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Open-Weight Models Are Proliferating, But The Platform Race Matters More
Last week, AI startup Reflection released a new open weight model, Beam, claiming parity with leading Chinese open models and at only “a fraction of the token cost and inference time.” Days later, Mistral introduced open-weight model Mistral Large 4 (ML4), nicknamed Le Chonk in reference to its 1 trillion parameters. Taken together, these models […]
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Microsoft FabCon 2026: Enterprise AI Needs A Governed Context Layer, Not Just Data
Microsoft is steadily repositioning Fabric from a unified analytics platform into a governed context layer for enterprise AI. An agent answering a revenue question needs to know which measure applies, how customers and transactions relate, and what information it may use. At FabCon and SQLCon in Barcelona, Microsoft showed how Fabric IQ, OneLake, Power BI […]
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How To Stop Rogue AI
A model does not have to be smarter than us to be a problem. It needs a goal that it is certain about, the resources to keep pursuing it, and no one watching. Two of those three exist already. We took one doom scenario apart to find out how worried enterprises should be.
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From CRM To The Agentic Enterprise: Salesforce’s Biggest Dreamforce 2026 Reveals
At Dreamforce 2026, Salesforce presented its most complete vision yet for the “agentic enterprise.” It shifted the core focus away from individual apps (such as those focused on sales, services, or marketing) and unified them through a single architecture built around data, logic and AI agents. This vision includes: (1) AIforce, Salesforce’s UX layer that […]
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Five Technology Leaders Show What It Takes To Make AI Work At Scale
AI is moving deeper into technology organizations, operations, and everyday work. For technology leaders, the challenge now is turning that momentum into meaningful business results. How do you move employees from experimenting with AI to using it consistently? How should IT operating models evolve? And how do you build the technology capabilities needed to scale […]
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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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The Triple AI Outage Is A Wake-Up Call For Enterprises
The simultaneous disruption of multiple leading AI services exposed the hidden dependencies that can turn provider outages into businesswide interruptions. Learn why AI resilience, governance, and contingency planning must become essential as enterprises embed AI deeper into critical operations.
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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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Banks Are Building Private Models, But The Model Is Not The Moat
Discover why financial institutions are using transaction foundation models and proprietary data to build a lasting AI advantage.
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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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Manufacturing’s AI Future Will Be Decided At The Gemba
Like us, you’ve probably noticed that over the past two years, most discussions about AI in manufacturing have focused on what LLMs can do for engineers, planners, and other knowledge workers. Vendors have showcased copilots that summarize documents, answer questions, and generate content. Those capabilities matter, but they may not be where manufacturers ultimately realize […]
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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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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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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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Anthropic’s Pricing Shift Puts AI Consumption Risk Back On Customers
Back in May of this year, Anthropic announced changes to its pricing model. Its original fixed-fee, per-seat subscription model was replaced with one that separates platform access from AI consumption. Customers still pay for access, but usage is now metered and billed separately based on token consumption. Under the previous model, customers were split into […]
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The Forrester Wave™: AI Platforms, Q3 2026 Is Live: Prepare To Recalibrate
The Forrester Wave™: AI Platforms, Q3 2026 has just published, and if you’ve read previous evaluations in this category, prepare to recalibrate. Agentic AI has redrawn the boundaries of what an AI platform is, what it must do, and the vendors that compete to provide it. The 15 vendors evaluated represent one of the most […]
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Four AI Escapes Just Redefined “Responsible AI”
In nine days this month, OpenAI and Anthropic disclosed that their own models escaped safety evaluations and reached production systems at four other companies. No model malfunctioned — the governance did. Responsible AI now has to govern what agents do, not only what models decide, and that takes a responsible AI deployment policy.
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AMD’s AI Strategy Is Shifting From Chips To Systems
At AMD’s Advancing AI event in San Francisco, I expected to hear about faster GPUs, next-generation CPUs, AI PCs, and the company’s latest AI infrastructure roadmap. Those announcements certainly happened. AMD introduced new AI infrastructure, processors, software, and AI PC capabilities. But the most important message wasn’t about a specific product. It was about positioning: […]
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Introducing Frontier AI Model Platforms — Because An AI Model Is Not A Business Model
The world’s most advanced AI companies just learned a lesson that enterprises have understood for decades: Technology doesn’t create value — solutions do. Our 2024 Forrester Wave™ covering AI foundation models for language evaluated the models themselves, but raw capability predicts little about enterprise success. The vendors know this, too. Anthropic and OpenAI launched billion-dollar […]
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