OpenAI, Thursday, October 29th, 2026
An Updated Model Spec for More Capable and Beneficial AI
OpenAI reorganizes its Model Spec around five core values, adds guidance on context and human agency, and retires most style rules. more → · 81 clicks
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OpenAI, Thursday, October 29th, 2026
Credit Saison Achieves 954% ROI in a ChatGPT Enterprise Pilot
Japanese card issuer Credit Saison reports 954% ROI from a 315-person ChatGPT Enterprise pilot, then rolled it out companywide. more → · 74 clicks
OpenAI, Monday, October 26th, 2026
How Ultrafast Cut Incident Investigation From Hours to Minutes at OpenAI
Ultrafast is a high-speed mode in Codex, and for engineers at OpenAI, it's become the default for incident response. more → · 71 clicks
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 → · 69 clicks
OpenAI, Thursday, October 29th, 2026
How Ropes & Gray Is Developing AI for Transactional Diligence
Law firm Ropes & Gray is building a transactional diligence AI tool with OpenAI that takes a first pass through deal data rooms. more → · 68 clicks
Magic Quadrant for AI Agent Management Platforms
Gartner analyst Andrei Razvan Sachelarescu reviews the emerging market for AI agent management platforms. more →
Cisco, Monday, October 26th, 2026
Cisco Rethinks Privileged Infrastructure Access
Cisco introduces Privileged Infrastructure Access, using identity-bound, short-lived privileges for admins and AI agents on networks. more → · 76 clicks
Cisco, Wednesday, October 28th, 2026
Defenders Need More Time to Patch with the Influx of Patching Hitting Operations
Cisco pitches Live Protect and Snort-based virtual patching on Secure Firewall to reduce exposure while critical patches are applied. more → · 76 clicks
Cisco, Wednesday, October 28th, 2026
A Shared Language for Agent Defense: Introducing Project Quarry
Cisco open sources Project Quarry, a detection language for describing and finding multi-step attacks against AI agents across full session traces. more → · 71 clicks
Cisco, Wednesday, October 28th, 2026
Cisco IT's Endpoint Observability Strategy: Right-Sized Telemetry for Splunk Observability Cloud
Cisco IT cut endpoint telemetry volume by 75% using a right-sized observability approach in Splunk Observability Cloud. more → · 69 clicks
Cisco, Monday, October 26th, 2026
Introducing Cisco Model Foundry: Bringing AI to Our Partners
Cisco unveils Model Foundry at Partner Summit, letting partners use and fine-tune Cisco's networking and security AI models. more → · 68 clicks
Governing Emerging and Diverse Data in the Age of AI - Insights from TDWI's Q4 Blueprint Report
TDWI webinar on extending data governance to non-tabular and AI-derived data, based on its Q4 Blueprint Report. more →
Cyera, Tuesday, October 27th, 2026
A Guide to Data Leak Prevention in 2026
Cyera guide to data leak prevention in 2026 argues data classification must come before DLP rules, especially with AI agents. more → · 83 clicks
Cyera, Thursday, October 29th, 2026
Patient Data Visibility: The Cost of Blind Spots
Cyera argues hospitals should locate and clean up patient data to cut storage costs, meet HIPAA audits, and control access by people and AI. more → · 71 clicks
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 → · 68 clicks
Cyera, Thursday, October 29th, 2026
Your Legal Team Ships Software Now. Are You Ready?
