils $5B-to-$10B Turnaround Focused on DevOps and Reliability
Twilio chief executive Khozema Shipchandler announced a sweeping turnaround that narrows the company’s focus to nine strategic bets, aims to double revenue from $5 billion to $10 billion, and prioritizes platform reliability and DevOps efficiency. The plan tackles the stalled integration of...
Designing the AI-Native Engineering Organization
In a DX Annual panel, senior technologists from Microsoft, 1Password and Atlassian discussed how AI is reshaping the software development lifecycle. They noted that AI is compressing the create and operate stages, allowing teams to spend more time planning and...
NetApp Names New CTO to Lead EMEA, LATAM Technical Strategy
NetApp has named Jurgen Hofkens, former AWS AI infrastructure leader, as chief technology officer and vice president of sales engineering for its EMEA and LATAM markets. Hofkens will steer technical strategy, customer engagement, and AI‑driven data solutions across on‑premises, edge,...
GoodData.ai CTO Says the Enterprise AI Bubble Is Real, but so Is AI’s Transformational Power
GoodData CTO Peter Fedoročko acknowledges an AI bubble but argues the technology’s value will endure, likening AI to the internet’s evolution into essential infrastructure. He places the market between the Gartner peak of inflated expectations and the trough of disillusionment,...
Diskless Databases: What Happens when Storage Isn’t the Bottleneck
Diskless databases remove local persistence from the critical path, pairing in‑memory indexing with durable object storage. By separating compute from storage, they deliver millisecond‑level latency for ingest and query, even at petabyte scales. The architecture eliminates traditional replication complexity and...
AI Didn’t Reduce the Work, It Forced Us to Redesign It
An e‑commerce firm added an AI agent to its customer‑experience workflow expecting to cut workload. Ticket volume fell roughly 50% and response times improved, but the work did not disappear—it shifted toward system design, escalation handling, and managing uncertainty. The...
SAP to Acquire Data Lakehouse Vendor Dremio
SAP announced it will acquire data‑lakehouse vendor Dremio for an undisclosed price, aiming to embed an Apache Iceberg‑native lakehouse into its Business Data Cloud. Dremio’s technology lets enterprise data stay in‑place, providing federated access and AI‑ready semantics without costly data...
SAP to Acquire Prior Labs, Investing Over €1 Billion to Build Europe’s Largest Frontier AI Lab
SAP announced a definitive agreement to purchase Prior Labs, the pioneer of tabular foundation models, and pledged over €1 billion (≈$1.08 billion) in four years to scale the unit into Europe’s largest frontier AI lab. The deal, pending regulatory clearance, positions SAP...
NVIDIA Adds 12 GB RTX 5070 Mobile GPU, Boosting VRAM 50% without Architecture Change
NVIDIA unveiled a 12‑GB version of its GeForce RTX 5070 mobile GPU, expanding video memory by 50% while leaving the core design untouched. The move responds to a shortage of 16‑Gb G7 memory chips and gives laptop makers a clearer product...
Amazon Deploys Claude Code and OpenAI Codex to Entire Workforce
Amazon announced that Anthropic's Claude Code and OpenAI's Codex will be accessible to all corporate employees, with Claude Code live immediately and Codex slated for May 12. The rollout, managed through AWS Bedrock, ends a period of internal friction over...
Altruist CTO Departs After Just One Year -- but What a Year; Jason Wenk Cites Strong Bench and Says Search...
Charles Schwab reported Q1 2026 earnings that beat EPS expectations but missed revenue forecasts, prompting a 7.6% share decline. The firm announced a $65 million investment to acquire Wealth.com, aiming to embed AI across estate, tax and portfolio services. Schwab says...
DMALL Rolls Out AI-Driven Platform to 87 Cold Storage Stores in Southeast Asia
DMALL Inc. completed the integration of 87 Cold Storage Singapore supermarkets, hypermarkets and express stores into its unified AI-driven retail operating system within seven months. The rollout, the latest in DMALL’s Southeast Asian push, promises tighter supply‑chain visibility and faster...
Dunamu Teams with Optimism to Launch GIWA Chain, First Self‑Managed Enterprise L2
Seoul‑based fintech firm Dunamu has signed a non‑binding MOU with the Optimism Foundation to deploy GIWA Chain on the OP Enterprise Self‑Managed tier. The layer‑2 solution, already processing nearly 100 million testnet transactions, will give Upbit full control over its blockchain...
Give AI Agents Safe Access to Your Cluster: Model Context Protocol Server for Red Hat OpenShift Is Now in Technology...
Red Hat has launched a technology‑preview Model Context Protocol (MCP) server for OpenShift, enabling large‑language‑model agents to interact with clusters under strict security controls. The server adds OAuth/OIDC token‑exchange, native RBAC enforcement, read‑only‑by‑default mode, and detailed audit trails to keep AI...