OpenAI, Thursday, October 29th, 2026
An Updated Model Spec for More Capable and Beneficial AI
OpenAI reorganizes its Model Spec around five core values, adds guidance on context and human agency, and retires most style rules. more → · 81 clicks
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OpenAI, Thursday, October 29th, 2026
Credit Saison Achieves 954% ROI in a ChatGPT Enterprise Pilot
Japanese card issuer Credit Saison reports 954% ROI from a 315-person ChatGPT Enterprise pilot, then rolled it out companywide. more → · 74 clicks
OpenAI, Monday, October 26th, 2026
How Ultrafast Cut Incident Investigation From Hours to Minutes at OpenAI
Ultrafast is a high-speed mode in Codex, and for engineers at OpenAI, it's become the default for incident response. more → · 71 clicks
OpenAI, Monday, October 26th, 2026
Introducing GPT-6.1 Terra
Introducing GPT-6.1 Terra, a fast, efficient model that combines detailed visual reasoning and precise computer use alongside clearer, more natural writing. more → · 69 clicks
OpenAI, Thursday, October 29th, 2026
How Ropes & Gray Is Developing AI for Transactional Diligence
Law firm Ropes & Gray is building a transactional diligence AI tool with OpenAI that takes a first pass through deal data rooms. more → · 68 clicks
The CIO Adoption Journey for Physical AI Solutions
Gartner's Tsuneo Fujiwara guides CIOs through adopting physical AI, from picking use cases and running pilots to scaling deployments. more →
Cisco, Monday, October 26th, 2026
Cisco Rethinks Privileged Infrastructure Access
Cisco introduces Privileged Infrastructure Access, using identity-bound, short-lived privileges for admins and AI agents on networks. more → · 76 clicks
Cisco, Wednesday, October 28th, 2026
Defenders Need More Time to Patch with the Influx of Patching Hitting Operations
Cisco pitches Live Protect and Snort-based virtual patching on Secure Firewall to reduce exposure while critical patches are applied. more → · 76 clicks
Cisco, Wednesday, October 28th, 2026
A Shared Language for Agent Defense: Introducing Project Quarry
Cisco open sources Project Quarry, a detection language for describing and finding multi-step attacks against AI agents across full session traces. more → · 71 clicks
Cisco, Wednesday, October 28th, 2026
Cisco IT's Endpoint Observability Strategy: Right-Sized Telemetry for Splunk Observability Cloud
Cisco IT cut endpoint telemetry volume by 75% using a right-sized observability approach in Splunk Observability Cloud. more → · 69 clicks
Cisco, Monday, October 26th, 2026
Introducing Cisco Model Foundry: Bringing AI to Our Partners
Cisco unveils Model Foundry at Partner Summit, letting partners use and fine-tune Cisco's networking and security AI models. more → · 68 clicks
The Autonomous SDLC: Moving from Point Tools to a Unified DevSecOps Platform
This session will explore how organizations transition to a unified platform approach to build the foundation for the Autonomous SDLC, replacing manual approval gates with intelligent, automated guardrails. more →
Cyera, Tuesday, October 27th, 2026
A Guide to Data Leak Prevention in 2026
Cyera guide to data leak prevention in 2026 argues data classification must come before DLP rules, especially with AI agents. more → · 83 clicks
Cyera, Thursday, October 29th, 2026
Patient Data Visibility: The Cost of Blind Spots
Cyera argues hospitals should locate and clean up patient data to cut storage costs, meet HIPAA audits, and control access by people and AI. more → · 71 clicks
Cyera, Tuesday, October 27th, 2026
The Shadow AI Governance Gap
Cyera says the shadow AI governance gap is a definition problem spanning five AI types that no single tool can see. more → · 68 clicks
Cyera, Thursday, October 29th, 2026
Your Legal Team Ships Software Now. Are You Ready?
