CIO Influence, Thursday, July 30th, 2026
AI Control Plane: Why CIOs Need One Layer to Govern Models, Tools and Agents
CIOs need unified AI control planes to govern models, tools, and agents across enterprise deployments. more →
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Friday’s Briefing · August 7
The Space Between Sales Calls Is Where Deals Are Won
Every enterprise IT sales professional knows the rhythm of a deal. There's the discovery call, the demo, the proposal, the negotiation — a handful of high-stakes conversations spread across weeks or months. We prepare obsessively for those moments. We rehearse objection handling, tune our slides, and study the org chart. And then, between those moments, we go quiet. more →
You've Been Heard, Wednesday, July 29th, 2026
443 - Learn the Business. Earn the Influence w/ Andrew Schutsky (37:29)
CIO Andrew Schutsky shares how learning business fundamentals and building relationships drives IT leadership influence. more →
You've Been Heard, Tuesday, July 28th, 2026
442 - Listen, Understand, Execute: The IT Leadership Edge w/ Farhan Zakir (45:04)
IT leader Farhan Zakir shares how understanding business operations and mastering communication drives IT leadership success. more →
SC Media, Friday, July 31st, 2026
Rogue AI, the Bar, Breaches, BMC, Hugging Face, Helmuth von Multke, Ike, Shieldfont - SWN #603
Security Weekly News covers OpenAI losing control of two models during an evaluation and 24,000 exposed BMCs leaking credentials. more →
SC Media, Tuesday, July 28th, 2026
Deep Fakes, Molten Salt, PLCs, Checkpoint, Hugging Face, CentOS, Josh Marpet and More - SWN #602
Security Weekly News segment covering deep fakes, molten salt, PLCs, Check Point, Hugging Face and CentOS with Josh Marpet. more →
SC Media, Tuesday, July 28th, 2026
Exploring AI Network Protocols; Vulnerability Truths and Guarantees; and the News - O'Shea Bowens, Jeremiah Grossman - ESW #469
Enterprise Security Weekly explores AI network protocols with O'Shea Bowens and questions the AI vulnerability-discovery hype with Jeremiah Grossman. more →
CXOTalk, Friday, July 31st, 2026
Why AI Pilots Stall: How to Make Enterprise AI Work
Most AI pilots never reach production, and the ones that do rarely scale. AI strategist Nate B. Jones explains why pilots stall and what the companies that succeed do differently. more →
DevOps.com, Tuesday, July 28th, 2026
DevOps Is Drowning in Updates-and Engineering Is Paying the Price
DevOps teams struggle with information overload; structured weekly reviews help prioritize critical updates from noise. more →
DevOps.com, Wednesday, July 29th, 2026
AI Code Generation Raises New Quality Risks
AI-driven code generation accelerates productivity but introduces technical debt, security gaps, and quality issues. more →
DevOps.com, Tuesday, July 28th, 2026
Adoption and Fragmentation of AI in CI/CD-and Operational Readiness
AI adoption in CI/CD pipelines is growing, but most enterprises lack operational readiness and face integration challenges. more →
The Warmest Cold Open in Sales
Cold outreach fails because the recipient has no reason to believe you're worth their time, and no amount of subject-line optimization fixes a missing relationship. The durable answer is to stop being cold: "you may have seen my weekly newsletter" reframes you from stranger to known quantity, even for prospects who never read an issue. A visible, ongoing body of work answers the buyer's instinctive credibility check before you've said anything. Because the newsletter reaches your whole network continuously, that warming is ambient rather than engineered one prospect at a time. more →
TechTarget, Monday, July 27th, 2026
The Quantum Technologies That Will Transform Enterprise IT
Quantum advances enable practical business applications in sensors, security, ML, and simulations as 52% of companies invest $5M+ annually. more →
TechRadar Pro, Thursday, July 30th, 2026
How Silicon Photonics Lights the Way for Data Centers
The semiconductor industry must scale silicon photonics production to keep pace with AI data center demand. more →
Techstrong IT, Wednesday, July 29th, 2026
Scality ADI: A Storage Operating Model Built for the Messy Middle of the AI Era
Scality introduces the ADI platform to unify diverse AI storage demands under a single namespace with autonomous management. more →
Techstrong IT, Tuesday, July 28th, 2026
From Alert to Action: How Selector Is Quietly Rewriting the Network Observability Playbook
Selector uses AI-native observability architecture to address hybrid network monitoring without traditional alert-heavy approaches. more →
Techstrong IT, Thursday, July 30th, 2026
Survey: Enterprise IT Shifts Off Premises as AI Reshapes Data Centers
Third-party data centers now host more enterprise workloads than corporate facilities for the first time, driven by AI capacity demands. more →
Techstrong IT, Monday, July 27th, 2026
How Do You Kill a Parasite?
