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We all agree that the role of the technology leader is being rewritten in real time, and if you’re building the systems they depend on, you need to understand what they’re asking for now. Let me be honest about something. For most of my career, the conversations I had with CIOs followed a pretty predictable script. They’d describe a pain point, I’d map it to a solution and we’d talk timelines and…

Large enterprises in regulated industries, especially in data-rich financial services and insurance, have invested significantly in data governance programs. Other businesses have been catching up as part of their efforts to become more data-driven organizations . Data governance often starts with defining policies, classifying data sources, establishing data catalogs , and communicating non-nego…

As companies move from experimenting with AI agents to deploying them in production, one pattern becomes clear: capability without control is a liability. Agents operate in long-running, stateful environments. They browse the web, read repositories, execute shell commands, call APIs and interact with internal systems. That power is transformative — and it meaningfully expands the attack surface .…

For years, Kubernetes held an almost mythic place in enterprise IT. It was positioned as the control plane for the future, the standard abstraction for cloud-native systems, and the platform that would finally free enterprises from infrastructure lock-in. To be fair, some of that was true. Kubernetes brought discipline to container orchestration, enabled portable deployment models, and provided a…

GitHub has paused new sign-ups for several individual Copilot plans and tightened usage limits, saying newer agentic coding workflows are consuming far more compute than its original pricing and service model was built to handle. The move is a reminder that as AI coding assistants grow more autonomous , vendors may have to balance developer demand against infrastructure cost and service reliabili…

Frontend cloud platform Vercel, the creator of Next.js and Turbo.js, has warned about a data breach after a compromised third-party AI application abused OAuth to access its internal systems. A Vercel employee used the third-party app, identified as Context.ai, which allowed the attackers to take over their Google Workspace account and access some environment variables that the company said were …

Agentic AI has emerged as the software industry’s latest shiny thing . Beyond smarter chatbots, AI agents operate with increasing autonomy, making them poised to drive efficiency gains across enterprises. “Agentic refers to AI systems that can take actions on behalf of users, not just generate text or answer questions,” says Andrew McNamara , director of applied machine learning at Shopify . Agen…

I’ve been arguing for a while now that enterprise AI won’t really take off until it gets boring . Not boring in the sense of uninspired; no, I mean boring in the sense that enterprises can trust it, govern it, observe it, and hand it to rank-and-file employees without undue concern that things will go wrong. We have no shortage of over-funded startups clamoring to be the next big thing in AI, but…

Oracle says its new Trusted Answer Search can deliver reliable results at scale in the enterprise by scouring a governed set of approved documents using vector search instead of large language models (LLMs) and retrieval-augmented generation (RAG). Available for download or accessible through APIs, it works by having enterprises define a curated “search space” of approved reports, documents, or a…

In a recent article chronicling the history of Microsoft Azure and its intensifying woes , we see a narrative that has been building throughout the industry for years. As cloud computing evolved from a buzzword to the backbone of digital infrastructure, major providers like Microsoft, Amazon, and Google have had to make compromises. Their promises of near-perfect uptime shifted from an expectatio…

Transformative new Python features are coming in Python 3.15 . In addition to lazy imports and an immutable frozendict type, the new Python release will deliver significant improvements to the native JIT compiler and introduce a more explicit agenda for how Python will support WebAssembly . Top picks for Python readers on InfoWorld Speed-boost your Python programs with the new lazy imports featur…

Anthropic has today released a new, improved Claude model, Opus 4.7 , but has deliberately built it to be less capable than the highly-anticipated Claude Mythos. Anthropic calls Opus 4.7 a “notable improvement” over Opus 4.6, offering advanced software engineering capabilities and improved visioning, memory, instruction-following, and financial analysis. However, the yet-to-be-released (and inadv…

If you came up building software in the 1990s or early 2000s, you remember the visceral satisfaction of determinism. You wrote code. The compiler analyzed it, optimized it, and emitted precisely the machine instructions you expected. Same input, same output. Every single time. There was an engineering rigor to it that shaped how an entire generation of developers thought about building systems. T…

If you’re using Kubernetes , especially a managed version like Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS), you don’t need to think about the underlying hardware. All you need to do is build your application and it should run, its containers managed by the service’s orchestrator. At least that’s the theory. However, implementing a platform that abstracts your code from the servers and network that support it …

Most large enterprises run on deterministic software foundations. Business rules are embedded within workflows, state transitions are modeled explicitly and escalation paths are defined in advance. System behavior is specified in advance, making outcomes predictable. Meaningful scenarios are encoded as conditional branches and validated before release. For decades, this approach has delivered the…