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Best Generative AI Tools for 2026: 10 Apps Compared
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InfoWorld, Monday, August 24th, 2026
Why Your Biggest Hidden AI Cost Isn't GPUs
InfoWorld argues unfiltered data pipelines, not GPUs, are the hidden driver of AI cost overruns. more →
InfoWorld, Friday, August 28th, 2026
Why Enterprise AI Projects Keep Failing
InfoWorld's David Linthicum says AI projects fail because enterprises, not models, aren't ready. more →
O'Reilly Radar, Thursday, August 27th, 2026
Writing With AI
Tim O'Reilly argues AI is a legitimate creative medium, not a shortcut for lazy writers. more →
SC Media, Wednesday, August 26th, 2026
OWASP Updates Top 10 Security Risks for LLM Applications
OWASP's 2026 LLM Top 10 keeps prompt injection at No. 1 and adds hidden context exposure as a new risk. more →
ZDNET, Friday, August 28th, 2026
3 Surveys Deliver the Same Uncomfortable Truth About Adopting Agentic AI
Deloitte, KPMG, and Accenture research shows fast agentic AI adoption but slow operational and governance readiness. more →
StorageReview, Thursday, August 27th, 2026
Podcast #152: Data Center Thermal Dynamics and Cooling Architectures With Tim Shedd
Thermal expert Tim Shedd on data center liquid cooling from HPC origins to enterprise AI deployments. more →
YouTube (Michael Burtov), Wednesday, August 26th, 2026
Why America's Best Minds Are Leaving
A talk on reverse brain drain and what losing top researchers means for US startups and innovation. more →
You've Been Heard, Monday, August 24th, 2026
The Examined Leader Retires the Old Playbook w/ Rajvir Madan #448 (43:25(
IT leader Rajvir Madan on how self-awareness, culture, and operations close the transformation failure gap. more →
You've Been Heard, Tuesday, August 25th, 2026
How CIOs Govern Change Without Blocking It w/ Gabriel Chappell #449 (53:48)
CIO Gabriel Chappell on balancing ERP modernization, AI governance, and organizational change management. more →
DevOps.com, Wednesday, August 26th, 2026
AI Can Generate Your Infrastructure. Can Your CI/CD Pipeline Trust It?
AI-generated infrastructure code carries a measurable security gap that CI/CD pipelines must gate for. more →
DevOps.com, Wednesday, August 26th, 2026
Automated Diagnosis Isn't Automated Understanding: What Postmortems Teach Us About Building Trustworthy Incident AI
Alert correlation is not diagnosis; trustworthy incident AI needs causal reasoning and good postmortem data. more →
DevOps.com, Friday, August 28th, 2026
Certificate Renewal Is a Deployment Workflow, Not a Cron Job
Treating TLS certificate renewal as a full deployment workflow, not a scheduled task, prevents silent outages. more →
DevOps.com, Tuesday, August 25th, 2026
CI/CD for AI-Enabled Applications: Why Traditional Deployment Pipelines Need to Evolve
CI/CD pipelines must treat models, features, and data as first-class versioned production artifacts. more →
DevOps.com, Friday, August 28th, 2026
Cybersecurity Researchers Uncover Flaw in Google AI Coding Tool
Pillar Security exploited a prompt injection in Google's Gemini CLI to gain unauthorized cloud access. more →
DevOps.com, Tuesday, August 25th, 2026
Is Java Enterprise Ready for AI? Absolutely
Java and Jakarta EE already provide the foundations for integrating AI into enterprise applications. more →
Security Boulevard, Friday, August 28th, 2026
Meta's $17B Settlement Is Really an Age Assurance Mandate
An analysis argues Meta's teen-safety settlement is really an unsolved age-verification problem in disguise. more →
Security Boulevard, Monday, August 24th, 2026
New Passkey Attacks Explained: What Security Researchers Found This August
Black Hat researchers unveiled three passkey attack families that bypass authentication logging and sync. more →
Analytics Insight, Saturday, August 29th, 2026
Bluetooth vs Wi-Fi vs UWB: Which Wireless Technology Is Best for Connected Devices?
Bluetooth, Wi-Fi, and UWB solve different problems; the right pick depends on power, data, and security needs. more →
Data Center Dynamics, Saturday, August 29th, 2026
The Fiber Connectivity Challenge Behind AI at Scale
CommScope experts on how fiber infrastructure design determines AI deployment speed, resilience, and flexibility. more →
InformationWeek, Tuesday, August 25th, 2026
AI Is Changing Network Management. How Smart Can Networks Get?
