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Informatica and Salesforce move data platforms into the decision layer
For years, enterprise data conversations centered on platforms. Which warehouse ? Which lakehouse ? Which cloud ? In my recent Forbes pieces, “ Beyond The Enterprise Data Platform: Why Ecosystems Win ” and “ How ERP Data Fits Into The Enterprise Data Ecosystem ,” I argued that the more important question is no longer which platform wins. It is how the enterprise designs the ecosystem around data, applications, workflows, and governance. That question is becoming more urgent because AI agents are starting to act on enterprise data, not just analyze it. They are recommending actions, triggering
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The new AI lock-in
Recently PwC announced it will train and certify 30,000 staff on Anthropic’s Claude and build an Office of the CFO business around it for banking, insurance, and healthcare clients. Anthropic also recently committed $100 million to a partner network . Not to be outdone, OpenAI stood up the OpenAI Deployment Company , aka “DeployCo”, a new company backed by more than $4 billion in initial investment that sends forward-deployed engineers on-site to embed GPT models into customer workflows. For companies that supposedly sell tokens by the million, investing in low-scale, low-margin professional s
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AWS boosts CloudWatch Logs query limits by 10x to ease debugging for developers, SREs
AWS has increased Amazon CloudWatch Logs Insights query result limits from 10,000 to 100,000 rows and added pagination support for its GetQueryResults API to help developers and site reliability engineers (SREs) troubleshoot and debug large-scale distributed applications more efficiently. The update to the monitoring and observability service, according to an AWS blog post , will reduce the need to repeatedly split queries into smaller time windows during incident investigations, debugging, and operational audits across enterprise environments. Analysts see sound operational reasoning behind t
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21 LLMs tuned for special domains
In the beginning, everyone was surprised that large language models (LLMs) could speak in words. Those days are long past, and now the focus is on the depth of knowledge. The best way to deliver this is with specialization. Instead of developing a one-size-fits-all leviathan, the best teams are building specialized models for niches—one for the doctors, one for the lawyers, one for the bankers, and so on. The trend won’t end. Soon, orthopedic surgeons who do shoulder replacements may have one model for right-handed patients and another model for the left-handed ones. The trend toward specializ
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AWS adds Advanced Prompt Optimization tool to Bedrock
AWS late on Thursday added a new prompt optimization tool to Amazon Bedrock , its fully managed service for building, deploying, and scaling generative AI applications. The tool, Amazon Bedrock Advanced Prompt Optimization, can be accessed through the Bedrock console, and is designed to automatically refine prompts for better accuracy, consistency, and efficiency across multiple large language models, the hyperscaler wrote in a blog post . The tool works by first evaluating prompts against user-defined datasets and metrics, then rewriting them to optimize them for up to five inference models.
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Capacity markets could reshape cloud computing
An article from AI CERTs reporting on the Anthropic-SpaceX capacity arrangement caught my attention because it highlights a possibility the cloud market has been moving toward for years but has never fully embraced. The traditional assumption has always been simple: If you need elastic infrastructure at scale, you go to a hyperscaler such as AWS, Microsoft, or Google. They own the data centers, they understand multitenancy, and they know how to deliver computing as a repeatable service . The article suggests something different may now be emerging. Organizations with excess capacity may be abl
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Four cutting-edge tools for spec-driven development
In February 2025, AI developer Andrej Karpathy posted a tweet (or whatever they call them now on the site formerly known as Twitter) about what he called “ vibe coding ”: There’s a new kind of coding I call “vibe coding”, where you fully give in to the vibes, embrace exponentials, and forget that the code even exists. It’s possible because the LLMs (e.g. Cursor Composer w Sonnet) are getting too good. Also I just talk to Composer with SuperWhisper so I barely even touch the keyboard. I ask for the dumbest things like “decrease the padding on the sidebar by half” because I’m too lazy to find it
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Anthropic puts Claude agents on a meter across its subscriptions
The era of “all-you-can-eat” AI coding and agent subscriptions may well be ending. Beginning June 15, Anthropic will separate programmatic Claude usage from standard chat subscription limits, introducing a dedicated monthly credit system, billed at API-style rates, for tools including its Agent SDK, GitHub Actions, and third-party frameworks such as OpenClaw, the company wrote in a blog post . The monthly credit for programmatic usage will depend on a user’s existing Claude subscription tier and generally mirror its monthly price, with Pro users receiving $20 in credits, Max 5x users $100, and
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Notion courts developers with a platform for AI agents and workflow automation
Notion is expanding its collaborative workspace software with a developer platform for building AI-enabled workflows around enterprise data and workspace content. The Notion Developer Platform adds custom code execution, database sync, external agent support, and workflow triggers, allowing developers and coding agents to extend Notion beyond its traditional role as a workspace app, the company said in a statement. The launch comes as enterprises experiment with agentic AI but still struggle to give those systems access to the work context that is spread across business applications and intern
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Using continuous purple teaming to protect fast-paced enterprise environments
Enterprise environments are changing quickly as organizations adopt cloud platforms , automated infrastructure, and continuous delivery pipelines. Software updates are released more often, and systems are set up automatically using infrastructure-as-code automation tools. While this acceleration allows organizations to deliver software and services faster, it also creates new challenges for security teams responsible for protecting constantly changing systems. Today’s enterprise security teams must defend environments that are dynamic, distributed, and difficult to fully observe. As organizati
