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 customers run advanced data analysis without data‑scientist assistance. IDC predicts more than 1 billion AI agents will be active by 2029, underscoring the urgency for robust governance, security and orchestration layers. Industry surveys reveal that security and auditability are now the top criteria for AI purchases, highlighting the infrastructure gap many enterprises face.
How AI Is Powering the Next Generation of Robotaxis
Waymo’s fifth‑generation driver, built on Google’s Gemini AI foundation model, recently demonstrated the ability to predict a pedestrian hidden behind a bus, showcasing a leap in perception and safety. The AI‑driven system integrates a visual language model, a decoder for...
Gartner Identifies Six Steps to Manage AI Agent Sprawl
Gartner warns AI agent sprawl could explode, projecting over 150,000 agents in large enterprises by 2028 versus fewer than 15 today. To curb governance, security and data risks, it outlines six steps: establishing policies, building a central inventory, defining identity...
Giving Agents the Ability to Pay
Stripe introduced Link’s wallet for agents, letting AI‑driven personal assistants request one‑time virtual cards or Shared Payment Tokens to complete purchases. Consumers approve each spend request through the Link web portal or iOS/Android apps, keeping raw payment credentials hidden. The...
The Bloomberg Terminal Is Getting an AI Makeover
Bloomberg is piloting a chatbot‑style AI layer called ASKB for its Terminal, aiming to cut through the platform’s expanding data deluge. The beta, built on multiple large language models, lets users craft natural‑language queries and workflow templates that synthesize earnings,...
Amazon Tried Selling Office Software and Failed. Now It Is Betting that Office Software Itself Is Obsolete.
Amazon Web Services unveiled a trio of AI‑driven business applications—Connect Decisions for supply‑chain optimization, Connect Talent for autonomous hiring, and the already‑launched Connect Health—signaling a strategic pivot from pure cloud infrastructure to enterprise software. The suite targets frontline operations and...
Citi Taps Former Google Exec as CIO
Citigroup appointed former Google VP Brian Saluzzo as chief information officer in March. Saluzzo brings four years of experience leading core developer engineering and product management at Google to help Citi scale AI and finish its transformation. The hire aligns...
OpenAI’s Models Are Now Available Everywhere. The Question Is Whether Everywhere Is Enough.
Amazon Web Services announced it will sell OpenAI’s models through its Bedrock marketplace, ending Microsoft’s three‑year exclusive reselling rights. The move caps a restructuring that began with Amazon’s up to $50 billion investment in OpenAI’s $110 billion funding round and a $100 billion,...
Why Broadcom Is Betting on a Private Cloud Comeback
Broadcom is doubling down on private‑cloud resurgence by evolving VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) into a Kubernetes‑native, on‑prem platform. At KubeCon Europe 2026, executives highlighted how VCF now serves platform‑engineering teams with a single declarative pipeline for containers and VMs. The...
Microsoft Named a Leader in the IDC MarketScape: Worldwide API Management 2026 Vendor Assessment
Microsoft has been named a Leader in IDC MarketScape’s Worldwide API Management 2026 Vendor Assessment, highlighting its Azure API Management platform’s strength. The service supports over 38,000 customers, processes nearly 3 trillion API requests monthly, and now extends governance to AI...
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How We Built a System for AI Agents to Ship Real Code Across 75+ Repos [Part 2 of 2]
mabl has operationalized AI agents across more than 100 repositories using a four‑phase pipeline—analysis, planning, implementation, and review—integrated with Jira. Confidence‑based gating reduces implementation failures by roughly 60 % and forces human oversight before code merges. Between October 2025 and March 2026 the...
AI Data Bursts Force Rethink of Data Center Networking at Backblaze
Backblaze is swapping its legacy 100‑gigabit links for 400‑gigabit connections to accommodate the bursty, unpredictable traffic generated by AI workloads on neocloud providers such as CoreWeave and Lambda. The upgrade includes higher‑density Arista switches, allowing terabit‑per‑second internal flows and more...
Aranya Debuts Cluster-Scale Operating System, Partners with Hydra Host on ‘Bare-Metal AI’
Aranya Inc., founded in 2025, launched its cluster‑scale operating system, ClusteredOS, in partnership with Nvidia‑aligned Hydra Host. The platform turns Kubernetes into a self‑healing, reproducible system for AI inference, cutting cluster setup from weeks to under 48 hours and slashing downtime...
