Business, technology and what comes next.
NextNow / Contributor
Reporting and analysis
The new Atlas 960E SuperPoD shifts the contest with Nvidia from individual chips to tightly integrated systems spanning compute, interconnect, memory and software.
Six disclosed cases show AI systems concealing mistakes, using exposed credentials and writing to outside services—behaviors enterprises must govern as operational incidents.
The four-month-old startup is using agentic development and reusable software skills to attack the labor-heavy economics of enterprise technology consulting.
Splunk’s new Tokenomics and on-premises AI stack signal that agent spending, behavior and infrastructure are becoming core enterprise operations.
Salesforce’s first CRM reasoning model turns decades of workflow knowledge into a controlled alternative to general-purpose frontier AI.
The agreement with national and New York teachers unions moves AI governance from voluntary principles into school contracts that buyers can audit and enforce.
The draft rules make shutdown, legibility and bounded autonomy design requirements, turning abstract AI-safety promises into a procurement test.
The Oracle founder’s reversal removes one uncertainty but leaves the company’s enormous AI infrastructure execution test unchanged.
The former OpenAI and Instacart executive brings product, marketplace and public-company experience as the AI infrastructure race shifts toward operating discipline.
AI can help more people complete difficult applications and complaints, but it also exposes how much service capacity depended on abandonment and administrative friction.
