Red Hat Adds Support for Agentic AI Development
Red Hat unveiled a suite of agentic AI development tools at its Summit, including the generally available Red Hat Desktop with sandboxed AI agent testing, an enhanced Advanced Developer Suite, dedicated AI skill bundles, and the free rolling‑release Fedora Hummingbird Linux. All features are included in the latest Red Hat AI release at no extra charge and integrate with tools such as AWS Kiro, Claude CLI, and Microsoft Copilot. The company emphasizes hardened images, trusted libraries, and supply‑chain transparency to secure local and hybrid environments. By offering a cost‑free, on‑premise‑friendly path, Red Hat positions itself as a counter‑point to hyperscaler AI services.
A Networking Revolution at AWS
Amazon Web Services unveiled a unified, custom networking stack that replaces heterogeneous vendor hardware with a single ASIC‑based switch architecture and its own Linux‑derived NetOS. The current platform delivers 51.2 Tbps across 64 × 800 Gbps ports, and a next‑generation version will double capacity...
Trading Technologies’ Jason Shaffer: AI Is Accelerant, Not Disruptor
Trading Technologies (TT) views artificial intelligence as an accelerant that enhances its full‑stack market infrastructure rather than a disruptor. Chief Technology & Product Officer Jason Shaffer emphasizes disciplined, non‑hype AI deployment within existing governance, security and human‑in‑the‑loop controls. Clients, especially...
Interview: Alwin Bakkenes, Head of Software Engineering, Volvo Cars
Volvo Cars’ head of software engineering, Alwin Bakkenes, is steering a sweeping digital transformation that centers on a unified HuginCore stack and AI‑driven services. The EX60, launched with Google Gemini AI and Qualcomm’s Snapdragon Auto Connectivity Platform, showcases the new...
Thinking Machines Wants to Build an AI that Actually Listens While It Talks
Thinking Machines Lab, founded by former OpenAI CTO Mira Murati, unveiled a research preview of "interaction models" that enable full‑duplex AI communication. The prototype, TML‑Interaction‑Small, can listen and generate a response simultaneously, achieving a 0.40‑second latency comparable to natural human...
Grab Seeks AI Edge in Product Development Using Agentic Engineering, Vibe Coding
Grab is integrating AI into its product development pipeline through vibe coding and agentic engineering, allowing rapid prototyping and higher productivity. The Virtual Store Manager, created by a non‑engineer using AI‑generated code, exemplifies how vibe coding turns ideas into functional...
Nadella Says the Attempt to Remove Altman From OpenAI Was ‘Amateur City’
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella described the board’s 2023 effort to remove Sam Altman from OpenAI as an "amateur city" move. He highlighted that the abrupt ouster threatened the deep partnership between Microsoft and OpenAI, which includes a multibillion‑dollar investment and...
Lendi Group Runs First Project Through "Agentic SDLC"
Lendi Group, a home‑lending fintech, completed its first project using an agentic software development lifecycle (SDLC) powered by Atlassian’s Teamwork Graph. The new process captures meeting audio with Loom, auto‑generates PRDs in Confluence, and employs AI agents to create Jira...
HPE Memory Server Targets Compute-Heavy and Agentic AI Workloads
HPE announced the Compute Scale‑up Server 3250, a memory‑centric platform built on the Superdome Flex architecture and powered by Intel Xeon 6 processors. The system scales from four to 16 sockets and can hold up to 64 TB of DDR5 RAM, targeting compute‑heavy workloads,...
AI Agents Are Running Hospital Records and Factory Inspections. Enterprise IAM Was Never Built for Them.
Enterprises are rapidly deploying AI agents for tasks like medical transcription and factory‑floor inspection, but 85% remain in pilot mode while only 5% have moved to production. The bottleneck is not model capability but identity governance—traditional IAM systems can’t inventory,...
Google Cloud’s 6 Key Execs Who Left For Anthropic, OpenAI, Microsoft And Others In 2026
Google Cloud entered 2026 with a record $20 billion first‑quarter revenue, a 63% year‑over‑year increase, and its market share rose to 14%, giving it an $80 billion annual run rate. At the same time, six senior executives left for rivals and AI‑focused...
