Seven steps to AI supply chain visibility — before a breach forces the issue
Four in 10 enterprise applications will feature task-specific AI agents this year. Yet, research from Stanford University’s 2025 Index Report shows that a mere 6% of organizations have an advanced AI security strategy in place. Palo Alto Networks predicts 2026 will bring the first major lawsuits holding executives personally liable for rogue AI actions. Many […]
Nvidia just admitted the general-purpose GPU era is ending
Nvidia’s $20 billion strategic licensing deal with Groq represents one of the first clear moves in a four-front fight over the future AI stack. 2026 is when that fight becomes obvious to enterprise builders. For the technical decision-makers we talk to every day — the people building the AI applications and the data pipelines that […]
Six data shifts that will shape enterprise AI in 2026
For decades the data landscape was relatively static. Relational databases (hello, Oracle!) were the default and dominated, organizing information into familiar columns and rows. That stability eroded as successive waves introduced NoSQL document stores, graph databases, and most recently vector-based systems. In the era of agentic AI, data infrastructure is once again in flux — […]
Four AI research trends enterprise teams should watch in 2026
The AI narrative has mostly been dominated by model performance on key industry benchmarks. But as the field matures and enterprises look to draw real value from advances in AI, we’re seeing parallel research in techniques that help productionize AI applications. At VentureBeat, we are tracking AI research that can help understand where the practical […]
Open source Qwen-Image-2512 launches to compete with Google’s Nano Banana Pro in high quality AI image generation
When Google released its newest AI image model Nano Banana Pro (aka Gemini 3 Pro Image) in November, it reset expectations for the entire field. For the first time, uses of an image model could use natural language to generate dense, text-heavy infographics, slides, and other enterprise-grade visuals without spelling errors. But that leap forward […]
Why Meta bought Manus — and what it signals for your enterprise AI agent strategy
Facebook and Instagram parent company Meta’s agreement to acquire Manus for more than $2 billion — announced last night by both companies and reported in The Wall Street Journal — marks one of the clearest signals yet that large tech platforms are no longer just competing on model quality, but on who controls the execution […]
Legacy IAM was built for humans — and AI agents now outnumber them 82 to 1
Active Directory, LDAP, and early PAM were built for humans. AI agents and machines were the exception. Today, they outnumber people 82 to 1, and that human-first identity model is breaking down at machine speed. AI agents are the fastest-growing and least-governed class of these machine identities — and they don’t just authenticate, they act. […]
Why AI adoption fails without IT-led workflow integration
At 77-year-old promotional products company Gold Bond Inc., CIO Matt Price knew generative AI adoption wouldn’t come from rolling out a chatbot. Employees needed AI embedded into the work they already hated doing: messy ERP intake, document processing, and call follow-ups. Instead of pitching benchmarks, Price built a small group of “super-users” to surface Gold […]
New Year’s AI surprise: Fal releases its own version of Flux 2 image generator that’s 10x cheaper and 6x more efficient
Hot on the heels of its new $140 million Series D fundraising round, the multi-modal enterprise AI media creation platform fal.ai, known simply as “fal” or “Fal” is back with a year-end surprise: a faster, more efficient, and cheaper version of the Flux.2 [dev] open source image model from Black Forest Labs. Fal’s new model […]
New framework simplifies the complex landscape of agentic AI
With the ecosystem of agentic tools and frameworks exploding in size, navigating the many options for building AI systems is becoming increasingly difficult, leaving developers confused and paralyzed when choosing the right tools and models for their applications. In a new study, researchers from multiple institutions present a comprehensive framework to untangle this complex web. […]