DXC Adds Agentic AI To Managed Services With DXC Oasis
DXC Technology introduced DXC Oasis, an intelligent orchestration platform that merges human expertise with agentic AI for its managed services. The dashboard lets operators view servers, receive AI‑driven recommendations, and trigger automated actions while keeping a human in the loop. Oasis is built as an open, customizable platform that can run on top of existing tooling and offers a usage‑based pricing model for advanced features. The base automation is included at no extra charge for DXC customers, signaling a shift toward AI‑augmented IT operations.
Citi Launches Arc to Scale AI Agents Across the Business
Citigroup has launched Arc, an internal platform that lets developers build and scale AI agents across the firm’s functions and geographies. The platform will first serve internal use cases, with broader employee access slated for later rollout. Arc is part...
The AI Scaffolding Layer Is Collapsing. LlamaIndex's CEO Explains What Survives.
Jerry Liu, co‑founder and CEO of LlamaIndex, says the traditional scaffolding layer—indexing, query engines, and custom agent loops—used to build LLM applications is collapsing as models become capable of handling massive unstructured data on their own. He argues that this...
XAI Launches Grok 4.3 at an Aggressively Low Price and a New, Fast, Powerful Voice Cloning Suite
Elon Musk’s xAI unveiled Grok 4.3, its latest proprietary large‑language model, alongside a new Custom Voices voice‑cloning suite. Grok 4.3 introduces a permanent reasoning mode, a 1 million‑token context window, and aggressive API pricing of $1.25 per million input tokens and $2.50 per...
Mythos Complicates the Breakup, Says Pentagon CTO, but Anthropic Is Still Barred
Pentagon chief technology officer Emil Michael reaffirmed that Anthropic remains a supply‑chain risk for the Department of Defense, despite growing interest in its new model Mythos. Federal agencies, including the NSA and Commerce Department, are only evaluating Mythos for research,...
How Meta Is Strengthening End-to-End Encrypted Backups
Meta has upgraded its end‑to‑end encrypted backup infrastructure for WhatsApp and Messenger with a hardware security module (HSM) based Backup Key Vault. The vault stores recovery codes in tamper‑resistant HSMs, keeping them inaccessible to Meta or cloud providers. New features...
AI Processing of Earth Images Can Now Run In Space
Planet Labs has demonstrated the first successful run of AI image processing on a satellite, using its Pelican‑4 platform to automatically detect and box more than a dozen aircraft at an Australian airport. The onboard NVIDIA Jetson ORIN GPU analyzes a...
The Architectural Decision Shaping Enterprise AI
Enterprise AI projects hinge on a hidden architectural choice: how to retrieve, relate, and reason over information. The article outlines three patterns—vector embeddings, knowledge graphs, and context graphs—each with distinct strengths, costs, and failure modes. Selecting the wrong pattern can...
OpenAI’s Big Reset + A.I. in the Doctor’s Office + Talkie, a Pre-1930s LLM
OpenAI announced a looser partnership with Microsoft and a new aggressive plan to secure additional computing power, signaling a shift in its growth strategy amid investor pressure and a legal clash with Elon Musk. The move aims to accelerate model...
The Cloud Migration Fulfilling FC Bayern Munich’s AI Ambitions
FC Bayern Munich’s IT department completed a migration to SAP Cloud ERP Private, consolidating 52 legacy fan‑data systems into a single S/4HANA cloud instance. The move unlocks AI‑driven automation across HR, logistics and finance while delivering scalable compute, enhanced security...
Why Smaller Is Smarter: How SLMs Make GenAI Operational and Affordable
The article argues that small language models (SLMs) are a pragmatic portfolio strategy for enterprises seeking to operationalize generative AI. By categorizing models into size tiers—from sub‑billion‑parameter “tiny” models to 30‑billion‑parameter “upper” SLMs—companies can match compute, latency, and cost constraints...
AI in the Cloud Is Easy but Expensive
Public cloud has become the "easy button" for AI, offering instant access to compute, storage, managed services, and global reach. This convenience lets enterprises launch pilots without building their own infrastructure, but the cost structure is layered with premiums for...
Carwow Appoints New CTO to Develop Dealer Technology
Carwow Group has named Hizam Sahibudeen as chief technology officer to accelerate AI‑driven dealer tools and platform scalability. Sahibudeen, a veteran with more than 20 years of experience across the US, Europe and Asia, will oversee engineering, IT and security...
