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Microsoft announced the public preview of Fireworks AI on Microsoft Foundry, delivering high‑performance, low‑latency inference for open models within Azure. The integration lets developers access models such as DeepSeek V3.2, OpenAI gpt‑oss‑120b, Kimi K2.5, and the new MiniMax M2.5 via a unified control plane. Fireworks AI’s engine processes over 13 trillion tokens daily, handling about 180 thousand requests per second. Foundry provides serverless or provisioned deployment options, BYOW support, and enterprise‑grade governance.
The funny thing about people saying the MacBook Neo is just an iPad or an iPhone is that under the hood iOS is fundamentally the same thing as macOS, and indeed when Apple launched the iPhone they said explicitly...
Plurilock, a Victoria‑based cybersecurity firm, eliminated its CTO and COO positions and imposed a 30% cut to executive compensation to accelerate profitability. The restructuring is projected to save about $900,000 annually, funds that will be redirected to sales and market‑development...
Wendy Bryant has stepped down after four‑and‑a‑half years as chief information and digital officer (CDIO) of the Premier's Department NSW. The department announced a search for a successor who will develop an enterprise‑wide digital, data and technology strategy and lead...
HashiCorp announced that HCP Vault Dedicated is now available in four new cloud regions—AWS Stockholm and Paris, and Azure Australia East and Australia Central. The expansion broadens the service’s global footprint, giving customers the ability to locate Vault clusters closer...
Augury announced the appointment of Anoop Mohan as Chief Product and Technology Officer, bringing a former Google Cloud AI leader to steer its product and engineering strategy. Mohan will head a newly formed leadership team that includes veterans from Meta,...
Tim Lipscomb, executive vice president and chief technology officer at Cboe Global Markets, has been appointed as an Exchange Director on the OCC Board of Directors, filling the vacancy left by Chris Isaacson’s retirement. Lipscomb brings more than two decades...
Maptician, the workplace‑management platform for law firms, financial and professional services, announced Craig Williams as its new chief technology officer. Williams arrives from Amazon Web Services, where he led generative‑AI and industry solutions, and will steer platform architecture and AI‑driven...
Cisco has embedded Splunk IT Service Intelligence directly into its Nexus Dashboard, the core management platform for Nexus 9000 and 8000 series data‑center switches. The native integration streams high‑fidelity telemetry, enabling faster fault detection, automated root‑cause analysis and remediation without...
ColorTokens introduced Xshield AI Agent, an AI‑driven engine that automates microsegmentation policy design and enforcement. The solution claims to shrink policy rollout from days to minutes, enabling rapid isolation of critical assets during breaches. In pre‑release tests, customers reported up...
Virtana unveiled an Application Observability platform that extends its existing suite to cover the full stack, including AI workloads, infrastructure, and networking. The solution creates a system‑level dependency graph that automatically correlates logs, traces, and metrics to pinpoint root causes...
Cross Switch announced the promotion of co‑founder Jacob Yermalitski from Director of Engineering to Chief Technology Officer, succeeding Mike Kenrich who will now serve as Chief Information Officer. In his new role, Jacob will steer the company’s technology vision and...
In this episode, NVIDIA VP of Generative AI Keri Britsky explains why a GPU chip maker is now deeply involved in building large language models (LLMs). She describes NVIDIA’s extreme hardware‑software co‑design process, where model development informs GPU architecture, precision...
Azoma has launched the Agentic Merchant Protocol (AMP), a machine‑native framework that lets brands push product data directly to AI shopping agents. The system, already adopted by L’Oréal, Unilever, Mars and Beiersdorf, centralizes catalogs, enforces brand guidelines and promises measurable...
Insurance Australia Group (IAG) is embedding generative AI into its integration engineering, moving roughly 600 APIs onto MuleSoft’s Anypoint API Experience Hub. The insurer is encouraging engineers to adopt AI prompts and "skills" to automate API migration and creation, aiming...
Rob Lloyd, Seattle's chief technology officer, will step down on March 27 to join the Center for Digital Government after nearly two years leading the city's tech agenda. During his tenure he stabilized major programs, delivering Workday, unified communications, and...
