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News•Jan 14, 2026
How Platform Engineering Is Dying and What that Means for Platform Engineers [Q&A]
Enterprises are moving away from building custom internal developer platforms because of hidden costs in time, talent, and maintenance. Instead they are adopting purpose‑built or open‑source platforms that deliver scalability, governance and a ready‑made developer experience. Lakmal Warusawithana explains that platform engineers must shift from constructing infrastructure to curating platforms as products, focusing on automation, observability and developer workflow. He also highlights AI‑driven automation, composable services and business‑intelligence capabilities as the next disruptive trends.
By BetaNews
News•Jan 14, 2026
How Daimler Trucks North America Built a Living Knowledge Graph of Its Business
Daimler Trucks North America built a living knowledge graph using Neo4j Aura to map its entire IT landscape after splitting from its parent in 2021. By ingesting real‑time network‑flow data from ExtraHop and coupling it with Claude’s large language model,...
By Diginomica
News•Jan 14, 2026
The Tech Leadership Realizing More than the Sum of Parts
Parts ASAP’s CIO John Fraser credits a "listen first, act later" culture and talent acquisition for building a resilient e‑commerce engine that keeps industrial equipment running. By deploying a custom product‑information management platform, the firm can publish thousands of SKUs...
By CIO.com
News•Jan 14, 2026
Spot Ship Closes £1M Round Led by Ventures.eu to Modernise Ship Chartering
Spot Ship, a UK‑based SaaS platform that applies AI and machine learning to ship chartering, closed a £1 million financing round led by Lisbon VC Ventures.eu. The round also featured Improbable CEO Herman Narula, Tradeworks.vc and Marcel Kind. Spot Ship’s API‑first solution compresses...
By Tech.eu
News•Jan 13, 2026
CrowdStrike Acquires Browser Security Startup Seraphic Security for $400M
CrowdStrike Holdings announced the acquisition of browser‑security startup Seraphic Security, with market estimates placing the deal at about $400 million. Seraphic’s platform isolates the JavaScript engine, randomizes memory addresses, and monitors over 200 webpage data points to block ransomware, phishing, and...
By SiliconANGLE
News•Jan 13, 2026
CloudBees CEO: Why Migration Is a Mirage Costing You Millions
CloudBees CEO Anuj Kapur warns that many enterprises chase costly migration projects, calling it a “migration mirage.” A recent survey shows 57% of organizations spent over $1 million on migrations last year, with an average $315,000 loss per project due to...
By The New Stack
News•Jan 13, 2026
As Enterprise Risk Rises, AI Agent Control Is Cast as Critical Infrastructure
Enterprises are rapidly deploying AI agents, but many lack robust guardrails, prompting leaders to label AI‑agent control as critical infrastructure. Rubrik’s research predicts that within a year, at least half of cyberattacks will be driven by agentic AI, highlighting an...
By SiliconANGLE
News•Jan 13, 2026
Tenants: The Missing Backbone of Modern Developer Platforms
Internal developer platforms often collapse under cloud sprawl, compliance pressure, and AI‑driven automation because they lack a first‑class boundary. The article argues that treating a tenant as an explicit logical construct—binding identity, networking, secrets, compute, observability, and compliance—solves these issues....
By The New Stack
News•Jan 13, 2026
SaasRise Enterprise Mastermind Call Recap Jan 13, 2026
SaasRise’s Jan 13 mastermind call tackled five critical growth challenges for SaaS firms. It advised hiring account managers with a $100K base and focusing on retention over hunting, while expanding dev teams by onboarding senior engineers first and creating thorough documentation....
By SaasRise
News•Jan 13, 2026
Open Sourcing Dicer: Databricks's Auto-Sharder
Databricks has open‑sourced Dicer, its proprietary auto‑sharding system that dynamically assigns key ranges to service pods. The platform replaces static sharding and pure‑stateless designs, eliminating downtime during restarts, autoscaling, and hot‑key spikes. In production, Dicer drives over 90% cache‑hit rates...
By Hacker News
News•Jan 13, 2026
4 Core Principles for Scaling Your API Engineering Practice
Enterprises are rapidly expanding API portfolios from dozens to thousands, exposing gaps in traditional, ad‑hoc development practices. The New Stack outlines four core principles—treat every artifact as code, maintain a single source of truth, automate all repeatable tasks, and delegate...