Improving AI Accuracy with GraphRAG
AWS’s managed graph database Amazon Neptune is gaining traction as a catalyst for higher AI accuracy, especially in security and chatbot applications. Customers such as Trend Micro have lifted chatbot precision from 70% to 90% by leveraging Neptune’s relationship‑focused data...
Trulioo Sees 10x Gains From Smarter Data Use
Trulioo’s chief technology officer, Hal Lonas, says firms that turn raw data into real‑time decisions are seeing ten‑fold improvements in onboarding, approvals and credit decisioning. Most companies still hoard data, which expands their attack surface and makes them vulnerable to...
Canva CTO to Step Down After 12 Years Amid AI Push and IPO Plans
Canva’s long‑time chief technology officer Brendan Humphreys announced he will step down after 12 years, transitioning to an advisory role through June. The company promoted his deputy, Simon Newton—formerly of Google and Uber—to a newly created head‑of‑technology position overseeing the global tech...
When 170,000 People Show Up: Network Refresh Readies Churchill Downs for Kentucky Derby
Churchill Downs Inc. has selected Cisco to overhaul its network across 26 venues, installing over 7,000 switches and consolidating management in Cisco Catalyst Center. The upgrade, timed after the 2026 Kentucky Derby, addresses the surge from 50,000 daily visitors to...
SpaceComputer to Conduct On-Orbit Test of Secure Computing Infrastructure
SpaceComputer, a Singapore‑based startup, will test its Space Fabric hardware‑software stack in orbit on an undisclosed satellite in October. The system links ground stations with satellites using physically isolated, cryptographically secured computing elements, and includes a dual‑secure‑element redundancy scheme. A...
Palo Alto Networks To Acquire AI Gateway Startup Portkey
Palo Alto Networks announced it will acquire Portkey, a startup that provides an AI gateway for managing and protecting autonomous agents. The deal, expected to close in the fourth fiscal quarter ending July 31, has undisclosed terms. Portkey’s platform processes trillions...
Tax Technology in the AI Era: Through the Lens of CTO Sal
Chief Technology Officer Sal Visca outlines how tax technology is moving from legacy, rules‑based engines to AI‑enabled, cloud‑native platforms. He stresses that explainability, robust data foundations, and human oversight are essential for scalable, trustworthy compliance solutions. Vertex Cloud exemplifies this shift,...
Enterprise Search Has a Relevance Problem. Here’s What to Do About It.
Traditional keyword‑based enterprise search can’t keep up with the surge of unstructured data in emails, wikis, chat, and code repositories, leading to significant productivity losses. Modern organizations must reframe search as a strategic capability, adopting hybrid or AI‑powered retrieval to...
Kubernetes v1.36: In-Place Vertical Scaling for Pod-Level Resources Graduates to Beta
Kubernetes 1.36 promotes In‑Place Pod‑Level Resources Vertical Scaling to beta, enabling default‑on resizing of a pod’s aggregate CPU and memory without always restarting containers. The feature is gated by InPlacePodLevelResourcesVerticalScaling and works with the existing pod‑level resource model introduced in...
Enforcing Trust and Transparency: Open-Sourcing the Azure Integrated HSM
Microsoft announced that its Azure Integrated Hardware Security Module (HSM) will be open‑sourced through the Open Compute Project. The HSM, built into every new Azure server, meets FIPS 140‑3 Level 3 and provides tamper‑resistant, server‑local key protection. Firmware, drivers and software stacks...
Writer Launches AI Agents that Can Act without Prompts, Taking on Amazon, Microsoft and Salesforce
Writer, the enterprise AI agent platform backed by Salesforce Ventures, Adobe Ventures and Insight Partners, launched event‑based triggers for its Writer Agent, enabling autonomous detection of signals in Gmail, Slack, Google Workspace, SharePoint and other tools. The new triggers fire...
Meta Abandons Open-Source Llama for Proprietary Muse Spark
Meta announced Muse Spark, a new proprietary, cloud‑only large language model, signaling a decisive shift away from its previously promoted Llama series. The company’s Superintelligence Labs built Muse Spark from scratch, citing performance gaps with rivals like ChatGPT and Claude. While existing...
