Tom Krazit
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Editor in Chief, Runtime. We cover enterprise technology, from cloud infrastructure and AI to security and software development. https://www.runtime.news/
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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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Be careful scheduling social-media posts ahead of time, incident number #693
The New York Times@nytimes.com · 5mo agoFrom @theathletic.com: March Madness hasn’t started yet, but there’s already a Cinderella team: Plucky little Miami (“of Ohio”). The RedHawks’ arc has broken through the college hoops bubble to more casual sports fans.
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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Okay well the OpenAI CMO is hopping on now and it is obvious that Anthropic hurt them and they were deeply unprepared
Sooner or later most open-source orgs are going to need to figure this out. www.runtime.news/ai-slop-is-o...
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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Christina Warren@filmgirl.bsky.social · 6mo agoSo we know AI is making it easier for people to submit low-quality PRs or contributions to projects on GitHub and the team is actively looking at short-term and long-term solutions to try to make this better. Would love your input/feedback github.com/orgs/communi...
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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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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From last night's Runtime newsletter: A look at the hardware-related announcements from AWS CEO Matt Garman's keynote.
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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New on Runtime: an interview with Microsoft's Jay Parikh on how building software has changed so much in just a few years. While the broader merits of the generative AI revolution are still up for debate, there's no question that the software-development process will never be the same.
Microsoft's Jay Parikh: Agents will get rid of your coding backlog
Parikh, executive vice president of Microsoft's CoreAI group, leads a relatively new organization that is overhauling the way Microsoft develops software — both internally and for external customers —...
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New on @runtime.news: We get a little meta. For $10 a month, Runtime supporters will ensure that our mission can continue. Rather than hide our content behind a paywall or clutter our pages with ads, we believe we can get enough support to keep our independent journalism available to anyone.
An update on Runtime
Today: An update on our independent journalism mission and a pitch to our loyal readers, CoreWeave's strong third-quarter earnings masked a fourth-quarter supply problem, and the latest funding rounds...
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New on @runtime.news: A series of incidents in August and early September only highlighted what startups and application developers had been talking about for months: AI reliability falls short of what most businesses expect from their cloud providers, even after last week's massive AWS outage.
As AI adoption surges, AI uptime remains a big problem
OpenAI and Anthropic both acknowledge they have a lot of work to do to improve the reliability of their services if they want to serve enterprise customers. But app developers also need to design thei...
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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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Did anybody else catch Jensen on a hot mic as the press conference started raving about the 1912 cognac he was presumably served in the U.K. this week?
New on @runtime.news: Generative AI apps are forcing app developers to rethink the way users interact with their apps. There have always been apps and workflows that can be controlled with voice commands, but genAI apps open up new opportunities to move beyond the taskbar or the hamburger menu.
Beyond the prompt: Why GenAI apps require new design thinking
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 use...
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From last night's @runtime.news newsletter: 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 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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next time you're in a national park, take some photos of the signage and upload it to help these archivists www.404media.co/save-our-sig...
'Save Our Signs' Wants to Save the Real History of National Parks Before Trump Erases It
Trump wants to erase any "negative" content from educational sites at National Parks. A group of data preservationists asks visitors to help them document placards and monuments, before they disappear...
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In this one-on-one interview, Amazon CSO Steve Schmidt tells us about: *Increasing nation-state attacks on tech companies *How generative AI is — and isn't — changing cybersecurity, on both the offensive and defensive sides *How Amazon works to prevent unforced errors in code
Amazon CSO Steve Schmidt: AI is changing security, but defenders are still ahead of attackers
Schmidt discussed the frequency and style of the attacks Amazon fends off every day, the capabilities that cybersecurity defenders can bring to bear thanks to generative AI, and the potential that mac...
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New on @runtime.news: Amazon chief security officer Stephen Schmidt talks about the rise in cybersecurity threats from nation-state attackers, why generative AI is better at defense than offense, and the security pros and cons of the rush to develop software with AI tools.
Amazon CSO Steve Schmidt: AI is changing security, but defenders are still ahead of attackers
Schmidt discussed the frequency and style of the attacks Amazon fends off every day, the capabilities that cybersecurity defenders can bring to bear thanks to generative AI, and the potential that mac...
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New on @runtime.news: Snowflske CEO Sridhar Ramaswamy increasingly sees data ingestion, analysis, and production as part of a “workflow,” meaning the steps should be easy to follow and more accessible to a wider group of people. Live (kinda) from Snowflake Summit ‘25:
Snowflake wants to be the data workflow company
Today: Snowflake introduces new tools that promise to help companies find nuggets of insight in their corporate data, Thoma Bravo gears up for the coming wave of AI startup buyouts, and the latest fun...
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New on @runtime.news : Last year at the Databricks Data & AI Summit CEO Ali Ghodsi pledged to develop a "USB-C format" for data. The industry has made progress toward that goal, but the last mile is tricky, and new tools could let end users worry about other problems.
Databricks CEO Ali Ghodsi's goal of a universal data format is close. But new efforts are aiming higher
Last year at the Databricks Data & AI Summit Ghodsi pledged to bring Delta Lake and Iceberg together in a "USB-C format" for data. The communities behind both formats have made progress toward that go...
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Don't miss our regular roundup of the week's most important new enterprise tech product releases and updates, including: -Coding agents from OpenAI and Google -AWS's Transform service -Updates to Celonis's Process Intelligence API -Boomi AgentStudio
OpenAI's coding tool; AWS tackles mainframes
Today on Product Saturday: OpenAI previews a coding agent, AWS launches a new service designed to migrate old workloads to the cloud, and the quote of the week.
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New on @runtime.news: An interview with Karri Saarinen, co-founder and CEO of Linear. We've been hearing a lot of buzz about Linear over the last couple of years, in part because "we have this fairly simple idea that engineering is really the front line of all this information," he said.
Linear CEO Karri Saarinen: "Our customer base is quite powerful"
Linear started off as an issue-tracking tool helping developers coordinate on eliminating blockers and fixing problems, but has expanded into a product-development system. "We have this fairly simple ...
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New on @runtime.news: A conversation with ServiceNow CEO Bill McDermott on the sidelines of Knowledge 2025. Highlights include: the impact that AI agents could have on the enterprise, and the ongoing shift where IT departments are taking back control of their application footprints.
ServiceNow CEO Bill McDermott: Agentic AI puts IT back in control
As worries about the economy accelerate, CIOs are regaining control over sprawling application footprints. According to McDermott, "What's happening is technology is the only way out. It's not kind of...
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New on @runtime.news: An interview with Freshworks CEO Dennis Woodside, who is trying to move the company beyond its SMB roots to take on big IT management and customer-service companies like ServiceNow. We also covered the evolution of agentic AI pricing and Freshworks' potential for expansion.
Freshworks CEO Dennis Woodside: We can be the ServiceNow alternative
Under Woodside, Freshworks is taking direct aim at ServiceNow, which has been the leading company in several aspects of IT management software for several years. "Three years ago, our product wasn't a...
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Synadia and the CNCF have reached a formal agreement to transfer two NATS-related trademarks to the CNCF, after Synadia CEO Derek Collison told Runtime earlier this week it planned to do so. The CNCF's blog post: www.cncf.io/announcement... Earlier on Runtime: www.runtime.news/how-synadias...
How Synadia's attempt to exit the CNCF by holding a trademark hostage might have backfired
When the CNCF accepts open-source projects, it requires that any trademarks related to the project be handed over. Synadia never did that, and is now backing down from an attempt to use its ownership ...
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