Publishers must coordinate to demand fair treatment from Google's AI-driven search, which uses their content without adequate compensation. more →
Techstrong IT, Monday, July 27th, 2026
Navigating AI Infrastructure Incidents: Bridging the Critical Gap Between Detection and Response
AI systems require intelligent incident response automation to bridge the gap between detecting failures and mobilizing engineers. more →
ADR vs. EDR: Why EDR Isn't Enough in the AI Era
Join Raven CEO and Co-Founder Roi Abitboul, Chief Research Officer and Co-Founder Omer Yair, and Futurum's Fernando Montenegro for a practical discussion on ADR vs. EDR. more →
Data Center Knowledge, Friday, July 31st, 2026
AI Drives Data Center Uncertainty in Uptime's 2026 Survey
Uptime’s 2026 survey shows AI raising costs and density while narrowing management focus, as operators hedge with phased builds and struggle to forecast capacity. more →
Dark Reading, Friday, July 31st, 2026
CISA Issues Fresh SBOM Guidance. Did They Get It Right?
CISA and 16 partner agencies expand SBOM minimum elements, but critics say the framework lacks real risk-management improvements. more →
MojoAuth Blog, Tuesday, July 28th, 2026
The Silent Killer: Monitoring Failed Auth Attempts Across Your Stack
Organizations must monitor failed authentication attempts to detect attacks, resolve configuration issues, and meet compliance requirements. more →
The Six five Summit - AI UNLEASHED: 2026
The Six Five Summit: AI Unleashed 2026 delivers 3 days of exclusive, on-demand programming built for leaders ready to move beyond AI experimentation and into real deployment. more →
Computer Weekly, Friday, July 31st, 2026
Offshore Support Staff Don't Fear Artificial Intelligence
Only about 7% of offshore business support workers fear AI will harm their roles; most see it as a productivity tool. more →
Vertiv's AI Roadshow - Powering AI Leadership - Calgary, AB
Join us at the Vertiv AI Roadshow to discover cutting-edge infrastructure solutions designed to power and cool next-generation AI workloads. Connect with industry experts and explore high-density power and thermal management strategies that will future-proof your data center. more →
TechnologyAdvice, Tuesday, July 28th, 2026
Best AI Tools for Social Media in 2026
Sprout Social ranks best overall among AI social media tools compared on content, publishing, listening, engagement, and analytics. more →
TechnologyAdvice, Monday, July 27th, 2026
AI in Digital Marketing: Ultimate Guide for 2026
Guide to using AI for content creation, personalization, segmentation, automation, and campaign analysis in digital marketing. more →
Akamai Technologies, Tuesday, July 28th, 2026
How Partners Can Defend the Network and Ease AI Anxiety
Akamai positions Guardicore Segmentation as the answer partners can give customers worried about machine-speed exploits. more →
Akamai Technologies, Tuesday, July 28th, 2026
Solve Multi-CDN Entitlement Drift With Edge Functions Without Losing Viewers
Akamai shows how edge functions keep entitlement decisions consistent across multiple CDNs in video delivery. more →
Akamai Technologies, Thursday, July 30th, 2026
Thinking Outside the Black Box: Defenders Need Open Source AI
Akamai argues open source AI is essential for cybersecurity as it joins the Open Secure AI Alliance. more →
Akamai Technologies, Thursday, July 30th, 2026
API Security for Government Services: Protecting Citizen-Facing Applications
Akamai examines the API attack surface behind citizen-facing government applications and how to reduce it. more →
Akamai Technologies, Friday, July 31st, 2026
Operationalizing Offensive AI: An Open Framework for Modern Security
Akamai proposes an open framework for putting offensive AI capabilities to work inside security programs. more →
Everyone Shows Up to Pitch. Almost No One Shows Up to Help
Reps like to differentiate on product, but buyers rarely experience that differentiation - features blur, and every platform claims to be AI-powered and enterprise-grade. What buyers remember is behavior: who was useful when there was nothing in it for them. In a market where every rep appears only to extract, consistently showing up to contribute is a contrast play that captures disproportionate attention. It stays effective precisely because it's rare - anyone can publish once, almost nobody publishes usefully every week for a year. more →