AWS Solution Provider Caylent Unveils Dedicated Anthropic Claude Unit
Caylent, an AWS Premier Tier Services Partner, has launched a dedicated Anthropic Claude practice called the Anthropic Consulting & Engineering (ACE) unit. The new unit focuses on enterprise adoption of Claude Enterprise, offering two tracks—Agentic SDLC and Applied AI—to embed...
IPv8: Lone Engineer Proposes Simpler Internet Addressing, Triggers Outcry
Network veteran James Thain, seeking a turnkey server stack, drafted a new Internet Protocol dubbed IPv8 in just five days with AI assistance. He submitted the proposal to the IETF, where it was logged as an individual contribution. The submission...
Netomi Raises $110 Million as Accenture and Adobe Bet on AI for Customer Service
Netomi, a San Francisco AI startup for enterprise customer service, raised $110 million in a round led by Accenture Ventures with participation from Adobe Ventures and other investors. The funding includes a global alliance with Accenture to bring Netomi’s platform to...
Meta Ramps up AI Spend as It Pushes Advanced Models
Meta announced a $107 bn multi‑year cloud commitment as it expands datacenters to power next‑generation AI models. For Q1 2026 the company posted $56.3 bn revenue, a 33% year‑over‑year jump, and lifted its capital‑expenditure outlook to $125‑$145 bn, reflecting a $10 bn increase due to...
Harness Teams of Agentic Coders with Squad
At KubeCon Europe, Linux kernel maintainer Greg Kroah‑Hartman noted a sudden improvement in AI‑generated security reports, highlighting a broader productivity crisis for developers facing a flood of critical vulnerabilities. Open‑source project Squad, created by Microsoft’s Brady Gaster, offers an agent...
How Can Businesses Make Sovereign Cloud a Reality?
Businesses are increasingly forced to adopt sovereign cloud as regulators and geopolitics tighten data‑governance rules. A true sovereign‑by‑design model embeds control across data, operational and technology layers rather than treating location alone as compliance. Distributed cloud architectures enable firms to...
Inside FDP – Part 1: Understanding the Problems Facing NHS Data
Former NHS England deputy director of data engineering Tom Bartlett outlines the chronic data flaws plaguing the UK health service and introduces the Frontline‑First framework behind the NHS Federated Data Platform (FDP). He argues that the existing architecture is a...
Cheaper Tokens, Bigger Bills: The New Math of AI Infrastructure
Enterprises are moving from experimental AI models to production‑grade, agentic workloads, shifting the primary cost driver from model training to the infrastructure that powers billions of inference requests. Although per‑token inference costs have dropped roughly tenfold in the past two...
The Retrieval Rebuild: Why Hybrid Retrieval Intent Tripled as Enterprise RAG Programs Hit the Scale Wall
Enterprise Retrieval‑Augmented Generation (RAG) hit a pivotal shift in Q1 2026, with hybrid retrieval intent surging to 33 % of respondents—a three‑fold increase from the quarter’s start. Companies are abandoning single‑method pipelines in favor of hybrid stacks that combine dense embeddings, keyword...
AWS Quick's Personal Knowledge Graph Is Making Orchestration Decisions Most Control Planes Can't See
AWS Quick has expanded into a desktop‑native agent that continuously builds a personal knowledge graph from a user’s files, calendar, email and SaaS apps. Unlike session‑based chat copilots, Quick maintains state and can proactively trigger actions across local and cloud...
Auvik Bets Agentic AI Can Fill the Networking Skills Gap
Auvik introduced Aurora, an agentic AI platform that moves network management from passive alerting to automated remediation. The system prioritizes alerts, tracks device lifecycle, monitors CVEs, and generates remediation scripts via natural‑language queries. Aurora draws on Auvik’s 15‑year data set—over...
Sanctioned Chinese AI Firm SenseTime Releases Image Model Built for Speed
Chinese AI firm SenseTime, under repeated U.S. sanctions, launched SenseNova U1, an open‑source image generation and interpretation model designed for speed. The model skips text conversion, allowing direct visual reasoning and lower compute demand, and is optimized for domestic Chinese chips...
OpenAI Has Effectively Abandoned First-Party Stargate Data Centers in Favor of More Flexible Deals — Company Now Prefers to...
