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The heavy-handedness of the safeguards applied to Anthropic's Claude Fable 5 at launch has taken many users aback. See why...
Anthropic's Fable a cautionary tale
Today: Anthropic's first Mythos-class AI model launch did not sit well with a lot of enterprise users, Oracle investors remain wary about its expansion plans, and the latest enterprise moves.
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It's unclear how many developers might have been compromised by this latest attack, but it's notable because it employed new tactics that will be hard to defend against.
Why Microsoft yanked its own code
Today: Microsoft scrambles to minimize the fallout from a second batch of compromised open-source patches in a month, Apple teams up with Google for an expansion of its cloud security service, and the...
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New on @runtime.news: We spoke to Yao Morin, CTO at JLL, for the latest edition of How We Built It. About 25% of JLL's 110,000 employees are using its AI platforms on a daily basis to research deals, model cash flows, and develop applications for JLL's technology practice.
How JLL built an AI platform to help employees and clients close the deal
About one-quarter of JLL's 110,000 employees are using its internal AI platforms on a daily basis. Those users are researching deals, modeling cash flows, and developing applications for JLL's technol...
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Last week's showdown between the U.S. Department of Defense and Anthropic could have enormous ramifications for any company doing business with the government.
The Pentagon's software supply-chain attack
Today: The U.S. government's declaration that military contractors should no longer work with Anthropic is a threat to software companies, AWS data centers appear to have been targeted by Iran's respo...
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If #OpenAI is going to come even close to hitting its revenue projections, it needs to find a way to compete with #Anthropic to win over enterprise tech organizations. Yesterday it released a new model that could help.
OpenAI's fight to win back developers
Today: OpenAI releases a new model that could dent Anthropic's hold over enterprise software teams, Anthropic reloads to fight back, and the latest enterprise moves.
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The popular Ingress NGINX controller for Kubernetes will no longer get security support, so users have a month to figure out a plan. Meanwhile, stunning news from Salesforce, which will no longer develop new features for Heroku, the pioneering platform-as-a-service product it acquired 15 years ago.
Kubernetes users face a huge deadline
Today: Kubernetes installations that use the Ingress NGINX controller have a month to make new arrangements, Salesforce sends Heroku into early retirement, and the latest funding rounds in enterprise ...
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It's true that AI makes coding faster. But that's only part of the story. The greatest opportunity to accelerate innovation lies in enhancing quality, security, and speed throughout the entire software lifecycle. Read more, sponsored by GitLab
From faster coding to accelerated innovation cycles: How intelligent orchestration unlocks AI's promise
While AI makes coding faster, the greatest opportunity to accelerate innovation lies in enhancing quality, security, and speed throughout the entire software lifecycle.
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Now that #genAI is getting traction in the enterprise, the debate has shifted: Can old-guard vendors adapt to this new world, or will hungry upstarts eat their lunch before they can pivot? Wall Street's position is clear, as shares of enterprise software companies fell despite strong revenue growth.
A day of reckoning for the AI boom
Today: Strong AI-driven earnings weren't enough to prevent enterprise software investors from voting with their feet, plunging stock prices aren't enough to deter another round of investment in OpenAI...
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Over the last year we've heard a lot about software developers embracing AI coding agents. But cybersecurity professionals are also starting to put agents into key parts of their workflow. Torq just raised $140M to help automate the venerable security operations center with AI agents.
SOC puppets: How Torq wants to automate security
Today: Torq's CEO explains how agents are ready to take over security operations centers, Anthropic hooks up with a who's who of enterprise SaaS, and the latest funding rounds in enterprise tech.
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As AI coding assistants become mainstream, open-source projects are facing a new challenge. Two prominent projects — curl and LLVM — recently said they've seen enough poor-quality AI-generated submissions that they need to put new limits on how they deal with that code.
AI slop is overwhelming open source
Today: How two open-source projects are trying and failing to manage a deluge of AI contributions, OpenAI matches Microsoft's energy pledge, and the latest enterprise moves.
