See you further on up the road
If there's a light up ahead, well brother I don't know But I got this fever burning in my soul So let's take the good times as they go And I'll meet you further on up the road ~Bruce Springsteen, Further on
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Chasing agentic AI success at scale in 2026
If you keep predicting something every year, sooner or later you may be right. At the end of last year, we kept hearing 2025 was going to be the year when agentic AI really took off. It didn’t really work out as predicted. It’s all well and good
AWS takes an AI step forward
A year ago this week, I launched FastForward #1 at AWS re:Invent. It was a heck of a place to officially start my journey, amidst the tumult of a ginormous conference in one of the most distracting places on the planet, but we were ready to go and there
Amazon Bedrock AgentCore getting key governance updates
When Amazon announced Bedrock AgentCore in July, it felt significant. Here was a major cloud platform adding a component-based way to build agents with many of the pieces a developer would need to feel comfortable building something in an enterprise setting. This included runtime, browser, observability, identity, memory management components,
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Turkey Day tech thoughts
Some readers may recall that around the July 4th holiday, rather than do my normal column where I take a deep dive into a subject that’s been on my mind, I instead paid homage to Dan Shaughnessy, the long-time sports columnist at the Boston Globe, who regularly writes columns
The new CIO asked one crucial question that helped refocus this Fortune 100 company
When Kristie Grinnell stepped in as CIO of TD Synnex, a global IT distributor, earlier this year, she arrived just as AI was reshaping the way every organization operates. She needed a clear picture of where the company was and where it needed to go, so she kicked off her
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AI natives and AI wannabes
I had a conversation with Amanda Silver from Microsoft recently, which turned into a profile I published earlier this week. Silver, who has been with the company for nearly 25 years, gets that startups have a distinct edge when it comes to embracing AI, no matter how well-intentioned an established
Microsoft, Google chip away at Amazon’s cloud dominance as neoclouds rise
We reported on the cloud infrastructure numbers recently, and there was a lot of good news. For the first time, it reached $100 billion for a quarter, and we saw the largest players still growing at fairly substantial rates, especially for their size. Synergy Research reports that the big three
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How Microsoft tests its own developer tools to build an AI-first engineering organization
AI coding tools are among the most visible manifestations of AI in business so far. The startup Cursor has grabbed headlines with its rapid growth and $29 billion valuation. Meanwhile, GitHub Copilot from Microsoft is widely regarded by analysts like IDC as the leader in enterprise adoption of AI coding
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The limits of today's AI
So put me on a highway Show me a sign And take it to the limit One more time ~The Eagles, Take it to the limit If you listen to the hype from what I call the ‘AI true believers,’ you’d think it could do almost anything, but there
Celonis wants to be the roadmap to rebuild workflows for agentic AI
Celonis is probably not a household name, but the German process mining company helps large organizations uncover inefficiencies in business workflows and optimize operations using data and AI. It's a tall order, but it could also be a key piece of the agentic puzzle. If the idea is
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Red Hat's CTO sees AI as next step for company’s open approach
Chris Wright has been working at Red Hat in various roles for more than 20 years. When he started, there was just a single product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL). But throughout Wright’s tenure over the past two decades, the company has expanded far beyond that. Today, while RHEL