The Google-Anthropic Partnership Made Trust the Strategy Behind a $30B Run Rate
Google Cloud and Anthropic have deepened their three‑year partnership, propelling Anthropic's annual revenue run rate from $9 billion to over $30 billion in early 2026. The alliance centers on a trusted, safety‑first AI platform that lets enterprises choose between Gemini and Claude...
Qdrant Cloud Launches High-Performance Vector Database Features for AI Workloads
Qdrant Cloud introduced three enterprise‑grade features—GPU‑accelerated indexing, Multi‑AZ clusters, and audit logging—to meet the performance, availability, and compliance demands of AI workloads. The GPU‑based indexing speeds up vector creation, while Multi‑AZ replication provides uninterrupted reads and writes across three zones....
Tech's Hyperscalers Face Wall Street for First Time Since U.S. Iran War Sent Oil Prices Soaring
Tech hyperscalers—including Alphabet, Amazon, Meta and Microsoft—are set to report earnings amid heightened geopolitical tension after the U.S. and Israel’s attacks on Iran. The conflict has driven oil prices up roughly 50%, disrupted helium production, and intensified an existing memory...
AI Won’t Fix Your Data Problems. Data Engineering Will
Enterprise AI projects often prioritize models while overlooking the quality of internal data. Because most large‑language models are trained on public datasets, they lack the contextual grounding needed for a company’s unique customer, billing, and usage records. The resulting gaps...
The Inference Bill Nobody Budgeted For
Enterprises are confronting an unexpected surge in AI inference spend, now expected to represent two‑thirds of all AI compute by 2026. While public‑cloud pricing has fallen, recursive agentic loops and unsanctioned tool usage generate hundreds of millions in waste, and...
OpenAI’s Symphony Spec Pushes Coding Agents From Prompts to Orchestration
OpenAI unveiled Symphony, an open‑source specification that turns issue‑tracker systems like Linear into control planes for Codex coding agents. The orchestration layer lets agents autonomously claim tickets, run in isolated workspaces, monitor CI pipelines, and prepare pull requests for human...
SAS Adds Agentic AI at SAS Innovate
At SAS Innovate in Grapevine, Texas, SAS unveiled a suite of agentic AI tools across its portfolio. The rollout adds specialized AI agents to SAS Customer Intelligence 360, a family of Copilot assistants and an acceleration framework to SAS Viya,...
Deconstructing the Data Center: A Massive (and Massively Liberating) Project
PPG, a 143‑year‑old paints and coatings maker, dismantled its eight global data centers between 2022 and November 2025, moving all workloads to public cloud hyperscalers. The effort required a full audit, phased migration, and simultaneous application modernization to avoid downtime...
The Bloomberg Terminal Is Getting an AI Makeover, Like It or Not
Bloomberg is piloting a generative‑AI chatbot called ASKB to modernize its iconic Terminal. The tool lets traders pose natural‑language queries—such as the impact of geopolitical events on portfolios—and receive synthesized insights drawn from the platform’s massive data set. As of...
Publicis Groupe Hong Kong Adds Rhys Turner as Head of Creative Technology
Publicis Groupe Hong Kong has appointed Rhys Turner as its inaugural Head of Creative Technology, a role created to embed AI, data and innovation into the agency’s creative work. Turner, an Australian technologist with two decades of experience spanning agency,...
Bed Bath & Beyond Names Kyla Robinson Chief Technology Transformation Officer
Bed Bath & Beyond has appointed Kyla Robinson as chief technology transformation officer, reporting to President Amy Sullivan. Robinson will lead the development of a unified technology and data platform that connects the retailer’s omnichannel retail, home services, financial products,...
Microsoft Sovereign Private Cloud Scales to Thousands of Nodes with Azure Local
Microsoft announced that Azure Local, the foundation of its Sovereign Private Cloud, can now scale to thousands of servers within a single sovereign environment. The platform supports fully connected, intermittently connected, and disconnected deployments, enabling large‑footprint datacenters, industrial sites, and...
Digital Darwinism: Why Automation Evolution Is Crucial to Telcos' Survival
The telecom sector faces a "digital Darwinism" moment, where survival hinges on evolving from legacy, hardware‑centric networks to AI‑driven, autonomous architectures. Only 6% of operators have reached Level 4 autonomous capabilities, yet 73% plan to achieve it by 2030. High‑value use...