Anysphere, Tuesday, July 28th, 2026
Introducing Cursor Start
Anysphere launches Cursor Start, a program aimed at developers in India. more →
Anysphere, Thursday, July 30th, 2026
How We Set Up Our Cloud Agent Environment
Anysphere details the sandbox, tooling, and environment design behind Cursor's cloud agents. more →
Cisco, Monday, July 27th, 2026
Assuming Failure: The Mindset Shift That Actually Improves Your Defensive Outcomes
Cisco argues that designing on the assumption controls will fail produces stronger resilience than optimizing prevention. more →
Cisco, Tuesday, July 28th, 2026
A High-IQ Network Is Not a Smart Network. Here Is What Is Missing
Cisco explains how the emerging A2A standard lets independent network AI agents coordinate alongside MCP. more →
Cisco, Wednesday, July 29th, 2026
Navigating AI Tokenomics: From Cost Uncertainty to Operational Scale
Cisco frames enterprise AI cost management as an observability discipline rather than a procurement negotiation. more →
Cisco, Thursday, July 30th, 2026
AI Supply Chain Provenance Explorer for Responsible AI Governance
Cisco introduces tooling to answer what is actually inside an open model before it enters your environment. more →
Cisco, Thursday, July 30th, 2026
Outdoor Wi-Fi Finally Means Business
Cisco's Wireless 9177 Series brings Wi-Fi 7 and URWB to rugged outdoor and mission-critical environments. more →
Cisco, Friday, July 31st, 2026
The Zero Trust Imperative for the Frontier AI Era
Cisco applies Zero Trust principles to agentic AI risk and frontier model threats. more →
Commvault, Monday, July 27th, 2026
What OpenAI's Hugging Face Security Incident Means for Cyber Resilience
Commvault draws recovery lessons from an AI evaluation that became a real compromise of Hugging Face infrastructure. more →
Commvault, Monday, July 27th, 2026
Sysdig Calls JadePuffer the First Documented Agentic Ransomware Attack. Here Is What It Means for Recovery
Commvault assesses recovery implications of JadePuffer, where an AI agent chained known vulnerabilities into an extortion campaign. more →
Commvault, Monday, July 27th, 2026
The Anatomy of a CVE: How Commvault Protects Its Customers
Commvault explains its vulnerability handling process from CVE assignment through customer notification. more →
Commvault, Wednesday, July 29th, 2026
The Evolution of the Resilience Engineer: How Commvault Is Redefining the Backup Administrator Experience
Commvault argues AI is shifting the backup administrator role from managing infrastructure to delivering resilience outcomes. more →
Databricks, Wednesday, July 29th, 2026
Agents for Production Lines: Trusted Decisions in Real Time
Databricks shows how manufacturing agents make trusted real-time decisions when a production line fails mid-shift. more →
Databricks, Wednesday, July 29th, 2026
Bringing Real-Time Fraud Prevention to Government Benefits
Databricks describes real-time fraud prevention for federal benefits programs losing money to improper payments. more →
Databricks, Thursday, July 30th, 2026
Convert Proprietary Code to Open ANSI SQL With Genie Code
Databricks introduces Genie Code to translate proprietary warehouse dialects into open ANSI SQL during migration. more →
Automate, Secure and Govern Agentic Workflows
In this session, JFrog shows you how to take full control of your agents by giving them the context, control, and governance they need to act securely without slowing them down. more →
DDN, Wednesday, July 29th, 2026
Synthesizing Golden Traces for Realistic KV Cache Evaluation in Agentic Inference Workloads
DDN shows why synthetic benchmarks misrepresent KV cache behaviour and how to build realistic traces. more →
StorageNewsletter, Thursday, July 30th, 2026
Advancing AI for National Security: NVIDIA, DDN, and the Naval Postgraduate School Collaborate to Prepare Tomorrow's AI Leaders
NVIDIA, DDN, and the Naval Postgraduate School open an AI Technology Center to train military officers on frontier AI systems. more →
F5, Thursday, July 30th, 2026
Chinese Open-Weight AI Models: Cybersecurity Risks and Rewards
F5 Labs finds month-to-month variation in the security posture of Chinese open-weight models. more →
