Irwin Lazar
@imlazar.bsky.social
President/Principal Analyst @Metrigy.bsky.social, data-driven insights into business #collaboration, #ucoms, #hybridwork, #WFH since 2006, CISSP. Social networker since Orkut. Baseball fan (@nationals) too!
Good recap of AI risk discussions at #DF26 today - www.cnbc.com/2026/09/15/n...
Nvidia's Huang diverges with CEOs of Anthropic, OpenAI on AI safety at Dreamforce
Comments from the two tech leaders landed days after Anthropic's Dario Amodei published an essay urging the AI industry to slow the pace of model development.
cnbc.com
My InfoComm ( @infocomm.bsky.social ) #IC26 wrap-up is now available as complimentary content. I share our research-based insights into the latest announcements from Barco, @cisco.com , HP , @microsoft.com, Neat, NetSpeek, Zoom and more. Check it out below: www.metrigy.com/product/info...
InfoComm Exhibitors Advance Video Quality, Interoperability, and Management - Metrigy
Author: Irwin Lazar, President and Principal Analyst What's the news? The annual InfoComm trade show held in Las Vegas from June 13-19, 2026, represented an expansion of the conference’s focus on work...
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I don't think there are any consumer routers made in the US? www.pcmag.com/news/fcc-jus...
The FCC Just Banned the Sale of New Wi-Router Models Made Outside US
The surprising order means any new Wi-Fi router models sold in the country must be US-made, or receive an exemption from the Pentagon or Homeland Security Department.
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Excited for #ZohoDay26 kicking off shortly. Can't wait to hear about Zoho's initiatives for the rest of 2026 and beyond.
My latest for No Jitter looks at how agentic AI will transform the way employees work with apps, data, and each other. www.nojitter.com/digital-work...
Agentic AI poised to transform workplace collaboration
AI in workplace collaboration is rapidly moving beyond summarization and content generation.
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Another similarity of LLMs to humans: if you expose them to a lot of disinformation, they will believe it. Which you can exploit, apparently called "LLM grooming". So LLMs fail at three levels: /1 www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...
Hundreds of English-language websites link to pro-Kremlin propaganda
Thinktank says internet flooded with disinformation by Russia-aligned Pravda network, which many websites treat as credible
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🚨Analyst News Roundup – 3rd Quarter 2025 🚨 Thursday, Nov 20, 2025 55 minutes | 8:30 am PST | 4:30 pm GMT | 10:00 pm IST Join me for a fast-paced, insight-packed live webinar that breaks down the latest news from the IT industry analyst ecosystem. Register & more info bit.ly/3Q25_Analyst...
@cloudflare.social blames a configuration file issue for yesterday's outage: blog.cloudflare.com/18-november-...
Cloudflare outage on November 18, 2025
Cloudflare suffered a service outage on November 18, 2025. The outage was triggered by a bug in generation logic for a Bot Management feature file causing many Cloudflare services to be affected.
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As #MSIgnite ramps up today, here's what our latest Metrigy research says about Microsoft Teams, and more importantly, what customers are saying about it. #MicrosoftTeams www.nojitter.com/digital-work...
It’s time for a Microsoft Teams reality check
Microsoft dominates the UCaaS market, but challengers dog its heels.
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My latest No Jitter post looks at the evolution of collaboration workspaces and whether or not AI will become the de facto user interface for work. www.nojitter.com/digital-work...
Connected Workspace Apps Aim to Minimize Busywork
The era of app-switching could soon be over once digital workspaces harness AI to add task management and workflows to a centralized viritual space.
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43 years in the game and Donny Baseball finally makes it to the fall classic after multiple near-misses.
Razzball@razzball.bsky.social · last yr.Don Mattingly is going to his first World Series after finally shaking that Yankees anchor
At #AIWorld Oracle's Larry Ellison talks about the impact of AI noting that the "biggest opportunity is the use of models to solve humanity's most difficult and enduring problems."
Kicking off the @cisco.com press and analyst meeting at #WebexOne 2025 in San Diego with Anurag Dhingra!
Spending a few days with Lumen at their annual analyst forum. This year's theme is "The Trusted Network for AI” #lumenAR
RHP Davey Johnson - the guy who got the Nationals over the hump and into the playoffs.
Mark Zuckerman@markzuckerman.bsky.social · last yr.Davey Johnson brought instant credibility to the Nationals clubhouse at a time of unexpected chaos, then guided them to their first postseason appearance. That 2012 club lost in heartbreaking fashion, but Davey helped set the foundation for the success that followed. RIP at 82.
Red teams quickly hack #GPT-5: www.securityweek.com/red-teams-br...
Red Teams Jailbreak GPT-5 With Ease, Warn It's ‘Nearly Unusable’ for Enterprise
Independent red teams have jailbroken GPT-5 within 24 hours of release, exposing severe vulnerabilities in context handling and guardrail enforcement, warning model is not enterprise-ready.
securityweek.com
End of an era: AOL cancels dial-up Internet services. appleinsider.com/articles/25/...
You had mail: AOL finally discontinues dial-up Internet service
More than 40 years after starting as a very early Apple service, AOL is finally ending its dial-up Internet service, shuttering a service that helped usher in the Internet age for tens of millions of ...
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As you probably have heard by now, NiCE has announced an intent to acquire Cognigy to expand its #Agentic #AI offerings. Metrigy's Robin Gareiss shares her take, and provides guidance for #CX leaders, in this complementary research note: metrigy.com/product/metr...
MetriNote - NiCE Plans Cognigy Buy to Bolster Conversational AI, Agentics
NiCE has announced plans to acquire industry-leading AI agent provider, Cognigy, for $955 million; regulatory approval is pending. Once the deal is finalized, NiCE plans to operate Cognigy as a separa...
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Been a rough week for music, lost in all the other news is the passing of George Kooymans, lead guitarist and co-vocalist for Golden Earring. He's credited with writing their iconic hit "Twilight Zone". RIP. www.youtube.com/watch?v=a1sf...
Golden earring - Twilight zone
YouTube video by I-Ascend
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Great post by Dr. Peter Attia on what the recently hyped MIT study on cognition and AI may mean, and what it doesn't mean: --------------- peterattiamd.com/ai-and-cogni...
Thinking critically about a new study on AI and cognition
New results suggesting that the use of AI causes cognitive deficits have triggered widespread fear, but is this interpretation justified?
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The 2025 #InfoComm wrapped with 39,579 registrants, 817 exhibitors and 30,998 verified attendees from 97 countries. And 35% of verified attendees were end users - a new record! 🎉 Huge thanks to everyone who made it happen. See you in Vegas in 2026 and back in Orlando in 2027!
