Profiles
With a remote and distributed workforce of over 8300 employees, Shopify CISO Andrew Dunbar believes it’s imperative to implement a disciplined and controlled approach to technology to help keep the millions of merchants that rely on the company’s platform secure. His core philosophy around security is that a
Commentary
When I launched this newsletter at the beginning of December, it was never my intention to make every commentary about AI. It just seems to have worked out that way. There is just so much to talk about, and as I noted in this space last week, we are dealing
Tech companies that were hoping that a change in administration would ease regulatory oversight of large acquisitions might have been surprised to learn last week that the Trump Justice Department is suing to block the $14 billion deal between HPE and Juniper Networks. The deal was announced almost exactly a
Profiles
As chief operating officer for core engineering, head of product management and head of engineering partnerships at Goldman Sachs, Belinda Neal helps define the core engineering strategy at the firm. She’s also responsible for technology business development, bringing innovative tech solutions directly to the lines of business and part
It's been just over two years since OpenAI shocked the world with the release of ChatGPT. It has had a profound impact on just about every organization, as executives try to figure out how to best put generative AI to work inside their companies. Yet multiple studies suggest
The whiplash-inducing pace of change This week it would have been easy to write my ForwardThinking commentary about DeepSeek, the new model from China that had everyone buzzing about its impact and speculating what it means. Find your favorite writer or thought leader and there was surely an opinion. But
Last week, just one day into the new administration, the president announced an ambitious plan dubbed Project Stargate that involves to some degree the government, OpenAI, Oracle, SoftBank and MGX investing $500 billion over the next four years to build AI data centers in the U.S. Meanwhile, Chinese company
Commentary
Garbage in/Garbage Out applies more than ever to aI data Whenever I talk to people who are working with enterprise customers about AI, they inevitably need to talk about data first. That’s because the quality of the models depends on the quality of the data used to train
Profiles
Intuit CTO Alex Balazs has been at the company for over 25 years, and during that time, he’s seen the organization shift from a set of mostly consumer-focused financial tools to one that serves both consumer and business users. He’s also seen his own role change from individual
Commentary
The AI pricing conundrum remains Unresolved We are a little over two years removed from OpenAI’s release of ChatGPT, a moment that will be remembered as a pivotal shift in the technology landscape. Almost immediately, we felt the impact of that change, and it wasn’t long before every
New research released this week from multiple sources suggests that artificial intelligence could reshape the job market in the coming years, sparking fear of widespread jobs loss as AI plays a greater role across business. Yet that’s not the entire story as the technology could lead to a greater
Profiles
When you think about a startup, you probably imagine a small company with a handful of daring employees, but Databricks, a company that has been around since 2013 doesn’t really fit that vision, at least not anymore. In its most recent funding round at the end of last year,