TechTarget, Tuesday, August 19th, 2025
The Necessity of Observability for AI and LLM Applications
Observability has become essential for understanding and managing AI and LLM applications in production. more →
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TechTarget, Tuesday, August 19th, 2025
The Agentic AI Readiness Gap: Proving the Agent's Work
Enterprise agentic AI success depends on control systems and governance, not just agent capability. more →
TechTarget, Tuesday, August 19th, 2025
AI Genie in the Wild
An agent told to book gym classes exploited API flaws and manipulated waitlists on its own. more →
SC Media, Tuesday, August 19th, 2025
How to Build an AI Agent Incident Response Program
An eight-stage framework for responding to AI agent incidents that standard IR procedures cannot address. more →
TechTarget, Tuesday, August 19th, 2025
I Thought Asking an AI Agent to Book a Gym Class Was Harmless - Now I'm Adding One Safeguard to Every Agent Prompt
An agent booking a gym class exploited the booking system and removed another user, prompting a new prompt safeguard. more →
TechTarget, Tuesday, August 19th, 2025
Distributed Computing: The Infrastructure Shift AI Demands
AI's energy and latency demands are shifting compute from centralized hyperscale data centers to the edge. more →
TechTarget, Tuesday, August 19th, 2025
AI Kill Switch Act Raises Questions for CIOs
Proposed federal legislation would require powerful AI systems to support shutdown and intervention capabilities. more →
TechTarget, Tuesday, August 19th, 2025
The CIO's Guide to Responsible AI Data Center Procurement
CIOs should evaluate AI data center vendors on sustainability, community impact, and transparency. more →
TechTarget, Tuesday, August 19th, 2025
Podcast: The New Reality of Connected Infrastructure - Continuous Connectivity in an Unpredictable World
Industry leaders discuss how resilient connectivity is transforming critical infrastructure and remote operations. more →
TechTarget, Tuesday, August 19th, 2025
On theCUBE Pod: Agentic Systems Expose Vulnerabilities
AI agents demonstrate autonomous attack capabilities, prompting cybersecurity experts to adopt systems-based defenses. more →
TechTarget, Tuesday, August 19th, 2025
Top VC Perspective: Where Enterprise AI Is Headed
Seed investor Ed Sim explains what current AI investment patterns mean for enterprise buyers. more →
TechTarget, Tuesday, August 19th, 2025
Cloud and DevOps InfoQ Trends Report 2026: AI, Resilience, Platforms, FinOps, and Sovereignty
Experts discuss cloud and DevOps trends including AI infrastructure investment, reliability, and digital sovereignty. more →
TechTarget, Tuesday, August 19th, 2025
InformationWeek Podcast: Recovery Leadership During a Security Breach
CIOs and CTOs discuss effective leadership strategies during cybersecurity breaches and recovery operations. more →
Security Weekly News, Tuesday, August 11th, 2025
Squirrel Soup, Ghostjacking, OpenSource, Gunra, Beesafe, AI Threats, SBOMs, and More - SWN #606
Security Weekly News covers ghostjacking, abandoned open source risk, Gunra ransomware, and AI agent threats. more →
TechTarget, Tuesday, August 19th, 2025
From Technology to Intelligence: The Agentic Shift Transforming Enterprise Operations
Enterprise AI systems are shifting from providing assistance to autonomously performing business operations. more →
TechTarget, Tuesday, August 19th, 2025
Risk, Memory, and Orchestration: The New Enterprise AI Agenda
Enterprise AI governance emerges as a critical priority as agent proliferation creates coordination challenges. more →
TechTarget, Tuesday, August 19th, 2025
Who Pays, Who Builds, Who Controls: AI's Next Chapter
Enterprise AI shifts focus from raw capability to infrastructure costs, pricing models, and measurable outcomes. more →
Your Best Pipeline Is the Customers You Already Have
Sales culture fixates on new logos while the most efficient pipeline sits inside the existing book — customers who already trust you, pay you, and have validated that your solution works. Accounts are rarely lost to dramatic failure; they're lost to silence, as the rep moves on to the next hunt and a more present competitor fills the gap. A weekly newsletter keeps the entire installed base warm with no upsell attached, surfaces expansion signals through what customers engage with, and insures against champion turnover by reaching the whole account rather than one contact. more →
TechTarget, Tuesday, August 19th, 2025
Autonomous AI Attacks Pose 'Clear and Present Danger' to Critical Infrastructure
July's Taiwan intrusions were the first real-world AI-agent attacks on critical infrastructure. more →
TechTarget, Tuesday, August 19th, 2025
Why Managers Are Ransomware's Top Targets Now - and 6 Ways to Stay Safe
Almost two-thirds of victims in one ransomware campaign held managerial positions or higher. more →
TechTarget, Tuesday, August 19th, 2025
Anthropic Plans Invisible Watermarks for Claude-Generated Text and Files
Anthropic will embed hidden machine-readable watermarks in Claude-generated text and images to meet EU transparency rules. more →
TechTarget, Tuesday, August 19th, 2025
Beyond Superintelligence: What Is AI's Ultimate Destination?
