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Conventional wisdom suggests that using AI tools makes us more productive. Think about it: you've got this bot that can do stuff for you, whether that's writing code, conducting research or editing this commentary. In theory, that should save time and reduce the administrative busy work
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ForwardThinking 🤔 With a little help from my bots Conventional wisdom suggests that using AI tools makes us more productive. Think about it: you've got this bot that can do stuff for you, whether that's writing code, conducting research or editing this commentary. In theory, that should
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Cisco was founded 41 years ago as a network equipment company. While it has dipped into a number of other technology areas over the years through an aggressive acquisition strategy, its core networking mission has remained steady — even as networking itself has evolved from TCP/IP to Ethernet to WiFi
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It was a very good year for the big three cloud infrastructure vendors in 2025, and for anyone with even a sliver of market share for that matter. As AI expansion continued unabated, the cloud infrastructure sector pulled in a staggering $419 billion for the year, per Synergy Research. "
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Wall Street has spent the last two weeks in a full-blown panic over SaaS, with public SaaS stocks shedding hundreds of billions of dollars in value. Investors, behaving with their usual pack mentality, have suddenly decided that AI represents an existential threat to the entire SaaS model. It’s
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ForwardThinking 🤔 Let's talk about SaaS, baby Wall Street has spent the last two weeks in a full-blown panic over SaaS, with public SaaS stocks shedding hundreds of billions of dollars in value. Investors, behaving with their usual pack mentality, have suddenly decided that AI represents an existential
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If you're being honest, you probably don't pay too much attention to the ads during your typical sporting event. That's the time to go to the bathroom, grab a snack or just mute the noise. It's hard for brands, especially tech brands,
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Since its release in November 2024, the Model Context Protocol or MCP has provided a standard way for developers to connect AI assistants to external applications. Last week, the standard took a leap forward with the release of MCP Apps, a new way to embed applications directly into the chat.
Kilo Code, an early‑stage open source agentic development platform, co‑founded by GitLab chair Sid Sijbrandij, is rolling out a new command‑line interface built to work with more than 500 AI models. Kilo Code rebuilt its original CLI into a single, model-agnostic tool designed to help developers
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When you saw me out your window Singing from the garden Only the beginning I'm only getting started I don't mind the digging Baby, I'll work harder ~Jack Johnson, Washing Dishes Six weeks ago, I announced I was leaving boldstart and taking this blog
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ForwardThinking 🤔 And we're back When you saw me out your window Singing from the garden Only the beginning I'm only getting started I don't mind the digging Baby, I'll work harder ~Jack Johnson, Washing Dishes Six weeks ago, I announced I was
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We keep hearing how AI agents are going to dominate in the enterprise, but so far the hype has not matched the reality. In part, that’s because implementing AI agents is complex, and many companies are struggling to build them at scale. Enterprise software companies like ServiceNow have been