By The New Stack
News•Jan 13, 2026
Why Egnyte Keeps Hiring Junior Engineers Despite the Rise of AI Coding Tools
Egnyte, a $1.5 billion cloud content governance firm, has deployed AI coding assistants such as Claude Code, Cursor, Augment and Gemini CLI across its 350‑plus developer workforce. Despite the automation hype, the company continues hiring junior engineers, using AI to accelerate onboarding, code...
By VentureBeat
News•Jan 13, 2026
Commvault Launches Unified Data Vault – Giving Cloud Developers an Easy and Unified Way to Bring Resilience to S3 Data
Commvault introduced Cloud Unified Data Vault, a cloud‑native service that adds Commvault‑managed, S3‑compatible endpoints to protect data written via the S3 protocol. The solution delivers air‑gapped, immutable protection—encryption, deduplication, and policy‑driven retention—without requiring agents or custom scripts. It targets developers...
By SD Times
News•Jan 13, 2026
MIT Just Solved AI’s Memory Problem (And It’s Brilliantly Simple)
MIT researchers introduced the Recursive Language Model (RLM), a novel approach that treats large texts as a searchable environment rather than feeding them directly into a neural network. By querying only relevant chunks, RLMs can process inputs up to 100...
By eWeek
News•Jan 13, 2026
1Password Launches Unified Access as a One-Stop Shop for Managing Company Credentials – Say Goodbye to Shadow IT and SaaS...
1Password announced Unified Access, a new feature in its Extended Access Management suite that combines the Enterprise Password Manager and SaaS Manager. The solution lets IT discover, control and audit both SSO and non‑SSO credentials from a single dashboard, reducing...
By TechRadar
News•Jan 13, 2026
Your Accessibility Strategy Is Missing a Product Manager
Software teams still treat accessibility as technical debt, resulting in widespread non‑compliance—only 54% of firms meet WCAG 2.2 and 95% of home pages contain errors. The article proposes an Accessibility Product Manager who owns accessibility from strategy through delivery, turning it...
By SD Times
News•Jan 13, 2026
Planview Appoints Matt Zilli as Chief Executive Officer
Planview announced Matt Zilli as its new chief executive officer, succeeding Razat Gaurav who will join the board. Zilli, previously Planview’s President of Field Operations, brings experience as former Clarizen CEO and a key architect of Marketo’s growth to a...
By SD Times
News•Jan 13, 2026
Ramp Adds Developer Tools to Platform With AI Coding Assistant
Ramp introduced Ramp Inspect, an AI‑powered coding assistant integrated into its spend‑management platform. The cloud‑hosted tool writes, tests, and visually verifies code, offering instant virtual‑machine environments without local setup. Ramp open‑sourced the Inspect blueprint, enabling other firms to build similar...
By The New Stack
News•Jan 13, 2026
The B2B SaaS Growth System That Scales From $3M → $30M+ ARR
The post outlines a repeatable B2B SaaS growth system that moves companies from $3 M to $30 M+ ARR by creating omnipresent brand exposure. It starts with a single ABM list that feeds ads, outbound, and LinkedIn, then adds a weekly high‑quality...
By SaasRise
News•Jan 13, 2026
DeepSeek’s Conditional Memory Fixes Silent LLM Waste: GPU Cycles Lost to Static Lookups
DeepSeek introduced Engram, a conditional memory module that separates static pattern retrieval from dynamic reasoning in large language models. By allocating roughly 25% of sparse capacity to memory and 75% to computation, the system achieves O(1) lookups via hash tables...
By VentureBeat
News•Jan 13, 2026
AI Browsers Are Creating a New Governance Gap
AI‑enhanced browsers are embedding large‑language‑model capabilities directly into everyday workflows, turning the browser into an invisible assistant. This shift creates a new form of shadow AI that bypasses traditional IT detection because interactions appear as ordinary browsing. Employees increasingly rely...
By TechRadar
News•Jan 13, 2026
OneDrive Backup Just Got a Massive Change for the Better - How It Works Now
Microsoft’s Windows 11 25H2 update automatically enables OneDrive Backup on fresh installations, moving Documents, Pictures and Desktop folders into the OneDrive directory while keeping local copies. The change is silent during the out‑of‑box experience, offering cloud sync without explicit user consent....
By ZDNet
News•Jan 13, 2026
Apple Creator Studio
Apple introduced Apple Creator Studio, a subscription bundle that unites Final Cut Pro, Logic Pro, Pixelmator Pro, Motion, Compressor, MainStage and AI‑enhanced features for Keynote, Pages, Numbers, and future Freeform. The suite launches on Jan 28, 2026, priced at $12.99 per...
