CIO, Friday, September 4th, 2026
What JPMorgan Does Differently With AI That Any Company Can Apply
JPMorgan's AI edge is method, not budget: voluntary adoption, randomized control groups, and outcome-level measurement. more →
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Tuesday’s Briefing · September 8
CIO, Monday, August 31st, 2026
Bedrock, Vertex Or Build It Yourself: The AI Infrastructure Decision Most CIOs Get Backwards
Argues CIOs should treat AI compute as a swappable utility and build vendor-neutral gateways rather than lock in long-term. more →
CIO, Thursday, September 3rd, 2026
When AI's Human In The Loop Really Isn't
Many enterprise human-in-the-loop AI controls are performative, lacking real domain knowledge, authority, or override capability. more →
CIO, Wednesday, September 2nd, 2026
The Agent Didn't Leak Anything. It Just Figured Something Out
Agent permissions can't stop dangerous inferences synthesized from separately authorized data sources. more →
CIO, Thursday, September 3rd, 2026
The Missing Evidence Chain In AI Adoption
A four-layer evidence framework separates real AI adoption from training completions and tool logins. more →
CIO Dive, Thursday, September 3rd, 2026
Even With Careful Investment, AI Is Set To Boost IT Costs
Bain projects AI could raise a large enterprise's annual IT costs by 75% by 2035. more →
Cloud Security Alliance, Friday, September 4th, 2026
2026 Cloud Security Index: How Risk Differs Across AWS, Azure, And Google Cloud
Misconfiguration patterns barely overlap across the three major clouds, fragmenting how security teams understand risk. more →
Analytics Insight, Thursday, September 3rd, 2026
Cloud In 2027 Will Center On AI Infrastructure, Agentic Ops, Edge, Serverless, Zero Trust, Sovereignty And Sustainability
Top Cloud Technology Trends to Watch in 2027 more →
SC Media, Monday, August 31st, 2026
Life as a CISO in Hollywood: Keeping New Films Leak-Free & 4 Black Hat Interviews - Dan Meacham, John Hultquist, Ronan Murphy, Ellen Boehm, Frank Vukovits - ESW #474
Life as a CISO in Hollywood: Keeping New Films Leak-Free & 4 Black Hat Interviews - ESW #474 more →
SC Media, Thursday, September 3rd, 2026
Podcast Covering Linux Threat Hunting Techniques And Major Security Vulnerabilities Affecting Infrastructure
Linux Threat Hunting - PSW #942 more →
YouTube (Michael Burtov), Wednesday, September 2nd, 2026
A Talk On How Outrage Is Converted Into Attention, Donations, Purchases, Votes And Organizational Change
The Rage Economy: How Anger Is a Business Model more →
You've Been Heard, Tuesday, September 1st, 2026
Healthcare AI Needs A Reality Check W/Mikkel Finsen #450
IT leader Mikkel Finsen discusses rebuilding core technology systems at Open Door Family Medical Center, emphasizing that healthcare organizations must prioritize simplified infrastructure, business resilience, and strict governance over market hype when implementing AI. more →
You've Been Heard, Wednesday, September 2nd, 2026
Your Value Is Bigger Than Your Code W/Peter Vardaro #451
Tech executive Peter Vardaro shares how transitioning from biomedical equipment repair to IT leadership shaped his philosophy that true developer value lies in solving scalable business problems and saving organizational time rather than just writing code. more →
Securing the Autonomous Enterprise: Discover, Govern, and Protect Non-Human Identities
This technical briefing breaks down how to operationalize a unified security architecture to establish clarity and control over your autonomous ecosystem. more →
DevOps.com, Monday, August 31st, 2026
Network Engineering Is Shifting From Manual Configuration To Managing AI Agents As The Primary Operating Model
From Operator to Agent Manager: The Real Shift in Network Engineering more →
DevOps.com, Thursday, September 3rd, 2026