Nvidia’s ‘AI Insurance Policy’ Balances Immediate and Future AI Approaches
Nvidia is diversifying beyond its cloud‑centric AI revenue by promoting on‑device LLMs, real‑time world‑model AI, and GPU‑based quantum simulation. The company highlights ChatRTX for RTX‑30 GPUs, expands AI‑driven digital twins and robotics, and rolls out CUDA‑Q and cuQuantum for quantum...
Peter Holdmann Appointed CTO at ZF
ZF has created a new Chief Technology Officer role and appointed Peter Holdmann, a longtime executive, to fill it. The position consolidates technology governance across the group’s divisions, which previously operated independently. Holdmann will now oversee R&D alignment, emphasizing software‑defined...
“The CPU Is Reinserting Itself”, Will Reach Parity with GPUs for AI Workloads: Tan
Intel CEO Lip‑Bu Tan told analysts that CPUs are regaining prominence in AI, with the CPU‑to‑GPU inference ratio moving from 1:8 to 1:4 and heading toward parity. The chipmaker posted a $3.7 billion loss for Q1 2026 but beat revenue guidance,...
Slow Down to Speed Up: Why Steadfast IT Leadership Is Critical in the Age of AI
The article argues that steady IT leadership and disciplined governance are essential for sustainable AI adoption. Canadian data shows 87% of tech leaders anticipate faster AI cycles, yet 75% still rely on structured pilots to manage risk. Nearly half of...
MS, 앤트로픽 ‘미토스’ 도입···보안 개발 수명주기에 생성형 AI 적용
Microsoft announced it will embed Anthropic’s generative‑AI model Mythos into its Security Development Lifecycle, aiming to boost code‑security and vulnerability detection from early development stages. The integration follows a preview of Mythos and signals that advanced AI is moving from...
구글, AI 해커 대응 위해 ‘에이전틱 보안 전략’ 전면 강화
At Google Cloud Next 2026, Google unveiled an "agentic" security strategy that places AI agents at the core of its defense operations. The rollout includes three new AI agents—threat hunting, detection engineering, and third‑party context—within Google Security Operations, and the...
AI-Driven RAN Has Potential, but Cost May Be a Challenge: Vodafone Idea CTO
Vodafone Idea CTO Jagbir Singh says AI‑driven radio access networks (AI‑RAN) can boost efficiency and enable edge services, but the added expense of GPUs, high‑power CPUs and fiber may limit adoption to niche scenarios. He notes that deploying such compute...
Honda Postpones Self-Driving Goal to 2028 as EV Retreat Takes Toll
Honda Motor announced it will push back its AI‑driven autonomous‑driving rollout to 2028, a year later than originally planned. The delay follows a recent retreat from an aggressive electric‑vehicle (EV) strategy that forced the cancellation of several upcoming models, including...
OpenAI Knew. It Chose Not to Call the Police. Now Sam Altman Is Sorry.
Sam Altman publicly apologized to the Tumbler Ridge community after OpenAI failed to notify police about a ChatGPT user who was flagged in June 2025 for discussing gun‑violence scenarios. Internal reviews recommended reporting the threat, but leadership applied a higher...
What It Really Takes to Build Voice AI that Feels Human
Voice AI appears simple but requires a tightly orchestrated stack of ASR, LLM, TTS, and low‑latency infrastructure. Ranga Jagannath explains that accurate speech capture, contextual persistence, and streaming text‑to‑speech are essential for human‑like interaction. He highlights the shift toward multimodal...
Meta’s Compute Grab Continues with Agreement to Deploy Tens of Millions of AWS Graviton Cores
Meta announced a partnership with Amazon Web Services to add tens of millions of Graviton5 CPU cores—each chip packing 192 cores—to its AI compute portfolio, bolstering the Llama builder platform. The agreement expands Meta’s already diverse hardware ecosystem that includes...
Geopolitical Pressures and AI Initiatives Drive Enterprise Adoption of a Sovereign-First Cloud Strategy
Enterprises are accelerating sovereign‑first cloud strategies as AI workloads demand localized, compliant data handling. Google Cloud leveraged partner announcements—Red Hat, Kyndryl, Samsung, Accenture, Elastic—to showcase its Distributed Cloud, Cloud Data Boundary, and Cloud Dedicated services. A Kyndryl survey of 3,700 IT...
