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It's been a wacky summer. We've seen the big AI labs watch their models run amok and go off hacking. We've seen Mark Zuckerberg make a lame attempt to write a happy manifesto (clearly with the help of AI) about his vision of our
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Analysis
Think back, if you will, to three years ago. Yes, ChatGPT had been released the prior year, but cloud companies weren't seeing much benefit yet. In fact, the market was in a lull. AWS growth plunged to 12% for Q2 and Q3 that year, growth numbers so abysmal
Editor's Note: This is Part 3 of How AI is Changing Enterprise Security, a three-part video interview with Swamy Kocherlakota, executive vice president, agentic AI startup at Zscaler, produced jointly by Zscaler and FastForward. This installment looks at The new job of the CISO. AI is reshaping
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The AI industry is in the midst of a serious debate about open-weight models with the arguments centered on safety versus openness. While the AI labs argue that open weights lack sufficient guard rails -- pretty rich given the recent spate of reports of private models run amok – Capital One
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I was at a party last weekend and had a couple of conversations with college professors about their use of AI. I was curious how they were dealing with the tools, whether they were embracing them or blocking them. These two were at opposite ends of the spectrum, though interestingly
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Editor's Note: This is Part 2 of How AI is Changing Enterprise Security, a three-part video interview with Swamy Kocherlakota, executive vice president, agentic AI startup at Zscaler, produced jointly by Zscaler and FastForward. This installment looks at Making sense of AI agents. As agents proliferate in
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For 25 years, Google was a reliable waystation on the way to a website. You entered a few keywords, clicked a link or two and generally found what you wanted. AI search is altering that relationship. And it's not just changing how we search, it's eroding
Newsletters
Hi everyone. This week we return to a normal format with the news of the week. Let me know if you like the news briefs or prefer the streamlined version I've been running the past couple of weeks. Send your comments to feedback@fastforward.blog. If you like
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Editor's Note: This is Part 1 of How AI is Changing Enterprise Security, a three-part video interview with Swamy Kocherlakota, executive vice president, agentic AI startup at Zscaler, produced jointly by Zscaler and FastForward. This installment looks at Building for an AI world. Swamy Kocherlakota joined Zscaler
Analysis
The following post is a collaboration between Alex Wilhelm from the Cautious Optimism blog and FastForward. I set the stage regarding IBM’s messy quarter, digging into what analysts think about the company’s future prospects. Next, Alex dives into the financials to try to answer the question of what