Can AI Infrastructure Costs Be a Value Driver? Hot Topics and Customer Views From Oracle AI World 2026
At Oracle AI World New York, Oracle highlighted how its Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) can lower AI inference costs by pulling virtual components from hardware and leveraging bare‑metal and RDMA networking. The company emphasized that customers can swap expensive frontier models for open‑source or smaller models, preserving data security through Fusion‑integrated governance. Oracle also showcased a growing partner ecosystem that can spin up vertical AI agents on Fusion apps in minutes. With more than 7,000 customers already using its generative AI services, Oracle frames AI readiness as a strategic priority for 2026.
Why Is Enterprise AI Stuck? OpenSearchCon Europe 2026 Says the Bottleneck Has Moved From the Model to the Data
OpenSearchCon Europe in Prague highlighted a shift in enterprise AI from model‑centric challenges to data‑centric bottlenecks. Research presented by S&P Global shows 35% of firms cite insufficient data access as a major barrier, while 40% deem it disruptive. OpenSearch demonstrated...
Enterprise Hits and Misses - Claude Mythos Needs a Reality Check, Neurodiverse Workplaces Aren't There yet, and Event Season Rolls...
The latest diginomica roundup highlights a widening gap between employer confidence and neurodivergent employee experiences, underscoring the need for universal design in workplaces. At the same time, Anthropic’s hype around Claude Mythos collides with a recent leak of its source code,...
Universities Model Domestic Energy Use to Help UK Hit Net Zero Goals
University College London, Oxford and Exeter have launched the Energy Demand Observatory and Laboratory (EDOL) to model UK household energy use with unprecedented granularity. Building on the Smart Energy Research Lab’s 11,500‑home smart‑meter dataset, EDOL adds near‑real‑time temperature, humidity and...
Want AI Outcomes? Yes - but How Do Customers Get There? Inside Oracle's Agentic Apps News with Steve Miranda
Oracle unveiled 22 new agentic applications built on its Fusion suite, turning traditional dashboards into AI‑driven reasoning agents that can propose and execute actions such as cash‑position optimization. The agents sit atop existing Fusion data, inheriting security policies, approval rules,...
Is Agentic AI Undermining Offshoring? Open Reply Asks the Question
Open Reply, an AI‑first product engineering consultancy, commissioned a Forrester Consulting report that finds AI is eroding the traditional offshoring advantage of cheaper human coding labor. Generative AI tools now enable code to be written three to four times faster...
SUSE Wants to Take the Cognitive Load Out of Infrastructure – and Liz Is How It Plans to Do It
SUSE announced a major upgrade to its Rancher Prime AI assistant, Liz, re‑architecting it as an orchestration layer that coordinates specialized agents for fleet management, security, observability and more. The new Model Context Protocol (MCP) lets customers plug in third‑party...
The Diginomica Network Podcast - CIO Subhash Chandra Jose Takes EBRD Beyond the Sunset
The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) was originally built with a 20‑year sunset plan but has now operated for 35 years, prompting a major digital overhaul. CIO Subhash Chandra Jose, who took the helm in 2023, outlined a five‑year transformation...
How Mphasis NeoZeta Is Bringing Banking Back-End Systems Into the AI Era
Mphasis is tackling entrenched banking back‑office systems with its NeoZeta platform, which extracts business logic from legacy COBOL and Assembler code and stores it in a knowledge graph called Ontosphere. By combining domain ontologies with large language models, NeoZeta translates...
What Separates a Good Finance Agent From a Weekend Project? Inside Sage's AI Architecture with CTO Aaron Harris
Sage’s CTO Aaron Harris detailed a finance‑focused AI architecture that relies on small, domain‑specific language models rather than generic frontier models. By training 7‑billion‑parameter models and wrapping them in an "arbiter" firewall, Sage reduces inference costs by roughly 97 percent...
Celonis - Europe's Defense Reckoning Has an Execution Gap and a Sovereignty Problem
European defense spending is set to surge, with roughly €600 billion (about $652 billion) earmarked for re‑armament. The influx of hardware orders has exposed an "execution gap"—outdated logistics, fragmented data, and slow supply‑chain processes that could waste a large share of the...
Zendesk Brings on AI-Native Agentic CX Capabilities with Its Acquisition of Forethought
Zendesk announced its largest‑ever acquisition, buying AI‑native CX platform Forethought to fast‑track its agentic AI roadmap by more than a year. Forethought trains on a company’s historical ticket data to automatically generate workflows, coordinate agents, and provide QA oversight across...
AI Needs to Be Inclusive by Design – Here’s How the NHS, Microsoft and GoFibre Think It Can Be Done
At a Tech Show London panel, Microsoft, NHS Blood and Transplant, and GoFibre executives argued that AI must be built with diversity‑by‑design rather than as an after‑thought. They emphasized scrutinising training data for gaps, instituting formal AI audits, and embedding...
As Customer Journeys Fragment Across AI and Chat, Contentsquare Adds New Analytics Tools. Here’s What’s New
Contentsquare has expanded its digital analytics platform with tools that surface interactions with large language models, on‑site chat, and support channels. An out‑of‑the‑box dashboard now reports LLM traffic share and conversion, while the acquisition of conversation‑intelligence firm Loris adds sentiment,...
As Agentic AI Hits 'a Difficult Age', Salesforce's Forward Deployment Engineers Are on Hand to, Well, Hold Enterprise Hands. Jennifer...
Salesforce’s Agentforce program has logged over 29,000 deals, most of which are exploratory pilots, highlighting the early stage of enterprise adoption of agentic AI. To turn pilots into full‑scale deployments, the company relies on its Forward Deployed Engineering (FDE) team,...
