Unite, Friday, September 11th, 2026
Why Falling AI Prices Aren't Lowering Enterprise AI Bills
Inference costs fell 90 percent in two years while enterprise bills rose, because agentic workflows waste tokens. more →
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Tuesday’s Briefing · September 15
Unite, Saturday, September 12th, 2026
What Is Benchmark Saturation? Why Yesterday's AI Tests Stop Working
When leading models approach a benchmark's ceiling, scores stop distinguishing meaningful capability differences. more →
Unite, Friday, September 11th, 2026
What Is Tokenization? How AI Turns Text Into Tokens
A foundational primer on how text becomes the discrete units models actually process, and why it matters for cost. more →
The Next Web, Monday, September 7th, 2026
Shadow AI Is Already Inside Your Company. Here's How to Get Control of It
Reco data shows 80% of AI tools run without IT oversight; the fix starts with mapping what each agent can reach and who owns it. more →
TechRadar, Tuesday, September 8th, 2026
The Way We Use and Pay for AI Is Changing
As AI vendors move to metered, token-based pricing, enterprise buyers face surprise bills and contracts that offer little protection. more →
TechRadar, Tuesday, September 8th, 2026
Introducing AI-as-a-Service
Agentic AI and MCP are shifting SaaS from a place where people work to a source of capabilities that AI agents use. more →
CIO, Thursday, September 10th, 2026
Enterprises Can't Spend Their Way to AI Leadership
Cheaper distilled and open-weight models are undercutting massive AI compute spending; talent and culture now matter more. more →
TechTarget, Thursday, September 10th, 2026
The Growing Case for Deputy CISOs in the Enterprise
Burnout and growing workloads are driving more organizations to consider a deputy CISO, though the role varies widely. more →
SC Media, Thursday, September 10th, 2026
What CIO-CISO Alignment Looks Like When It's Working
Cushman & Wakefield's CDIO and CISO explain why the operating model matters more than the CISO reporting line. more →
TechTarget, Thursday, September 10th, 2026
6 IT/OT Convergence Trends IT Leaders Should Watch in 2026
Six trends shaping IT/OT convergence in 2026, from CIOs owning OT and OT data use to security and team collaboration. more →
InformationWeek, Friday, September 11th, 2026
How CIOs Can Tame Communication Platform Chaos
Unchecked messaging and collaboration tools create costly sprawl and confusion that CIOs must untangle with strategy and inventory. more →
Migrating Apache Solr Workloads to Amazon OpenSearch Service
This session is ideal for engineering leaders, search architects, and platform teams currently operating Apache Solr who want to understand the benefits, trade-offs, and practical steps involved in migrating to a fully managed search service on AWS. more →
SC Media, Thursday, September 10th, 2026
It's More Secure When It's Disabled - PSW #943
Paul's Security Weekly covers a record Microsoft patch month, suspected commissary freezer hacks, Defender bypasses, and GPU Rowhammer. more →
SC Media, Friday, September 11th, 2026
9/11 at 25, OfferLoader, Gemini CLI, Liquid, 10% Doom, Josh Marpet, and More - SWN #615
Security Weekly News marks 25 years since 9/11 and covers AI threats, a Gemini CLI RCE, the Liquid hack return and a Veradigm breach. more →
Dark Reading, Friday, September 11th, 2026
Why AI Is So Good at Scamming Humans
Fred Heiding of Menlo Park Intelligence explains how frontier AI models manipulate people and why that threat is hard to defend. more →
CXOTalk, Friday, September 11th, 2026
Salesforce's Chief Ethical and Humane Use Officer: How to Build Great AI Use Cases
Salesforce's Paula Goldman explains how to design AI use cases, decide what agents handle and where humans should lead. more →
theCUBE, Friday, September 11th, 2026
The AI ROI in Contact Center Summit
theCUBE's livestreamed summit examined whether contact center AI delivers measurable business value. more →
Oxide and Friends, Friday, September 11th, 2026
Emulating Oxide: How Faux Can You Go?
