Commentary brings you FastForward’s take on the big trends and developments in enterprise tech and innovation — from AI and cloud to security, data and strategy. These pieces go beyond the headlines to unpack what’s happening, why it matters and what it means for leaders and builders in the space.
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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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As the winter snow keeps accumulating in the Northeast and the tech news continues to pile up with it, I thought it would be fun to once again pay homage to Dan Shaughnessy, the long-time sports columnist at the Boston Globe, who regularly writes columns gathering his random thoughts about
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I was at an event recently where I had an interesting discussion with a college dean about preparing young people for the changing world AI is creating. When I asked about his students' interest in AI, he surprised me with his answer: he said they were more concerned about
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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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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 not
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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
If there's a light up ahead, well brother I don't know But I got this fever burning in my soul So let's take the good times as they go And I'll meet you further on up the road ~Bruce Springsteen, Further on
A year ago this week, I launched FastForward #1 at AWS re:Invent. It was a heck of a place to officially start my journey, amidst the tumult of a ginormous conference in one of the most distracting places on the planet, but we were ready to go and there
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Some readers may recall that around the July 4th holiday, rather than do my normal column where I take a deep dive into a subject that’s been on my mind, I instead paid homage to Dan Shaughnessy, the long-time sports columnist at the Boston Globe, who regularly writes columns
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I had a conversation with Amanda Silver from Microsoft recently, which turned into a profile I published earlier this week. Silver, who has been with the company for nearly 25 years, gets that startups have a distinct edge when it comes to embracing AI, no matter how well-intentioned an established
So put me on a highway Show me a sign And take it to the limit One more time ~The Eagles, Take it to the limit If you listen to the hype from what I call the ‘AI true believers,’ you’d think it could do almost anything, but there
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I did a thing last night You know those future games I turned off all the lights Oh, the future came ~Bob Welch, Future Games Filed under things I didn’t expect to see this week was Satya Nadella stepping back from his very successful tenure as full-time Microsoft CEO