Tesla’s over‑the‑air (OTA) and Robotaxi software director, Thomas Dmytryk, announced his departure after 11 years, ending a tenure that grew the OTA pipeline from a five‑person team to a system serving nearly 10 million vehicles worldwide. His group also built the...
MariaDB Corp initially announced that Galera clustering libraries would be removed from future Community Server releases, sparking immediate backlash from developers and users who rely on high‑availability features. After intense community pressure, the company reversed course, confirming that Galera will...
AI adoption surged to 78% of organizations in 2024, yet most initiatives remain prototypes. A new Apptio survey shows 90% of tech leaders can’t measure AI ROI, highlighting the gap between experimentation and production. Traditional databases lack vector search and...
CData Software expanded its Connect AI platform with new connectivity, contextual intelligence, and governance features aimed at moving AI from pilot to production. The upgrade adds a gateway for live read/write access behind firewalls, introduces universal, source, and custom agent tools,...
The article debates which C‑level executive should pull the kill switch on a failing AI initiative. While the CFO typically decides based on missed ROI and rising costs, the CIO steps in when technical feasibility or data readiness falters, and...
A company implemented a generative UI system for its customer‑service dashboard, shrinking development time from three months to two weeks. The solution combines a curated component library, context analysis, an AI‑driven composition engine, and a rendering layer to assemble interfaces...
Zee Entertainment Enterprises has appointed Yellaiah G as Chief Technology Officer for its broadband division. Yellaiah joins from Sterlite Technologies after a two‑decade career spanning roles at Aster, NSN, Huawei, Airtel and Bharti Televentures. In his new role he will...
9 interesting observations from my conversation with Mitchell Hashimoto (@mitchellh, creator of Ghostty, founder of HashiCorp): 1. Vagrant was created because dev environment setup was an unbillable time sink at a consultancy. At the Ruby on Rails shop where Mitchell worked, jumping...
LangChain CEO Harrison Chase argues that superior large language models alone won’t drive AI agents into production; the missing piece is sophisticated "harness engineering" that lets models run loops, call tools, and manage context. He highlights the evolution from static...
Andrej Karpathy’s “March of Nines” highlights that achieving 90% AI reliability is only the first step; each additional nine of uptime demands comparable engineering effort. In multi‑step agentic workflows, the probability of success compounds exponentially, turning a seemingly robust demo...
Microsoft released the 1.0 version of its official C# SDK for the Model Context Protocol (MCP). The SDK implements the latest 2025‑11‑25 MCP specification, adding enhanced authorization server discovery, icon metadata, and client ID metadata documents. It also supports tool...
Open‑source technologies such as Cassandra, Kafka and PostgreSQL now power most modern applications, but enterprises face growing operational complexity as they scale. TheCUBE Research reports 61% of firms run hybrid environments and 32% take hours to detect production issues, while...
MIT researchers introduced Attention Matching, a fast KV‑cache compression technique that can shrink large language model memory footprints by up to 50 times without measurable accuracy loss. The method preserves attention output and attention mass by fitting compressed keys and values...
Google has open‑sourced an Always On Memory Agent that eliminates traditional vector‑database retrieval in favor of a large‑language‑model‑driven memory layer. Built on the Agent Development Kit and powered by the low‑cost Gemini 3.1 Flash‑Lite model, the agent continuously ingests, consolidates, and serves...
Kubernetes 1.35 adds production‑grade in‑place pod vertical scaling and structured authentication, both reaching GA status, while introducing Alpha‑level gang scheduling via a native Workload API and node‑declared feature advertising. Hands‑on tests on an Azure VM showed CPU scaling without restarts, memory...
On International Women’s Day 2026, six leading women tech CEOs outlined how AI and massive infrastructure investments will shape the coming year. AMD plans rack‑scale AI hardware to meet a projected 100‑fold rise in compute demand, while Liongard, Trend Micro,...
Global reinsurer SCOR has promoted Sofia Kyriakopoulou to Group Chief Technology, Data & AI Officer, effective March 1, 2026. Kyriakopoulou, who joined SCOR in 2024 as Chief Data & Analytics Officer, previously held senior data and digital roles at Swiss...
Enterprises are racing toward platformisation, promising fewer tools and clearer security outcomes. In reality many CISOs encounter "integration theatre," where platforms appear unified but only share superficial data, leaving true cross‑domain enforcement absent. The article argues for a "modular monolith"...
