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Volume 343, Issue 4 · 2026-10-26 – 2026-11-01 · Popular → · Newsletters (LinkedIn, Substack)

Monday’s Briefing · November 2

CIO, Thursday, October 29th, 2026

When Your AI Vendor Goes Belly Up

CIO advises IT leaders to plan for AI vendors failing or being acquired through data ownership, exit terms and fallback models. more →

When Your AI Vendor Goes Belly Up

Upcoming Event · Wed, Nov 18 · 1:00pm

AI Can Code. Can It Run Production? Let's Build It Together

In this hands-on workshop, you'll follow a Kubernetes incident from its first symptom through investigation, remediation, and recovery. Using a sandbox environment and open-source tooling, you'll connect an agent to operational tools, automate root-cause investigation, inspect its execution, and introduce human approval gates before allowing it to make changes. more →

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AI Can Code. Can It Run Production? Let's Build It Together (Nov. 18th)

Commvault, Tuesday, October 27th, 2026

Recovery Starts With Visibility

Commvault's ResOps series explains why recovery depends on visibility into critical services, impact tolerances and dependencies. more →

Recovery Starts With Visibility

Commvault, Friday, October 30th, 2026

Hack or Hype with Joseph Menn

Commvault's Ready. Or Not. podcast episode with journalist Joseph Menn discusses separating real AI cybersecurity risks from hype. more →

Hack or Hype with Joseph Menn

Cyera, Tuesday, October 27th, 2026

The Shadow AI Governance Gap

Cyera says the shadow AI governance gap is a definition problem spanning five AI types that no single tool can see. more →

The Shadow AI Governance Gap

Upcoming Event · Mon, Nov 23 · 3:00pm

Agentic Runtime Security on AWS: Identity, Least Privilege, and Audit for AI Agents with IBM Verify Identity Access and HashiCorp Vault

This hands-on workshop deploys a working reference implementation of five control objectives for agentic systems - verifiable agent identity, no standing privileges, actions tied to user intent, enforcement at the point of use, and audit evidence correlated across all three trust planes (user, workload, data) - using IBM Verify Identity Access and HashiCorp Vault on Amazon EKS. more →

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Agentic Runtime Security on AWS: Identity, Least Privilege, and Audit for AI Agents with IBM Verify Identity Access and HashiCorp Vault (Nov. 23rd)

Analytics Insight, Wednesday, October 28th, 2026

7 Free Google Courses and Certifications

Analytics Insight lists seven free Google courses and certifications covering analytics, ads, generative AI, cloud, education and development. more →

7 Free Google Courses and Certifications

OpenAI, Monday, October 26th, 2026

Introducing GPT-6.1 Terra

Introducing GPT-6.1 Terra, a fast, efficient model that combines detailed visual reasoning and precise computer use alongside clearer, more natural writing. more →

Introducing GPT-6.1 Terra

Oxide Computer, Thursday, October 29th, 2026

Running Self-Hosted AI Agents

Oxide explains running self-hosted AI agents on its Cloud Computer by running the orchestrator in a VM that creates ephemeral VMs per agent session. more →

Running Self-Hosted AI Agents

CIO, Thursday, October 29th, 2026

Scaling agentic AI with confidence

CIO.com piece sponsored by SailPoint says identity governance can give CIOs the evidence that AI agents acted within policy as agentic AI scales. more →

Scaling agentic AI with confidence

Upcoming Event · Tue, Dec 1 · 3:00pm

AI Security: Machine-Speed Threats, Multi-Layered Defense

In this webinar, two experts break down both sides: what these AI-driven threats mean, and how to defend against them. You'll learn a practical framework spanning platform foundations, patching at scale, hardening and virtual patching, lateral security with microsegmentation, and recovery - so your organization is ready before an incident, not during one. more →

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AI Security: Machine-Speed Threats, Multi-Layered Defense (Dec. 1st)

SAP, Monday, October 26th, 2026

AI Release Highlights Q3 2026

SAP rounds up its Q3 2026 AI releases, including Joule Work, Joule Studio, new agents, and generative AI hub models. more →

AI Release Highlights Q3 2026

Upcoming Event · Wed, Nov 4 · 1:00pm

The Economics of Infrastructure Modernization

In this session, Evolve Cloud Services will examine the economics of moving Microsoft workloads toward open-source & license-free infrastructure and databases, and container-based architectures on AWS. We'll discuss how to establish a baseline for current infrastructure and licensing costs, identify modernization opportunities, evaluate the trade-offs of different target architectures, and build a defensible TCO and ROI case for modernization. more →

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The Economics of Infrastructure Modernization (Nov. 4th)