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Artificial Intelligence (AI)
Claude Fable 5 Arrives With Mythos-Class Power and Prices
Anthropic just made its most capable model generally available. Before your teams pile in, understand what you’re buying and what it costs when agents run for days.
Big 5 AI Vendor Roundup: Week of June 1, 2026
It has become almost a full-time job to stay current with the glut of news in the AI space. This weekly roundup will get you up to speed on the news and happenings with the big 5 AI vendors in the last week.
Big 5 AI Vendor Roundup: Week of May 25, 2026
It has become almost a full-time job to stay current with the glut of news in the AI space. This weekly roundup will get you up to speed on the news and happenings with the big 5 AI vendors in the last week.
GPT-5.5-Cyber: The Next Claude Mythos?
In May, OpenAI introduced GPT-5.5 with Trusted Access for Cyber and GPT-5.5-Cyber as two model tiers for defensive security workflows. Its approach was markedly different from that of Anthropic with respect to Claude Mythos.
Big 5 AI Vendor Roundup: Week of May 18, 2026
It has become almost a full-time job to stay current with the glut of news in the AI space. This weekly roundup will get you up to speed on the news and happenings with the Big 5 AI vendors in the last week.
Big 5 AI Vendor Roundup: Week of May 11, 2026
It has become almost a full-time job to stay current with the glut of news in the AI space. This weekly roundup will get you up to speed on the news and happenings with the Big 5 AI vendors in the last week.
The Mainframe Is the Story at IBM Think 2026
Think 2026 positions IBM’s AI products as middleware between modern tools and the mainframe customers who can’t leave. The agentic and integration announcements ride on top of a moat IBM has been deepening for forty years.
Big 5 AI Vendor Roundup: Week of May 4, 2026
It has become almost a full-time job to stay current with the glut of news in the AI space. This weekly roundup will get you up to speed on the news and happenings with the Big 5 AI vendors in the last week.
Anthropic’s “The Briefing: Financial Services” Event Was Different in the Best Way
On May 5, Dario Amodei and Jamie Dimon shared a stage in lower Manhattan to talk about AI in financial services. At first glance it looked like a standard vendor and customer keynote or panel-type discussion. It was much more than that.
Big 5 AI Vendor Roundup: Week of April 27, 2026
It has become almost a full-time job to stay current with the glut of news in the AI space. This weekly roundup will get you up to speed on the news and happenings with the Big 5 AI vendors in the last week.
AWS Doubles Down on Agentic AI in “What’s Next” Event
At its “What's Next With AWS” livestream event on April 28, 2026, AWS made three significant announcements that solidify its intent to expand from its foundation as an AI infrastructure provider to a full stack provider, including an AI application and agent platform.
Google Cloud Next 2026: It's All About the Agents
Google Cloud Next ‘26 in Las Vegas wrapped recently, and the theme was familiar. If 2025 was the year of experimenting with agentic AI, 2026 will be the year of running it at scale.
Big 5 AI Vendor Roundup: Week of April 20, 2026
It has become almost a full-time job to stay current with the glut of news in the AI space. This weekly roundup will get you up to speed on the news and happenings with the Big 5 AI vendors in the last week.
Adobe Targets the Next Phase of Customer Experience: Humans and AI Agents
Adobe introduced CX Enterprise as an agentic AI platform designed to help brands create content, improve visibility in AI-driven discovery, and orchestrate personalized engagement.
Amazon Nova Forge Turns Your AWS Spend Into a Proprietary AI Asset Without Sending Your Data Anywhere
Amazon Nova Forge gives enterprises on AWS a path to building a Frontier AI model trained on their own data, not just consuming a general one. For organizations that have been accumulating customer and operational data for years but lacked the infrastructure and expertise to act on it, this changes the equation. The model stays in your environment; your data never leaves your AWS account, and the output is auditable in ways that general AI tools are not.
Claude Mythos Preview and Project Glasswing: What IT and Security Leaders Need to Know Now
It’s been a wild few weeks for Anthropic, starting with the March 26, 2026, exposure of over 3,000 internal assets that were inadvertently tagged as public instead of private on their content management system. The existence of its newest model, Claude Mythos, was revealed in those documents, and what followed has been…well, let’s say startling.
AWS Agentic AI Is Built for the Enterprise. OpenClaw Is Not.
OpenClaw has captured the imagination of AI hobbyists and technophiles, but it is not an enterprise agentic AI platform. Amazon’s Bedrock-based agentic toolset shows what enterprise-grade looks like, and why the comparison is misleading.
Databricks Didn't Announce a Security Product. It Announced a Different Way to Think About Security Spending.
Databricks spent years as a quiet data infrastructure company. It did not chase security headlines. It built the platform where enterprise data lives. Databrick’s Lakewatch, launched in March 2026, is what happens when you stop treating security as a separate application and run it directly inside that platform instead. For existing Databricks customers, this is not a new vendor decision. It is a question of whether the infrastructure they already own can replace a tool they are probably overpaying for.
Workday’s AI Bet Is Built on Data You Already Own
Workday has spent eighteen months acquiring the pieces – Sana Labs, Pipedream, Flowise – and the March 2026 global launch is where they converge. The result is an AI layer embedded directly in the system of record, capable of executing tasks, not just suggesting them. For HR and finance leaders in Workday shops, the embedded execution layer raises the bar for any team still considering a custom build.
NetSuite Separates AI Access From AI Choice; That Is Worth Attention in Any ERP Evaluation
Every ERP vendor is now promising AI. The real question for a CIO is not whether the ERP has AI features, because they all do, but whether those features lock you into that vendor’s AI platform or let you use tools your organization already has. At SuiteConnect London in March 2026, NetSuite gave a clear answer to that question. This brief explains what they announced, what it means practically, and what to press on before you sign.
From Digital Maturity to AI Value: An Interview With Zoho’s Ram Ramamoorthy
At ZohoDay26, Info-Tech’s John Annand sat down with Ramprakash “Ram” Ramamoorthy (Director of AI Research at Zoho). Over a wide-ranging conversation, John and Ram discussed Zoho’s go-to-market strategy for AI capabilities. This note provides a structured summary of that interview.