Absa’s Tech Chief Maps AI’s Future Path
Johnson Idesoh, Absa Group’s chief information and technology officer, told ITWeb’s AI Summit 2026 that the next phase of artificial intelligence will shift from generative models to autonomous, agent‑driven systems while keeping human oversight central. He highlighted Africa’s mobile‑first, youthful...
Atlassian Team 26 - From AI Novice to AI Native in a Decade of Disruptive Change
At Atlassian Team 26, Wharton’s Ethan Mollick and Mercedes‑Benz CSO Magnus Östberg examined how companies can move from AI novices to AI natives. They emphasized low‑risk experimentation, especially in safety‑sensitive industries, and the need for contextual prompting that reflects brand identity. Mercedes‑Benz...
ServiceNow, Accenture Partner to Deliver Agentic AI at Enterprise Scale
ServiceNow and Accenture have unveiled a forward‑deployed engineering programme designed to move agentic AI from pilot projects to full‑scale production across enterprises. The joint teams will embed AI workflows directly into customers' existing systems using the ServiceNow AI Platform and...
How to Add AI to an Existing Product (without Annoying Users)
Generative AI is flooding product UIs, but many implementations are driven by hype rather than genuine user needs, leading to buggy, intrusive features. Research shows only 8% of Americans would pay extra for AI, and a sizable share of users...
National Technology Day 2026: India’s AI Growth Puts Security in Focus
India’s National Technology Day 2026 underscored a shift toward AI‑first enterprises, where intelligent systems are embedded in everyday workflows rather than treated as isolated tools. Executives highlighted that AI now analyses context, triggers actions, and supports decision‑making across sectors, propelled...
The Morning Briefing: Dynamic Planner Strengthens AI Leadership Team; There’s No Such Thing as Passive
Dynamic Planner, a financial‑planning technology firm, has bolstered its AI leadership by appointing Rory McLaren as chief technology officer and promoting long‑time tech veteran Piers Lawson to a newly created chief architect role, signaling an accelerated AI‑driven growth phase. The moves come...
Dynamic Planner Strengthens AI Leadership Team
Dynamic Planner announced three senior hires to accelerate its AI‑led growth strategy. Rory McLaren, former Kaizen Reporting AI manifesto author, joins as chief technology officer, bringing over 20 years in regulated fintech. Long‑time leader Piers Lawson moves into a newly created chief...
Memory Godboxes Could Offer Relief From the RAMpocalypse
The next wave of datacenter servers will treat system memory as a disaggregated resource, using so‑called memory godboxes that connect via Compute Express Link (CXL). CXL 3.0, now supported by upcoming AMD and Intel CPUs, enables memory pooling and true...
Startup Wants to Run AI Inference From Space
Orbital Inc., a Los Angeles startup backed by Andreessen Horowitz, announced plans to build a constellation of low‑Earth‑orbit satellites that run AI inference workloads. The company envisions up to 10,000 fridge‑sized satellites, each delivering roughly 100 kW of solar‑powered compute via GPU...
Both Fedora and Ubuntu Will Get AI Support – Soon
Ubuntu and Fedora have officially announced upcoming support for running local generative AI workloads. Fedora’s next release will include an AI Developer Desktop aimed at developers, emphasizing privacy‑first, locally‑executed models and no remote data collection. Ubuntu 26.04 "Resolute Raccoon" will...
Alibaba Integrates Qwen AI with Taobao for End-to-End Agentic Shopping
Alibaba is embedding its Qwen generative‑AI app into Taobao and Tmall, giving the chatbot access to more than four billion products and a suite of logistics, customer‑service and checkout skills. The AI can search, compare, run virtual try‑ons, track prices and...
Tanzu Platform’s 15-Year Head Start Meets the AI Moment
VMware’s Tanzu Platform, a 15‑year‑old PaaS lineage originating from Cloud Foundry, is now positioning itself as an AI‑ready foundation. Recent releases—10.0, 10.3 and 10.4—add AI Services, shared MCP server publishing, and Agent Foundations that embed governance, observability and multi‑cloud deployment...
