Talking to AI Agents Is One Thing — What About when They Talk to Each Other? New Startup BAND Debuts...
BAND, a startup founded by former Israeli intelligence veterans, emerged from stealth with a $17 million seed round to tackle the growing fragmentation of generative‑AI agents. The company introduces a deterministic "agentic mesh" that lets autonomous agents built on different frameworks—LangChain, CrewAI, custom Python scripts, and more—discover each other and exchange tasks without brittle glue code. By providing a Slack‑like interaction layer and a control plane for governance, BAND aims to become the universal orchestrator for the emerging agentic economy. Early traction comes from telecom, finance, and cybersecurity firms seeking multi‑model, cross‑cloud automation.
CAI Software Appoints Gaurav Maini as Chief Technology & AI Officer
CAI Software announced the appointment of Gaurav Maini as its first Chief Technology & AI Officer. In the newly created role, Maini will define an enterprise‑wide AI strategy, standardize engineering practices, and oversee the India innovation center that houses roughly...
Why AI Governance without Guardrails Is Theater
Enterprises are grappling with a widening gap between AI governance policies and reality, as shadow AI proliferates across workstations and SaaS tools. Surveys show 45% of employees use AI without manager knowledge and more than half connect unauthorized AI services,...
Modernizing KYC with AWS Serverless Solutions and Agentic AI for Financial Services
Financial institutions are turning to AWS serverless services and agentic AI to overhaul legacy Know Your Customer (KYC) processes. By leveraging Amazon MSK for real‑time event streaming, Amazon Bedrock for AI‑driven document analysis, and AWS Lambda for on‑demand compute, the...
Your AI Coding Agent Isn’t a Tool. It’s a Junior Developer. Treat It Like One
The article argues that AI coding agents should be treated as junior developers rather than mere productivity tools. By onboarding, pairing, and mentoring these agents, organizations can harness their speed while avoiding rapid technical debt and security vulnerabilities. Treating them...
LIV Golf Engages Fans with Agentic AI
LIV Golf has introduced two agentic AI tools—Fan Caddie (nicknamed “Chip”) for fans and Agent Caddie for broadcasters—to deliver real‑time stats, personalized content, and on‑site logistics. The AI agents are built on Salesforce’s Agentforce 360 platform after extensive data‑cleaning work....
How I Doubled My GPU Efficiency without Buying a Single New Card
A global retailer’s LLM search service was over‑provisioned, running 48 H100 GPUs at 55% average utilization because the inference workload alternates between compute‑heavy prefill and memory‑bound decode phases. Profiling revealed 92% compute usage during a 200 ms prefill, then a drop...
WPP Media NZ Appoints Sarah Kenny as Head of Data and Technology
WPP Media New Zealand has created a new Head of Data and Technology role and appointed Sarah Kenny, who returns from WPP Media UK, to fill it. Kenny previously led data and technology solutions at Wavemaker in the UK and helped...
Inside The Standard's Bengaluru Bet: Building the AI-Ready Workforce of Tomorrow
The Standard opened a global capability centre in Bengaluru to accelerate AI‑driven modernization of its 119‑year‑old insurance platform. The centre will house AI engineering, cloud, data analytics, and API integration teams that support the recent Allstate Employer Voluntary Benefits acquisition....
Intel-Google Alliance Signals CPU Resurgence in AI Infrastructure Era
Intel has teamed with Google to pair Xeon CPUs with custom infrastructure processing units (IPUs) for AI workloads, emphasizing a balanced, heterogeneous architecture. The collaboration targets latency‑sensitive inference, data pre‑processing, and system management, offloading networking, storage, and security to IPUs....
Reapit Rolls Out New AI Offering for Estate Agents
Reapit has unveiled the next phase of its Reapit AI (RAI) platform, adding a voice‑led AI copilot, an AppMarket for task‑specific agents, and a no‑code builder for custom agents. The copilot, optimized for mobile, helps agents prepare for viewings, retrieve...
Former XPeng VP, Joins ENGINEAI Robotics
Li Liyun, a former vice president at XPeng who led the company’s AI‑driven autonomous‑driving transformation, has been appointed chief technology officer of ENGINEAI Robotics. A multidisciplinary scientist with stints at LinkedIn, Baidu’s Apollo team and JD.com, Li will oversee the...