Lloyds Banking Group announced its Technology Strategy 3.0, targeting hundreds of millions of pounds in technology cost reductions by 2028. The plan calls for retiring legacy applications, automating compliance checks, expanding in‑house data capabilities and selling more anonymised customer data to...
Enterprise Kubernetes is evolving from a bare‑metal cluster into a full‑stack platform that includes standardized environments, lifecycle automation, and integrated security. The article stresses that true enterprise readiness requires consistent configuration across dev, staging, and prod, as well as a...
In 2026 enterprises are spread across AWS, Azure and Google Cloud largely due to mergers, product deadlines and lock‑in avoidance, not a deliberate strategy. Multicloud adoption has outpaced the development of a unified operating model, leaving companies with three separate...
KPMG partner Harnath Babu warns that most agentic AI projects stall between proof‑of‑concept and production because organizations treat pilots as deployments. He outlines a four‑step playbook—prove value, harden the platform, institutionalize governance, and scale autonomy—to move agents from isolated tasks...
Quantum computing has become a strategic priority worldwide, with the Tracxn Quantum Computing Report 2026 highlighting multi‑billion‑dollar government programmes across the US, China, Europe and Asia. In Southeast Asia, Singapore is positioning itself as a regional hub, while Malaysia, Thailand,...
Microsoft announced it will continue offering Anthropic’s AI models across its consumer and enterprise platforms, including Microsoft 365, GitHub Copilot, and the AI Foundry, while barring only the Department of War. The Pentagon has labeled Anthropic a supply‑chain risk, prompting the...
Ariso.ai integrated HashiCorp Vault’s Transit engine to secure its multi‑tenant AI assistant, Ari, using envelope encryption across 21 database tables. A single master key with context‑based derivation provides organization, user, and session isolation while eliminating key sprawl. DEK caching yields...
U.S. Commerce Department is drafting rules that would require government approval for any export of AI‑focused semiconductors such as those made by AMD and Nvidia. The proposal differentiates review intensity based on order size, with small shipments getting a basic...
ThreatLocker announced that its deny‑by‑default security model now covers cloud workloads and mobile devices, extending its zero‑trust network and cloud‑access offerings. The new solution binds SaaS access to both user identity and approved devices, eliminating the need for VPNs and...
Edge AI is moving from data‑center inference to real‑time execution at the edge, where decisions must be made within milliseconds. Wind River CTO Paul Miller highlighted the role of its 45‑year‑old VxWorks real‑time operating system in delivering deterministic performance for...
AI data center construction is accelerating, with tech firms targeting 85 GW of power by 2030—about 20% more than the current grid can supply. Start‑ups like Cloverleaf Infrastructure are emerging as “powered land” brokers, securing utility contracts and rural acreage for...
LucidLink Corp. launched LucidLink Connect, a feature that lets enterprises mount S3‑compatible object storage as a live file system, enabling real‑time collaboration without data migration. The platform streams files on demand, using byte‑range reads, caching and parallel TCP streams to...
OpenLens remains a favorite IDE for developers exploring a single Kubernetes cluster, but its single‑cluster focus limits its usefulness as organizations adopt multi‑cluster, RBAC‑heavy, GitOps‑driven environments. 2026 visibility demands tools that span clouds, enforce granular permissions, and integrate with CI/CD...
Databricks unveiled KARL, a reinforcement‑learning‑driven RAG agent that tackles six distinct enterprise search behaviors in a single model. The system matches Claude Opus 4.6 on the proprietary KARLBench benchmark while delivering 33% lower cost per query and 47% reduced latency. KARL...
WisdomAI, an AI‑native business intelligence startup, announced the launch of its Federated Agentic Intelligence platform, shifting its focus from passive insights to autonomous enterprise execution. The platform combines an Enterprise Context Layer, a Model Context Protocol client, and an Adaptive...
Cloudflare One’s client now incorporates Dynamic Path MTU Discovery (PMTUD), allowing it to actively probe and adjust packet sizes instead of waiting for ICMP feedback. By testing packet sizes up to 1281 bytes and beyond, the client automatically selects the optimal...