80% of Enterprise AI Success Comes Down to System Design, Says Centricity WealthTech’s CAITO, Kamal Kishore
Chief AI and Technology Officer Kamal Kishore of Centricity WealthTech argues that enterprise AI success is 20% model and 80% system design. Financial‑services firms pour money into pilots and large language models but most fail to deliver revenue or efficiency...
What Happens when Engineering Teams Reorganize Around AI Agents
At Camp AI’s "Agents at Work" event, startups demonstrated how engineering teams are reorganizing around autonomous AI agents. Companies like Browserbase and Mastra claim a single engineer can now drive an entire feature thanks to an "army" of agents, shrinking...
Red Hat Brings AI, Virtualization and Hybrid Cloud Under One Platform
Red Hat announced at its 2026 Summit that its OpenShift platform will serve as a single foundation for AI, virtualization and hybrid‑cloud workloads. The company is positioning platform engineering as the control layer that unifies containers, virtual machines and inference...
IBM’s New ‘AI Operating Model’ And Agent Tech Offerings Create Partner Opportunities
IBM unveiled its AI Operating Model at Think 2026, coupling new agentic tools, Watsonx Orchestrate, and Sovereign Core cloud tech to embed AI at the core of enterprise operations. The blueprint urges partners—resellers, ISVs, and system integrators—to sell via Amazon Marketplace,...
Decoupled by Design: How Gateworks and NXP Are Rethinking Edge AI Architecture
Gateworks and NXP have launched the GW16168 M.2 AI accelerator, pairing NXP’s Ara240 discrete neural processing unit with a 16 GB LPDDR4‑backed card that delivers roughly 40 eTOPS at a typical 12 W power envelope. The decoupled architecture lets industrial single‑board computers...
OpenAI's Secret Sauce for Networking Is Now an Open Protocol. What Does It Mean for Inference?
OpenAI unveiled Multipath Reliable Connection (MRC), an open networking protocol designed to speed and stabilize data transfer between GPU clusters in massive supercomputers. The protocol, developed with AMD, Broadcom, Intel, Microsoft and NVIDIA, can link more than 130,000 GPUs using...
When Cloud Giants Meddle in Markets
Hyperscale cloud providers are buying massive volumes of DRAM and high‑bandwidth memory to fuel AI workloads, effectively hoarding a finite supply. Their pre‑emptive procurement pushes component prices higher for downstream enterprise buyers, inflating refresh costs and lengthening lead times. As...
OpenAI’s New Audio APIs Aim for Conversational Voice Agents
OpenAI unveiled three real‑time audio APIs—GPT‑Realtime‑2, GPT‑Realtime‑Translate and GPT‑Realtime‑Whisper—on its developer platform, extending the company beyond text‑only chat and transcription. The models enable live listening, translation, and action during conversations, handling interruptions and maintaining context over extended sessions. Early adopters...
US Tech Official Calls for ‘Transformational’ Use of AI in Scientific Discovery
White House Chief Technology Officer Ethan Klein urged a "transformational" rollout of agentic AI to accelerate scientific discovery, emphasizing tighter integration from data collection through prototyping and scale‑up. A Market Connections survey shows 53% of federal agencies are already exploring...
Gluware’s Titan Rises to Meet Mythos Network Vulnerability Challenge
Gluware unveiled Titan Exposure Management, an AI‑driven, closed‑loop solution that identifies which devices across an enterprise are truly exposed to a given vulnerability and automates remediation. Built on the company’s DIAL (Device Interface and Automation Layer) framework, the tool continuously...
AI Is Generating More Tests. But Are They Preventing the Next Cloud Outage?
Engineering teams are rapidly adopting AI tools that generate thousands of test cases, but the surge in test volume often masks quality gaps. Recent AWS outages have highlighted how fragile modern software can become when automated tests lack rigor, leading...
AMD's Next Epyc Server Chip Debuts This Year with 256 Cores and 70% Better Performance
AMD confirmed that its next‑generation Epyc Venice processors, built on the Zen 6 architecture, will ship later this year. The chips will use TSMC’s 2 nm process, delivering up to 256 cores, a 70% performance uplift and roughly double the CPU‑to‑GPU bandwidth...