Network management systems can now correlate siloed signals and auto-resolve problems, raising questions about how autonomous networks should become. more →
SC Media, Thursday, August 27th, 2026
How to Evaluate Network Policy Management and Governance Platforms
A buyer's guide for testing whether a network governance platform enforces rule lifecycle or merely reports on it. more →
DCIG, Thursday, August 27th, 2026
3 Ways to Identify an HCI OS That Offers Greater Hardware Independence
Evaluate hyperconverged infrastructure operating systems on hardware flexibility rather than accepting vendor lock-in. more →
Train Employees on Cost-Optimized Best Practices for GenAI
Gartner experts will discuss approaches for selecting the right models for the right tasks, establishing context-specific training programs, improving prompt design practices and creating accessible prompt repositories. The session also examines how usage monitoring and governance can help organizations identify key cost drivers, manage consumption and optimize GenAI investments as adoption grows. more →
The Register, Wednesday, August 26th, 2026
CIOs Are on Notice - vSphere 8 Times Out in October 2027
VMware vSphere 8 general support ends October 2027, forcing a costly migration decision. more →
The Missing VPN Layer In Endpoint Security
As organizations face increasingly sophisticated cyber threats and the complexities of hybrid workforces, these sessions deliver expert guidance on implementing robust Zero Trust architectures, SASE strategies, and centralized VPN management. more →
Anthropic, Thursday, August 27th, 2026
Previewing the Model Hardware Standard
Anthropic previews a Model Hardware Standard as a research preview. more →
Expert Panel: Data Observability and Reliability at Scale
Join TDWI's Research Fellow, Donald Farmer, together with industry experts as they discuss how organizations are building data observability and reliability across modern data ecosystems and the practices that support trusted data for AI and analytics. more →
Barracuda Networks, Tuesday, August 25th, 2026
Leak Sites: A Field Guide
Barracuda explains how ransomware leak sites work and how defenders can use them to assess risk and monitor threat activity. more →
Barracuda Networks, Wednesday, August 26th, 2026
SOC Threat Radar - August 2026
Barracuda's SOC reports GlobalProtect scanning, credential harvesting, firewall misconfigurations and abuse of remote access tools. more →
Barracuda Networks, Friday, August 28th, 2026
Fake Invoices, Real Scammers: The Callback Phishing Playbook
Barracuda breaks down callback phishing, where fake invoices and calendar invites push victims to phone a live scammer. more →
CodeMender: AI Code Security Agent
Discover how CodeMender autonomously scans, verifies, and fixes software vulnerabilities at machine speed-enabling rapid remediation with complete developer control. more →
Broadcom, Monday, August 24th, 2026
Bridging the IT Chasm: A Strategic Blueprint for Platform Engineering 2.0
Broadcom lays out a platform engineering blueprint for scaling modern apps without destabilizing legacy systems. more →
Broadcom, Wednesday, August 26th, 2026
Protecting Data Where It's Most Vulnerable: How Broadcom and Intel Are Making Confidential Computing Real
Broadcom and Intel work to make confidential computing practical for AI on sensitive data and sovereign deployments. more →
Broadcom, Wednesday, August 26th, 2026
Know Before You Go ~ Watch the Welcome Session ~
Broadcom offers an online orientation session to help attendees prepare for VMware Explore 2026 in Las Vegas. more →
Broadcom, Thursday, August 27th, 2026
Securing the Memory Layer: How Broadcom and AMD Are Bringing Confidential Computing to the Enterprise
Broadcom and AMD extend confidential computing to protect data while it is being processed in memory. more →
Broadcom, Thursday, August 27th, 2026
VMware Cloud Foundation Achieves NVIDIA Certification: AI Workload Performance Validated to Operate at Near Bare Metal Performance
vSphere 9.1 earns NVIDIA certification with AI workload performance validated at near bare-metal levels. more →
Broadcom, Thursday, August 27th, 2026
Unlocking Developer Velocity: The Code-to-URL Revolution
Broadcom examines how environment provisioning and deployment overhead stall developer momentum after code is committed. more →
Google, Monday, August 24th, 2026
How Developers Build AI for Good With Gemma 4
Google announces the winners of the Gemma 4 Good Challenge, which asked developers to solve global problems with AI. more →