Oxide engineers discuss VOXEL, the emulation environment that lets them test rack configurations they haven't built yet. more →
InfoQ, Tuesday, September 8th, 2026
Platform Engineering in the Age of AI
An InfoQ roundtable discusses how platform teams are adapting to support AI-assisted engineering, tooling and guardrails. more →
Platform Engineering, Tuesday, September 8th, 2026
AI Native Platforms Define Platform Engineering with Pankaj Gupta
Broadcom's Pankaj Gupta tells Alan Shimel that AI workloads, AI agents and autonomy define Platform Engineering 2.0. more →
Platform Engineering, Thursday, September 10th, 2026
The Internal Developer Platform Is Becoming the Enterprise AI Gateway
Alan Shimel argues model access, agent identity, governance and cost controls belong in the internal developer platform. more →
Migrate and Modernize your applications with at Zscaler Zero Trust Security Platform on AWS
In this webinar, we'll explore how teams can identify private applications and usage patterns to inform migration planning, maintain visibility into performance during and after migration, and secure workload-to-workload communications across AWS, data centers, and multicloud environments. more →
Techstrong.ai, Friday, September 11th, 2026
AI's Next Bottleneck Is Not the Model. It Is the Data Center Supply Chain
Scaling AI depends on a physical data center supply chain of power, cooling, equipment and construction, where bottlenecks keep shifting. more →
Techstrong.ai, Friday, September 11th, 2026
Astra, Where Have You Been My Whole Life?
A Techstrong editor's first-day impressions of OpenAI's Astra model as a research collaborator, plus criticism of its confusing rollout. more →
LeadDev, Thursday, September 10th, 2026
The Engineer's Guide to Building a Software Factory
Build loops, not just agents: the feedback structure matters more than the individual automation. more →
LeadDev, Wednesday, September 9th, 2026
We're on Call for Code Nobody Wrote
Runtime behavior is the only truth when the person paged never wrote, and may never have read, the failing code. more →
The Pragmatic Engineer, Tuesday, September 8th, 2026
What Is Happening With Code Reviews?
As AI generates more code than teams can read, review is splitting into AI-assisted, risk-based and schema-focused modes. more →
The New Stack, Saturday, September 12th, 2026
The AI-Native SDLC Won't Be One Process
A single prescribed AI-native development process fails; route changes by risk using state machines and external facts. more →
InfoQ, Thursday, September 10th, 2026
Beyond Autonomous Teams in Software Product Development
A case for shifting from product-centric autonomous teams toward value centers with coherent organizational purpose. more →
The New Stack, Tuesday, September 8th, 2026
AI Broke Code Review. Two Experts Disagree on What Replaces It.
Octopus Deploy's John Bristowe and Viktor Farcic debate whether policy-driven pipelines can replace human review of AI code. more →
Tech Field Day, Tuesday, September 8th, 2026
Solar, Batteries, and Electrification Can Make Grid Power Optional
A Tech Field Day podcast episode on how affordable solar, batteries and electrification can make utility grid power optional. more →
Agentic Runtime Security on AWS: Identity, Least Privilege, and Audit for AI Agents with IBM Verify Identity Access and HashiCorp Vault
This hands-on workshop deploys a working reference implementation of five control objectives for agentic systems - verifiable agent identity, no standing privileges, actions tied to user intent, enforcement at the point of use, and audit evidence correlated across all three trust planes (user, workload, data) - using IBM Verify Identity Access and HashiCorp Vault on Amazon EKS. more →
Heller Search Associates, Wednesday, September 9th, 2026
The Leaders You Grow Outlast the Systems You Build
CIO Eduard de Vries Sands argues developing leaders is a deliberate discipline built on handing off real work with a safety net. more →
ET Edge Insights, Thursday, September 10th, 2026
HR Will Be the Real Test of a CEO's AI Leadership
AI in HR should automate activity but never accountability, making AI-led HR transformation a CEO-level agenda. more →
Analytics Insight, Monday, September 7th, 2026
10 Skills Every Computer Engineer Needs for the AI Era
A photo guide to the skills computer engineers need as AI reshapes software work, from AI literacy to cloud and security. more →
TechTarget, Wednesday, September 9th, 2026
Top 10 AI Certifications and Courses for 2026
TechTarget highlights 10 AI certifications and courses, from Stanford and MIT programs to IBM's Coursera certificate, for AI careers. more →
Analytics Insight, Saturday, September 12th, 2026
Best Career Development Websites for Professionals in the US
A roundup of career development sites for US professionals, led by LinkedIn, Coursera, CareerOneStop, Indeed, Glassdoor and FlexJobs. more →
Analytics Insight, Saturday, September 12th, 2026
AI vs Data Science vs Machine Learning: Which Skill Path Should You Choose?
