Forward-deployed engineering is how enterprise AI learns
Presented by Zeta Every forward-deployed engineering (FDE) pitch sounds identical for the first ten minutes: an engineer embedded on-site, a workflow encoded within weeks, a demo that finally works on the customer’s real data. What differs is what happens in the following months, and most vendors will not tell you until you ask directly. FDE […]
Your files stay put: Perplexity’s hybrid AI keeps confidential data off the cloud
Perplexity today launched hybrid compute for its agentic platform, Computer, a system that lets a single AI agent split its work between frontier models running in the cloud and smaller open-weight models running locally on Apple silicon Macs — routing sensitive data to the local machine so it never leaves the device. The company says […]
AI is redefining the workforce — and most planning models aren’t ready
Presented by SAP HR tracks employees and skills. Finance owns headcount targets and cost. Procurement manages contractors and services spend. Together, they leave executives unable to answer basic questions about how workforce decisions actually translate into business outcomes. Fragmented planning creates workforce blind spots Each function has its own systems, its own planning cadence, and […]
OpenClaw 2.0 is here, ushering in the era of ‘multiplayer’ AI coding: What it means for enterprises
The viral fervor we saw earlier this year around OpenClaw, the open source AI harness that turns powerful language models into autonomous workers the user can message via their favorite channels (Telegram, iMessage, WhatsApp, Discord etc), has cooled off substantially from its peak in March 2026. But over the weekend, OpenClaw’s creator Peter Steinberger and […]
Software engineers’ new job isn’t writing code — it’s designing the boundaries AI agents can’t break
If you look at the commit histories of modern data platforms, something profound has shifted over the last two years. The friction of writing syntax has collapsed. With Cursor, Claude Code, and agentic workflows now living inside our Docker containers and IDEs, generating the first implementation of a distributed streaming pipeline or a complex API […]
Identity and permissions aren’t enough to govern AI agent behavior
Presented by Box Identity and permissions are no longer enough to secure enterprise AI agents. They govern what an agent can reach, not how it behaves once it starts working on its own, and an autonomous agent can turn legitimate access of enterprise data into unintended action in seconds. That gap is pushing enterprise AI […]
AI agents need their own identity before they need a gateway
Enterprise AI has entered a new era. Organizations are rapidly moving beyond assistants that answer questions to autonomous agents capable of reasoning, invoking tools, accessing enterprise applications, coordinating with other agents, and completing multi-step business workflows with minimal human intervention. This shift represents a fundamental change in how software operates. Traditional applications execute predefined logic […]
AI agents that pass authentication can still drift, expose data, or get memory-poisoned
There is a clear repeating trend in agent deployments: The gateway is the first control teams reach for, but it is the one they are least ready to run. This is because gateways sit on top of identity and attribution layers that are mostly not there. The first layer of risk is not hypothetical. In […]
The three layers of agentic AI security: A defense-in-depth architecture for autonomous agents
Presented by Nutanix Autonomous systems that can reason, make their own decisions, and execute actions across an environment introduce a category of risk that application-level controls were never built to contain. Treating that risk as a single problem produces incomplete architectures, says Oscar Wahlberg, senior director of product management at Nutanix. “The guardrails to catch […]
Meta researchers taught an 8B AI model to match Claude Opus 4.5 — without the frontier price tag
Consider an AI agent tasked with a complex enterprise workflow like migrating massive batches of customer records from a legacy CRM to a cloud database. The agent cannot rely solely on its internal context window for a job spanning hours and depends on the runtime layer, aka the harness. This harness provides execution feedback, like […]