By Hacker News
News•Jan 13, 2026
Upstream Partners with Škoda to Strengthen Connected Vehicle Cybersecurity
Upstream Security announced a strategic partnership with Škoda Auto to deploy its unified cybersecurity platform across the automaker’s connected‑vehicle, digital services and supply‑chain ecosystem. The solution consolidates threat intelligence, risk signals and compliance data into a single workspace, improving visibility,...
By SiliconANGLE
News•Jan 13, 2026
Wasabi’s Cloud Storage Service Gets $70M Funding Boost
Wasabi Technologies raised $70 million in equity financing, valuing the Boston‑based cloud storage provider at $1.8 billion and pushing total capital above $600 million. The oversubscribed round, led by L2 Point Management and joined by Pure Storage, will fund global expansion, AI‑focused product...
By SiliconANGLE
News•Jan 13, 2026
Proton Updates Its Lumo AI Tool with New Projects Feature
Proton has rolled out Lumo 1.3, the latest version of its privacy‑first AI assistant, introducing a new "Projects" feature. Projects provide an encrypted workspace that bundles chats, files and instructions around a specific topic, syncing seamlessly across devices. The feature integrates...
By BetaNews
News•Jan 13, 2026
Tools for Fast Search-Query Analysis
Ann Smarty highlights three Chrome extensions that streamline Google Search Console query analysis. Query Scout overlays page‑level query data and offers a $29 upgrade with pre‑built intent filters. Find Real Prompts extracts longer, AI‑style queries and can feed them to ChatGPT for...
By Practical Ecommerce
News•Jan 13, 2026
Acronis Launches Archival Storage to Give MSPs Long-Term, Compliant Data Retention
Acronis International launched Archival Storage, a compliance‑focused, long‑term data retention service aimed at managed service providers (MSPs) and their SMB customers. The solution uses AWS S3‑compatible object storage, offering millisecond retrieval, 11×9 durability and 99.5% availability, while eliminating egress and...
By SiliconANGLE
News•Jan 13, 2026
"Slackbot Isn’t Just Another Copilot or AI Assistant - It’s the Front Door to the Agentic Enterprise" - Salesforce's New...
Salesforce has made Slackbot, its AI‑powered conversational assistant, generally available to Business+ and Enterprise+ customers, expanding the Dreamforce 2025 preview into a production feature. Slackbot links Slack conversations with Salesforce records and third‑party apps such as Google Drive, enabling it...
By TechRadar
News•Jan 13, 2026
Slackbot Is an AI Agent Now
Salesforce has launched a generative‑AI version of Slackbot, now positioned as an autonomous AI agent for Business+ and Enterprise+ customers. The new Slackbot can retrieve data, draft emails, schedule meetings, and interact with external tools such as Microsoft Teams and...
By TechCrunch Enterprise
News•Jan 13, 2026
Salesforce Rolls Out New Slackbot AI Agent as It Battles Microsoft and Google in Workplace AI
Salesforce launched a rebuilt Slackbot AI agent for Business+ and Enterprise+ customers, powered by Anthropic’s Claude large language model and integrated with Salesforce records, Google Drive, calendars, and Slack history. Internally, 80,000 employees adopted it rapidly, achieving 96% satisfaction and...
By VentureBeat
News•Jan 13, 2026
Why Sakana AI’s Big Win Is a Big Deal for the Future of Enterprise Agents
Japanese startup Sakana AI’s coding agent ALE‑Agent captured first place in the AtCoder Heuristic Contest, outpacing more than 800 human competitors. The four‑hour run leveraged inference‑time scaling, generating, testing, and iterating hundreds of solutions. By introducing a "Virtual Power" concept,...
By VentureBeat
News•Jan 13, 2026
Show HN: SnackBase – Open-Source, GxP-Compliant Back End for Python Teams
SnackBase is an open‑source Python backend that provides instant CRUD APIs, built‑in GxP compliance, and immutable audit logs. It offers multi‑tenancy, row‑level security, and a comprehensive permissions engine, allowing SaaS developers to isolate data across organizations. The platform includes out‑of‑the‑box...
By Hacker News
News•Jan 13, 2026
How Analytics Capability Has Quietly Reshaped IT Operations
In 2025 IT operations moved beyond monitoring tools to a mature analytics capability that governs insight creation, trust, and decision‑making. Organizations that built governance, decision rights, and analytical skills outperformed those that relied solely on advanced observability platforms. The shift...