Cyera says domain experts now build software with AI, and organizations should give them a secure path rather than ban them. more → · 68 clicks
The New Stack, Thursday, October 29th, 2026
Why MCP Servers Should Tell Agents What to Do Next
AWS's James Ward says MCP servers should guide agents on next steps and carry session IDs so teams can trace and improve agent journeys. more → · 225 clicks
Platform Engineering Meets AI: The New Developer Experience
Techstrong Learning webinar on how AI is reshaping platform engineering, internal developer platforms, and developer experience. more →
SentinelOne, Wednesday, October 28th, 2026
LABScon26 Replay - Keynote: A Sober Analysis of AI Impact
SentinelOne posts the LABScon26 keynote in which Harvard's James Mickens questions AI investment and proposes hardware isolation for frontier models. more → · 87 clicks
SentinelOne, Friday, October 30th, 2026
The Good, the Bad and the Ugly in Cybersecurity - Week 44 (2026)
SentinelOne's Week 44 roundup covers PHP2Shell exploitation, other vulnerabilities, a LiteLLM supply chain attack and law enforcement actions. more → · 68 clicks
Arm, Monday, October 26th, 2026
Agentic AI Explained: How Agentic AI Changes Computing From Cloud to Edge
Arm argues agentic AI is a system-level challenge requiring coordinated memory, software, and compute from cloud to edge devices. more → · 73 clicks
Arm, Friday, October 30th, 2026
From AI Models to Deployment: Five Developer Takeaways Shaping the Future of AI
Arm lists five developer takeaways from fall 2026 AI events, from model optimization and agentic AI to deployment across cloud and edge. more → · 73 clicks
Google, Wednesday, October 28th, 2026
Gemini 4 Carbon: Our Next Frontier Model
Google announced Gemini 4 Carbon, ranked #1 on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index v5.0 with strong cybersecurity benchmark results. more → · 69 clicks
Analytics Insight, Wednesday, October 28th, 2026
7 Free Google Courses and Certifications
Analytics Insight lists seven free Google courses and certifications covering analytics, ads, generative AI, cloud, education and development. more → · 68 clicks
Analytics Insight, Monday, October 26th, 2026
Claude Haiku 5.5: New Features, Pricing and Efficient AI Workflows
Anthropic's Claude Haiku 5.5 adds a one million token context, adjustable effort levels and lower pricing than Haiku 4.5. more → · 84 clicks
The Future of Cloud in 2031: Harnessing the Combination of AI and Cloud
Gartner's David Mitchell Smith looks at how the convergence of AI and cloud will shape technology strategy through 2031. more →
Microsoft, Wednesday, October 28th, 2026
Introducing the Microsoft Copilot Harness in Foundry Agent Service
Microsoft puts the Copilot harness in public preview in Foundry Agent Service and makes long-running resilience for hosted agents GA. more → · 73 clicks
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 →
Commvault, Tuesday, October 27th, 2026
Recovery Starts With Visibility
Commvault's ResOps series explains why recovery depends on visibility into critical services, impact tolerances and dependencies. more → · 72 clicks
The Shift From SDLC To ADLC: How The Human Role Is Changing In Software Development
As AI agents take on more of the build, test, and deploy work in software development, the developer's job changes from authoring code to specifying intent, setting constraints, and reviewing outcomes. more →
Tierpoint, Wednesday, October 28th, 2026
How to Manage Third-Party Security Risks in Your Ecosystem
Tierpoint outlines how to assess, contract for and continuously monitor vendors, citing Verizon DBIR data that third parties are in 48% of breaches. more → · 72 clicks
AI Security: Machine-Speed Threats, Multi-Layered Defense
In this webinar, two experts break down both sides: what these AI-driven threats mean, and how to defend against them. You'll learn a practical framework spanning platform foundations, patching at scale, hardening and virtual patching, lateral security with microsegmentation, and recovery - so your organization is ready before an incident, not during one. more →
The New Stack, Monday, October 26th, 2026
The Sandbox Wasn't Enough: Why AI Agent Governance Requires Runtime Observability
A ClickHouse-sponsored New Stack piece argues AI agent sandboxes need runtime observability that can detect and stop agents before harm spreads. more → · 68 clicks
Plug & Play: Live AI Workflows in Action Q4
Forget static demos and slide decks. Plug & Play Sessions are all about showing, not telling. In this hands-on webinar series, you'll see tech leaders walk through their AI product in real time, highlighting exactly how it works in the wild: setup, workflows, integrations more →
Databricks, Monday, October 26th, 2026
Building Live Intelligence: Databricks AI Search Supports Streaming Tables, Materialized Views, and Managed Tables Using Iceberg
Databricks AI Search now natively indexes Streaming Tables, Materialized Views and Managed Iceberg tables alongside Delta. more → · 68 clicks
You Merged It. Did It Work? Shipping Safe Software at AI Speed
In this session, Diamond and Mike show how Datadog validates every change from pull request to production with automated release agents, intelligent PR reviewers, and more. Learn how you can start to build a self-driving software factory of your own by leveraging these building blocks. more →
F5, Tuesday, October 27th, 2026
Security Culture Is a Team Sport, and AI Is Raising the Stakes
F5 CISO Christopher Burger says security culture depends on engaged people and that AI is compressing the time to identify risks. more → · 68 clicks
Unlocking AI Value at Scale: Tokenomics, Edge Inference and Strategic Partnerships
AI is shifting from training to inference, and two pressures now define the business: the end-user experience and the return on investment. more →
Fortinet, Thursday, October 29th, 2026
Extending SASE Sovereignty Beyond Data to Management
Fortinet says FortiSASE Sovereign now adds on-premises management so organizations can control where and how SASE security is operated. more → · 68 clicks
What Every Enterprise Should Know About Securing Cloud Assets in the Age of AI
In this free, full-day virtual event entitled What Every Enterprise Should Know About Securing Cloud Assets in the Age of AI, you'll learn about the emerging threats and vulnerabilities in the cloud today, and how to ensure you have a comprehensive view and insight into your cloud infrastructure. more →
CIO, Thursday, October 29th, 2026
The AI trust deficit: Why explainability, not more automation, is the CIO's next priority
CIO.com says CIOs must be able to prove AI agents act within policy, using audit-ready context on ownership, access and governing policies. more → · 68 clicks
7 AI Themes Every C-Suite Leader Needs to Know
Gartner's Mary Mesaglio presents the seven strategic AI themes every C-suite leader needs to understand and act on in the next year. more →