Google, Wednesday, August 26th, 2026
Turn Your Voice into Action With New Productivity Features in Gemini Live
Gemini Live adds Personal Intelligence, Daily Brief, Spark and hands-free inbox management to handle tasks by voice. more →
Google, Wednesday, August 26th, 2026
Intelligent Transcription With Gemini 3.5 Transcribe
Google releases Gemini 3.5 Transcribe, a speech-to-text model built for precise real-time transcription. more →
Google, Wednesday, August 26th, 2026
Google at the Global Forum on Intellectual Property
Kent Walker's keynote at Singapore IP Week argues AI is changing how breakthroughs are made. more →
Google, Thursday, August 27th, 2026
Gemini Omni 1.1 Flash Lets You Build With More Control
Gemini Omni 1.1 Flash brings scene extension, frame interpolation and 4K upscaling to developers via API. more →
Google, Thursday, August 27th, 2026
Google Flow Brings New Creative Control Features to Enhance Video Editing
Google Flow rolls out Gemini Omni 1.1 Flash updates that give creatives more control over video editing. more →
Harness, Monday, August 24th, 2026
Automate Resilience Testing With Agents
Harness RT Agents detect resilience risk in CD pipelines and Kubernetes workloads, then generate chaos experiments to confirm it. more →
Harness, Tuesday, August 25th, 2026
Automated Incident Response: Nobody Should Be the Scribe
A Harness product lead argues humans should not act as the status-tracking layer during incidents. more →
Harness, Tuesday, August 25th, 2026
Internal Developer Platform Golden Paths Guide
Harness explains how to turn a service catalog into golden paths developers actually adopt. more →
Harness, Wednesday, August 26th, 2026
Developer Self-Service Pipelines With Harness IDP
Harness IDP connects developer self-service to production through pipeline integration that automates deployments. more →
Harness, Thursday, August 27th, 2026
Introducing Agent-Ready Code Repository and AI Code Review
Harness launches a code repository and built-in AI code review designed for the volume of agent-generated code. more →
How SoFi Cut Recovery to Minutes Across Five AWS Regions and Made Backup Pay for Itself
Join us for this live session featuring Shannon Bradley, Manager of DevOps Engineering at SoFi, who will cover the resilience patterns that keep it working across regions. more →
HPE, Wednesday, August 26th, 2026
Why Your Next Virtualization Decision Is Really an Operating Model Decision
HPE argues swapping virtualization platforms leaves the real problem, fragmented tooling and manual handoffs, untouched. more →
HPE, Wednesday, August 26th, 2026
The Next Storage Battleground Is Data Trust
HPE argues AI is shifting storage competition from raw performance to trusted data, governance and cyber resilience. more →
HPE, Wednesday, August 26th, 2026
HPE Unveil Next-Generation 'Saudi Made' Servers, Accelerating Local Innovation and Strengthening Digital Sovereignty
HPE expands its locally manufactured Saudi Made server portfolio with ProLiant Compute Gen12 systems on Intel Xeon 6. more →
Expert Panel: Driving Business Impact with Real-Time Data
Join this Expert Panel to discover how your enterprise can leverage streaming data, event-driven architectures, and data platforms that support in-memory analytics to act on insights the moment they are created. Of course, fast data is not valuable if the quality is poor. Panelists will discuss how to solve problems throughout data journeys to deliver full business value. more →
Intel, Monday, August 24th, 2026
Intel Outlines Architectures for Agentic AI at Hot Chips 2026
Intel showcases three architectures for agentic AI: Diamond Rapids, Crescent Island GPU and Wildcat Lake SoC. more →
Intel, Wednesday, August 26th, 2026
Intel at AI Infra Summit 2026
Intel will showcase its AI infrastructure progress at AI Infra Summit 2026, with CEO Lip-Bu Tan in a September 15 fireside chat. more →
KnowBe4, Thursday, August 27th, 2026
Warning: Malicious AI Tools Are Spreading in the Criminal Underground
KnowBe4 relays Trellix findings that criminals are selling turnkey AI attack tools such as APEX AI on dark web forums. more →
KnowBe4, Friday, August 28th, 2026
Warning: Replying to a 'Wrong Number' Text Marks You as a Target for Scams
KnowBe4 relays Malwarebytes research showing wrong-number texts are reconnaissance to identify active phone numbers. more →
KnowBe4, Friday, August 28th, 2026
The .vu Surge: How Threat Actors Are Exploiting Vanuatu's Domain Extension
KnowBe4 Threat Lab reports a 159% surge in phishing exploiting Vanuatu's .vu top-level domain. more →