By CIO.com
News•Jan 13, 2026
Dataroid Raises $6.6M to Scale Its Analytics Platform Worldwide
Istanbul‑based Dataroid announced a $6.6 million pre‑Series A round led by FinAI Venture Capital, with participation from Tacirler’s Future Impact fund and Endeavor Catalyst. The funding follows a $2 million raise last year and will be used to boost AI‑driven analytics, accelerate...
By Tech.eu
News•Jan 13, 2026
Sisense Delivers Faster, Smarter Analytics with AI
Sisense announced a new AI‑powered analytics platform featuring a Managed Large Language Model, a Model Context Protocol (MCP) server, and an Intelligence assistant. The Managed LLM provides a ready‑to‑use foundation for generative analytics, while MCP securely connects external AI tools...
By BetaNews
News•Jan 13, 2026
From 2025 to 2026: Listen to the Startups and VCs Behind the Year’s Biggest Tech Stories
Tech.eu released a special podcast that flips the usual journalist‑led format by inviting the founders and investors behind 2025’s most‑read stories to discuss the year’s defining moments. Guests included TEKEVER’s CEO, Cherry Ventures’ founding partner, Bolt’s president and other key...
By Tech.eu
News•Jan 13, 2026
European Tech in 2025: The Data, the Deals, and What Comes Next
Tech.eu’s 2025 Annual Report shows European tech investment reached €72 billion, the second‑strongest in three years, despite a 3.2 % dip from the 2024 peak. The UK stayed the top‑funded market, while fintech led sector performance with €11.1 billion raised across 397 rounds....
By Tech.eu
News•Jan 13, 2026
New Owners Re-Build Purplebricks with AI CRM After £1 Acquisition, Slashing Costs 70%
Purplebricks, the UK’s largest residential estate agency, was acquired for £1 by Strike Estate Agents and swiftly replaced its legacy Salesforce and custom .NET systems with Creatio, a low‑code AI‑enabled CRM. The new platform delivered a 35% rise in lead...
By Diginomica
News•Jan 13, 2026
AI Emerging as Key Safety Driver as Commercial Fleets Cut Crash Rates by 73%
AI‑powered safety tools are reshaping commercial fleet operations, delivering a 73% crash‑rate reduction after 30 months of deployment. Multi‑camera AI systems eliminate blind‑spot risks, while dual‑facing dashcams flag distraction, drowsiness and phone use in real time. The Samsara Fleet Safety...
By Diginomica
News•Jan 13, 2026
Birmingham Pauses Oracle Relaunch to Get Staff on Board
Birmingham City Council has delayed the relaunch of its Oracle Fusion ERP system until at least summer, citing the need for staff to adapt to standard processes. The 2022 go‑live disaster left the council unable to produce auditable accounts and...
By The Register
News•Jan 13, 2026
LIV4 Raises €500k to Modernise Industrial Quality Management
LIV4, an Italian generative‑AI startup, closed a €500,000 pre‑seed round to accelerate its industrial quality‑management platform. The funding, led by seasoned business angels and supported by Intesa Sanpaolo, will expand the team, add product features, and speed validation in the...
By Tech.eu
News•Jan 13, 2026
Verna Raises $4M to Turn Nature Programs Into Measurable Action
UK‑based Verna has raised $4 million, led by Berlin’s NAP and Zurich’s Übermorgen, to scale its nature‑recovery software. The platform, already adopted by more than 3,000 users across 100 organisations, aggregates existing biodiversity data and applies AI to translate nature commitments...
By Tech.eu
News•Jan 13, 2026
NetBird Announces $10M Series A to Expand Open Source VPN Alternative
NetBird, a Berlin‑based open‑source Zero Trust networking platform, closed a $10 million Series A round led by Pace Capital with participation from Nauta Capital, InReach Ventures, and Antler. The company positions its product as a secure, cost‑effective alternative to traditional VPNs, emphasizing...
By Tech.eu
News•Jan 13, 2026
Bricks.sh Secures €1.6M Pre-Seed to Expand AI-Native Internal Tools
Bricks.sh, an AI‑native internal‑tool builder, announced a €1.6 million pre‑seed round led by Primo Capital, joined by Octopus First Cheque Fund, Eden Ventures and others. The company also launched its public beta, offering developers a way to auto‑generate admin panels by...
By Tech.eu
News•Jan 13, 2026
Klearly Secures €12M for Restaurant Payments System
Amsterdam‑based Klearly has closed a €12 million Series A round, bringing its total funding to €20 million. The round was led by PayPal Ventures with participation from Italian Founders Fund and existing backers. Klearly offers a hospitality‑focused payments layer that integrates with merchants’...
By Tech.eu