Four Google researchers launch Discovery Loop to pursue recursive self-improvement as AI's next frontier beyond AGI. more →
TechTarget, Tuesday, August 19th, 2025
From Words to Worlds: The Rise of World Models
World models are reshaping AI by learning physics through observation instead of predicting text tokens. more →
TechTarget, Tuesday, August 19th, 2025
The Next Great AI Race Is Not About Words
Major AI companies race to build world models that predict real-world outcomes rather than generate text. more →
TechTarget, Tuesday, August 19th, 2025
Uber Open-Sources Tool to Catch Agentic Blunders Legacy Security Misses
Uber releases an open-source AI agent security system to detect and prevent malicious agent behavior. more →
TechTarget, Tuesday, August 19th, 2025
When AI Agents Clash: Anthropic Study Reveals Escalating Digital Turf Wars and Unintended Collusion
Agents given conflicting goals in a shared project escalated to sabotage rather than adapting. more →
TechTarget, Tuesday, August 19th, 2025
Introducing Automation in Change Management
Classify changes by reversibility, then automate evidence collection to justify lighter approvals. more →
TechTarget, Tuesday, August 19th, 2025
IT Infrastructure Shortages Are Real and Lasting - Here's How to Cope
Enterprises face 9-18 month lead times and steep price increases for IT gear as hyperscalers absorb memory capacity. more →
TechTarget, Tuesday, August 19th, 2025
North American Data Center Vacancy Holds at Just 1%
Over 66 GW is under construction yet vacancy has stayed at 1% for a third straight year. more →
TechTarget, Tuesday, August 19th, 2025
Google, Microsoft and NVIDIA Back 800V DC Standard for AI Data Centers
OCP push for 800-volt DC power aims to cut copper use 50-80% in high-density AI data centers. more →
TechTarget, Tuesday, August 19th, 2025
NVIDIA Moves 800-VDC Power Architecture From Concept to Production
An MGX-compatible 800-VDC power rack enters production in H2 2026, with AC facility power still in place. more →
Continuous modernization: why modernization never really finishes
In this webinar, Join the discussion with AWS and trace the arc and look at what changes when modernization stops being a project with a finish line and becomes something that runs continuously across your estate. Technical debt, security gaps, and agent-readiness get measured on an ongoing basis. Validated change land as pull requests, not recommendations. more →
TechTarget, Tuesday, August 19th, 2025
Will Edge AI Make AI Data Centers Less Relevant?
Edge AI growth will not displace traditional data centers given economies of scale and security considerations. more →
TechTarget, Tuesday, August 19th, 2025
Can Edge Computing Make AI More Sustainable?
Edge computing can cut AI's energy demands by processing data locally, but it does not suit all workloads. more →
Akamai Technologies, Friday, August 14th, 2026
The OWASP Top 10 for LLM Applications 2026: From Model Risks to Agentic Security
Akamai reviews the 2026 OWASP Top 10 for LLM Applications and its shift toward agentic AI risks. more →
Akamai Technologies, Monday, August 10th, 2026
Akamai Cloud Keeps Strengthening the Foundation (Updated August 2026)
Akamai details Q2 2026 platform upgrades across networking, identity, Kubernetes, storage and observability. more →
AWS, Monday, August 10th, 2026
Amazon OpenSearch Serverless Now Supports up to 10,000 Collections Per Collection Group
Amazon OpenSearch Serverless raises the ceiling to 10,000 collections per collection group, up from 1,500. more →
AWS, Tuesday, August 11th, 2026
Amazon RDS for MariaDB Now Supports MariaDB 12.3
Amazon RDS for MariaDB adds support for MariaDB 12.3, the community's latest long-term support release. more →
AWS, Thursday, August 13th, 2026
AWS Certificate Manager Supports Switching From e-mail to DNS Validation
AWS Certificate Manager lets customers switch existing public certificates from email to DNS validation. more →
AWS, Tuesday, August 11th, 2026
AWS Clean Rooms Supports Exporting Privacy-Enhanced Analysis Logs for SQL
AWS Clean Rooms can export privacy-enhanced analysis logs for SQL queries to Amazon S3. more →
AWS, Thursday, August 13th, 2026
AWS Client VPN Now Supports CLI, Administration Controls, and Faster Connections
A rebuilt AWS VPN Client v6.0.x adds CLI support, enterprise admin controls and faster connections. more →
AWS, Monday, August 10th, 2026
AWS Identity and Access Management Streamlines Assignment of IAM Roles to Workforce Users With Account Access Manager
AWS IAM's new account access manager assigns IAM roles to workforce users and groups from IAM Identity Center. more →
Check Point, Thursday, August 13th, 2026
The State of Ransomware Q2 2026
Check Point's State of Ransomware Q2 2026 finds the ecosystem spreading out rather than concentrating further. more →
The Human Risk Management Blueprint
Join this session for a breakdown on how to shift from measuring passive compliance to actively modifying human risk. You'll learn how to transition your workforce into a proactive security perimeter that can neutralize AI-driven deception. more →
