Insights News
July 01, 2026

Meta eyes cloud computing: Here’s the fallout

Revenue & Growth Effectiveness
Meta is reportedly considering a cloud computing unit to rent out spare capacity in a move that would put it in competition with AWS, Google Cloud and Microsoft Azure. The fallout ...
Larry Dignan
Insights News
July 01, 2026

Five9: A look at its revamp and where it's headed

Next-Generation Customer Experience
Five9 has revamped its management team, launched products aimed at the intersection of AI and contact center and is now looking to build on recent momentum. The company has been bu...
Larry Dignan
Insights News
June 30, 2026

Anthropic launches Claude Sonnet 5

Data to Decisions
Anthropic launched Claude Sonnet 5, which delivers performance close to Opus 4.8 but at a lower cost. ...
Larry Dignan
Insights News
June 30, 2026

Couchbase plots course to be broader AI data platform

Data to Decisions
Couchbase launched an AI data layer and other enhancements to expand beyond a database provider to be an AI data platform. Couchbase's plan is to focus on mission-critical applicat...
Larry Dignan
Insights News
June 29, 2026

The world according to Softbank CEO Masayoshi Son

Future of Work
Softbank Group's shareholder meeting was a tour de force in risk, reward, the chase for artificial superintelligence and a dash of delusion. Reading through the transcript of Softb...
Larry Dignan
Insights News
June 26, 2026

Salesforce takes a run at outcome-based Help Agent pricing

Future of Work
Salesforce launched Agentforce Help Agent, a pre-packaged service agent that will be priced at $2 per resolution. The groundswell behind outcome based pricing is accelerating. Get ...
Larry Dignan
Insights News
June 24, 2026

Qualcomm acquires Modular to add open software chops

Data to Decisions
With Modular, Qualcomm will also have a chip agnostic compute layer that can work across devices, edge computing and data centers. Qualcomm is also using Modular to accelerate its ...
Larry Dignan
Insights News
June 24, 2026

OpenAI, Broadcom unveil first AI inference chip

Data to Decisions
OpenAI and Broadcom launched their first AI accelerator called Jalapeno with plans to deploy by the end of the year. OpenAI's custom silicon effort is part of a plan to deliver a v...
Larry Dignan
Insights News
June 23, 2026

HPE Discover: A look at the takeaways

Tech Optimization
HPE is coming off a strong quarter and its Discover conference where it launched new AI infrastructure, laid out plans to leverage networking as a differentiator and outlined how i...
Larry Dignan
Insights News
June 21, 2026

Don't let your vendor's AI strategy become yours

Innovation & Product-led Growth
Tom Pagram, Head of AI at Virgin Australia, has a simple message for enterprises: Don't let your vendor pick your AI strategy. quot;One of the fastest ways to slow down your AI tra...
Larry Dignan
Insights News
June 19, 2026

Why Amazon Quick could be more strategic than recognized

Future of Work
AWS folks are bullish about Amazon Quick and its prospects in the enterprise and possibly with consumers as well. In a land of LLM overload, AWS is pitching Amazon Quick as a front...
Larry Dignan