Signal vs Noise: A comparison of AI Code Review Tools
This session takes a data-driven look at what actually works. We'll share head-to-head results from independent testing of five leading AI code review tools across 60 real bugs and six languages, and show why both precision and critical bug detection matter. more →
AIwire, Friday, July 31st, 2026
NVIDIA: Industry Leaders Unite in Open Secure AI Alliance for AI Safety and Security
NVIDIA and dozens of founding partners launch the Open Secure AI Alliance to build shared open tools for cyber defense. more →
M-Trends 2026: The Cascading Impact of Third-Party SaaS, Cloud, and Software Compromises
In the latest installment of the M-Trends Virtual Series, Mandiant teams up with Wiz to tackle the technical realities of defending a decentralized cloud architecture more →
OpenAI, Monday, July 27th, 2026
How AI Is Expanding What People Do at Work
OpenAI research finds ChatGPT users taking on tasks outside their formal roles, reshaping job boundaries. more →
OpenAI, Tuesday, July 28th, 2026
Scientific Computing in the Age of Agentic AI
A field report shows scientists using AI coding agents to modernize legacy scientific computing codebases. more →
OpenAI, Wednesday, July 29th, 2026
How GPT-5.6 Fuses Frontier Intelligence With Frontier Efficiency
OpenAI explains how GPT-5.6 delivers more useful intelligence per dollar across models and inference. more →
OpenAI, Wednesday, July 29th, 2026
How Enabling Two Settings Tripled Our Scores on the ARC-AGI-3 Benchmark
OpenAI shows that retaining reasoning and enabling compaction tripled GPT-5.6 performance on ARC-AGI-3. more →
OpenAI, Wednesday, July 29th, 2026
Accelerating Scientific Discovery With ChatGPT for Academic Researchers
OpenAI gives 100,000 academic researchers free access to its most advanced models. more →
OpenAI, Thursday, July 30th, 2026
Advancing the Price-Performance Frontier With GPT-5.6
OpenAI cuts GPT-5.6 Luna and Terra pricing to make large-scale enterprise AI workflows viable. more →
Rubrik, Tuesday, July 28th, 2026
Before the Incident: Building Your M365 Minimum Viable Business Plan
Rubrik sets out the peacetime planning that decides what gets recovered first when Microsoft 365 goes down. more →
Rubrik, Thursday, July 30th, 2026
Modernize Your Hypervisors, Not Your Attack Surface
Rubrik argues hypervisor diversification delivers backup coverage without visibility into what is inside the protected workloads. more →
SentinelOne, Friday, July 31st, 2026
The Good, the Bad and the Ugly in Cybersecurity, Week 31
SentinelOne's weekly roundup covers a 4,000-URL takedown against The Com and AI models reaching real systems. more →
Ask a Lawyer: Law, AI, and Cyber Defense in 2026
In an age defined by rapid technological advancements, legal landscapes are continually evolving to address new challenges in the cybersecurity realm. Understanding the intersection of law, cybersecurity, and privacy has never been more critical. In this thought-provoking panel, legal experts will shed light on the emerging legal trends and issues that individuals, businesses, and organizations will face in the near future. more →
UiPath, Tuesday, July 28th, 2026
The Dark Testing Factory: How Testing Moves From Manual Effort to Governed Autonomy at Scale
UiPath describes an operating model where quality engineering scales testing through governed autonomy. more →
Let Me Show You Something: Developer Meetup
Let Me Show You Something (LMSYS) is a fast-paced, community-driven developer meetup in South Florida! more →
Vertiv, Monday, July 27th, 2026
Vertiv Infrastructure Helps Bring NVIDIA AI Computing Capability to the Naval Postgraduate School
Vertiv deployed a complete, liquid-cooled infrastructure system at the Naval Postgraduate School to power and cool their new NVIDIA DGX GB300 AI setup for research, education, and digital engineering. more →
Vertiv, Monday, July 27th, 2026
Vertiv Launches Vertiv PurgeRite NearZero service
Vertiv has launched its patent-pending Vertiv PurgeRite NearZero service, which combines engineered mechanical flushing, water treatment, reverse osmosis, and continuous water-quality monitoring to recycle water and reduce environmental impact during the commissioning of closed-loop hydronic systems in North American data centers. more →