The Lean AI Plan for Action at VietBank
VietBank’s CIO, Nghia Tran, has built a lean, in‑house AI engine that powers a Smart Office Tracking system and an Intelligent Management System using a self‑hosted LLM. The AI suite cut document approval cycles by 35% and earned a 2025 CIO ASEAN Innovation Award, drawing attention from the Vietnamese government. Tran emphasizes rapid deployment over perfect data, aligning AI with security, scalability and business value. The strategy relies on a small, autonomous team, open‑source tools and a multi‑layer cybersecurity posture.
The Agentic AI Flywheel Is Coming for Your Budget - Celonis Field CTO on Token Economics
Celonis Field CTO Manuel Haug warns that enterprise adoption of agentic AI is triggering an exponential rise in token consumption, especially as agents move from human‑in‑the‑loop to near‑autonomous operation. He argues that token‑based pricing, akin to cloud compute costs, clashes...
Cohere Open-Sources a Coding Agent that Runs on a Single H100
Cohere released North Mini Code, an open‑source 30 billion‑parameter mixture‑of‑experts model that runs on a single NVIDIA H100. The model activates only 3 billion parameters per token, supports a 256,000‑token context window, and is available under an Apache 2.0 license on Hugging Face....
On-Device AI Agents Hit a Hard Memory Limit. Apple's New Architecture Routes Around It.
Apple unveiled its third‑generation foundation models (AFM 3) at WWDC26, moving the full 20‑billion‑parameter weight set from DRAM to NAND flash. The on‑device AFM 3 Core Advanced uses Instruction‑Following Pruning and routes experts once per prompt, activating 1‑4 billion parameters as needed. Server‑side...
Pegasystems-AWS Alliance Targets Legacy Code Conversion, Business Transformation
Pegasystems and Amazon Web Services have announced an integration of Pega Blueprint AI with AWS Transform, enabling automated conversion of legacy COBOL code into cloud‑ready applications. The combined solution analyzes millions of lines of mainframe code, extracts business rules, and...
Meet BE’s New Chief Technology Officer
Broadcast Electronics (BE) has appointed David Sparano as its new Chief Technology Officer, a move that follows the company’s recent acquisition by a U.S. investor group. Sparano will oversee technology strategy, product development, and innovation, leveraging his experience at Harris...
Raymond James Taps Vanguard's Chief Architect to Drive AI Strategy
Raymond James appointed Seth Ford, former Vanguard chief architect, as senior vice president and chief architect to accelerate its AI and cloud agenda. Ford brings three decades of technology leadership from Vanguard and Fidelity, where he oversaw enterprise architecture and agentic...
Mira Murati Resurfaces After 18 Months with a Warning About AI Governance and a Product No One Expected
Former OpenAI CTO Mira Murati re‑emerged after an 18‑month hiatus to unveil Thinking Machines Lab’s new “interaction models,” which process continuous audio, text and video streams in 200‑millisecond slices. The company, which has raised roughly $2 billion, highlighted its TML‑Interaction‑Small model...
GitLab Field CTO 'Foolishly Assumed' The AI Winners – and They Aren't Who He Thought
GitLab’s Field CTO Bryan Ross highlighted how customers are grappling with AI FinOps as the company launches its "second act," a strategic shift toward AI‑augmented workflows and autonomous agents. The DevOps platform, valued at roughly $5 billion, counts Nasdaq, UBS and...
Fintech’s Summer-Break C-Suite Churn Has Begun
Revolut’s co‑founder and CTO Vlad Yatsenko will step down on July 1, moving to a non‑executive director role, while head of technology Donato Lucia takes over as vice‑president of technology. Brazilian challenger bank Nubank announced Rob Livingston, a former Visa executive,...
Netflix CTO: Streamer Upping AI Use to Cut Through Content Overload
Netflix’s chief product and technology officer, Elizabeth Stone, announced at Bloomberg Tech that the streamer is expanding generative AI and natural‑language tools to cut through the platform’s massive content library. With more than 325 million global subscribers, Netflix aims to deliver...
Revolut Co-Founder Vlad Yatsenko Steps Down as CTO
Revolut co‑founder Vlad Yatsenko is stepping down as chief technology officer after ten years, moving to a non‑executive director role on the board effective July 1, 2026. He will hand over day‑to‑day technology leadership to Donato Lucia, the current head of technology,...
AAM: Supernal Appoints Dr Farhan Gandhi as Chief Technology Officer
Supernal, Hyundai Motor Group’s advanced‑air‑mobility arm, appointed Dr. Farhan Gandhi as chief technology officer, marking a shift from early design to engineering, certification and commercial readiness. Gandhi brings over 30 years of rotorcraft research and eVTOL design experience, including a...
Booking.com CTO: The New Bottleneck Is Teamwork
Booking.com’s interim CTO Vipul Hingne told the Skift Data + AI Summit that AI now writes code in minutes, shifting the bottleneck from coding to cross‑team collaboration and review. He warned that rapid AI‑generated code stalls without effective coordination, and...
Google's New Open Source Gemma 4 12B Analyzes Audio, Video — and Runs Entirely Locally on a Typical 16GB Enterprise...
Google released Gemma 4 12B, an 11.95‑billion‑parameter open‑weights model licensed under Apache 2.0. The model runs locally on a standard enterprise laptop with just 16 GB of VRAM, handling raw audio and visual inputs without separate encoders. It offers a 256K token context...