Cloud computing is a key foundation of modern business, yet many approach learning it in overly complicated ways. New learners often believe they need costly boot camps, certification bundles, or long technical courses before they can get a job in the field. This approach discourages potential entrants and creates false barriers around a discipline that’s…
The AI agent introduction frenzy continued at a torrid pace this week, with OpenAI launching what it called workspace agents in ChatGPT and Microsoft adding hosted agents to its Foundry Agent Service. Both launched on the same day that Google both updated its Gemini Enterprise app to provide new ways for office workers to build,…
Google is recasting its data and analytics portfolio as the Agentic Data Cloud, an architecture it says is aimed at moving enterprise AI from pilot to production by turning fragmented data into a unified semantic layer that agents can reason over and act on more reliably at scale. The new architecture builds on Google’s existing…
The last decade of data infrastructure was built around pipelines. Move the data, transform it, store it, then do something useful with it. That approach became so normal that most teams stopped questioning it. At Cloud Next 2026, Google seemed to be leaning toward a different way of working with data, one built more around…
The UK’s National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) is recommending passkeys as the default authentication method for businesses to offer consumers, citing industry progress that now makes them a more secure and user-friendly alternative to passwords. In a blog post published this week, the agency said passkeys can now be recommended to both the public and…
Microsoft plans to integrate Anthropic’s Mythos AI model into its Security Development Lifecycle, a move that suggests advanced generative AI is beginning to play a direct role in how major software vendors identify vulnerabilities and harden code against attack. The company said it will use Mythos Preview, along with other advanced models, as part of…
Application developers are being warned that malicious versions of pgserve, an embedded PostgreSQL server for application development, and automagik, an AI coding tool, have been dropped into the npm JavaScript registry, where they could poison developers’ computers. Downloading and using these versions will lead to the theft of data, tokens, SSH keys, credentials, including those…
SpaceX has obtained the right to acquire AI coding startup Cursor for $60 billion later this year, the two companies announced Tuesday. The aerospace company disclosed the arrangement in a post on X. “SpaceXAI and cursor_ai are now working closely together to create the world’s best coding and knowledge work AI.” SpaceX added that the…