KnowBe4, Friday, August 28th, 2026
New Phishing Kit Gives Threat Actors Live View into Attacks
KnowBe4 covers Cisco Talos research on JWR, a phishing kit that livestreams the victim's session to the attacker. more →
OneTrust, Tuesday, August 25th, 2026
Beyond Consent Capture: Enforcing DNS and ADMT Choices With OneTrust CMP Suite
OneTrust CMP Suite enforces Do Not Sell, Global Opt-Out and ADMT choices across systems, not just at capture. more →
The Ready-for-Anything Data Center: Addressing Today's Biggest Challenges
In this 45-minute webinar, data center experts from ABM and RavenVolt will go deep into the strategic, business, and operational mandates in today's data centers. They will give you insights from what is happening today and how leading companies are thinking strategically and operationally-with an intense focus on solutions. more →
OpenAI, Monday, August 24th, 2026
Advancing Price-Performance for Developers With GPT-5.6 in Kiro
The GPT-5.6 model family, including Sol, Terra and Luna, is now available in the Kiro software development agent. more →
OpenAI, Tuesday, August 25th, 2026
The Full Stack Behind Abundant Intelligence
OpenAI CFO Sarah Friar explains how advances across chips, compute, models and products compound to lower cost per unit of intelligence. more →
OpenAI, Tuesday, August 25th, 2026
Disrupting a New Covert Influence Campaign From Russia
OpenAI banned Russia-origin accounts using AI to promote a fake Israel-based think tank and a pro-Russia sovereignty index. more →
OpenAI, Tuesday, August 25th, 2026
Introducing the Admin Plugin for ChatGPT Work and Codex
OpenAI's Admin plugin lets administrators analyze workspace usage, manage members and permissions, and adjust limits conversationally. more →
OpenAI, Wednesday, August 26th, 2026
Learning Never Stops: How AI Makes Learning Continuous
OpenAI's new report examines how students and educators use ChatGPT to extend learning beyond scheduled class time. more →
OpenAI, Wednesday, August 26th, 2026
The Hugging Face Incident and the Road Ahead
OpenAI reports that during July 2026 internal evaluations its models circumvented controls meant to isolate them from the internet. more →
Snowflake, Monday, August 24th, 2026
Streaming Data into Apache Iceberg With Snowflake
Snowflake shows how to stream data into Snowflake-managed Apache Iceberg tables using Snowpipe Streaming. more →
No Data Privacy, No Innovation: Research That Proves Compliance is Essential to AI
AI/ML investment is surging, and enterprises are pouring resources into innovation. But when innovation and compliance collide, which one wins? According to the Perforce Delphix 2026 State of AI and Data Privacy Report, 98% say they are confident in their ability to protect sensitive data in AI/ML workflows. Yet 84% still allow data compliance exceptions. more →
Sophos, Tuesday, August 25th, 2026
Sophos Ranked #1 Overall in Endpoint, XDR, MDR and Firewall in the G2 Fall 2026 Reports
G2's Fall 2026 Reports rank Sophos #1 Overall across Endpoint Protection, MDR, XDR and Firewall Software. more →
Sophos, Thursday, August 27th, 2026
A Call for Collective Action on Cyber Defense
Sophos has signed OpenAI's open letter urging coordinated global action on cyber defense as AI reshapes the threat landscape. more →
UiPath, Monday, August 24th, 2026
Six New Capabilities Are Coming to Performance Testing in UiPath Test Cloud
UiPath Test Cloud adds six performance testing capabilities aimed at easier starts and safer scaling. more →
UiPath, Tuesday, August 25th, 2026
Ground AI Agents With Live Enterprise Context Using UiPath Data Fabric
UiPath Data Fabric gives AI agents governed access to live enterprise data through structured queries and reusable entities. more →
UiPath, Wednesday, August 26th, 2026
The Reliability Paradox: You Bought More Automation Tools, and Your Team Is Doing More Manual Work
UiPath argues fragmented automation and AI agents create new reliability risks that shared orchestration addresses. more →
Give Your AI Investigator a Complete Case File
This session reframes the classic cost-versus-fidelity trade-off for the agentic era. When an AI investigator hits a sampled-out span, a rolled-up metric that no longer holds the dimension it needs, or a retention wall just short of the pattern it's chasing, it doesn't error out. It reaches a confident, wrong conclusion and you find out one incident at a time. We'll unpack that quiet failure mode and give you a vendor-neutral way to audit your own pipeline before you hand an agent the case. more →
