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June 16, 2026

Hot Take: Salesforce Acquires Fin and Leaves Us Reading Between the Agentic Lines

Salesforce has announced its intent to acquire agentic unicorn, Fin. The pickup will bring a customer service focused frontier model into the AI Research fold while delivering an end-to-end customer agent focused on the full customer journey, regardless of functional ownership or individual mandate. ...
Liz Miller
Analyst Blog
June 15, 2026

The CEO’s AI Dashboard, Part 3: Data Readiness

Board Strategy
I want to move from business value to the condition that usually determines whether that value appears at all: data readiness. Enterprises still talk about data readiness as though it were a cleanup project. It is closer to an operating discipline. Good data helps. Clean data helps. The right data, in the right place, ...
Esteban Kolsky
Analyst Blog
August 14, 2023

Confidence in computing

Digital Safety, Privacy & Cybersecurity
lt;pgt;We need to shift the expectation of consumer-grade security and make serious encryption the norm everywhere.lt;/pgt; ...
Steve Wilson
Analyst Blog
August 08, 2023

Confidential but in the limelight

Data to Decisions
lt;pgt;Confidential Computing could be the future of all computing, confidential or otherwise. lt;/pgt; ...
Steve Wilson
Analyst Blog
July 30, 2023

News Analysis: Q2 2023 MATANA Stocks Still Shine

Data to Decisions
lt;pgt;Three Factors Drive Growth In MATANA Stockslt;brgt; 1. AI Powers Valuation Growth, But Earnings Growth Keeps Momentum Going, 2. Ads Are Back For The Remaining Digital Gian...
R "Ray" Wang