The Commercial AI Playbook: A 5-Step Framework for Prioritizing AI Investments That Drive Enterprise Value

Many private equity firms approach Commercial AI by searching for a scalable, high-ROI “killer app” that can be replicated across a portfolio. The logic is understandable. If one company benefits from AI-driven training or predictive churn modeling, it is tempting to deploy the same tool everywhere. The problem isn’t that killer apps don’t work. The…

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Critical flaw in Marimo Python notebook exploited within 10 hours of disclosure

A critical pre-authentication remote code execution vulnerability in Marimo, an open-source Python notebook platform owned by AI cloud company CoreWeave, was exploited in the wild less than 10 hours after its public disclosure, according to the Sysdig Threat Research Team. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2026-39987 with a severity score of 9.3 out of 10, affects all Marimo…

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Hands-on with the Google Agent Development Kit

The Google Agent Development Kit (ADK) is a flexible and modular open-source framework for developing and deploying AI agents. It is optimized for Gemini and the Google ecosystem, but the ADK is model-agnostic, deployment-agnostic, and built for compatibility with other frameworks. The ADK was designed to make agent development feel more like software development, to…

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Are AI certifications worth the investment?

Artificial intelligence has moved from the research lab into the boardroom, the data center and virtually every business function in between. Nearly 80 percent of organizations now use AI in at least one core business process, according to McKinsey, yet widespread adoption has surfaced a persistent problem: a deep shortage of professionals who can translate…

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AI has to be dull before it can be sexy

This week in New York, my Oracle team ran workshops for enterprise developers on building retrieval-augmented generation and agentic applications. Interest was so strong that we quickly had to figure out how to double the room’s capacity (much to the fire marshal’s chagrin). Interest in AI was clearly off the charts. But AI fluency was…

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