AI Accelerates Coding But Shifts The Bottleneck To Planning, Governance, Deployment And Operations
From the Horse's Mouth: Anthropic Says AI Has Changed the SDLC more →
DevOps.com, Wednesday, September 2nd, 2026
GitOps In 2026: Why Pull Requests Are Taking Over Cloud Operations
The pull request has become the control point for infrastructure change across Kubernetes and cloud services. more →
DevOps.com, Thursday, September 3rd, 2026
Modern Observability Connects Telemetry Across Systems So Engineers Can Understand Why Failures Occur, Not Just Detect Them
Observability 2.0: Why DevOps Teams Are Moving From Monitoring to Intelligent System Understanding more →
DevOps.com, Friday, September 4th, 2026
Observability's Gaslighting Problem: 'Send Less Data' Isn't A Strategy
Cutting telemetry to cut cost strips out the exact signals you need for rare failures and AI-written code. more →
DevOps.com, Tuesday, September 1st, 2026
ActiveState Pitches AI-Ready Trusted Catalogs That Vet Open Source Components Before Use, Not After Deployment
Trusted Open Source Catalogs for AI and Developers more →
Techstrong.ai, Thursday, September 3rd, 2026
Approved AI Coding Platforms Create New Risk Through Unreviewed MCP Connections And Fast-But-Insecure Code
How AI Coding Tools Are Changing the Rules of Shadow IT 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 →
Analytics Insight, Thursday, September 3rd, 2026
AI Analytics Platforms Evolve From Assisted Dashboards To Autonomous Agents, With Governance Determining Real Enterprise Value
Best AI-Powered Analytics Tools in 2026 more →
AI-augmented code modernization: from framework migrations to autonomous agents
What it takes to modernize a large repository portfolio with AI agents, and what that actually costs to run. more →
Network World, Friday, September 4th, 2026
AI Data Boom Gives Tape Storage A New Lease On Life
Tape capacity shipments jumped 57% year over year in Q1 2026 as AI data volumes revive the medium. more →
StorageReview, Wednesday, September 2nd, 2026
LTO Tape Shipments Jump 57% Year Over Year In Q1 2026 On LTO-10 40TB Rollout And Archival Demand
LTO Tape Shipments Up 57% in Q1 2026 as AI and Archive Demand Accelerate more →
CIO, Friday, September 4th, 2026
65% Of Employees Would Love To Roll Back Workplace AI
Survey finds AI fatigue among knowledge workers is a change-management failure, not a technology one. more →
CIO, Friday, September 4th, 2026
Why Technically Strong Leaders Still Aren't CIO-Ready
Self-assessment data shows rising IT leaders are strong technically but weak on influence and relationships. more →
Akamai Technologies, Monday, August 31st, 2026
Streamlining Application and API Discovery and Governance
Akamai adds Unified Asset Inventory and a CISO Dashboard to its Application Protection Platform for app and API coverage gaps. more →
Akamai Technologies, Wednesday, September 2nd, 2026
Your DNS Is Hiding in HTTPS - This Is Why It Matters
Unmanaged DNS over HTTPS hides queries inside port 443 traffic, and Akamai argues for controlled enterprise resolvers instead of blocking. more →
Akamai Technologies, Thursday, September 3rd, 2026
Introducing More Granular Controls for AI Bot Traffic
Akamai splits AI bot traffic into training crawlers, search crawlers and fetchers so sites can allow or block each type. more →
Akamai Technologies, Thursday, September 3rd, 2026
Analyzing a Go-Based IoT Self-Propagating DDoS Botnet
Akamai researchers dissect a Go-written IoT botnet that self-propagates by scanning IPv4 for exposed routers and Langflow servers. more →
AMD, Thursday, September 3rd, 2026
Enabling DeepSeek-V4-Flash Training on AMD Instinct MI355X GPUs With Primus
AMD details how its Primus framework trains DeepSeek-V4-Flash, a 284B-parameter MoE model, on Instinct MI355X GPUs. 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 →