OpenAI has effectively shelved its first‑party Stargate data‑center venture, opting instead to lease compute from third‑party providers. The $500 billion joint venture with Oracle and SoftBank, which aimed to build 20 U.S. facilities, fell apart after partner disputes, leaving SoftBank as...
FOMO Is Why Enterprises Pay for GPUs They Don't Use — and Why Prices Keep Climbing
Enterprises are running GPU fleets at roughly 5% utilization, a six‑fold gap from a realistic 30% target, according to Cast AI’s 2026 State of Kubernetes Optimization Report. The shortage‑driven fear of losing capacity forces companies into long‑term reservations, even as...
Anthropic Wants to Be the AWS of Agentic AI
Anthropic launched Claude Managed Agents in public beta and added persistent memory two weeks later, offering a suite of APIs that handle sandboxing, credential management, and long‑running sessions. The service costs the standard Claude token rate plus $0.08 per session...
AWS Lands OpenAI on Bedrock, but Trainium Is the Real Story
AWS unveiled three new Bedrock integrations, including the preview of OpenAI's GPT‑5.4 and upcoming GPT‑5.5, plus Codex and Bedrock Managed Agents, all running on Amazon infrastructure. The rollout follows parallel multi‑year commitments from Anthropic and OpenAI to consume several gigawatts...
Foreign Tier 1s in China: 18 Months Is Just the Baseline, Speed Has No Ceiling
Aumovi Group China announced that its 18‑month high‑performance‑computing development cycle, once a benchmark, is now a baseline as Chinese automakers demand 12‑18‑month model launches. To meet this pace, the company has shifted decision‑making authority to its China Management Committee, granting...
Omnicom Routinizes Agentic Buys, Compresses Media Supply Chain
Omnicom has moved its home‑grown OMNI platform from pilot to routine use, employing an agentic media‑buying protocol that enables direct, agent‑to‑agent transactions with publishers. The approach, described as a way to shorten the media supply chain, is powered by the...
GitHub CTO: We’re Going Multicloud Amid AI Stress
GitHub’s chief technology officer announced that the code‑hosting platform is shifting to a multicloud strategy to handle the surge in AI‑driven workloads. The move will spread GitHub’s services across Azure, AWS, and Google Cloud, reducing reliance on any single provider....
How HPE Is Closing the Loop on Cloud and AI Sprawl with Agentic AI
Hewlett Packard Enterprise unveiled the GA release of its OpsRamp agentic operations copilot, a AI‑driven platform that turns high‑level intents into detailed deployment plans across data‑center, networking, and storage layers. The solution is part of HPE’s broader CloudOps suite, which...
Salesforce Expands Beyond the Front Office with Agentforce Operations
Salesforce unveiled Agentforce Operations, an AI‑driven platform that automates back‑office tasks such as auditing, onboarding, and invoice processing. The company says the solution can cut cycle times by up to 70% and eliminate 80% of manual data‑entry work. Built on...
Designing the AI-Native Cloud: What Enterprise Architects Are Learning the Hard Way
Enterprise architects are confronting a paradigm shift as generative AI forces cloud environments to become AI‑native. Traditional CPU‑centric designs struggle with the massive GPU compute, high‑throughput data pipelines, and real‑time inference demands of large language models. Organizations are moving toward...
Oracle NetSuite Announces AI Coding Skills for SuiteCloud Developers
Oracle NetSuite unveiled SuiteCloud Agent Skills, an AI‑powered extension that lets developers generate custom ERP code using natural‑language prompts. The new skills embed NetSuite‑specific guidance—such as UI framework references, permission codes, SuiteScript migration paths, and OWASP security best practices—into more...
Your AI Agent Is Ready to Go. Is Your Infrastructure?
TransUnion has spent $145 million building the OneTru platform, a hybrid architecture that couples traditional expert systems with generative AI, and has already generated $200 million in cost savings. The platform powers the AI Analytics Orchestrator Agent, leveraging Google Gemini to let...
‘As a Software Developer, You Naturally Need to Have a Willingness to Learn’: Amazon CTO Werner Vogels on the Evolution...
Amazon CTO Werner Vogels warned that software development is entering a new era he calls the "Renaissance Developer," driven by AI‑powered tools. He highlighted that 85% of developers now use AI daily and that up to 80% will need to...