Google and AWS Split the AI Agent Stack Between Control and Execution
Google and AWS are diverging on how to manage enterprise AI agents, with Google placing governance on a system‑level control plane and Amazon Web Services focusing on rapid execution via a harness in Bedrock AgentCore. Google’s Gemini Enterprise now consolidates...
BoQ Looks to Legacy Decommissioning as Core Consolidation Gains Pace
Bank of Queensland (BoQ) is 80‑85% through moving Me Bank customers to a new Temenos‑based core, with over 300,000 accounts and 70% of its retail base now live on the platform. The bank will begin decommissioning the Me Bank system...
Roo Code Pivots to Cloud-Based Agent, Says IDEs Aren’t the Future of Coding
Roo Code announced it will shut down its VS Code extension, Cloud, and Router services on May 15, 2026, pivoting to a standalone cloud‑based coding agent called Roomote. Roomote runs end‑to‑end tasks across Slack, GitHub and Linear, generating, testing and delivering pull‑requests without...
SUSE CTO: IT Teams Need to Become More Resilient in the Face of Rapid Change
At SUSECON 2026, CTO Dr. Thomas Di Giacomo warned that IT teams must prioritize resilient platform choices as rapid licensing shifts, geopolitical uncertainty, and AI adoption accelerate. He urged leaders to move toward open‑source stacks to avoid vendor lock‑in and to design...
Salesforce’s Agentforce Vibes 2.0 Targets a Hidden Failure: Context Overload in AI Agents
Salesforce has launched Agentforce Vibes 2.0, adding Abilities and Skills to help enterprises curb context overload in AI coding agents. VentureCrowd’s experience shows that excessive context—known as ‘context bloat’—drives token inflation, latency, and costly errors despite large productivity gains. The new...
PACIFIC Enables Multi-Tenant, Sovereign Product Carbon Footprint Exchange on the Catena-X Data Space Using AWS
BASF and CircularTree launched PACIFIC, a multi‑tenant SaaS platform that automates product carbon footprint (PCF) exchange on the Catena‑X data space using AWS services. The solution leverages Amazon ECS on Fargate, Cognito, IAM and Secrets Manager to provide tenant‑level data...
Grafana Offers AI Assistant for Free, Warns Users Not to Go Mad
Grafana announced that its AI‑driven Grafana Assistant is now free for on‑premise and open‑source users, though it still requires a Grafana Cloud account for the large‑language‑model backend. At the same event the company unveiled Grafana 13, featuring dynamic dashboards, DORA‑style templates,...
Google’s Gemini Can Now Run on a Single Air-Gapped Server — and Vanish when You Pull the Plug
Cirrascale Cloud Services has deepened its partnership with Google Cloud to ship the Gemini model on‑premises via Google Distributed Cloud. The solution bundles a Dell‑certified appliance equipped with eight Nvidia GPUs and confidential‑computing safeguards, allowing a fully private, air‑gapped deployment....
CoreWeave, Google Cloud Link up for AI Training, Inference
CoreWeave announced three cross‑cloud AI capabilities—CoreWeave Interconnect, SUNK Anywhere, and LOTA Cross‑Cloud—designed to simplify AI training and inference across multiple cloud platforms. Interconnect will directly link CoreWeave’s AI cloud to Google Cloud in a private preview, while SUNK Anywhere lets...
AI Agent Designs a RISC-V CPU Core From Scratch
Verkor.io unveiled VerCore, a RISC‑V CPU core fully designed by its autonomous AI system, Design Conductor. The agent took 12 hours to generate a 1.48 GHz core that scores 3,261 on CoreMark, comparable to Intel’s 2011 Celeron SU2300. Design Conductor orchestrates...
The Quantum Bottleneck Isn’t Chips — It’s Lasers, and Vexlum Wants to Fix It
Vexlum, a Finnish spin‑out focused on III‑V semiconductor lasers, is transitioning from boutique production to its own semiconductor fab to satisfy rising demand for high‑power, low‑noise laser sources. Its VECSEL technology provides compact, multi‑wavelength lasers crucial for quantum computers, atomic...
INTERVIEW: Tiancheng Lou, Founder and CTO, Pony.ai on PonyWorld 2.0
Pony.ai unveiled PonyWorld 2.0, an upgraded world‑model and training system that enhances its autonomous‑driving stack. After confirming profitable unit economics with its seventh‑generation robotaxi fleet in Shanghai and Beijing, the company is accelerating commercialization. It targets more than 3,000 vehicles...