AI, data science and machine learning overlap but require distinct skills and lead to different roles; here's how to choose. more →
Akamai, Thursday, September 10th, 2026
Introducing AI Assistant for Akamai Web Security Analytics
Natural language investigation of web security events for SOC and AppSec teams, with guided remediation. more →
Akamai, Wednesday, September 9th, 2026
NIS2 Compliance in the AI Age: Why Traditional Cybersecurity Isn't Enough
Four challenges organizations face achieving NIS2 compliance, and why segmentation is central to meeting them. more →
Akamai, Tuesday, September 8th, 2026
Inside AI-Powered WAF Detections: Architecture and Safety Controls
How AI-based web application firewall detections are built and what stops them blocking legitimate traffic. more →
Building an Effective Red Team: Beyond Penetration Testing
Attendees will explore red team methodologies, operational security, and organizational integration that maximize red team programs' value and effectively test detection and response capabilities while providing actionable improvement recommendations. more →
Couchbase, Wednesday, October 21st, 2026
Couchbase Innovation: Opening Joint Keynote
Couchbase's CPO Barry Morris and SVP for AI Tim Finley present a unified data layer for the agent era at Catalyst 2026. more →
SecureWorld Threat Defense Virtual Conference
The conference brings together cybersecurity professionals, leaders, and solution providers to discuss emerging threats, defense strategies, AI integration, and cloud security, while offering opportunities to network and earn CPE credits. more →
CIO Influence, Monday, September 7th, 2026
CrowdStrike Brings the Falcon Platform to Snowflake, Unifying Security and Data at Enterprise Scale
CrowdStrike Falcon comes to Snowflake Marketplace, with federated search, SIEM ingestion and Onum data routing. more →
The Next Web, Monday, September 7th, 2026
CrowdStrike Unveils Coordinated Multi-Agent Investigations Across Five Domains
CrowdStrike's multi-agent SOC investigations speed verdicts, but NIS2's 24-hour clock and board liability still apply. more →
SiliconANGLE, Monday, September 7th, 2026
CrowdStrike Builds an Identity Provider for AI Agents, Not Humans
At Fal.Con, CrowdStrike CMO Jennifer Johnson explains the new Agentic Identity Provider for securing AI agents. more →
CIO Influence, Monday, September 7th, 2026
Introducing the CrowdStrike Agentic Identity Provider, the Foundation for AI Agent Identity Security
CrowdStrike launches Agentic IdP to register, verify and scope access for AI agents within Falcon identity security. more →
Databricks, Friday, September 11th, 2026
Health Plans: Your BI Tells You MLR Moved. Can Your AI Tell You Why?
Moving health plan analytics from reporting that a medical loss ratio changed to explaining what drove it. more →
Databricks, Friday, September 11th, 2026
Unify Your Marketing Data With Lakeflow Connect
The first in a series on using Lakeflow Connect to consolidate fragmented marketing data sources. more →
Databricks, Thursday, September 10th, 2026
Unifying Governance Across Engines and Catalogs in the Open Lakehouse
How open table formats and open APIs support one governance model across multiple query engines and catalogs. more →
Databricks, Thursday, September 10th, 2026
Improving Lakebase Postgres Compute Cache
Engineering detail on caching improvements in the disaggregated storage model behind Lakebase Postgres. more →
Databricks, Wednesday, September 9th, 2026
Adaptive Instructed-Retriever: Frontier-Quality Search at 2x Lower Latency
A retrieval model trained to spend extra search steps only where query complexity justifies the cost. more →
Databricks, Wednesday, September 9th, 2026
Five AI Questions We're Hearing From Financial Services Leaders
The question at Sibos has moved from whether AI works to whether your data can support it. more →
ScienceDaily, Monday, September 7th, 2026
IBM Quantum Computer Solves Classically Intractable Problem in 15 Minutes
IBM and UChicago used 70 logical qubits to run a verifiable computation beyond classical reach in about 15 minutes. more →
DCD, Monday, September 7th, 2026
IBM Announces Availability of Its Nighthawk r2 Quantum Processor
IBM makes its Nighthawk r2 quantum processor broadly available via the cloud, claiming better quality and speed than r1. more →
NVIDIA, Thursday, September 10th, 2026
Skild AI Taps NVIDIA Physical AI to Teach Robots New Tasks From a Single Video
The S1 robot foundation model learns manufacturing tasks from one video, hitting 66 percent per-step success versus 9 percent. more →
NVIDIA, Thursday, September 10th, 2026
Physical AI Takes the Wheel: How the World's Robotaxi Leaders Are Building With NVIDIA Technologies
An overview of the robotaxi stack from DGX training through Omniverse simulation to in-vehicle DRIVE Hyperion compute. more →
