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Post-Quantum Cryptography Goes Mainstream: Why Enterprises Are Racing to Future-Proof Data Security in 2026
Aug 4, 2026
For most of your career, “encrypted” has meant “safe.” In 2026, that equation is breaking down for a specific and consequential class of data. The threat isn’t a quantum computer sitting on an attacke…
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Development
Platform Engineering in 2026: Why 80% of Orgs Run IDPs Now
Jul 30, 2026
Two years ago, platform engineering was still a conference-hallway argument: was it just DevOps with a rebrand, or something worth its own budget line? That argument is over. Gartner’s projection that…
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Artificial Intelligence
Inside the AI Coding Boom: What Emergent’s Unicorn Run Signals for Enterprise Software Delivery in 2026
Jul 28, 2026
In July 2026, Emergent, an Indian AI coding startup founded barely a year earlier, closed a $130 million Series C led by Creaegis, pushing its valuation to $1.5 billion — roughly five times what it wa…
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The first agent you should hire may be the one that controls your advertising budget
Jul 24, 2026
Most companies still treat advertising as a marketing activity. In economic terms, however, advertising is a continuous capital-allocation process. Every decision to invest in Google, Meta, LinkedIn, …
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Strategy and Business
AI Labs Are Now Competing With IT Services Firms, Not Just Each Other
Jul 23, 2026
On the same day in May 2026, Anthropic and OpenAI each launched a joint venture worth billions of dollars — not to build a better model, but to deploy the models they already have inside enterprises. …
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Artificial Intelligence
56% of Companies Get Zero Return From AI — The Operating Model Gap Behind the Number
Jul 21, 2026
Most enterprises have stopped asking whether to deploy AI. PwC’s 2026 Global CEO Survey, based on 4,454 CEOs across 95 countries, found a much less comfortable number: 56% of companies report zero fin…
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Artificial Intelligence
OpenAI’s Codex 2.0: Sites and Plugins Redefine Enterprise Software
Jul 16, 2026
On June 2, 2026, OpenAI rolled out the biggest update to Codex since its desktop launch, and it wasn’t another benchmark win. The release added a hosting layer called Sites, a selective-editing tool c…
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Artificial Intelligence
Why Intuit Replaced Multi-Agent AI With a Skill-Based Architecture
Jul 14, 2026
For most of 2025 and into 2026, the default answer to “how do we scale enterprise AI” was: add more agents. Spin up a planner agent, a research agent, a writer agent, a reviewer agent, wire them into …
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Artificial Intelligence
Microsoft Frontier Company: A $2.5B Bet on Enterprise AI Deployment
Jul 9, 2026
On July 2, 2026, Microsoft launched Microsoft Frontier Company, a new operating business backed by $2.5 billion and roughly 6,000 industry, engineering, and AI experts whose only job is to embed with …
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