People Moves: Clifton, PIMFA, Stonehage Fleming
Clifton Asset Management named Ashley Wise its first chief technology officer, tasking him with modernising the firm’s platform and embedding AI across client‑ and adviser‑facing systems. PIMFA welcomed Brooks Macdonald CEO Andrea Montague to its board to steer advocacy and external relations....
SUSE Bets Automated Migration Can Break VMware’s Grip on Virtualization
At SUSEcon 2026, SUSE announced a partnership with Cloudbase Solutions to embed the Coriolis migration tool into its SUSE Virtualization stack, offering automated, zero‑downtime migrations from VMware. The integration aims to eliminate manual effort, downtime risk, and dual‑licensing costs, with...
Agent Sprawl Is Here. Your IaC Platform Is the Answer.
Enterprises are rapidly adopting AI agents—96% run them in production, yet only 12% have centralized management. This sprawl creates security, compliance, and audit challenges as agents proliferate across cloud accounts with unmanaged credentials. Pulumi argues that an Infrastructure‑as‑Code (IaC) platform...
Who Is Kaushal Sheth?
Kaushan Sheth, a three‑decade veteran of banking technology, co‑founded Sophos Solutions, which was later acquired by GFT Technologies where he now serves as chief technology officer. At GFT he leads efforts to embed agentic artificial intelligence into core financial infrastructure,...
Google’s New Deep Research and Deep Research Max Agents Can Search the Web and Your Private Data
Google unveiled two new autonomous research agents—Deep Research and Deep Research Max—built on the Gemini 3.1 Pro model. The agents can combine open‑web searches with private enterprise data via a single API call, generate native charts and infographics, and connect...
Arm Exec: New AGI CPU Has Big On-Prem Potential—But Limited Channel Play For Now
Arm unveiled its first silicon product, the AGI CPU, aimed at on‑prem AI data centers handling agentic workloads. The 136‑core, 300‑watt processor promises more than double the rack performance of traditional x86 CPUs and could save up to $10 billion per...
Three Insights You May Have Missed From theCUBE’s Coverage of the Oracle Data Deep Dive Event
Oracle showcased a re‑engineered database strategy at theCUBE’s Oracle Data Deep Dive, positioning its database as the trusted foundation for emerging agentic AI. New offerings such as the AI Database Private Agent Factory, Autonomous AI Vector Database, and the Globally...
The AI Governance Mirage: Why 72% of Enterprises Don’t Have the Control and Security They Think They Do
A VentureBeat survey finds 72% of enterprises claim two or more AI platforms as their primary layer, exposing a governance mirage where perceived control masks real security gaps. The sprawl, illustrated by Mass General Brigham’s custom Copilot skin to protect...
OpenAI's ChatGPT Images 2.0 Is Here and It Does Multilingual Text, Full Infographics, Slides, Maps, Even Manga — Seemingly Flawlessly
OpenAI has rolled out ChatGPT Images 2.0, a next‑generation image model that adds multilingual typography, real‑time web research, and agentic reasoning to its generation pipeline. The new "Thinking" mode lets paid users generate up to eight coherent images per prompt,...
Why Microsoft Is Betting on Temporary Identities to Stop Autonomous Agents From Going Rogue
Microsoft is introducing temporary, scoped identities for AI agents running on Azure Kubernetes Service, ensuring agents receive only the permissions needed for a specific task before automatic revocation. At KubeCon Europe 2026, the company demoed an agent that diagnosed and...
SPACE Framework in the AI Era: Why Developer Productivity Metrics Need a Rethink Right Now
Engineering leaders are seeing AI coding assistants inflate traditional productivity numbers—commit frequency, pull‑request volume, and deployment rates—while teams feel slower and morale drops. The SPACE framework, introduced in 2021, expands measurement to five human‑centric dimensions: Satisfaction, Performance, Activity, Communication, and...
The Mac Is in Good Hands in Apple’s Post-Cook Era
Apple’s Mac line, once hampered by butterfly keyboards, USB‑C transitions, and underwhelming Intel chips, entered a renaissance with the 2020 shift to Apple Silicon. The new chips delivered dramatic gains in performance, efficiency and battery life, repositioning the Mac as...
Real-Time Analytics: Oldcastle Integrates Infor with Amazon Aurora and Amazon Quick Sight
Oldcastle APG migrated its Infor Cloud ERP to AWS and built a real‑time analytics platform using Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL and Amazon QuickSight. By leveraging Infor Data Fabric Stream Pipelines, an NLB, RDS Proxy, and API Gateway, the company streams ERP...
