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Volume 343, Issue 4 · 2026-10-26 – 2026-11-01 · Popular → · Newsletters (LinkedIn, Substack)

Monday’s Briefing · November 2

CIO, Thursday, October 29th, 2026

When Your AI Vendor Goes Belly Up

CIO advises IT leaders to plan for AI vendors failing or being acquired through data ownership, exit terms and fallback models. more →

When Your AI Vendor Goes Belly Up

Upcoming Event · Wed, Nov 4 · 10:00am

Gartner Theme: The AI Value Gap Is Really an AI Risk Gap: Protecting Value at Scale

Join Gartner analyst Rita Sallam to examine the risks that emerge as AI moves from experimentation to enterprise adoption. Learn how leading organizations are approaching continuous value protection through automated governance, cost optimization and context-driven AI design to close the gap between AI ambition and measurable business value. more →

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Gartner Theme: The AI Value Gap Is Really an AI Risk Gap: Protecting Value at Scale (Nov. 4th)

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 →

Recovery Starts With Visibility

Commvault, Friday, October 30th, 2026

Hack or Hype with Joseph Menn

Commvault's Ready. Or Not. podcast episode with journalist Joseph Menn discusses separating real AI cybersecurity risks from hype. more →

Hack or Hype with Joseph Menn

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 →

The Shadow AI Governance Gap

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 →

7 Free Google Courses and Certifications

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 →

Introducing GPT-6.1 Terra

Oxide Computer, Thursday, October 29th, 2026

Running Self-Hosted AI Agents

Oxide explains running self-hosted AI agents on its Cloud Computer by running the orchestrator in a VM that creates ephemeral VMs per agent session. more →

Running Self-Hosted AI Agents

CIO, Thursday, October 29th, 2026

Scaling agentic AI with confidence

CIO.com piece sponsored by SailPoint says identity governance can give CIOs the evidence that AI agents acted within policy as agentic AI scales. more →

Scaling agentic AI with confidence

SAP, Monday, October 26th, 2026

AI Release Highlights Q3 2026

SAP rounds up its Q3 2026 AI releases, including Joule Work, Joule Studio, new agents, and generative AI hub models. more →

AI Release Highlights Q3 2026

Upcoming Event · Mon, Nov 23 · 3:00pm

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 →

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Agentic Runtime Security on AWS: Identity, Least Privilege, and Audit for AI Agents with IBM Verify Identity Access and HashiCorp Vault (Nov. 23rd)