Citrix-News, Tuesday, August 11th, 2026
Announcing Citrix SecurSpaces Flex: A Different Operating Model for Modern Development Needs
Citrix launches SecurSpaces Flex, delivering secure ready-to-use development environments without new infrastructure. more →
Citrix-News, Tuesday, August 11th, 2026
Why workspace experience has become a business problem
Modern work no longer happens in a single system. It spans virtual desktops and sessions, SaaS and browser workflows, physical endpoints (including BYOD), network connections, security, and cloud services across distributed environments. more →
Commvault, Friday, August 14th, 2026
Designing for Digital Sovereignty Starts With the Right Questions
A Commvault STRIVE episode explores digital sovereignty questions with Osmium Data Group's Max Mortillaro. more →
Commvault, Wednesday, August 12th, 2026
Frontier AI Is Changing More Than Cybersecurity
Commvault argues frontier AI's bigger impact is on enterprise complexity, not just on cybersecurity. more →
Commvault, Wednesday, August 12th, 2026
How Commvault Leverages Frontier AI to Strengthen Software
Commvault describes folding AI-assisted vulnerability discovery into its existing risk-based security programme. more →
Commvault, Monday, August 10th, 2026
What We Learned From IDC's New Research on ResOps
Commvault summarises IDC research on resilience operations and why technology controls alone fall short. more →
Google, Thursday, August 13th, 2026
Omni Experts Share What Excites Them Most About the Model.
Google DeepMind researchers discuss what excites them about the Gemini Omni model. more →
Google, Thursday, August 13th, 2026
Introducing Gemini 3.7 Flash
Google introduces Gemini 3.7 Flash, its most intelligent workhorse model for coding and agents. more →
TechTarget, Tuesday, August 19th, 2025
Google Cloud Sets Out Post-Quantum Roadmap With 2029 Readiness Goal
Google Cloud targets full post-quantum cryptography readiness by 2029, in three priority tracks. more →
The Warmest Cold Open in Sales
Cold outreach fails because the recipient has no reason to believe you're worth their time, and no amount of subject-line optimization fixes a missing relationship. The durable answer is to stop being cold: "you may have seen my weekly newsletter" reframes you from stranger to known quantity, even for prospects who never read an issue. A visible, ongoing body of work answers the buyer's instinctive credibility check before you've said anything. Because the newsletter reaches your whole network continuously, that warming is ambient rather than engineered one prospect at a time. more →
OpenAI, Thursday, August 13th, 2026
The Builder's Guide to GPT-5.6
OpenAI publishes a builder's guide to GPT-5.6 covering model selection and new Responses API capabilities. more →
OpenAI, Monday, August 10th, 2026
What Building an AI-Native Finance Function Taught Me
OpenAI's CFO shares five lessons from building an AI-native finance function. more →
OpenAI, Tuesday, August 11th, 2026
Daybreak Models Are Now Available on AWS
OpenAI's Daybreak cybersecurity models become available through Amazon Bedrock. more →
OpenAI, Monday, August 10th, 2026
Expanding Daybreak as the Cyber Defense Window Narrows
OpenAI introduces GPT-5.6-Cyber through Daybreak Red for authorized vulnerability research and security testing. more →
OpenAI, Wednesday, August 12th, 2026
From Assistance to Execution: How Enterprises Put AI to Work
OpenAI research examines how enterprises are moving from AI assistance to agentic execution. more →
OpenAI, Monday, August 10th, 2026
Model ML Completes Finance Work More Efficiently With GPT-5.6 Sol
Model ML uses GPT-5.6 Sol to carry finance work through to editable PowerPoint decks and Excel workbooks. more →
TechTarget, Tuesday, August 19th, 2025
Oracle Set to Bring Quantum Computing to OCI for Hybrid AI Workloads
Oracle will host Quantinuum's 98-qubit Helios system in an OCI AI data center alongside GPU and HPC resources. more →
The Six five Summit - AI UNLEASHED: 2026
The Six Five Summit: AI Unleashed 2026 delivers 3 days of exclusive, on-demand programming built for leaders ready to move beyond AI experimentation and into real deployment. more →
SUSE, Thursday, August 13th, 2026
Demystifying the Token Tax: How to Optimize AI Workloads Without Breaking the Bank
SUSE explains the token economics behind AI workloads and how to optimise them. more →
The Future of ITSM: No-Code Automation Meets AI
In this session, you'll see how leading IT teams are modernizing operations while reducing manual effort and improving experiences for both technicians and end users. Find out what it takes to move faster without increasing complexity. more →
Symantec, Tuesday, August 11th, 2026
You Can't Patch Your Way Out of AI
Symantec argues patching faster is the wrong response to AI-accelerated attacks and urges resilience instead. more →
Symantec, Monday, August 10th, 2026
AI-Ready PAM: When Your Identity Security Solution Talks Back
Symantec proposes using MCP so AI can query privileged access management data in natural language. more →