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Alibaba’s Next Chapter: From AI-Native To Agent-Native
At Apsara Conference 2025, Alibaba Cloud positioned itself as an AI-native cloud provider, combining infrastructure, foundation models, and platform services into a unified AI stack. One year later, the company’s ambition has expanded significantly. At Apsara Conference 2026, Alibaba outlined a full-stack AI strategy spanning chips, infrastructure, data, models, agents, and global operations. More importantly, […]
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Context Is King: How Identity Context Will Drive Agentic AI Success
AI agents are putting traditional identity and access management approaches to the test. Discover why identity context will be essential to securing autonomous agents and scaling agentic AI with confidence.
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Ant International’s AI Strategy: Fixing Payments Today, Building For Agents Tomorrow
Much of this year’s agentic payments discussion has focused on protocols. At its merchant-focused Voyage event on September 9 in Shanghai, Ant International took a broader view. Its senior executives argued that the most immediate AI opportunities lie in automating merchants’ existing payment and finance workflows. At the same time, the company is building the […]
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Who Will Become The Trusted Assurer Of Your Enterprise AI?
California’s recently enacted AI legislation may ultimately matter for a reason that has received relatively little attention. Senate Bill 813 and Assembly Bill 1405 are not just about governing AI systems. They begin to formalize expectations for the organizations that assess, verify, and audit those systems. The state’s subsequent executive order reinforces that direction by […]
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Announcing The Forrester Wave™: External Threat Intelligence Service Providers, Q3 2026
Last week, Forrester published The Forrester Wave™: External Threat Intelligence Service Providers, Q3 2026. Since our last evaluation in 2023, the market has undergone a significant transformation. This transformation has been driven not only by the growing sophistication and breadth of threat intelligence requirements but also by the rapid adoption of agentic AI as organizations […]
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How Business Applications Become Agentic
Make no mistake: We are not in the next feature cycle for enterprise applications. We are in the largest shift in business software since cloud computing. For decades, apps like customer relationship management (CRM), enterprise resource planning (ERP), human capital management (HCM), and supply chain systems have operated as digital systems of record, where employees […]
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CISOs: Stop Arguing That AI Doesn’t Work — Start Arguing About What It Costs
Last year, we took the stage at Forrester’s Security & Risk Forum to challenge the stories leadership teams were beginning to tell themselves about AI. That keynote became our new report, Resetting Security’s AI Narrative With Boards And Executives. We wrote it because CISO clients keep coming to us with the same concern: The AI […]
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AGI Has Arrived, But It’s Just Barely Competent
On September 6, Jensen Huang declared that AGI has arrived. Hours later, Gary Marcus answered that there was no evidence and no definition behind the claim. Both men are arguing without criteria. We published ours in August 2025, and by that yardstick, the frontier just crossed into competent AGI, the first of four stages.
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Trustworthy AI Won’t Scale Without A New Quality Playbook: Forrester Offers One
AI Trust Starts Before Production AI-infused applications are moving into production faster than most enterprises can prove that they are safe, reliable, explainable, or even useful. This gap is now one of the biggest barriers to scaling AI. Our report, Trustworthy AI Starts With Testing And Evals, Not Deployment, makes a simple but urgent call […]
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The Market Is Finally Making Fine-Tuned Models Happen
After years of vendors heralding the arrival of fine-tuned models to save enterprises from the latency, unpredictable costs, and strenuous upgrade lifecycles of cloud-based model APIs, the moment for fine-tuned models has finally arrived. While frontier models are massive, general-purpose, and must be run from cloud servers, fine-tuned models (mostly composed of post-trained open-weight models) […]
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AI Agents For Marketing Are Here: Are You Ready?
AI agents for marketing are no longer a future state — they have arrived. Eighty-three percent of B2C marketing decision makers report actively implementing agentic AI into their workflows, and 85% agree that it’s delivering meaningful business value in their marketing efforts. With the rise of AI platforms like Claude and ChatGPT, and the majority of […]
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Answer Engines: How Five CPG Brands Are Winning
As consumers increasingly turn to answer engines to research products, brands must ensure that their content is visible in AI-powered experiences.
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Intent Is The New Epicenter Of Agentic Security
Cybersecurity spent decades trying to stop things from happening, identifying them, and then investigating what happened. Agentic AI challenges us with a much more difficult question: What was the system trying to do? Agents don’t just execute instructions. They interpret objectives, select tools, access data, cross systems, and change tactics. In most cases, a user […]
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Stripe Is Acquiring OpenRouter To Control The AI Consumption Layer
On August 19, Stripe agreed to acquire OpenRouter in a deal valued at more than $7 billion. OpenRouter gives enterprise buyers access to more than 400 AI models through a single interface so they can compare, select, and switch models without building separate integrations for each provider. This is one of Stripe’s most ambitious moves […]
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Enterprise Architects Must Choose: Agentic Runtime Architecture Or Agent Sprawl
Every era of enterprise technology has added a defining layer to the stack. Mainframes gave us the system of record. Client/server gave us applications. The web gave us services and APIs. Cloud gave us elastic infrastructure. Now agentic AI is adding the next layer. Where the application layer executed instructions, the agent layer intercepts business […]
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Does Your “Agent Governance” End Up Governing Everything But The Agent Itself?
Most enterprises govern the systems around AI agents, not the agents themselves. They control credentials, log tool calls, and route high-risk actions to a human approver. These are useful controls, but they were designed for software that follows instructions. Agents reason at runtime, and that reasoning can turn compliant actions into a noncompliant outcome that […]
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Turn AEGIS Controls Into An Agentic AI Security Stack
Agentic AI creates control, technology, and purchasing problems. Security leaders need to know the controls that they must satisfy, the technologies that can satisfy them, where existing tools already provide coverage, and where a new investment actually fills a gap. Far too often, we see clients conducting that process in reverse order … trying to […]
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Chasing AI Won’t Save You From Ignoring Endpoint Security
The rush to adopt AI and agentic technologies is capturing security leaders’ attention, but it risks overshadowing the controls that stop attacks before they start. Learn why strong endpoint protections remain essential for reducing risk, limiting exploitation paths, and enabling secure AI adoption.
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The Next Frontier Of AI-Led Transformation Calls For AI Governance — Meet Kasia Jakimowicz, Senior Analyst For AI Governance
For most of my career, two things have remained constant: a fascination with technology and a willingness to embrace transformation. I’ve lived and worked across countries, sectors, and disciplines. I’ve worked with entrepreneurs, startups, governments, international organizations, and business leaders across the globe and lived in various parts of Europe and the US. Through this […]
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The No-Regrets AI Investment Agenda
AI is creating real value, but the biggest opportunities will go to organizations that build the right foundations first. Explore five no-regrets investments that can help technology leaders govern, scale, and realize value from AI regardless of how the technology evolves.
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