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CrowdStrike's Elia Zaitsev spent a decade at the company before being promoted to CTO in 2023, just months after ChatGPT's debut. It was a pivotal moment for his career and for the broader technology landscape. He understood the magnitude of the shift and how generative AI
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Well, it's been building up inside of me For, oh, I don't know how long I don't know why, but I keep thinking Something's bound to go wrong ~Beach Boys, Don't Worry Baby A backlash against AI has been building
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ForwardThinking 🤔 Everyone hates AI Well, it's been building up inside of me For, oh, I don't know how long I don't know why, but I keep thinking Something's bound to go wrong ~Beach Boys, Don't Worry Baby A backlash against
Analysis
Databricks has spent over a decade establishing itself as a cloud data platform company. This week, the company announced a new cybersecurity product that will put it in front of an entirely different buyer: the CISO. The new Lakewatch product is predicated on the idea that security is increasingly a
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We’ve all heard the relentless hype around AI agents. They will be so potent they will come for our jobs, our software, our workflows. Agentic workforces will force an all-encompassing overhaul of how we do business. Wall Street has bought into this vision so completely, it is starting
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ForwardThinking 🤔 Agents here, there and nowhere We’ve all heard the relentless hype around AI agents. They will be so potent they will come for our jobs, our software, our workflows. Agentic workforces will force an all-encompassing overhaul of how we do business. Wall Street has bought into this
Analysis
Last week, Shantanu Narayen announced he was stepping down as Adobe CEO after 18 years, leaving behind a legacy of transformation. Perhaps his biggest achievement was moving Adobe’s popular Creative Suite from boxed software to a cloud subscription business. "He did the impossible by saving and transforming an
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When you think about a company the size of Amazon, the idea of one person being responsible for everything from the locks on the doors to cybersecurity and employee safety might seem absurd. Yet that's exactly what the company decided to do. That person is CJ Moses, who
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The following post is a collaboration with my long-time friend, colleague and writing partner Alex Wilhelm. Subscribe to Alex's newsletter ‘Cautious Optimism‘ here. You'll be glad you did! In 2023, following an uninspiring AWS re:Invent, Amazon's enormous annual customer event in Las
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As the drama unfolded last week over OpenAI’s sudden partnership with the DoD, the department was also threatening to treat Anthropic as a supply chain risk (a designation that has since been made official). One of the key sticking points was whether these models should be used to conduct
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ForwardThinking 🤔 Sam and Dario's not-so-excellent AI adventure As the drama unfolded last week over OpenAI’s sudden partnership with the DoD, the department was also threatening to treat Anthropic as a supply chain risk (a designation that has since been made official). One of the key
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Cassie Crossley has literally written the book on software supply chain security. She was previously VP of supply chain security at Schneider Electric and is currently CEO and co-founder at a stealth AI cybersecurity startup. She understands supply chain risk as well as anyone, and she believes that AI-