5 Pieces of Advice for the Leader Inheriting the Mess
An incoming leader inherits a multi‑year program that has repeatedly failed to reach production because of systemic misalignment. The root causes were unmapped regulatory requirements, fragmented delivery across siloed teams, and evolving scope without clear ownership. By auditing integrations, redefining...
Modernizing the Facebook Groups Search to Unlock the Power of Community Knowledge
Meta has overhauled Facebook Groups Search by deploying a hybrid retrieval architecture that combines traditional inverted‑index lookup with dense vector embeddings. The new system uses a 12‑layer, 200‑million‑parameter semantic model alongside the Unicorn lexical index, and ranks results with a...
From 80 Days to 5: How Banco Bradesco Accelerated Digital Product Delivery with HCP Terraform
Banco Bradesco slashed its infrastructure provisioning cycle from 80 days to just five by making Terraform the central control plane of its platform‑engineering strategy. The bank integrated Terraform with Sentinel policies, ServiceNow change management, and automated CMDB registration, turning fragmented...
Proprietary Stacks Are Failing Enterprises when They Need Flexibility the Most
Enterprises adopting hybrid and multicloud strategies are hitting a wall as many vendors push proprietary technology stacks, limiting the flexibility needed for resilient operations. SUSE positions itself as a counterpoint, championing open‑source architectures that promise interoperability and a unified control...
MCP Dev Summit: Standardizing AI Agents, Starting with MCP
The Agentic AI Foundation (AAIF) is rapidly scaling, now counting 170 members and drawing 1,100 attendees at its recent MCP Dev Summit in New York. The Model Context Protocol (MCP) – a core standard for AI agents – is seeing...
What AI Model Should You Use for Revenue Intelligence? Von Says All the Big Ones, and It Will Automate Mixing...
Von, a new AI platform from Rattle, creates a company‑wide context graph that unifies CRM, call transcripts, emails, and internal docs to serve as an intelligence layer for Go‑to‑Market teams. It employs a mixture of Anthropic’s Claude, OpenAI’s ChatGPT, and...
Snowflake Offers Help to Users and Builders of AI Agents
Snowflake announced upgrades to its Snowflake Intelligence and Cortex Code platforms, aiming to serve as a unified control plane for enterprise AI agents. The enhancements let business users automate tasks with natural‑language prompts, add new Model Context Protocol connectors, and...
Microsoft Builds for Two Worlds: Sovereign Cloud and AI Factories
Microsoft is pursuing a dual‑track infrastructure strategy in 2026, expanding sovereign‑cloud regions while simultaneously building purpose‑built AI factory campuses. Record quarterly capital spending of $37.5 billion—up 66% year‑over‑year—funds dense GPU clusters, liquid cooling and private fiber across sites in Texas, Norway,...
Xiaomi Boosts EV Business with New Hires, Including First CTO Appointment
Xiaomi announced the creation of a chief technology officer role for its automotive division, appointing veteran engineer Hu Zhengnan as vice president and CTO, while naming former Tesla executive Song Gang as vice president and chief of staff. The moves...
From the Engine Room to the Bridge: What the Modern Leadership Shift Means for Architects Like Me
The article argues that CIOs are evolving from cost‑center managers to strategic leaders who demand competitive differentiation, cultural change, and workforce transformation. This shift forces solutions architects to move beyond pure technical design and address governance, decision integrity, and organizational...
Enterprises Are Rethinking Kubernetes
Enterprises are reassessing Kubernetes as the default platform for modern applications. While Kubernetes delivers powerful orchestration, its operational complexity, skill demands, and limited portability have become cost burdens for many organizations. Companies are shifting toward managed container services, serverless offerings,...
Ripple Wants the XRP Ledger to Be Quantum-Proof by 2028. Here Is Its Plan
Ripple announced a four‑phase roadmap to make the XRP Ledger quantum‑resistant by 2028. The plan starts with an emergency “Q‑day readiness” phase that would require all funds to move to quantum‑safe accounts and enable recovery via zero‑knowledge proofs. Subsequent phases...
Middle East CIOs Move From Cloud-First to Sovereign-First in a High-Risk Digital Era
Middle East CIOs are moving from a cloud‑first mindset to a sovereign‑first strategy as geopolitical tension, stricter data and AI regulations, and recent cloud outages expose systemic risk. The shift emphasizes control over data, infrastructure, operations, and artificial intelligence rather...