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As companies without modern data management systems in place rushed to adopt cloud data warehouses and data lakes, Databricks and Snowflake have reaped rewards. But new challengers always emerge during a platform shift. One of those is ClickHouse, which just raised $400 million in new funding.
ClickHouse takes aim at Databricks and Snowflake
Today: ClickHouse sends yet another signal that observability tools could help get enterprise agents over the hump, ServiceNow teams up with OpenAI, and the latest funding rounds in enterprise tech.
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Led by Salesforce and Workday, SaaS stocks fell widely this week after Anthropic introduced Claude Cowork. But fears that AI upstarts will drink enterprise SaaS milkshakes are a little premature. Meanwhile, thanks to the help of Wiz, AWS managed to avoid a supply-chain attack for the history books.
AI is not an enterprise SaaS killer — yet
Today: Why fears that AI upstarts will drink enterprise SaaS milkshakes are not irrational but a little premature, how AWS dodged an enormous security debacle thanks to Wiz. and the latest enterprise ...
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AI agents are already transforming the way tech workers do their jobs, from software development to IT operations management. Can tech companies adapt the technology into tools that non-technical office workers actually want to use? Anthropic and Salesforce are both trying.
Here come the coworking agents
Today: Anthropic and Salesforce roll out slightly different takes on the future of work with AI agents, Microsoft vows to limit the local impact of data-center construction as pushback starts to grow,...
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Snowflake's decision to acquire Observe (in a deal announced this week and estimated to be worth about $1 billion) is a bet that moving observability tools closer to the data they're recording will be a cheaper and easier way to make sure enterprise agents are performing as designed.
You can observe a lot by watching
Today: Why Snowflake's acquisition of Observe underscores the importance of observability to enterprise AI, Microsoft attempts to fend off the AI coding upstarts, and the latest enterprise moves.
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At #CES, Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang said Vera Rubin, the company's upcoming AI chip series, will deliver a 5X performance improvement over its previous GPUs. Get details about that — and why Nvidia signed a $20B licensing deal with startup Groq — in this edition of the Runtime newsletter.
Nvidia's path to the AI-native chip
Today: Nvidia previews its next-generation chip design as it maneuvers to adapt to a changing market, Meta's latest flirtation with the enterprise business could actually stick, and the latest funding...
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As we reflected on the biggest stories of 2025, one throughline emerged. They all illustrate how enterprises grappled with a central problem: how to get the generative AI tools and agents that promise a new era of business productivity to actually work. www.runtime.news/five-importa...
Five important Runtime stories from 2025
Today: We run out the clock on 2025 with a look back at the year in enterprise AI, the latest enterprise moves, and the last Runtime roundup of the year.
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Reporting from AWS re:Invent in Las Vegas, Tom Krazit sums up all you need to know after the first big day of the event, including AWS's custom AI chip, called Trainium 3 and now generally available.
AWS vows to "push the limits" of AI infrastructure
Today: AWS introduces new infrastructure tools and services during the first big day of re:Invent 2025, ServiceNow gets deeper into the security business, and the latest funding rounds in enterprise t...
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After sifting through the fallout from a massive outage, it's clear that both AWS and its customers are still putting too many of their eggs into one very old and very worn basket. See why us-east-1 is the biggest problem in cloud computing.
It's always us-east-1
Today: Monday's big AWS outage illustrates yet again why us-east-1 is the biggest problem in cloud computing, further evidence that bitcoin mining is so very 2019 these days, and the latest funding ro...
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F5 says a nation-state hacker gained long-term access to some of its servers. The hack comes as attacks on American software companies appear to be ramping up and as the Trump administration pulls staffers away from the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency to focus on deportations.
The U.S. is losing a cyberwar
Today: F5's disclosure that hackers had "long term" access to its systems is just the latest sign that the federal government is focused on the wrong problems, Salesforce does damage control on behalf...
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If you want to make sure your business is able to deliver the high-performance throughput and low latency AI applications require, you'd better make sure your network is ready. Read why in this post, sponsored by @cisco.com www.runtime.news/why-future-p...