Cloudflare, Monday, August 31st, 2026
Introducing Adaptive Intelligence: Undermining the Economics of Every Bot Attack
Cloudflare's Adaptive Intelligence engine learns from live traffic and deploys disposable rules to make automated attacks uneconomic. more →
Cloudflare, Tuesday, September 1st, 2026
How We Could Save Petabytes of Cache Storage With Zstandard and Pingora
Cloudflare prototyped compressing cached objects inside its cache with Zstandard and Pingora to reclaim petabytes of storage. more →
Cloudflare, Thursday, September 3rd, 2026
Introducing Context-Aware Vulnerability Discovery and Remediation With Cloudflare Managed Defense and OpenAI Daybreak Models
Cloudflare uses production traffic and WAF signals with OpenAI Daybreak models to prioritize vulnerabilities and propose code patches. more →
AI Observability Best Practices for Production-Ready AI
Join Dynatrace for a practical discussion on what AI observability looks like in production and the practices teams can use to make it work. We'll cover how engineering and operations teams can connect AI behavior to application performance, improve visibility across AI workflows, and reduce risk as adoption scales. more →
Cohere, Wednesday, September 2nd, 2026
How Small Models Can Make a Big Impact for Enterprises
Cohere explains where small language models beat frontier models for enterprises and how to build a small model strategy. more →
Cohere, Thursday, September 3rd, 2026
Automation's Early Footprint: The ATE Dataset
Cohere studied 696,000 AI tools and found only 2.6% truly automate work, releasing the Agentic Task Ecosystem dataset. more →
Databricks, Tuesday, September 1st, 2026
How We Eliminated $1 Million a Year of Wasted AI Agent Spend in One Hour
Seven small MCP server bugs silently burned about $1.2M a year in tokens and engineering time at Databricks. more →
Databricks, Wednesday, September 2nd, 2026
Expanding Genie Agents: Deep Analysis, File Reasoning, and More
Genie Agents gain an Agent mode with API access, reasoning over unstructured files, and Genie Code for curation. more →
Databricks, Wednesday, September 2nd, 2026
Announcing the Databricks Big Book of AgentOps
Databricks published a practical guide to deploying governed, reliable AI agents in production on its platform. more →
Databricks, Thursday, September 3rd, 2026
Governance beyond Security: Knowledge, Context and Ontology on the Lakehouse
Databricks argues governance artifacts are enterprise semantics, making Unity Catalog a runtime for AI agents. more →
Databricks, Thursday, September 3rd, 2026
Building High-Quality and Trusted Data Products with Databricks
Databricks explains data products, their lifecycle, data contracts and federated governance for AI-ready organizations. more →
Databricks, Friday, September 4th, 2026
Achieving Extreme Efficiency through Specialized GPU Kernel Generation
Databricks built an agentic system that generates and rigorously validates specialized GPU kernels for faster inference. more →
Fortinet, Tuesday, September 1st, 2026
Defending Critical Infrastructure in the Age of Internet-Connected Facilities
Fortinet examines recent US water system attacks and why OT impact cannot be measured in records lost. more →
Expert Panel: Data Observability and Reliability at Scale
Join TDWI's Research Fellow, Donald Farmer, together with industry experts as they discuss how organizations are building data observability and reliability across modern data ecosystems and the practices that support trusted data for AI and analytics. more →
Leidos, Monday, August 31st, 2026
From Disks to Digital: Modernizing Navy Software Delivery at RIMPAC
Leidos' Maritime Mission Edge replaced hand-carried tapes and CDs for Navy shipboard software updates at RIMPAC 2026. more →
AI Is Ready. Is Your Data?