Cyera says domain experts now build software with AI, and organizations should give them a secure path rather than ban them. more → · 68 clicks
The New Stack, Thursday, October 29th, 2026
Why MCP Servers Should Tell Agents What to Do Next
AWS's James Ward says MCP servers should guide agents on next steps and carry session IDs so teams can trace and improve agent journeys. more → · 225 clicks
Unlocking AI Value at Scale: Tokenomics, Edge Inference and Strategic Partnerships
AI is shifting from training to inference, and two pressures now define the business: the end-user experience and the return on investment. more →
SentinelOne, Wednesday, October 28th, 2026
LABScon26 Replay - Keynote: A Sober Analysis of AI Impact
SentinelOne posts the LABScon26 keynote in which Harvard's James Mickens questions AI investment and proposes hardware isolation for frontier models. more → · 89 clicks
SentinelOne, Friday, October 30th, 2026
The Good, the Bad and the Ugly in Cybersecurity - Week 44 (2026)
SentinelOne's Week 44 roundup covers PHP2Shell exploitation, other vulnerabilities, a LiteLLM supply chain attack and law enforcement actions. more → · 68 clicks
Arm, Monday, October 26th, 2026
Agentic AI Explained: How Agentic AI Changes Computing From Cloud to Edge
Arm argues agentic AI is a system-level challenge requiring coordinated memory, software, and compute from cloud to edge devices. more → · 73 clicks
Arm, Friday, October 30th, 2026
From AI Models to Deployment: Five Developer Takeaways Shaping the Future of AI
Arm lists five developer takeaways from fall 2026 AI events, from model optimization and agentic AI to deployment across cloud and edge. more → · 73 clicks
Google, Wednesday, October 28th, 2026
Gemini 4 Carbon: Our Next Frontier Model
Google announced Gemini 4 Carbon, ranked #1 on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index v5.0 with strong cybersecurity benchmark results. more → · 69 clicks
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 → · 68 clicks
Analytics Insight, Monday, October 26th, 2026
Claude Haiku 5.5: New Features, Pricing and Efficient AI Workflows
Anthropic's Claude Haiku 5.5 adds a one million token context, adjustable effort levels and lower pricing than Haiku 4.5. more → · 84 clicks
Threat Intelligence Futures: AI-powered Intel, Cross-sector Sharing
This webcast explores the future of threat intelligence. We'll highlight how AI can supercharge correlation and prediction, and why collaboration across sectors is no longer optional. more →
Microsoft, Wednesday, October 28th, 2026
Introducing the Microsoft Copilot Harness in Foundry Agent Service
Microsoft puts the Copilot harness in public preview in Foundry Agent Service and makes long-running resilience for hosted agents GA. more → · 73 clicks
The Frontier AI Threat: Closing the Mobile Gap in Your Exposure Management Strategy
Join Lookout's Chief Technology Officer, David Richardson, to explore how the mobile attack surface has evolved in the AI era. We will discuss how to protect the modern workforce by addressing the three core pillars of mobile AI security, heavily focusing on continuous exposure management and governance. more →
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 → · 72 clicks
Your Keys Are Protected. Your Cryptography Isn't
SecureWorld webcast with Entrust's Chris Ghantous on moving from protecting critical keys to governing cryptography across the enterprise. more →
Tierpoint, Wednesday, October 28th, 2026
How to Manage Third-Party Security Risks in Your Ecosystem
Tierpoint outlines how to assess, contract for and continuously monitor vendors, citing Verizon DBIR data that third parties are in 48% of breaches. more → · 72 clicks
The Shift From SDLC To ADLC: How The Human Role Is Changing In Software Development
As AI agents take on more of the build, test, and deploy work in software development, the developer's job changes from authoring code to specifying intent, setting constraints, and reviewing outcomes. more →
The New Stack, Monday, October 26th, 2026
The Sandbox Wasn't Enough: Why AI Agent Governance Requires Runtime Observability
A ClickHouse-sponsored New Stack piece argues AI agent sandboxes need runtime observability that can detect and stop agents before harm spreads. more → · 68 clicks
AI-Ready Data: Giving Enterprise Agents Context They Can Trust
TDWI webinar on Nov 10, 2026 with Donald Farmer, Informatica and Microsoft on giving AI agents trusted, governed data context. more →
Databricks, Monday, October 26th, 2026
Building Live Intelligence: Databricks AI Search Supports Streaming Tables, Materialized Views, and Managed Tables Using Iceberg
Databricks AI Search now natively indexes Streaming Tables, Materialized Views and Managed Iceberg tables alongside Delta. more → · 68 clicks
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 →
F5, Tuesday, October 27th, 2026
Security Culture Is a Team Sport, and AI Is Raising the Stakes
F5 CISO Christopher Burger says security culture depends on engaged people and that AI is compressing the time to identify risks. more → · 68 clicks
The AI Audit Trail: Proving AI-Generated Code Is Safe to Ship
This session gets above the daily cycle of model and tool announcements and turns practical. Futurum analyst Mitch Ashley and Veracode's Chris Wysopal separate what is real from what is noise, then walk through what proof actually looks like for AI-generated code. We cover the audit trail security leaders need, the controls that hold up under scrutiny, and the steps AppSec teams can take today. more →
Fortinet, Thursday, October 29th, 2026
Extending SASE Sovereignty Beyond Data to Management
Fortinet says FortiSASE Sovereign now adds on-premises management so organizations can control where and how SASE security is operated. more → · 68 clicks
Inside the State of Observability 2026
Dynatrace, Accenture and AWS discuss the 2026 State of Observability report and what it reveals about AI in production. more →
CIO, Thursday, October 29th, 2026
The AI trust deficit: Why explainability, not more automation, is the CIO's next priority
CIO.com says CIOs must be able to prove AI agents act within policy, using audit-ready context on ownership, access and governing policies. more → · 68 clicks
The Network Isn't What You Think It Is: Securing an Environment Built for Machines
This CISO Stories webcast will examine what network security looks like when the most consequential activity may no longer originate from a human user or a traditional endpoint. more →