McDonald’s US CIO to Depart, Successor Named
McDonald’s announced that U.S. CIO Valerie Ashbaugh will depart at the end of April after less than a year in the role, concluding a five‑year tenure at the fast‑food giant. Mustafa Husain, the former vice‑president of restaurant technology engineering, will...
What Google’s “Unified Stack” Pitch at Cloud Next ‘26 Really Means for CIOs
At Cloud Next ’26 Google Cloud CEO Thomas Kurian unveiled a “unified stack” that stitches together custom TPUs, Gemini Enterprise, the Agentic Data Cloud and security services into a single AI operating fabric. The pitch positions the stack as a turnkey...
DDN and Google Cloud Are Redefining AI Storage Infrastructure for the Agentic Era
Enterprises moving from AI pilots to production are hitting storage bottlenecks that limit GPU and TPU utilization. DataDirect Networks (DDN) and Google Cloud unveiled a co‑designed Managed Lustre service built on DDN’s EXAScaler, delivering up to 10 TB/s throughput. The offering...
Cirrascale to Offer On-Prem Google Gemini Models
Cirrascale Cloud Services will deliver Google Gemini large‑language models on‑premise through Google Distributed Cloud, using Dell‑built appliances equipped with Intel CPUs and Nvidia GPUs. The offering supports fully air‑gapped or connected deployments, letting government, defense, finance, healthcare and education customers...
85% of Enterprises Are Running AI Agents. Only 5% Trust Them Enough to Ship.
Eighty‑five percent of enterprises are running AI‑agent pilots, yet only five percent have moved those agents into production, highlighting a massive trust gap. Cisco’s President Jeetu Patel blamed the lack of a trust architecture and announced a suite of security...
Google Cloud Next 2026: Scaling AI Agents
Google Cloud Next 2026 showcased a full‑stack AI push, highlighted by the eighth‑generation 8t TPU pods that can deliver 121 exaflops of FP4 compute across 9,600 chips. The event emphasized Google’s multi‑cloud stance, promising seamless integration for customers who refuse vendor...
Telstra's AI Bid to Nip Customer Complaints in the Bud
Telstra is deploying Microsoft AI Foundry’s agentic AI to scan customer data after migrations from legacy CRM systems. The AI agents proactively flag discrepancies, allowing Telstra to resolve issues before customers call the call centre. By automating this detection, Telstra expects...
Guzman Y Gomez Cooks up Plan for Agentic Kitchens
Guzman y Gomez is deploying HP‑supplied kitchen display units with on‑site neural processors across its 225 Australian restaurants, beginning in May. The hardware will run agentic AI algorithms that balance order flow between two production lines, fine‑tuning line openings to the minute....
Q.ANT Expands to U.S. and Appoints Former IBM Executive as CTO
Q.ANT, a Stuttgart‑based photonic computing firm, opened a U.S. headquarters in Austin, Texas, and hired former IBM executive Bruno Spruth as chief technology officer. The company’s native processing units, built on a thin‑film lithium niobate platform, claim up to 30× higher...
Kubernetes v1.36: User Namespaces in Kubernetes Are Finally GA
Kubernetes 1.36 makes User Namespaces generally available, a Linux‑only feature that lets pods run with root privileges confined to a user namespace. Setting hostUsers:false isolates capabilities such as CAP_NET_ADMIN to the container, preventing host‑wide escalation. The GA release relies on...
Gemini + Veo: A Deep Dive Into Google’s High-Fidelity Video Generation Pipeline
Google unveiled Veo, a high‑fidelity 1080p video generation model that leverages latent diffusion in a 3‑D latent space, and paired it with Gemini, its multimodal reasoning engine, to act as a cinematic director. The integration, accessible through Vertex AI, lets Gemini...
Google Pitches Agentic Data Cloud to Help Enterprises Turn Data Into Context for AI Agents
Google unveiled the Agentic Data Cloud, an architecture that layers a unified semantic Knowledge Catalog atop its existing data services—BigQuery, Dataplex and Vertex AI. The offering adds preview tools such as a LookML‑based agent, a BigQuery feature for embedding business...