The agentic launches that stayed with me last week had nothing to do with how capable a model is. They were about reach. AWS Step Functions, which already orchestrates over 220 AWS services, can now be handed to an agent as a tool, so workflows teams already trust became callable without a rewrite. In the […]
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Stock apps show what their designers decided matters. Build your own and you choose what to watch and when to be told. This guide covers the services people use for each part of the job. A stock monitoring platform can be a weekend Python script or a polished dashboard. Either way it does five jobs, […]
Most AI rollouts fail in the same boring way. A chatbot gets bolted onto the product, pointed at one cloud model, and shipped because leadership wanted something to point at. Privacy, cost, latency, and what happens when the model is wrong all get a ticket labeled “later.” Apple spent this year doing the unfashionable version […]
When genAI exploded onto the scene in 2022, enterprises worked through the typical calculus of whether to build their own AI solutions or buy technology from vendors. The vast majority arrived at a clear conclusion: Building LLMs in-house was too complex for most organizations, and “buy” was the better approach. Fast forward four years, however, […]
When something breaks at a startup, the fix is often the easy part. The hard part is everything around it: noticing the problem, getting the right person online, and keeping customers informed while you work. With three engineers and one Slack channel, you can wing it. Someone sees the alert, says “on it,” and that’s […]
Security still spends as if the firewall, the proxy, and the endpoint agent are where policy should fire. They are not. Work authenticates in a tab, data leaves through a paste or an upload, and attackers now sit in that same session. The browser is the enforcement point that matters, and architecture that treats it […]
Seeing every PLC doesn’t stop an unsafe process state. OT programs should fund consequence management next. Full visibility into operational technology is still rare. Where it exists, it doesn’t decide whether a plant stays in a safe state. In Fortinet’s 2026 State of Operational Technology and Cybersecurity Report, a vendor survey of more than 700 […]
A few weeks ago I presented to a small group of commercial and technology leaders from Brazilian agribusiness at the AWS office in São Paulo. My talk ran through where generative AI fits across the different stages of an agribusiness operation, and the point I kept returning to is that the markets we call traditional […]
AI hiring has moved beyond adding “machine learning” to a job description and waiting for qualified candidates to apply. Tech companies now face a more complicated problem: the AI skills they need are often concentrated among relatively small groups of people, those skills can change quickly, and the same job title may mean very different […]
In June 2026, Gartner published its first Magic Quadrant for AI Governance Platforms. That is the signal worth reading, not another principle deck. Enterprises already juggle machine learning, generative applications, agents, and vendor features they did not build. The platforms that appeared around that pile are a system of record and a workflow layer. They […]