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A better way to work with SQL Server
Microsoft recently ended support for Azure Data Studio , its development tool for the SQL Server and Azure SQL databases. Part of a range of tools designed to work with Microsoft’s on-premises and in-cloud SQL databases, Azure Data Studio focused on building and testing queries rather than database administration. In other words, it was a developer-focused, lighter-weight alternative to SQL Server Management Studio . Azure Data Studio was a useful tool for developers. It made it easy to explore databases and craft the queries that could be integrated into your code. You weren’t limited to quer
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Evidence-driven workflows: Rethinking enterprise process design
From runtime architecture to process design In a recent InfoWorld article, I introduced t he concept of the Agent Tier — a runtime architecture that separates deterministic enterprise execution from contextual reasoning. The core idea was straightforward: as enterprise workflows incorporate more signals and adaptive models, embedding contextual judgment directly inside branching logic leads to increasingly fragile systems. A dedicated runtime layer can interpret context and determine the next appropriate action, while deterministic systems continue to enforce authoritative state transitions. T
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AWS debuts Graviton-powered Redshift RG instances to cut analytics costs
AWS has released new Graviton-powered RG instances for its Amazon Redshift data warehouse service aimed at helping enterprises reduce both rising analytics costs and the operational complexity of modern lakehouse architectures. At the core of the new instances is an integrated data lake query engine that AWS says can run SQL analytics across both Redshift warehouse data and Amazon S3 data lakes , delivering faster query performance and lowering analytics costs. “Earlier, Amazon Redshift RA3 systems operated as two separate engines, with Redshift handling warehouse data and Spectrum handling S3
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SAP’s AI promises last year? Most are still rolling out
SAP made bold promises about AI at Sapphire 2025 : Knowledge Graph, Joule Studio, and AI Agent Hub would ship by the end of the year. Those tools are now technically available, but adoption has lagged, and SAP is already announcing version 2.0. “Joule Studio adoption has been minimal compared to what we’d like,” said Manoj Swaminathan , SAP’s chief product officer for Business Suite, in a briefing ahead of this year’s Sapphire. The tool “was limited to content-based experiences,” he said. “Anytime more complex agents were involved, it had limited capabilities.” The issue, according to SAP’s ch
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First look: Lemonade serves up local AI with limitations
Lemonade , created by AMD, is a server application plus GUI for running local AI models, similar to projects like LM Studio (or, more distantly, ComfyUI ). What it lacks in configurability, it tries to make up for in broader integration with third-party apps that use standard APIs, and with support for non-NVIDIA runtimes. Lemonade works with a variety of runtimes and back-end engines. It supports AMD GPUs, Ryzen NPUs, Vulkan, and CPU execution (although not for all tasks), along with the llamacpp , whispercpp , sd-cpp , kokoro , ryzenai-llm and flm back ends. In addition to providing its own
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AI is ready to take over Python programming, but not much else
Tests of how well 19 large language models (LLMs) complete and perform complicated multi-step tasks has shown that they are both error-prone and, in many cases, unreliable. The findings are contained in a preprint paper, LLMs Corrupt Your Documents When You Delegate , written by Microsoft researchers Philippe Laban , Tobias Schnabel and Jennifer Neville based on a benchmark they created called DELEGATE-52 that allowed them to simulate workflows that might be part of a knowledge worker’s tasks. The paper is currently under review. They said that the benchmark contains 310 work environments acro
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Mistral AI SDK, TanStack Router hit in npm software supply chain attack
The TeamPCP threat group has pulled off another big supply chain attack which within a few hours this week was able to successfully compromise 170 Node Package Manager (npm) and PyPI packages. The attack affected the entire TanStack Router ecosystem (@tanstack) of 42 packages, a routing library hugely popular among React web application developers. Multiple other packages were also affected, including @squawk (87 packages), @uipath (66 packages), @tallyui (30 packages), @beproduct (18 packages), as well as Mistral AI’s SDK suite on both npm and PyPI, and the Guardrails AI PyPI package. The att
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GitLab CEO sees developer tool bill increasing 100-fold
GitLab CEO Bill Staples says enterprises’ monthly bill for developer platform services has risen from tens of dollars per seat to hundreds over the last year, and is headed toward the thousands, signaling a structural change in how they will be billed for AI-enabled software development tools . The increase in cost reflects the volume of work AI agents generate inside development pipelines, Staples wrote in an open letter to customers, investors, and employees titled “GitLab Act 2. “Agents open merge requests in parallel, trigger pipelines around the clock, and push commits at a rate no human
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Red Hat adds support for agentic AI development
As use of agentic AI accelerates, Red Hat is hoping to position itself as the critical behind-the-scenes plumbing and connective fabric. To this end, the company has unveiled new desktop and developer suite functions, skills bundles, and a rolling Linux release to help enterprises move beyond the experimental phase. Announced at Red Hat Summit today, the new features and services are included in the latest release of Red Hat AI, with no additional usage charge. Tools are not metered and usage is not limited, Red Hat execs emphasized in a briefing. “We’re helping developers accelerate and own t
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What’s new and exciting in JDK 26
With the release of JDK 26 , which arrived March 17, we’ve now seen 17 versions of Java delivered under the time-based six-month release cadence. Nobody can call this anything other than a huge success for Java . In the last eight years, we’ve seen the Java platform move forward faster than at any time in its history. In addition, the faster release cadence has made preview features and incubator modules a practical reality. This allows fully developed features to be tested by developers, with feedback incorporated before the feature is finalized. Within practical limits, Java developers get e
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