NVIDIA, Thursday, September 10th, 2026
d-Matrix Adopts NVIDIA NVLink Fusion for Rack-Scale XPU Deployment
d-Matrix integrates its Raptor XPUs via NVLink Fusion, slotting specialized silicon into existing NVIDIA rack architecture. more →
The Future of AI Pricing: What Every CIO Needs to Know
This session explores the evolution of AI pricing models and what they mean for enterprise decision making. Gartner experts examine the challenges emerging pricing approaches create for budgeting, governance and financial planning, and discuss how organizations can adapt. more →
OpenAI, Thursday, September 10th, 2026
Now Everyone Can Put Data to Work
The Data agent in ChatGPT Work connects company data and builds interactive dashboards from natural language. more →
OpenAI, Thursday, September 10th, 2026
Introducing ChatGPT for Financial Services
A finance-specific ChatGPT combining built-in market data with GPT-6 Astra for research, modeling and client materials. more →
OpenAI, Thursday, September 10th, 2026
Build More Natural Voice Experiences With GPT-Live-1 in the API
GPT-Live-1 brings full-duplex voice to the API with custom voices and telephony support at $0.05 per minute. more →
OpenAI, Thursday, September 10th, 2026
Introducing the Agents API
A managed service built on the Codex harness for orchestration, long-running sessions and tool use. more →
OpenAI, Wednesday, September 9th, 2026
GPT-6 Astra: The Next Generation in Intelligence for Work
OpenAI's most capable business model adds advanced reasoning, computer use and stronger writing and design judgment. more →
OpenAI, Wednesday, September 9th, 2026
The AI Policy Window Is Open. We Need to Act.
Chris Lehane argues stronger AI capabilities demand stronger safety evidence and shared standards while policy is movable. more →
Salesforce, Friday, September 11th, 2026
Salesforce Expands Agentforce With a New Portfolio of AI Agents Built for High-Value Work
Job-ready agents across sales, service, commerce and workforce, with long-horizon runtime for extended goals. more →
Salesforce, Thursday, September 10th, 2026
Salesforce Introduces the Trusted Enterprise AI Harness
Six capabilities covering context, agency, action, governance, security and models form a control layer around AI. more →
Salesforce, Wednesday, September 9th, 2026
Pioneering Salesforce Engineering's Agentic Shift: Part 2
Scaling agentic development across 15,000 engineers produced a 90.5 percent rise in work items per developer. more →
Salesforce, Wednesday, September 9th, 2026
New Research: CFOs Turn to AI and Agents to Tame Growing Revenue Complexity
A survey of 865 finance leaders finds 49 percent cite managing AI adoption as driving their expanded remit. more →
SiliconANGLE, Friday, September 11th, 2026
Salesforce Introduces New AI Agents to Automate Sales, Support Tasks
Salesforce debuts AI agents for sales, support, help desk, and supply chain alongside an upgraded Agentforce Coworker. more →
Practitioner Perspective: Achieving Fine-Grained Control for Data and AI on the Endpoint
Join us for a practitioner-focused deep dive on what it takes to move beyond blind alerting and blunt blocking. Bold sits down with Michael Roberts, Security Engineer at Cresta, a leading AI company, to explore an age-old question: How do you get the fine-grained control to stop real data loss without getting in the way of employee productivity? more →
Sophos, Friday, September 11th, 2026
"Eye" Spy: Cyclops Blink Returns With Extended Capabilities
Upgraded modular malware observed attacking Cisco Firewall Management Center devices. more →
Outlook for Data Security: Going From Reactive to Resilient
In this complimentary Gartner webinar, Gartner experts will explore the evolution to data-centric security, the role of AI-driven adaptive controls and the importance of aligning incident response with business continuity. more →
Ubuntu, Friday, September 11th, 2026
Cut Bloat, Not Features
Chisel-built minimal OCI images keep package metadata so CVE scanning still works after trimming. more →
Ubuntu, Tuesday, September 8th, 2026
Ubuntu Now Certified on Qualcomm Dragonwing IQ-8275
Certified Ubuntu 24.04 LTS images for an industrial edge platform offering up to 40 TOPS of AI performance. more →
Ubuntu, Tuesday, September 8th, 2026
Grace on the Currents: Stonking Stingray
Ubuntu 26.10 gets its codename and mascot, with community wallpaper competition winners. more →
SASE Pivot and Trends 2026: A Gartner Keynote
Charanpal Bhogal, Senior Director Analyst at Gartner, examines how SASE must expand to protect human and nonhuman identities, govern AI usage, secure agentic interactions and deliver flexible, sovereign security as data residency demands grow. He also breaks down the disruptions redefining the SASE market and what comes next. more →