Justin Yan will bring a customer-inspired scenario to life through a demonstration - covering ETL pipeline construction, large-scale pipeline operations, and automated governance enforcement using AI agents. Participants are encouraged to question the approach and compare it against their own data challenges. This is not a conversation about doing the same work a little faster. It is a conversation about how the way enterprises deliver data is about to fundamentally change. more →
Microsoft, Wednesday, September 2nd, 2026
The Economics of Agent Optimization: Context Engineering for Enterprise AI Agents
Microsoft's third post on agent economics targets context engineering, often the largest driver of operating cost. more →
Microsoft, Wednesday, September 2nd, 2026
Impersonating IT Support: How Threat Actors Turn a Remote Session into Enterprise-Wide Access
Microsoft Threat Intelligence tracks attackers abusing Teams external chat to pose as helpdesk staff and seize remote sessions. more →
Microsoft, Wednesday, September 2nd, 2026
The Yield Imperative: Turning AI Infrastructure into Useful Intelligence
Microsoft proposes yield - useful intelligence produced per unit of infrastructure - as the defining measure of AI progress. more →
Microsoft, Thursday, September 3rd, 2026
ASCII Smuggling Crosses Over from AI Prompt Injection to Phishing Evasion
Microsoft found phishers using invisible Unicode tag characters, an AI prompt-injection trick, to break up filter keywords. more →
Microsoft, Friday, September 4th, 2026
How to Secure Edge AI in Customer-Owned Environments
Microsoft explains how edge AI shifts attestation duties to customers who now own more of the AI stack. more →
SecureWorld Quantum Cryptography Virtual Conference
The conference centers on helping IT and cybersecurity leaders transition from reactive concern to proactive planning regarding quantum threats. more →
OpenAI, Tuesday, September 1st, 2026
Path to Astra: Critical Capabilities and Frontier Safeguards
Astra is OpenAI's first model to meet the Critical cybersecurity threshold under its Preparedness Framework. more →
OpenAI, Thursday, September 3rd, 2026
Safety Overview: GPT-6 Astra
OpenAI's safety overview covers GPT-6 Astra, its most capable broadly deployed model and first at Critical cyber capability. more →
OpenAI, Thursday, September 3rd, 2026
GPT-6 Astra: A New Generation of Intelligence
OpenAI introduced GPT-6 Astra with state-of-the-art results in computer use, coding, cybersecurity and science. more →
Beyond Observability: Evolving Production Operations in the Age of AI
As AI becomes part of production operations, engineering teams face new challenges in interpreting system behavior, automating routine tasks, and accelerating incident response. more →
Rapid7, Friday, September 4th, 2026
DPRK APTs: Ted Backdoor and curlRAT Target South Korean Media and Automotive Sectors
Rapid7 Labs documents a stealthy Linux toolkit used by DPRK-linked actors against South Korean automotive and media firms. more →
Trustworthy AI in the Cloud: Observability as a Control System
This session explores why observability is emerging as a foundational capability for trustworthy AI. Rather than focusing solely on infrastructure health, modern observability provides the transparency and context needed to understand how AI systems behave, why they produce specific outcomes, and whether they continue to perform as intended over time. more →
Snowflake, Tuesday, September 1st, 2026
Announcing Claude Fable 5.1 on Snowflake Cortex AI
Claude Fable 5.1 is available on Snowflake Cortex AI for long-running agentic tasks with reduced supervision. more →
Snowflake, Wednesday, September 2nd, 2026
The Context Advantage: The Missing Piece of Your AI Growth Strategy
Snowflake argues governed context, not the model, decides whether AI makes a discount offer or a service recovery. more →
Snowflake, Thursday, September 3rd, 2026
Grok 4.6 Now Available on Snowflake Cortex AI
Grok 4.6 is in public preview on Snowflake Cortex AI for long-running agents and multi-step interactive work. more →
Snowflake, Friday, September 4th, 2026
CoCo: Snowflake's AI Coding Agent for Data Engineers
Snowflake makes the case for data engineers to move from one-off prompts to reusable CoCo skills and plugins. more →