Meet the French Startup Fixing the Guardrail Gap Holding Enterprise AI Back
Enterprises deploying autonomous AI agents face escalating risks such as hallucinations, security breaches, and regulatory violations. French startup Giskard has launched Giskard Guards, Europe’s first sovereign guardrail platform that monitors the entire agent execution chain and blocks unsafe behavior in...
AXA's Fraught Journey to the Cloud Starts to Pay Off
AXA, the French‑based global insurer, has finally seen tangible results from its decade‑long cloud migration effort. After a rocky virtual‑machine lift‑and‑shift, the company now runs heavily containerised applications in public clouds. The new architecture powers critical claim‑processing and underwriting workloads,...
Why the Future of Software Is No Longer Written — It Is Architected, Governed and Continuously Learned
The article argues that by 2026 software development will be driven by generative AI, shifting the CIO mandate from rapid code delivery to architecting and governing enterprise intelligence. AI agents now orchestrate the entire software lifecycle, compressing design and deployment...
Tata and JSW to Spend $1bn Building India’s Way Out of Chinese Battery Dependence
India’s EV sector, heavily reliant on Chinese battery cells, faces supply‑chain risk after Beijing tightened export controls on graphite, lithium‑processing equipment and cell‑making machinery. In response, Tata Group and JSW Group have pledged just under $1 billion to fund multi‑year R&D...
Coherence: Where Leadership and AI Success Intersect
Leigh‑Ann Russell, BNY’s CIO, argues that "coherence"—the alignment of talent, clarity, and governance—is essential for scaling AI without creating chaos. BNY’s AI hub, Eliza, now hosts over 220 production solutions and has trained 100% of its workforce, exceeding a 65%...
MongoDB Targets AI’s Retrieval Problem
MongoDB announced a suite of AI‑focused features that add persistent memory, vector‑search retrieval, embedding and re‑ranking capabilities directly into its Atlas platform. The company introduced Voyage AI embeddings in public preview, a LangGraph.js Long‑Term Memory Store for JavaScript/TypeScript agents, and...
Google and Cloudflare Have Brought Forward Their PQC Timelines. What Comes Next?
Google Cloud and Cloudflare have accelerated the rollout of post‑quantum cryptography (PQC) across their production networks, moving the technology from a future concept to an immediate reality. The shift highlights the growing urgency to protect data against “harvest‑now, decrypt‑later” attacks,...
NASCIO 2026 Midyear: States Shift From AI That Assists to AI That Acts, Tennessee CTO Says
Tennessee’s chief technology officer says the state put AI governance and structure ahead of scaling, creating a statutory advisory council and review committee to vet projects. Pilot programs now span public‑records automation, a statewide chatbot, IT ticket analysis and AI‑assisted...
Harris Farm Markets Bolsters Digital, Data Leadership
Australian grocery chain Harris Farm Markets announced two senior tech hires in rapid succession. Former Lion group technology and digital transformation director Ram Kalyanasundaram joins as chief information and digital officer, while Bharath Venkataraman, ex‑head of data at Freedom Australia,...
HPE Bolsters Autonomous Network Operations for Mist, Aruba Central
Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) has integrated autonomous networking capabilities into its Mist AI platform and Aruba Central management suite, enabling real‑time detection, diagnosis, and remediation of network issues without human input. The enhancements include dynamic frequency selection, client roaming insights,...
Kubernetes v1.36: Server-Side Sharded List and Watch
Kubernetes 1.36 adds an alpha‑stage server‑side sharded list and watch feature, letting the API server filter resource events before they reach controller replicas. By passing a shardSelector in ListOptions, each replica receives only the hash range it owns, cutting CPU,...
Netskope Launches AI Agents for SOC and NOC Automation
Netskope unveiled AgentSkope, an AI‑driven framework embedded in its Netskope One SASE platform, to automate security and network operations. The solution targets the chronic alert fatigue in SOCs and NOCs, where 40% of alerts go uninvestigated, by deploying six specialized...
Intel, Behind in AI Chips, Bets on Quantum and Neuromorphic Processors
Intel, trailing its rivals in AI accelerators, is betting on quantum and neuromorphic processors to revive its growth. CEO Lip‑Bu Tan named veteran Pushkar Ranade as chief technology officer, tasking him with advancing quantum computing, neuromorphic chips, photonics and novel...
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%...
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...