Why future-proofing the workplace for AI starts at the network
Any business that survived the digital revolution is very familiar with how quickly networking requirements can shift. But few are prepared for the speed with which emerging technologies today are cha...
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A hybrid cloud strategy solves a lot of problems, especially for companies in heavily regulated industries or that have big investments in data centers. But it also comes with its own set of challenges. We asked members of the Runtime Roundtable how they think about hybrid cloud app deployment.
What is the best way to think about hybrid cloud application deployment?
For companies with sensitive data requirements or substantial investments in data centers, a hybrid cloud strategy offers the best of both worlds — and a significant management challenge. Eight member...
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New on @runtime.news: The latest in our How We Built It series, this time featuring Mastercard's George Maddaloni. We talked about how Mastercard onboarded generative AI tools across its employees and its current approach to AI agents, where MCP is spurring a lot of internal agent building.
How Mastercard encouraged AI adoption with training and data
Last year Mastercard conducted a review of the different workflow patterns used by employees across the 35,000-person payments giant. In some cases generative AI tools didn't really move the needle, b...
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Workday is one of many companies trying to convince enterprises to use its software as the foundation for their agentic AI strategies, and at Workday Rising it unveiled new tools that it hopes will close the deal. "The era of one-size-fits-all enterprise software is over," said CTO Peter Bailis.
Agentic AI is still up for grabs
Today: Workday jostles for position in the race to bring agents to the enterprise, a new type of software supply-chain attack is spreading, and the latest funding rounds in enterprise tech.
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Broadcom CEO Hock Tan says the future of the enterprise is private. Cloud provider earnings reports tell a different story. But for tech organizations going the hybrid cloud route, VMware unveiled several new ways it gives customers cloud-like performance capabilities inside their own data centers.
Broadcom wants to party like it's 2005
Today: Broadcom rolls out new VMware services aimed at convincing customers to run next-generation workloads the old-fashioned way, we're starting to learn what DOGE did with some of the country's mos...
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Voice-phishing (or "vishing") attacks are on the rise, with Workday being the latest company to disclose that it had been targeted by hackers. You can bet we'll all see more about this in our next corporate security training sessions.
Voice phishing is turning into a big problem
Today: Voice-phishing attacks are turning into a serious problem without an easy solution, Google Cloud furthers its nuclear plans, and the latest funding rounds in enterprise tech.
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Generative AI apps could help software designers break out of a decades-old rut when it comes to how we use their tools. At the very least, they need to rethink their approach to avoid frustrating users. Read about that, plus the latest moves by enterprise tech execs, in the Runtime newsletter.
Don't make WIMPy GenAI apps
Today: Why generative AI technology presents an opportunity for app developers to move beyond a decades-old standard for app design, the Trump administration is thinking about throwing out years of wo...
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Times have changed. Microsoft executives used to celebrate GitHub's independence within the larger company ecosystem. But that era is over, and today GitHub feels like just another Microsoft product.
Why Microsoft's decision to bury GitHub in its CoreAI group is the end of an era
GitHub's independence within the Microsoft ecosystem was treasured by company executives in the years following in 2018 acquisition. But that era is over, and GitHub is now just another Microsoft prod...
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OpenAI is living up to its name again. It hadn't shipped any major LLMs that could claim a degree of openness since 2019's GPT-2. But that just changed with the release of two new open-weight models the company says are as powerful as some of its leading closed models.
Putting the open back in OpenAI
Today: OpenAI releases two open-weight models ahead of the expected launch of GPT-5, why China was already deeply involved in Microsoft SharePoint before last month's security fiasco, and the latest f...
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It's been a choppy few months for Windsurf. First, news leaked that OpenAI intended to acquire the company for $3 billion. Then Google came along with a billion-dollar acquihire, agreeing to pay $2.4 billion for a non-exclusive license to Windsurf's technology and hire about 40 of its employees.
The huge stakes behind AI-driven coding
Today: several wild days prove why AI-driven coding is at the center of enterprise tech, Nvidia will once again be allowed to sell chips designed around export controls to Chinese customers, and the l...
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