When GitHub CEO Thomas Dohmke announced he was stepping down at the end of the year in a blog post this week, it was a monumental moment for the Microsoft property. Up until now, the unit Microsoft bought in 2018 for $7.5 billion has remained for the most part
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When Rani Johnson joined Workday 2.5 years ago as CIO, ChatGPT was just bursting onto the scene. She sensed the new technology was going to be significant and went to work to apply it operationally across the company. Early in her tenure, her predecessor, Sheri Rhodes, who moved on
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It turns out that in spite of the hype, most companies are not all in on AI yet. While there’s a huge dose of FOMO out there, the Economist reported this week that just 10% of firms are using AI in a meaningful way (whatever that means). I’ve
Thomson Reuters, makers of the popular online legal research tool Westlaw, introduced a new AI agent this week called CoCounsel Legal that is designed to emulate a qualified legal professional’s research process. Per the company, the new tool “brings together legal research, essential workflow automation, intelligent document search and
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Ericsson, the Swedish telecommunications company, has been around for almost 150 years, but that doesn’t mean it shies away from modernization. As a networking company, it uses AI to improve internal operations and enhance its wide array of networking products. And it didn’t just start using it when
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When Palo Alto Networks announced it was buying CyberArk on Wednesday for $25 billion, it sent a clear signal that in the age of agents, identity is going to play a huge role, enough for Palo Alto to pay a premium to grab a major player in this space. It
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AI-backed agents hold the great promise of fundamentally changing how businesses interact with software. Yet people still have a hard time agreeing exactly what an agent is. For simplicity’s sake, I would call it AI-fueled software that can undertake a number of tasks autonomously. In the ideal agentic state,
As agents develop in the enterprise, the true promise isn’t an individual agent going off and performing a task on its own, the true benefit will happen when agents, possibly from different vendors, start working together. Cisco has called this the ‘Internet of Agents,’ a nod to the Internet
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We've been hearing a lot of positivity when it comes to AI in recent years. It’s going to transform business, increase efficiency, lower costs. Every company needs to embrace it. Ignoring it is not an option. Consider these recent quotes from big company CEOs: Technologies like Generative
Last week, AWS announced the preview of a new tool, called Amazon Bedrock AgentCore. The company describes it as "a comprehensive set of enterprise-grade services that help developers quickly and securely deploy and operate AI agents at scale using any framework and model, hosted on Amazon Bedrock or elsewhere.
Back in the mid-2000s, as we began to see the shift to cloud computing, many companies were slow to adjust. Some took years. Heck, I remember Andy Jassy giving a keynote address at AWS re:Invent in 2019, well into the cloud computing era, where he implored his customers to
Last week, after I put the newsletter to bed, word began to emerge from various news sources that the OpenAI-Windsurf deal was in trouble. At that moment, we had no idea what that meant. But we would soon learn that OpenAI had walked away from the deal, a move that